Tears flowed from both sides of the Wythe County courtroom Thursday morning as Melvin Chadwick Compton was sentenced for his role in a September 2007 drunk driving crash that killed his cousin.
Compton, a 38-year-old Bland County resident, received a 10-year prison sentence for his felony involuntary manslaughter conviction, with six years suspended.

“If you build it, they will come,” said Melissa Dickenson.
Dickenson’s field of dreams just happens to be downtown Glade Spring.
In September, Dickenson and her aunt Nancy Addison opened Salon on the Square, a hair salon modeled after an urban shop that spotlights local artwork each month. The November art show will feature the work of Duane Cregger of Marion. A reception for Cregger is from 6 to 8 p.m. tonight at the salon. His paintings will be on display throughout the month. The artwork of Adam Justice was featured last month. Dickenson considers hair styling an art form and wants to support other artists in the region as well.

A failure to mind her (patient) p’s and q’s when prescribing narcotic painkillers has landed Bland County’s “Dr. Pam” an indefinite suspension of her license to practice medicine from the Virginia Board of Medicine.

Travis Ray Hester, 26, pled guilty Monday in Smyth County Circuit Court to a second-degree murder charge for the July 27 death of his 11-month-old daughter. Evidence presented during the hearing recorded the father saying he didn’t know why he threw the crying baby to the floor.

Despite vigorous objections from a prosecutor, a judge suspended a five-year penitentiary term following a mother’s guilty plea in a child abuse and neglect case that stemmed from an incident that left a child in intensive care for days.

The low roar of a delivery truck climbing the steep mountain grade to Aulbin and Catherine Pennington’s future home in Konnarock was heard long before it emerged into sight last Wednesday. Among the construction supplies on board were doors—simple wooden doors that should, in a matter of months, provide the couple entry into a new home and a dream years in the making.

The Town of Saltville recently announced a collaboration with a group that operates under the acronym, L.A.U.G.H. No, it is not a rehab group for people addicted to telling bad jokes. Neither is it an effort to promote a local version of Laugh-In or The Gong Show.

Noise continued to be the noise at Tuesday’s meeting of the Wythe County Board of Supervisors.
A month after commissioning County Attorney Scot Farthing to research noise ordinances following comments from a disgruntled resident, the supervisors heard a report back from Farthing and another citizen’s plea for quiet.

The suspect in an alleged rape in March was arrested late last week by the Wythe County Sheriff’s Office. James Rex Hall, 40, of Max Meadows was taken into custody Friday, Oct. 24, at his home and charged with forcible rape.

The abrupt closing of the Route 610 Bridge last Sunday morning left the Louis Watson Sr. family in a quandary. The bridge was a link to the Watsons’ dairy and beef cattle farm along Peppers Road between Max Meadows and Gunton Park