The May 1 event features children’s author Katherine Applegate, who wrote “Wishtree,” a youth bestseller about a nonbinary tree. Floyd county schools planned, but later scrapped, a mass-reading of the book after students had already begun reading it.
The Highlander Hotel Radford opened last year.
Roanoke school staff on Tuesday recommended a series of potential changes for timelier buses in the fall, including earlier start and dismissal times for some elementary school schedules, and later times for middle and high schools.
A solar energy collaborative is offering free webinars including one on May 15 on how to hook your home or business to sun-powered electricity.
Officers found the two injured men in the 3800 block of Stratford Park Drive Southwest at about 7 p.m. Wednesday, according to the city police department.
The child appeared to have serious injuries and was transported to Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital for treatment.
Robert Lee Jones, 61, of Roanoke was shot by city police officers responding to a call about a disorder Monday evening.
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Demonte J. Belcher, 23, will be sentenced later in U.S. District Court in Roanoke.
Mary Huskey Palmer pleaded guilty in January to five charges related to the July 2021 death of 38-year-old Arthur “Woody” Woodrow Palmer III.
A celebration of life honoring Franklin News-Post sports reporter Steve "Scoop" Marsh will be held this Saturday at Franklin County High School. It is an opportunity for the community to pay their respects to the longtime journalist who died suddenly last month.
The settlement between Martinsville's city government and its former city attorney amounts to a year's salary. The ex-official had sought monthly compensation for the rest of his life.
The region’s ozone pollution was at levels lower than most of the country, according to the American Lung Association.
The crash happened Tuesday night, according to state police.
Virginia Tech went into its spring game with 16 players on their roster from the 804 area, coming from 10 different high schools. Five come from Highland Springs.
The numbers are so high that a researcher initially had a hard time believing them. A Lee Enterprises investigation gives insight about the forces that have been fueling these deaths.
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An open house and paper airplane contest at Virginia Tech's Newman Library highlighted an exhibit of archive documents related to the history of aviation. An aerospace engineering graduate student soared to victory.
A top concern for local election workers throughout the country this year is their own safety. A group formed after the 2020 presidential election is traveling the country helping them prepare for what could lie ahead.
The Supreme Court will consider a straightforward but legally untested question: whether a former president is immune from federal prosecution for official acts.
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, Republicans insisted the ruling would mostly impact those seeking abortions to end unwanted pregnancies. But that hasn’t been the case.
Millions across North America witnessed the moon block out the sun during a total solar eclipse Monday.
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Joe Lieberman's death marks an irreplaceable loss for No Labels, injecting a new level of uncertainty into the organization’s 2024 ambitions.
College basketball statistician Ken Pomeroy (aka KenPom) comes on the podcast to talk about his wildly popular basketball analytics website and his time as a meteorologist.
The Supreme Court seems likely to preserve access to a medication that was used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S. last year.
A federal appeals court has again prevented Texas from arresting and deporting migrants accused of entering the U.S. illegally, hours after the the law briefly took effect.
In Republican-led states across the U.S., conservative legislators are refusing to reevaluate abortion bans — even as doctors and patients insist the laws’ exceptions are dangerously unclear.
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have clinched their parties' presidential nominations with decisive victories in a slate of low-profile primaries, setting up a general election rematch that many voters do not want.
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