The City of Franklin has canceled its Independence Day Celebration activities due to forecasts of inclement weather, officials announced Wednesday. Despite the cancellation of daytime events, the city ...

Human remains discovered two years ago in Southampton County have been identified as those of a Hanover County woman who had ...

FRANKLIN – Charles Wayne Jeffries Sr., 78, passed away June 24, 2025 in Southampton Memorial Hospital. Born in Suffolk and raised in Burdette/Black Creek, he was a son of the late Charles Berkley ...

FRANKLIN – Doris Louise Coggsdale Carr passed away June 25, 2025 in East Pavilion at the age of 95. She was born and raised in Southampton County, a daughter of the late John Waverly Coggsdale Sr. and ...

FRANKLIN – Shelby Jean Futrell Bradshaw, age 88, passed away on June 25, 2025 at East Pavilion, in Franklin, Virginia. She was born on June 7, 1937 to the late Fitzhugh and Learlie Futrell of ...