DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Alex Bowman put a familiar car atop the Daytona 500 leaderboard. Bowman won the pole for “The Great American Race” in his debut as the driver of the No. 88 Chevrolet, piloted until last season by NASCAR rock star Dale Earnhardt Jr. Six of Earnhardt’s […]
Virginia suffered a surprising home loss to unranked Virginia Tech, ending its winning streak at 16 games. One recent defeat was not enough to sway the NCAA Division I Basketball Committee. The Cavaliers are still viewed as the best team in the country a month before Selection Sunday. Virginia was […]
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Kerry Blackshear Jr. scored on a putback with 5.8 seconds left and Virginia Tech spoiled No. 2 Virginia’s opportunity to climb to No. 1 with a 61-60 overtime victory Saturday night. Blackshear rebounded a missed layup by Justin Robinson and banked it in as he was […]
The Flood Watch continues for * Portions of North Carolina, Virginia, and southeast West Virginia, including the following areas, in North Carolina, Alleghany NC, Ashe, Surry, Watauga, and Wilkes. In Virginia, Amherst, Bedford, Bland, Carroll, Floyd, Franklin, Giles, Grayson, Montgomery, Patrick, Pulaski, Roanoke, Smyth, Tazewell, and Wythe. In southeast West […]
Semi Final #1 Pulaski Co. v. Hidden Valley 5 pm Semi Final #2 Cave Spring v. Patrick Henry 6:45 pm
NEW YORK (AP) — The flu has further tightened its grip on the U.S. This season is now as bad as the swine flu epidemic nine years ago. A government report out Friday shows 1 of every 13 visits to the doctor last week was for fever, cough and other […]
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — The Atlantic Coast Conference’s stretch run looks more like a coronation than a race. Second-ranked Virginia has all but wrapped up the league’s regular-season championship and could rise to No. 1 in the Top 25 on Monday for the first time since the Ralph Sampson […]
WEST AUGUSTA, Va. (AP) — Prowling coyotes have become so prevalent in rural Virginia that some residents are stringing up multiple carcasses from tree branches at farms and ranches. An Associated Press photographer traveling the back roads of Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley this week captured images of a dozen dead coyotes […]
CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) — After listening to days of damaging testimony from prosecution witnesses, a former Virginia Tech student pleaded no contest Friday to killing a 13-year-old girl he met through social media. David Eisenhauer, 20, entered his plea to all three charges against him in the stabbing death of […]
CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) — A former Virginia Tech student has pleaded no contest in the 2016 killing of a 13-year-old girl. News outlets report that David Eisenhauer entered his plea Friday to all three charges against him in the stabbing death of Nicole Lovell: first-degree murder, abduction and concealing a […]
After a one-year hiatus, The Blue Ridge Bike Fest will thunder back to life September 28th and 29th in Radford, Va. Blue Ridge Bike Fest will make its first appearance in the New River Valley, partnering with Motor Mile Speedway & Dragway for the ninth installment of the acclaimed motorcycle rally. The […]
Pulaski County will likely have to do some political arm twisting if its new middle school is to get a second – and the preferred – signaled entrance on Route 11 that designers and supporters want. The Pulaski County School Board on Tuesday held a meeting at the high school’s […]