There's no doubt that obesity is a major problem in the United States but despite efforts to reduce the problem, Americans aren't getting any thinner. Now medical experts are looking at a new option to help cut down on those high numbers.

The Op Shop in Harrisonburg is giving adults with developmental disabilities a job. Their task is assembling pizza boxes.

How much is your son or daughter spending on prom this year? New numbers show it is more than ever before.

Virginia Beach is prohibiting swimming in part of the Chesapeake Bay.

Police say five people are in custody after pointing a gun at two Culpeper County schools.

Rosetta Stone will let go of an unknown number of employees.

The United Way of Harrisonburg and Rockingham County held its annual Community Impact Celebration Wednesday.

A Waynesboro man will spend two years on probation for participating in a scheme to steal tactical flashlights from the Virginia Army National Guard.

Virginia will conduct its annual pesticide disposal program in September.

In Harrisonburg alone, there are more than 150 people who are homeless. To understand what it's like to be homeless, WHSV's Tom Dempsey took an inside look at what these people endure day-in and day-out.

As part of United Way's Day of Caring, the Plains Area Daycare Center in Broadway will be getting a makeover.

United Way of Harrisonburg and Rockingham County will recognize volunteers who dedicate hours of hard work at its annual Day of Caring Rally.

Another town in the Valley is raising fees and adding taxes for its budget. But Grottoes has something special to help ease the burden.

A man who got his foot stuck in an auger machine now needs an amputation.

Millions of Americans suffer from Alzheimer's disease. What if we could see a cure in the relatively near future?

Tuesday was the 148th anniversary of the Battle of New Market.

Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community got a new house-mate on their memory support wing.

Cub Run Elementary School received a special treat for their first graders. They participated in a challenge in February and it paid off Tuesday.

Food banks across the state are getting a helping hand from local farmers and it is no different here in the Valley.

Right now several people in the Harrisonburg area are getting text messages saying they won a prize.

Attorneys for a North Carolina man convicted of supporting a terrorist organization have told an appeals court that he should get a new sentencing hearing.

Three Virginia men and a New York man have been sentenced in a cigarette smuggling case.

Attorneys for the state are fighting to keep a man on Virginia's death row after a federal court said his claims of mental deficiency were enough to warrant an appeal.

Virginia Beach police are asking residents to call 911 if they see a bear.

The House of Delegates, voting in Tuesday's early morning hours, blocked an openly gay Richmond prosecutor from appointment to a General District Court judgeship in the city.