The foundation for the dam that today holds back Smith Mountain Lake was laid more than 500 million years ago. In the late Pre-Cambrian era, long before the appearance of dinosaurs, fish, land plants ...

Modern vampires like Dracula may be dashing, but they certainly weren’t in the original vampire myths. Archive Photos/ Moviepix via Getty Images Stanley Stepanic, University of Virginia The vampire is ...

After a subdued 2020 because of the pandemic, Smith Mountain Lake Pirate Days is set to return this weekend. Events are planned at multiple lake locations along with roaming bands of pirates looking ...

Hydragun looked at how chronic pain affects aspects of health including feelings of depression, sleep, and physical function, citing data from a University of Pittsburgh Medical Center study.

Stacker presents the 100 best movies of all time, as determined by weighted IMDb ratings and Metascores. Only English-language movies released in the U.S. were considered for the list, and each movie ...

Emma Coleman 540-981-3198 Jul 30, 2022 Jul 30, 2022 Updated Sep 7, 2023 A new statewide, searchable cold case database sparked a new lead in a 19-year-old murder investigation late last month. “I just ...

Based on box office data, here are the top 50 highest-grossing Westerns by worldwide box office gross.

To figure out which movie franchises are the highest-grossing in the United States, Stacker scoured The Numbers and ranked them by their domestic earnings.

Over the next 19 years, the Pew Research Center estimates approximately 10,000 people will retire every day in the United States. With the opening of its model home in LakeWatch Plantation earlier ...

Hidden away in a lakeside workshop in Wirtz, Alan Frederick has spent the last year and a half working on his dream project. A unique and massive 35-foot runabout is starting to take shape that he ...

Stacker presents the worst comedy films of all time, based on data from IMDb and Metacritic. Each film needed at least 2,500 votes on IMDb to qualify.

Stacker looked at IMDb data on all of Elvis Presley’s feature films and ranked them by user rating, with ties broken by votes. His two live music documentaries were not included.