Bill Dennison uses two sentences to sum up the duties of a job that makes him the second-highest-paid public employee in Bristol, Va.

Tamara Neo will earn $109,385 per year and become Buchanan County’s highest-paid public employee when she takes over as commonwealth’s attorney Jan. 2.

Convicted of molesting a 4-year-old girl and possessing child pornography, a 34-year-old Wytheville man will spend 10 years in prison for his crimes.
Richard Louis Mobley must also register as a sex offender and will be on probation the rest of his life after being convicted Monday of three felony charges stemming from a Wytheville Police Department investigation.

More than 80,000 lights will greet visitors to the New River Trail State Park this month as the grounds transform into a festive holiday heaven.
For the fourth consecutive year, the park will host the Foster Falls Festival of Lights, and for the first time this December the festival will actually be festivals.

If a trip to the North Pole is out of the question this Christmas, don’t worry. Santa Claus has set up shop in Wytheville.

Injured child to be released from hospital

At first glance, the position of Circuit Court clerk in Virginia seems a cushy job for veteran politicians as well as newcomers.

Phil Lineberry decided on a teaching career because a former teacher inspired him and served as a role model.

Gathering local government salaries from across Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee was not only an arduous exercise of fiscal oversight for this newspaper, but also showed that localities routinely fail to follow open records laws.

Glade Spring’s top cop manages raise, but still earns less than peers in region