Today's News

Bedford's tourism office will host a group of group tour operators from around the country today. A second group will be here Friday.

"This is incredible to get," commented Sergei Troubetzkoy, the Bedford area's director of tourism.

All told, there will be a total 27 tour operators here. Troubetzkoy said that he had that many visit during his entire 18 years as director of tourism in Staunton.

Three people have been charged with their involvement in a shooting on Thaxton School Road Jan. 2, including a mother and her daughter.

This week Deepraj Islam Khan, 19, formerly of Forest, Sandra Faye Campbell, 46, of Thaxton, and her daughter, Amanda Lynn Campbell, 18, of Thaxton were each charged with aggravated malicious wounding and the use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, according to Major Ricky Gardner of the Bedford County Sheriff's Office.

Four townhouses in the Waterways development near Saunders Point were destroyed in a Saturday morning fire.

According to John Jennings, the county's primary fire marshal for investigation, the call came in at 8:21 a.m. The Saunders Point Volunteer Fire Department is the first responder for that area and units from that fire department were the first to arrive. They were assisted by other fire companies due to the size of the blaze.

The haul that three men got from robbing the participants at a poker game, last spring, consisted of some cigarettes, less than $1,000 in cash and 18 felony convictions.