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Lancers stay alive in hit-fest

The third-seeded Longwood baseball team and second-seeded High Point combined for 47 hits and 31 runs in a ...

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Longwood baseball falls to Flames in Big South tourney

The third-seeded Longwood baseball team lost 9-3 to seventh-seeded Liberty on Wednesday during the 2016 Big South Championship ...

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Fuqua softball comes up short in state semis

The third-seeded Fuqua School varsity softball team rallied from an early three-run deficit on Thursday, but ultimately fell 4-3 ...

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Lady Falcons advance to state semis

The third-seeded Fuqua School varsity softball team pulled away from visiting Portsmouth Christian School on Monday to win ...

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Fuqua varsity softball plays today in state quarterfinals

The third-seeded Fuqua School varsity softball team hosts sixth-seeded Portsmouth Christian School today in the Virginia Independent Schools ...

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Lancers earn three-seed in Harrisonburg Regional

The Longwood University softball team was selected as the third seed into the Harrisonburg, Va., Regional Sunday and ...

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Longwood rallies to win Big South softball tournament

Longwood University completed a sizzling two-day run through the losers’ bracket of the Big South Conference softball tournament, ...

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Senior banned from school after reported threat

  Additional law enforcement officers will be present at Buckingham’s High School graduation Sunday and at the preschool’s graduation ...

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New Life Schools will close on June 30

Facing financial and enrollment struggles, New Life Schools in southern Cumberland County will close on June 30. “We ...

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Taylor convicted in double murder

  A circuit court judge Friday convicted a 42-year-old Buckingham County man of capital murder of multiple persons ...

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Arrest made in Buffalo Street assault

  A 20-year-old Waynesboro man is charged in connection to an alleged robbery and assault reported in the early ...

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Tax increase approved, supervisors adopt $46.5 million budget

  County supervisors in Buckingham have adopted 5-cent increase in the county’s real estate tax rate for fiscal ...

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Brush fire reported under Appomattox River Bridge

Firefighters were called to a small brush fire under the Appomattox River Bridge on Monday afternoon at about ...

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Fire damages Fuqua Pool House

A two-alarm fire damaged the pool house at Fuqua School Friday night. The fire was reported at about ...

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Logging accident kills 39-year-old

A 39-year-old Buckingham man died Tuesday in a logging accident in Prince Edward County. According to Maj. David ...

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Three-alarm fire destroys chicken house

  A three-alarm fire destroyed a 42-foot-by-440-foot chicken house Friday afternoon in Cumberland. The fire, reported at about ...

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Meherrin man dies in Friday crash

A 23-year-old Meherrin man is dead following a single vehicle crash on U.S. Route 360, less than one ...

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Crash kills one in Buckingham

A crash involving a deer in Buckingham killed a 56-year-old Appomattox County man on Thursday. According to Virginia ...

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Firefighters respond to Taco Bell

Farmville Volunteer Fire Department responded to a report of a grease fire at Taco Bell on South Main ...

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Two busted for heroin in Farmville

Two Farmville women are charged with multiple counts of possessing and distributing drugs. According to Farmville police, 56-year-old ...

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Charlotte publishing family loses three newspapers in court battle

Editor’s note: A Blackstone attorney told The Farmville Herald in a letter and email dated Friday that The ...

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New Life Schools could close, April 1 deadline set to raise $100K

  New Life Schools in Cumberland is set to close on June 30 if administrators and supporters can’t ...

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Stimpert named president of Hampden-Sydney College

Dr. John Lawrence “Larry” Stimpert, a vice president at DePauw University in Indiana, has been named Hampden-Sydney College’s ...

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Second arrest made in Prospect robbery

    A second suspect is charged in connection with a reported robbery at the Prospect Convenience Store ...

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Trump, Clinton win big in the Heart of Virginia

Donald Trump, the national Republican presidential frontrunner, handily won across the Heart of Virginia on Tuesday in the ...

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H-SC to announce new president Wednesday

  Hampden-Sydney College is set to announce its 25th president on Wednesday at 11 a.m. According to Lee ...

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Prospect Convenience robbery suspect arrested

  A 22-year-old Pamplin man is charged with robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery after police say he ...

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