Franklin County (Virginia)

Lines stretched around buildings and down city blocks yesterday as voters in some precincts waited hours to cast ballots in the historic presidential race between Barack Obama and John McCain. Election watchers forecast heavier voter turnout this year...

Their messages spare and urgent, Barack Obama and John McCain implored uncertain voters to move their way and beseeched the convinced to cast ballots as they barreled Sunday through a swath of battleground states. Two days before the election is no...

Democrats broadened their control of Congress, though in the Senate they fell short of the 60 votes needed for a filibuster-proof majority that would have given them almost unbridled power over legislation. Voters ousted Senate Republicans in North...

When southwest Virginia distiller J.H. de-Hart printed up a broadside called "Preparedness" in 1916, he wasn't talking about getting ready for the looming world war in Europe. Instead, he railed against the state's "coming prohibition drought," urging...

Virginia Tech mass killer Seung-Hui Cho reached out from his grave to lament that "this didn't have to happen" and warned that "I will no longer run" in a bizarre multimedia package received by NBC News Wednesday that he apparently mailed in the two-...