Pittsylvania County leaders are putting an emphasis on safety as back to school season approaches

The head of the Food and Drug Administration has announced an overhaul of the agency's food safety and nutrition division.

The Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to approve a grant to add 10 school resource officers to its school division.

Law enforcement will be able to pull up the map of a school on their computer or cell-phone before even getting to the scene.

It was 1:45 a.m. Sunday when a Danville-area mom got a call from her family that her son had been shot at a party in Pittsylvania.

The community is looking for answers after a house in the neighborhood caught fire, leaving bodies behind over the weekend.

PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY, Va. - Investigators at the scene of Tuesday's triple homicide that rocked the Keeling community in Pittsylvania County may not have shown their emotions, but the case no doubt had an impact on many of them. Chivvis is a former detective himself and knows first hand just how traumatic situations like Tuesday's triple homicide can be. "Law enforcement, we've had such a bravado that you can be seen as weak for talking about that. We're doing the right thing," Chivvis saidAn encounter with an officer at the scene Tuesday was evidence, Pittsylvania County Sheriff Mike Taylor said at a news conference Wednesday, of just how emotionally tough the case is. The suspect in Tuesday's homicide, 19-year-old Matthew Bernard, was scheduled to be arraigned Thursday morning but was instead hospitalized for unknown reasons.

PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY, Va. - Friends and family gathered Wednesday night to pray, grieve and honor the victims of Tuesday's triple murder in Pittsylvania County. "Prayer changes things; prayer helps in a way that other means that we try can only go so far," Poe said. "We all go through battles and struggles and face things like this and have dark seasons, good seasons, bad seasons," said Penny Bartee, a Bivens family friend. Pittsylvania County Sheriff Mike Taylor struggling to find words at one points during Wednesday's news conference. The church family says faith will keep the families afloat, and they're including the alleged killer in their prayers.