If you’re driving up or down Highway 49 on a Sunday morning this summer, you probably anticipate that the road may contain a ...

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Columnist Norris Burkes recounts a time when his lack of reverence for traffic regulations prompted an enlightening chat with ...

The “Mother Church” of the African Methodist Episcopal denomination in Alabama is celebrating its 135th anniversary this weekend.

Emergency crews suspended their search for victims of catastrophic flooding in central Texas amid new warnings that more rain ...

Roberts has been a redhead, a brunette, and blonde, with a variety of cuts over the decades—and it appears that her hair in ...

But some of Lynchburg's oldest churches are struggling to survive as membership dwindles and the cost of maintaining their historic structures rises.