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Cancer Prevention: Can Future-Focused Thinking Help Smokers Quit?

As the warning label on every pack of cigarettes tells us, smoking is harmful. It’s the leading preventable cause of death, disease and disability. And yet, nearly 15 percent of...

VDOT Lifts Lane Closures for Holiday Travel Across Virginia

If you’re headed out to do some last-minute holiday shopping, the Virginia Department of Transportation...

Virginia Credit Union, Member One Donate $15K to Roanoke, Lynchburg Youth Programs

Virginia Credit Union and its Member One division recently donated $15,000 to two community organizations...

Invest to Win Takes Flight With $20 Million Record Gift to Athletics

At a historic juncture for Virginia Tech Athletics, a donor has stepped forward to make...

New Study Shows How Neurons Organize Genetic Messages

Scientists found that messenger RNA (mRNA) molecules that carry genetic instructions to the far reaches...

United Way Women’s Initiative Gets Set to Launch into Action

At a well attended “Southern Tea and Fashion Show” on Thursday, leadership givers to United Way  of Roanoke Valley (and those interested in becoming...

Story of Hooker Furniture Closure To Be Told

“With These Hands: The Story of an American Furniture Factory,” will premier at 5 p.m. on Nov. 21. Focusing on the last weeks and...

Veterans Day Parade a Blast From The Past

Roanoke’s first Veterans Day parade in more than seven decades started with an e-mail from a city employee suggesting such an event last year....

Habeeb Will Try To Fill Griffith’s Shoes

Greg Habeeb, a 34-year-old attorney and partner at Gentry Locke Rakes and Moore said that he was getting calls asking him to run for...

Unfortunate Accident Gives Roanoker New Passion

Like many parents, Katherine Wilson had spent many nights lying awake, worrying about her grown child’s whereabouts and safety – afraid that something terrible...

Prevention Council Garners National Recognition

The Roanoke County Prevention Council is poised to announce a major national award to be received from CADCA (Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America). The...