In a letter late last week to the Virginia Supreme Court, Judge Clyde Perdue announced his retirement "regretfully, and due only to health reasons."
Franklin County prosecutors are significantly refining and upgrading the cases against several defendants in a summertime shooting that left a…
A retired engineer was killed in one of separate fatal shootings in the Union Hall area earlier this month, recent court documents show, and a…
As online shopping has steadily increased over the past few years, and especially during the holidays, the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office is…
A high-profile Franklin County homicide case, now more than a year old, has hit an unsurprising setback because of COVID-19.
The Franklin County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public's help in locating a stolen vehicle.
The Franklin County Sheriff’s Office is investigating two burglaries at two area convenience stores.
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A stuffed albino squirrel, an antique stolen in 2018, recently helped investigators link a man to a Franklin County burglary.
Franklin County Sheriff’s Office deputies are asking for the public’s help with finding a suspect related to an armed robbery that was reporte…
The case is not closed in the death of a Snow Creek woman that had been ruled a suicide by the state medical examiner, Henry County Sheriff La…
Franklin County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a Providence Church Road home in Ferrum for a report of an armed robbery on Monday, jus…
A Franklin County judge has dismissed the $6 million lawsuit by the only surviving victim of the 2015 Bridgewater Plaza shooting, filed agains…
Rikki White was driving her truck in South Carolina when she got a call she never expected — her Rocky Mount home was on fire.
A Franklin County homicide case, one with an extensive profile but not much definition, gained deeper and more provocative shadings Wednesday …
A disagreement over automobile parts appears to have set off the shooting that claimed the life of a Rocky Mount man last summer.
The Franklin County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a breaking and entering over weekend at a Rocky Mount business, according to a news rele…
A lawn mower and trailer being raffled off for a local charity has been stolen.
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A Vinton man was arrested for possession of a stolen motorcycle in Glade Hill on April 11.
A Rocky Mount man is facing a charge of second-degree murder in the shooting of another man, according to a news release from Sgt. Megan Patte…
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A newly unsealed search warrant details the contents of an RV seized in a Southwest Roanoke neighborhood last fall during the search for Micha…
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ROCKY MOUNT — A psychosexual evaluation conducted on a Franklin County man recently convicted of rape placed him in "the highest risk classifi…
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John Isaiah Hodges, the second defendant convicted in the fatal 2017 shotgun ambush of a Franklin County teenager, on Thursday was ordered to …
Authorities are investigating claims that Michael Alexander Brown went unnoticed while hiding in an RV seized in Roanoke but said there has be…
ROCKY MOUNT — A Franklin County judge has certified a sexual assault charge against a man accused of attacking a woman at his Moneta business …