Where no local burger has gone before, the “Chubby Melt” went this week: straight to the tip of David Letterman’s tongue.

Heralded for leading wrestlers to 13 state championship matches, a former Fort Defiance High School wrestling coach has filed a lawsuit against Augusta County Public Schools claiming officials fired him for racial reasons.

Deputies have arrested a Waynesboro man on charges he clubbed an Eastside Speedway security guard with a metal pipe.

R.E. Lee needs additional space for its football trophies

One of two Staunton men accused of killing a former roommate pleaded guilty Friday to second-degree murder.

NATO is reporting the deaths of two more American service members in Afghanistan.

Deputies arrested a Waynesboro man Thursday night, pinning charges on him for the attack of an Eastside Speedway security guard.

Military officials were starting Friday to piece together what may have pushed an Army psychiatrist and Virginia Tech graduate trained to help soldiers in distress to turn on his comrades in a shooting rampage that killed 13 people and wounded 30 in Texas.

Dominion Virginia Power customers would get back more than $400 million from the company under an agreement the state’s largest utility has reached with the state attorney general’s office and a group of large ratepayers.

Expired medications and illegal drugs will be accepted anonymously and without question for safe disposal Saturday at Augusta Health in Fishersville.

“Our goal is more than 50,000 doses,” said Doug Holroyd, director of pharmacy services at the hospital. “To destroy meds in regular trash, it can either get into the water supply or into the hands of somebody you don’t want them to ... dogs ... kids.”

VERONA – The Augusta County School Board Thursday reversed a decision by Superintendent Gary McQuain and voted 5-2 to grant newly elected House 20 Del. Dickie Bell’s request for an unpaid leave of absence from his special education teaching duties so he can serve in Richmond.

A Staunton teen stole a car to use credit cards he’d stolen from the owner, then found her waiting when he tried to return the vehicle, authorities said.

Augusta County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Bryan Layne, 19, Wednesday. Authorities said they suspect more people are connected to the crime.

Democrat Creigh Deeds wrongly focused on social issues and lost to Republican Robert F. McDonnell in the race for governor in part because young, African-American and other voters who supported Barack Obama a year ago stayed home, a political expert said.

Vaccines arrive for ‘high risk’ patients

House District 20 Del.-elect Dickie Bell expects to resign his Staunton City Council seat by the end of the year, which will give the remaining council members 45 days to appoint a successor.

Virginia-born psychiatrist opens fire on army base

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STAUNTON — Authorities have charged a former county prison guard with bribery as part of a ring they say delivered drugs to inmates.

For months April M. Hogsett, 26, of Doe Hill, used her position at the Augusta County Correctional Center to work as a liaison between prisoners and an outside drug source, according to court records.

House District 20 Del.-elect Dickie Bell plans to appear tonight before the Augusta County School Board to appeal the denial of his request for a leave of absence from his teaching job during the upcoming General Assembly session.

E. Coli, hard water surface during private system tests

Officials work throughout the day for final tallies

Only weeks after their relationship skidded into trouble, a Staunton pair pleaded guilty Wednesday to injuring their infant child.

Richard Lee Steppe, 30, and Patience Dannielle Armentrout, 19, appeared before a Waynesboro Circuit Court judge to admit to felony child abuse of their 2-month-old baby.

An former corrections officer accused of delivering drugs to an inmate now faces a bribery charge.

STAUNTON — Nobody caught Jose Orlando Romero-Feliciano easily.

Tracking him meant a chase to the south of the country, down into the twin cities of Louisiana, next to the bank of the Ouachita River.

House District 24 Del. Ben Cline defended his seat Tuesday with a dominating victory over Democratic challenger Jeff Price.

“It’s a great night for the [Shenandoah] Valley and for fiscal responsibility and for restoring common sense conservative values to Richmond,” Cline said from a Republican victory party at Salerno’s Restaurant in Lexington. “I commend my opponent for a clean race focused on the issues.”

Incumbent House District 25 Del. Steve Landes crushed his first major party challenge in more than a decade Tuesday, rolling past Democrat Greg Marrow.

Republican Stephanie Beverage will be the next Waynesboro treasurer after scoring a huge election night victory Tuesday.

Four years after losing her bid for the seat, Beverage captured 42 percent of the vote in a four-way race that saw the field double last month. Incumbent Treasurer Sandra “Sandee” Dixon mustered just 27 percent of the vote.

Bob McDonnell led a Republican sweep of Virginia’s statewide races Tuesday, restoring the Republicans to power after eight years out of the governor’s office.

The dominant victories by McDonnell, Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling and Ken Cuccinelli, the party’s nominee for attorney general, reversed a recent string of defeats for Republicans, who lost races for the U.S. Senate in 2006 and 2008 and the presidential election in Virginia in 2008 for the first time in 44 years.

Incumbent Staunton City Sheriff Alex L. Caldwell Jr. cruised to victory Tuesday night, snaring more than two-thirds of the vote.

Caldwell picked up 70 percent of the tally to Democratic challenger Michael S. Painter’s 30 percent.

STAUNTON –  Veteran Staunton City Councilman and Republican Richard “Dickie” Bell won convincingly Tuesday in the state House District 20 race, besting Democrat Erik Curren.

Bell captured 71 percent of the vote to Curren’s 29 percent.