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<p style="margin: 0pt; text-align: center;"><b>UNITED STATES</b></p>

<p style="margin: 0pt; text-align: center;"><b>SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</b></p>

<p style="margin: 0pt; text-align: center;"><b>Washington, D.C. 20549</b></p>

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<p style="margin: 0pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><b>FORM 8-K</b></p>

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<p style="text-align: center; margin: 0pt;"><b>CURRENT REPORT </b></p>

<p style="text-align: center; margin: 0pt;"><b>Pursuant to Section 13 OR 15(d) of The Securities Exchange Act of 1934</b></p>

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<p style="text-align: center; margin: 0pt;">&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align: center; margin: 0pt;">Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): <b>April </b><b>2</b><b>4</b><b>, 2018</b></p>

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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:12pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;"><b>FIRST COMMUNITY BANCSHARES, INC.</b></p>
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			<td colspan="5" style="vertical-align: top; width: 79.1%; text-align: center;">(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)</td>
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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;"><b>Nevada</b></p>
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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;"><b>000-19297</b></p>
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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;"><b>55-0694814</b></p>
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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;">of incorporation)</p>
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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;">File Number)</p>
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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;">Identification No.)</p>
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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;"><b>P.O. Box 989</b></p>

			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;"><b>Bluefield, Virginia</b></p>
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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;"><b>24605-0989</b></p>
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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;">Registrant&rsquo;s telephone number, including area code: <b>(276) 326-9000</b></p>
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<p style="margin: 0pt;">Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:</p>

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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;">[&nbsp; ]&nbsp;&nbsp; Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)</p>
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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;">[&nbsp; ]&nbsp;&nbsp; Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)</p>
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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;">[&nbsp; ]&nbsp;&nbsp; Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))</p>
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<p style="margin: 0pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (&sect; 230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (&sect; 240.12b-2 of this chapter).</p>

<p style="margin: 0pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: right;">Emerging growth company &#9744;</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. &#9744;</p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:justify;"><b>Item 2.02 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b><b>Results of Operations and Financial Condition</b><b>.</b></p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:justify;">On April 24, 2018, First Community Bancshares, Inc. (the &ldquo;Company&rdquo;) announced by press release its earnings for the first quarter of 2018. A copy of the press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1.</p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:justify;"><b>Item 5.07&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b><b>Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders </b></p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:justify;">On April 24, 2018, the Company held its annual shareholders&rsquo; meeting. At the meeting, the Company&rsquo;s shareholders: (i) elected all persons listed below under Proposal 1 to serve as director of the Company for a term that will continue until the 2021 annual meeting of shareholders; (ii) ratified the appointment of Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP as the Company&rsquo;s independent registered public accounting firm; and (iii) approved an Agreement and Plan of Reincorporation and Merger, approved by the Board of Directors on February 27, 2018, pursuant to which the Corporation&#39;s state of incorporation would change from Nevada to Virginia, by means of the Corporation merging with and into a new Virginia Corporation, to be named &quot;First Community Bankshares, Inc.,&quot; so that the stockholders of the Corporation would become shareholders of the new Virginia Corporation.</p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:justify;">The following tables summarize voting results by the Company&rsquo;s shareholders.</p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:justify;"><i>Proposal 1: To elect two directors to serve as members of the Board of Directors Class of 2021.</i></p>

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			<p style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><b>Nominee</b></p>
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			<p style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt; text-align: center;"><b>Votes FOR</b></p>
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			<p style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt; text-align: center;"><b>Votes</b></p>

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			<p style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt; text-align: center;"><b>Broker Non-</b></p>

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			<p style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;">W.C. Blankenship, Jr.</p>
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			<p style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt; text-align: right;">9,909,436</p>
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			<p style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt; text-align: right;">863,910</p>
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			<p style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt; text-align: right;">2,054,462</p>
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			<p style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;">William P. Stafford, II</p>
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			<p style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt; text-align: right;">10,414,022</p>
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			<p style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt; text-align: right;">359,324</p>
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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:justify;"><i>Proposal 2: To ratify the appointment of Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP as the Company&rsquo;s independent registered public accounting firm.</i></p>

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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;"><b>Votes FOR</b></p>
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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;"><b>Votes AGAINST</b></p>
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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;"><b>Votes ABSTAIN</b></p>
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			<p style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt; text-align: right;">12,164,348</p>
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			<td style="vertical-align: top; width: 23%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt;">
			<p style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt; text-align: right;">657,072</p>
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			<td style="vertical-align: top; width: 3.1%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt;">&nbsp;</td>
			<td style="vertical-align: top; width: 23%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt;">
			<p style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt; text-align: right;">6,388</p>
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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:justify;"><i>Proposal 3: To approve an Agreement and Plan of Reincorporation and Merger pursuant to which the Corporation&#39;s state of incorporation would change from Nevada to Virginia, by means of the Corporation merging with and into a new Virginia Corporation, to be named &quot;First Community Bankshares, Inc.,&quot; so that the stockholders of the Corporation would become shareholders of the new Virginia Corporation.</i></p>

