If you are searching for newspaper articles by topic, keyword, author or date, it is easiest to do so using LexisNexis Academic or Factiva:
LexisNexis Academic
Contains full text articles from newspapers worldwide, some dating back over 20 years. Updated daily.
Factiva
Full text local and regional newspapers, trade publications, business newswires, press release wires, media transcripts, news photos, and much more.
News & Advance (Lynchburg)
Daily Progress (Charlottesville)
GoDanRiverDanville Register & Bee
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Roanoke Times
Internet Public Library - Newspapers & Magazones
Online newspapers from around the world.
Selected Daily U.S. Newspapers
Selected non-Lynchburg area daily newspapers.
Newspapers.com - United States
Search engine for all United States newspapers and other publications.
Newspapers.com - International
Search engine for international newspapers.
ABYZ News Links
Contains links to more than 17,000 newspapers and other news sources from around the world.
TOPIX.NET
The Internet's largest news site. Contains thousands of topically driven, specific news web pages populated with only news about that particular topic.
CountryWatch
Full text information on the countries of the world. The "CountryWire" section includes up to date headline news for each country.
Global Voices Online
Global Voices is a community of more than 300 bloggers and translators around the world who work together to bring you reports from blogs and citizen media everywhere, with emphasis on voices that are not ordinarily heard in international mainstream media.
Stateline.org
Politics and policy news, state by state.