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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...

Back Creek Meeting Addresses Windmills, Route 221

Members of the community occupied almost every seat at the quarterly meeting of the Back Creek Civic League held on Monday at Back Creek...

City Explains Trinkle Meals Tax Issue

When Roanoke City’s Code of Ordinances says the meals tax citizens pay when dining out is to be “held in trust by the seller...

Virginia Tech and Carilion Show Off New Research Institute

Virginia Tech and Carilion showed off the impressive new VT Research Institute last week during a media tour, ahead of the building’s planned opening...

Relay For Life Meets And Exceeds Goals

Roanoke Relay for Life co-chair Dana Reagan says the local American Cancer Society chapter has already netted more than the $360,000 it had set...

All New 2011 V8-Powered Porsche Cayennes Arrive in Roanoke

Porsche of Roanoke has announced that the highly anticipated, all-new 2011 Porsche Cayenne is arriving and will go on sale officially this month. The...

Bestpitch Says a Thousand Times “No” On Consent Agenda

At the first Roanoke City Council meeting on July 6 new council member Bill Bestpitch came onboard ready to take on the transparency challenge....