Voter registration ended at 5 p.m. Monday, and local election officials in Virginia and Tennessee say the number of voters has risen in comparison to the 2004 election.

The Washington County School Board reaffirmed its policy Monday prohibiting the posting of students’ names with pictures on school Web sites.

The Abingdon Town Council did not vote on an agreement Monday night spelling out details of a joint sports complex with Washington County, opting instead to ask for another meeting with county officials.

City leaders said Monday they plan to restrict spending for the next two months to avoid any possible cash flow problems.

The only boat ramp along Netherland Inn Road in Kingsport has been closed for the last few weeks, and residents want to know why.

District 2 State Representative candidates talk about plans to fix the dangerous road.

Southwest Virginia soldiers deployed for Iraq today.

R.H. Donnelley in Bristol, Tennessee notified 46 employees they would lose their jobs. 

A 10-year-old boy was driving a car nearly 90 miles an hour moments before it crashed on Sunday, according to a Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office report. Police responding to the accident found one woman “putting as many pills as she could in her mouth” while a man also arrested on the scene, Randy Lewis (pictured), admitted to drinking 15 beers, the report said. 

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Investigators are looking into what sparked a fire that tore through a Unicoi County house Monday morning. The fire sparked around 10:45a.m. on Anderson Chapel Circle in Unicoi County near the Carter County line.

Local tourism officials expect 25,000 visitors to pass through Washington County, Va., as they set out to see the leaves change colors this fall.

Time is running out to register to vote in the November elections. Monday is the deadline in Tennessee and Virginia. North Carolina’s deadline is Friday October 10th. 

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A Johnson City man will appear in court later today, accused of holding three men at gunpoint.

A Tri-Cities woman accused of wielding a knife and wounding a person will appear in court today.

“We’d see those shark fins swimming around us. They were as curious about us as we were them. A man would get a high fever from an injury. He would begin to hallucinate and imagine he saw an oasis. He would leave to swim to it and all of a sudden you would hear a blood-curdling scream and he would disappear. Then, his kapok [life] jacket would appear in a red pool of blood growing in the water.”
- Edgar Harrell

“It’s like playing poker. It depends on a lot of factors.”
- Ed Shoots, Virginia Department of Forestry’s Western Region

Beekeeper said he’s kept the insects as a hobby since the early 1980s and hasn’t heard any complaints about them from anyone in the neighborhood.

The slowing economy has had a varied effect on lottery ticket sales, said Virginia Lottery Executive Director Paula Otto.

The 46 visitors from Abingdon, England, leave early this morning, but not before commenting on the area’s friendliness and hospitality.

Visitors flocked to Historic Jonesborough this weekend for storytelling, and local businesses enjoyed sales.

North Carolina hasn’t gone to a Democratic presidential candidate in 32 years.  Obama spoke to a capacity crowd in Asheville Sunday.  Click here to view video of his entire speech.

With electric rates set to rise from 15 percent to nearly 40 percent across most of the region, reactions from customers range from uneasiness to outrage.

When temperatures drop, Joyce Atkins stops using more than half of her modest Abingdon home just to keep utility costs down.

He thinks Gov. Sarah Palin is a skilled performer, Barack Obama is one of America’s best political speakers – ever – and that O.J. Simpson, at 61, is still a pretty good-looking man.

A majority of registered voters in Southwest Virginia rate Gov. Tim Kaine as “good” while his statewide approval rating remains positive, according to a recent Mason-Dixon poll.

The annual Miss Food City Pageant is scheduled on Oct. 11 at 7 p.m.  at the Paramount Center for the Arts in downtown Bristol.

“Bad Kitty Gets a Bath” by Nick Bruel, 2008, Roaring Brook Press, $13.95/$15.50 Canada, 128 pages: Let’s say it’s Sunday, and you’ve had a great weekend.
You spent time outside, maybe riding your bike or running around in the yard. You did a few things for mom, helped dad with his chores, played some games, maybe even went to the mall or visited grandma.
But now it’s Sunday night, and you know what that means.
Ugh, a bath. But guess what? As much as you hate taking baths, it could be worse: you could be a cat.
Just remember this, and say it often: cats hate baths.
You’ll need to know that when you read “Bad Kitty Gets a Bath” by Nick Bruel, because if you don’t memorize it now, you’ll wish you had when you get kitty in the tub.

“Gallery Ghost” by Anna Nilson, 2008, Birdcage Press, $17.95, hardbound, 40 pages: A recipient of the Independent Publisher Book Awards, “Gallery Ghost” is a game rather than a story. Art student Sarah cleans the museum at night and plays games with the ghosts there. In this book she invites the reader to join the fun.
Twenty-four ghosts haunt the museum, all having been artists in life; they are now famous. Artists from around the world are here, from England to France, the Netherlands and America. The earliest artist (Rogier van der Weyden) was born in 1399, and the most recent (Marguerite Zorach) died in 1968. The reader is briefly introduced to each of them before embarking on the search for the ghost who painted the most changes in other artists’ works.