The Latest Breaking News from Danville

Rural Virginia Paramedics Make Home Visits to Cut Repeat 911 Calls, but Programs Struggle to Find Steady Funding

Community paramedics in rural Virginia visit patients at home to prevent repeat 911 calls. Early results are promising, but funding is thin.

Medical Daily · Sep 18

Health Secretary Brings Take Back Your Health Tour to Danville as Rural Virginia Faces Medicaid Reductions

HHS Secretary Kennedy toured a Danville agriculture research center and a Chatham rehab facility, defending rural health funding amid Medicaid cuts.

Medical Daily · Aug 5

Virginia city councilman set on fire in attack over 'personal matter,' unrelated to office

Police say a city councilmember in Virginia was set on fire by a man who entered a local magazine office

The Independent UK · Jul 30, 2025

A year after Roe v. Wade was overturned, Illinois is fighting hard to protect abortion rights

The numbers of Americans supporting abortion rights since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision are encouraging. But the fight is far from over to safeguard women’s right to make their own decisions about pregnancy.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jun 22, 2023

Illinois man held in attempted arson of planned abortion clinic said he’d ‘finish the job’ if freed, feds say

CHICAGO — The Illinois man accused of crashing his car into a future abortion clinic in downstate Danville while attempting to set it on fire told authorities he intended to destroy the building so it could not be used to provide abortions and would attempt to do so again if…

Chicago Tribune · May 24, 2023

Downstate Danville backs abortion pills ban, defying legal risks

The city council bans shipping and mailing of abortion pills in a vote Tuesday in defiance of state law protecting the procedure. Abortion advocates are mulling a challenge.

Chicago Sun-Times · May 3, 2023

Illinois city backs abortion pills ban, defying legal risks

An Illinois city is supporting a ban on the mailing or shipping of abortion pills

The Independent UK · May 3, 2023

Meet the man determined to climb the tallest tree in all 67 Pennsylvania counties

DANVILLE, Pa. — On most days, Van Wagner has pine needles in his pockets and sawdust in his salt-and-pepper beard. He teaches his high school students about agriculture and trees, trims tree branches on the side and, if he can carve out a few extra hours, Wagner even sings folk…

The Philadelphia Inquirer · Mar 2, 2023

Cops: Fake 911 call helped unravel Vermont murder for hire

A Los Angeles biotech investor is back in Vermont where he is facing a murder for hire charge for his alleged role in the 2018 kidnapping and death of a Danville man

The Independent UK · Oct 5, 2022

Commentary: I produce true crime stories. I know what comes next for Highland Park, my hometown

On Memorial Day weekend in 1998, 14-year-old Nicole Van Hyfte was attending church in Danville, Illinois. It was where she and the other members of her youth group gathered every Sunday.

Chicago Tribune · Jul 21, 2022