Today's News

Last week, I returned to Washington to join my Republican colleagues in our on-going effort to impress upon the leadership of the House of Representatives that the American public deserves an up-or-down vote on allowing drilling for oil and natural gas on American soil and on the Outer Continental Shelf, so that we may produce more of our own energy needs and break our dependence on foreign oil.

A couple of weeks ago our Governor Tim Kaine claimed that pigs fly. He didn't actually say that he saw a porker take to the air on wings, but what he did say was equally absurd.

After stomping Georgia's army flat, the Russian army stopped. Kaine proclaimed that Russia was heeding Barack Obama's call for them to do so.

Tim Groover knows all too well the heartbreak of losing a child in an automobile crash involving a teen driver.

In November 2002, his 15-year-old daughter Brittany was killed as the result of an accident while riding with another teen. That car went out of control and slammed into a school bus in front of Forest Middle School. The last entry in his daughter's diary on her computer stated: "You cannot change your beginning, but you certainly can change your ending."

Though they had the opportunity to send their children to another school, parents of students at Bedford Elementary and Bedford Primary schools are happy to have their students stay just where they are.

"I think what we heard is that people in Bedford just really trust the principals and staff at those two schools," said Karen Woodford, literacy development specialist with Bedford County Public Schools. "They just really love their schools."