"We always kick off the races with the Battle of the Badge," Alexis Hampo, special events manager for Visit Hot Springs, said ...

The Lynchburg Police Department has changed the badges its sworn officers wear to ones with a design that incorporates “powerful imagery” of the Hill City, the police department said Thursday.

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