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While Del. Rasoul Condemns ICE, Illegal Alien Stabs Fredericksburg Woman To Death At Fairfax Bus Stop

On Monday, February 23, Stephanie Minter, 41, of Fredericksburg, was found stabbed to death at a Fairfax County bus stop with multiple knife wounds to the upper body. Minter...

Catawba Sustainability Center Expands Applied Research in Roanoke County

When Matthew Wagner walks the fields of the Catawba Sustainability Center, he’s thinking about more...

VA Tech Study Identifies Key Exercise Enzyme That Could Inform Diabetes Treatment

Researchers have investigated the role of a certain enzyme in regulating energy in muscle and...

Roanoke City Public Schools Receives $450K State Grant to Build First Solar-Powered Microgrid at any K-12 School in Virginia

Roanoke City Public Schools (RCPS) has been awarded a grant from the Virginia Department of...

Carilion Clinic Foundation Establishes Children’s Miracle Network Endowed Chair in Pediatric Medicine

In partnership with Children’s Miracle Network (CMN) of Southwest Virginia, the Carilion Clinic Foundation has...

Google Awards Full Scholarships to Haitian Students at VA Tech

Google, the Web search engine company, has provided funds to fully support four Virginia Tech students from Haiti to pursue graduate degrees in computer...

McAuliffe Talks About Region’s Future With Local Leaders

The last time Virginia businessman and fundraiser extraordinaire Terry McAuliffe came to Roanoke, he was accompanied by former President Bill Clinton. Clinton was speaking...

First Institutional Chaplain Considers Life Of Service

More than 40 years separate the telephone interview I had with the Rev. Burton Newman and the one in person a few weeks...

Big Pitch for Roanoke Valley

The 2010 Coventry Commonwealth Games came to Roanoke beginning with an opening ceremony last Friday night hosted by Olympic Medalist Speed Skater J.R. Celski....

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...