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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;"><b>Votes FOR</b></p>
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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;"><b>Votes AGAINST</b></p>
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			</td>
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			<td style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: 1px none rgb(0, 0, 0); width: 18.7%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt;">&nbsp;</td>
			<td style="vertical-align: top; width: 2.5%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt;">&nbsp;</td>
			<td style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: 1px none rgb(0, 0, 0); width: 18.7%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt;">&nbsp;</td>
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			<p style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt; text-align: right;">10,509,872</p>
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			<td style="vertical-align: top; width: 2.5%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt;">&nbsp;</td>
			<td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18.7%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt;">
			<p style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt; text-align: right;">262,323</p>
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			<td style="vertical-align: top; width: 2.5%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt;">&nbsp;</td>
			<td style="vertical-align: top; width: 18.7%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt;">
			<p style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt; text-align: right;">1,151</p>
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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:justify;"><b>Item&nbsp;8.01&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Other Events.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</b></p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:justify;">On April 24, 2018, the Company announced by press release its quarterly cash dividend to common shareholders of eighteen cents ($0.18) per common share, payable on May 18, 2018, to shareholders of record on May 4, 2018. A copy of the press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1.</p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:justify;"><b>Item&nbsp;9.01&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b><b>Financial Statements and Exhibits</b><b>.</b></p>

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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:justify;">(d)</p>
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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:justify;">The following exhibit is included with this report:</p>
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			<td style="width: 80px;">99.1</td>
			<td style="width: 9px;">&nbsp;</td>
			<td style="width: 951px;"><a href="ex_111113.htm" style="-sec-extract:exhibit;">Earnings&nbsp;and dividend press release dated April 24, 2018</a></td>
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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:justify;"><b>Forward-Looking Statements</b>&nbsp;</p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:justify;">This Current Report on Form 8-K contains forward-looking statements.&nbsp;These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations that involve risks, uncertainties, and assumptions.&nbsp;Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may differ materially.&nbsp;These risks include:&nbsp;&nbsp;changes in business or other market conditions; the timely development, production and acceptance of new products and services; the challenge of managing asset/liability levels; the management of credit risk and interest rate risk; the difficulty of keeping expense growth at modest levels while increasing revenues; and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company&rsquo;s Securities and Exchange Commission reports, including but not limited to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the most recent year ended.&nbsp;Pursuant to the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, the Company does not undertake to update forward-looking statements to reflect circumstances or events that occur after the date the forward-looking statements are made.</p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;">SIGNATURES</p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:justify;">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.</p>

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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:justify;">FIRST COMMUNITY BANCSHARES, INC.</p>
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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:justify;">April 25, 2018</p>
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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;">By:</p>
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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;">/s/ David D. Brown</p>
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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;">David D. Brown</p>
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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 OR 15(d) of The Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported):
April
2
4
, 2018
FIRST COMMUNITY BANCSHARES, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Nevada
000-19297
55-0694814
(State or other jurisdiction
(Commission
(IRS Employer
of incorporation)
File Number)
Identification No.)
P.O. Box 989
Bluefield, Virginia
24605-0989
(Address of principal executive offices)
(Zip Code)
Registrant's telephone number, including area code:
(276) 326-9000
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:
[  ]   Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)
[  ]   Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)
[  ]   Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))
[  ]   Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§ 230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§ 240.12b-2 of this chapter).
Emerging growth company ☐
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐
Item 2.02
Results of Operations and Financial Condition
.
On April 24, 2018, First Community Bancshares, Inc. (the "Company") announced by press release its earnings for the first quarter of 2018. A copy of the press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1.
Item 5.07
Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders
On April 24, 2018, the Company held its annual shareholders' meeting. At the meeting, the Company's shareholders: (i) elected all persons listed below under Proposal 1 to serve as director of the Company for a term that will continue until the 2021 annual meeting of shareholders; (ii) ratified the appointment of Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm; and (iii) approved an Agreement and Plan of Reincorporation and Merger, approved by the Board of Directors on February 27, 2018, pursuant to which the Corporation's state of incorporation would change from Nevada to Virginia, by means of the Corporation merging with and into a new Virginia Corporation, to be named "First Community Bankshares, Inc.," so that the stockholders of the Corporation would become shareholders of the new Virginia Corporation.
The following tables summarize voting results by the Company's shareholders.
Proposal 1: To elect two directors to serve as members of the Board of Directors Class of 2021.
Nominee
Votes FOR
Votes
WITHHELD
Broker Non-
Votes
W.C. Blankenship, Jr.
9,909,436
863,910
2,054,462
William P. Stafford, II
10,414,022
359,324
Proposal 2: To ratify the appointment of Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm.
Votes FOR
Votes AGAINST
Votes ABSTAIN
12,164,348
657,072
6,388
Proposal 3: To approve an Agreement and Plan of Reincorporation and Merger pursuant to which the Corporation's state of incorporation would change from Nevada to Virginia, by means of the Corporation merging with and into a new Virginia Corporation, to be named "First Community Bankshares, Inc.," so that the stockholders of the Corporation would become shareholders of the new Virginia Corporation.
Votes FOR
Votes AGAINST
Votes ABSTAIN
10,509,872
262,323
1,151
Item 8.01            Other Events.
On April 24, 2018, the Company announced by press release its quarterly cash dividend to common shareholders of eighteen cents ($0.18) per common share, payable on May 18, 2018, to shareholders of record on May 4, 2018. A copy of the press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1.
Item 9.01
Financial Statements and Exhibits
.
(d)
The following exhibit is included with this report:
Exhibit No.
Exhibit Description
99.1
Earnings and dividend press release dated April 24, 2018
Forward-Looking Statements
This Current Report on Form 8-K contains forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations that involve risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may differ materially. These risks include:  changes in business or other market conditions; the timely development, production and acceptance of new products and services; the challenge of managing asset/liability levels; the management of credit risk and interest rate risk; the difficulty of keeping expense growth at modest levels while increasing revenues; and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission reports, including but not limited to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the most recent year ended. Pursuant to the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, the Company does not undertake to update forward-looking statements to reflect circumstances or events that occur after the date the forward-looking statements are made.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
FIRST COMMUNITY BANCSHARES, INC.
Date:
April 25, 2018
By:
/s/ David D. Brown
David D. Brown
Chief Financial Officer