Franklin County Sheriff’s Office collaborated with Shield Chaplaincy to provide spiritual wellness support to first ...

The murder plea by Qu’Shawn Manns was accepted by a Franklin County judge February 5, 2025, and Manns was sentenced to serve ...

The Franklin County commissioners approved a memorandum of understanding to establish a program to allow officers to execute ...

Zachariah Smith "came out of nowhere" outside a woman's home at 4:30 a.m. Monday before an ordeal at Turkey Hill store in ...

A Roanoke drug dealer was sentenced to 18 years in prison Thursday for selling a mixture of cocaine and fentanyl that swiftly ...

On Oct. 4, 2024, 43-year-old Daniel Elwood Duncan was arrested and charged with the murders of Vicky Purdy and Ricky Dodson.

Lori Streeter, the Franklin County Jail and House of Correction’s superintendent and special sheriff since 2014, has been ...

Commissioners voted in November to accept a $1 million federal grant over three years to address substance use recovery and resources for reentering society after being released from the county jail.

Franklin County Jail is set to participate in an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement program that aims to prevent undocumented immigrants with criminal records from being released into the ...

Zachariah Alexander Smith, 29, of Falling Waters, W.Va., was arrested at the Waynesboro store early Monday morning and placed in Franklin County Jail on $100,000 bail, according to court records.