With drum lines and street dancers, fair food, barbecue and flavors from across the globe, the 2025 Virginia Lake Festival was a feast for the senses. The two-day event drew thousands of people to ...

A Chase City police officer was seriously injured Sunday while attempting to serve a warrant on a suspect for making nuisance calls to 911. Chase City Police Chief Jay Jordan said Officer Fred ...

Kavonte Jakyle Drequan Gayles of Saxe will spend the next 40 years in prison after he was sentenced Friday for the June 2023 murder of Xavier Terry and the malicious wounding of Tramechia Alexander ...

Mecklenburg County Public Schools remains in the dark about the financial impact of the Trump Administration’s decision to freeze more than $6.8 billion in federal education funds one day before the ...

Clarksville Town Manager Jeff Jones said the town will honor a fallen member of its police force Aug. 1 when Virginia Avenue is dedicated in the memory of Glenn Lawson. Jones announced the dedication ...

Clarksville police continue to investigate a shooting incident Saturday night as Lakefest activities were winding down. Clarksville Police Detective Andy Elliott said the department received a call ...

I spent the morning skimming the day’s headlines, as one does, and came across this in The New York Times: “G.M. Profit Shrinks on Billion-Dollar Tariff Hit” (Tuesday, July 22 edition.) The takeaway ...

Mary Townes, 89 of Clarksville, died Saturday, July 19, 2025. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at this time. Carter’s Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.

More than 250 runners and walkers turned out Saturday morning for the annual YMCA Lakefest 5K and Fun Run. The early morning race sends runners and walkers across Buggs Island Lake and through the ...

It has certainly been quite a summer for many of our local All-Star baseball and softball teams. Congratulations are in order for our two Mecklenburg County-based teams that are headed to World Series ...

Eight years is a long time for a racing family to go without a win. That is how long it has been since the Peregoy family had been in Victory Lane with one of its race teams. That long, frustrating ...

Clayton Ronald Fallen of Nathalie passed away Monday, July 21, 2025 at the age of 78. He was born in Halifax County to the late Oda Pearlman Fallen Sr. and the late Hattie Watts Fallen. He was a ...