The Roanoke Police Department is searching for a wanted man following an officer-involved shooting early Saturday morning. Vinton man taken into custody for allegedly stabbing 17-year-old girl A ...

Lynchburg inmate gets 21 years for running fentanyl trafficking ring from behind bars A Lynchburg man who directed a drug trafficking operation while he was incarcerated was sentenced to 21 years ...

Funeral arrangements have been announced for Lacey Putney, the longest serving member of Virginia's General Assembly who died Saturday. A visitation for Putney will be held September 5 from 1 to 3 PM, ...

WASHINGTON — Virginia’s longest serving legislator will lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda in Richmond, House Speaker Bill Howell’s office announced. Former Del. Lacey Putney died Saturday. The ...

He has been honored by his colleagues in the House of Delegates, by all nine of Virginia’s living governors, and by friends and neighbors in his native Bedford County. But as he winds down the longest ...

Del. Lacey Putney of Bedford County won’t seek re-election to another term this November, bringing to a close a record-setting 52-year career in the Virginia House of Delegates. The gravelly voiced ...

Outgoing House Appropriations committee chairman Lacey E. Putney, I-Bedford was honored with a standing ovation before Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell presented his 2014-2016 budget to members of the ...

A man who served in the Virginia General Assembly longer than anyone else before or since has died. Lacey Putney died Saturday, his friend and longtime fellow legislator State Senator Steve Newman ...

After 52 years in the General Assembly Del. Lacey Putney of Bedford has decided he’s served the people of his district long enough. Putney, who serves as an independent and caucuses with the ...

BEDFORD, Va. – Lacey Putney, the longest serving member of Virginia's General Assembly, has died. A statement from House Speaker William Howell said Putney passed away Saturday at the age of 89.

Putney's legislative career spanned a period of economic and social transformation in Virginia he could not have imagined when he first ran for the House in 1961. And it's ending with the 85-year-old ...