The owner of the Natural Bridge Zoo turned herself into jail after failing to comply with a court order to surrender two missing giraffe calves to the state.

A program at the Rockbridge Regional jail is aimed at helping those who are looking to turn their lives around.

More than half a million dollars will give inmates a second chance.

ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY, Va. – A grand jury has indicted a Roanoke man in connection with an explosion that killed four people. On Thursday, a special grand jury in Rockbridge County indicted Phillip Ray Westmoreland on four counts of involuntary manslaughter for the deaths caused by the explosion at the South River Market on May 10, 2019. Westmoreland is the man who was driving the fuel delivery truck that day, according to Virginia State Police. AdAfter the explosion, Rockbridge County authorities requested that Virginia State Police investigate the incident. In December 2019, State Police supplied its investigative files to the Rockbridge County Commonwealth Attorney’s Office and upon review Commonwealth’s Attorney for Rockbridge County Jared Moon petitioned the Rockbridge County Circuit Court to impanel a special grand jury to continue with the investigation.

LEXINGTON, Va. - A jury convicted the former head nurse at Rockbridge Regional Jail of interfering with a federal investigation into civil rights abuses at the jail. Gary Hassler, 59, of Buena Vista, was convicted Friday after a three-day federal jury trial in U.S. District Court in Lynchburg. Hassler was found guilty of one count of falsifying documents in order to impede a federal investigation into civil rights abuses and violations at the facility, according to First Assistant United States Attorney Daniel Bubar. Hassler was indicted in August 2018 and charged with two counts of falsifying documents in order to impede a federal investigation. Assistant United States Attorneys Zachary Lee and Matthew Miller prosecuted the case for the United States.