Today's News

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At 12:26 p.m. Sunday Bedford County 911 dispatchers received a call from a Goodview residence reporting a 6-year-old child missing from the home on Smith Mountain Lake.

The caller advised that the child had been missing 15 minutes prior to making the call. Rescue personnel along with law enforcement were dispatched to the scene. At 3:26 p.m. divers located the victim’s body a short distance from the dock where he was last seen.

By Congressman Robert Hurt

As I travel the 5th District, I constantly hear concerns regarding rising fuel prices that continue to negatively impact our families and small businesses and harm our much-needed economic recovery.

By Deidre Wilkinson
Moneta

    Here we go again, another school year another student sexual victim in a Bedford County high school.
    As another school year is upon us, parents may wonder about the safety of their children while they are at school. In the past couple of years at least three students were not kept safe while at school. They were victims of sexual abuse by adults employed at each of our three Bedford County public high schools.

I have a fundamental question about the presidential campaign at this point: If the economy is so terrible and Barack Obama is such a failed, Kenyan socialist, why doesn’t Mitt Romney hold a commanding lead in the polls?
    One answer is this: Every time it looks like Romney might be about to build a little momentum, something happens to show just how extreme his party has become.