County officials and residents are at odds over the potential impact of high-voltage power lines on a new school to be constructed near the lines.

Some Orange County parents might be saving a penny or two on their taxes next year, but they might be making up the difference in child care and recreational activities.

Eighty people were put out of a job last Friday, when the doors were closed at AB&C Group’s Orange call center.

A teenager from New York will stand trial in federal court for a Gordonsville murder that occurred more than two years ago.

Eighty people were put out of a job last Friday, when the doors were closed at AB&C Group’s Orange call center.

Some Orange County parents might be saving a penny or two on their taxes next year, but they might be making up the difference in child care and recreational activities.

A teenager from New York will stand trial in federal court for a Gordonsville murder that occurred more than two years ago. 

At budget work sessions last week, county officials looked at trimming long-term county initiatives to make short-term operation costs more realistic. By the end of the evening, supervisors successfully trimmed a few pennies off a proposed tax increase.

Orange County residential building permits are down compared to the last few years, but are in line with numbers from the first part of the decade.

There are currently 5,098 students attending Orange County Public Schools. Unfortunately, the county’s eight schools were built to house 4,914 students. 

After five days of testimony, evidence and arguments, it took jurors only hours to decide James Henry Long, Jr. was guilty of the March 2005 murders of William Browning and Vicki Truax.

Signs of a troubled economy are everywhere. Household budgets are pared down to the bone, and Orange County Administrator Bill Rolfe said the county’s coffers are stretched thin too.

There are two things 15-year-old Kristina Thomas has always wanted to do. She wanted to attend high school and she wanted to meet country singer Alan Jackson.