RICHMOND – Virginia inched closer to greatly expanding medical marijuana use this week after legislation passed the Senate with unanimous support – three days after its companion bill was likewise approved by the House of Delegates. SB 726, which passed 38-0 on Monday, would let doctors issue certifications for patients […]
BLACKSBURG – Head coach Justin Fuente welcomed three student-athletes to Virginia Tech on Wednesday to round out a 27-player 2018 recruiting class that included 24 early signees. The three newest Hokies will all join the Lunch Pail Defense. That trio includes two defensive linemen (Jaevon Becton and Cam Goode) and one linebacker (Dax […]
CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) — Jurors in the trial of a former Virginia Tech student charged with killing a 13-year-old girl have watched video of an interview in which he asks a sheriff’s deputy if he believes there’s enough evidence to convict him. David Eisenhauer is charged in the death of […]
CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) — The accomplice of a former Virginia Tech student charged in the stabbing death of a 13-year-old girl had a fascination with knives and was “deeply motivated” to kill the teen, a defense attorney said Tuesday. At the opening of David Eisenhauer’s murder trial, his attorney, John […]
Toby Michael Cox, 55, of Pulaski passed away Monday Feb. 5th 2018 in the Lewis Gale Hospital, Pulaski. Born in Pulaski, VA Aug. 21st 1962 he was the son of the late Fred William Cox, Sr and Joy Belle Durmon Cox. Surviving are his wife; Mary Poe Cox Brothers and […]
CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) — The Latest on the murder trial of a former Virginia Tech student charged with killing a 13-year-old girl (all times local): 1:35 p.m. A prosecutor has told jurors that a former Virginia Tech student made a “secret date” with a 13-year-old girl and stabbed her 14 […]
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Virginia Senate has passed a bill intended to keep teenagers who willingly share sexually explicit images with one another from being branded felony sex offenders. The Washington Post reports the bill passed Monday on a bipartisan 35-to-5 vote. It was sponsored by Republican Sen. William […]
GREENSBORO, N.C. (theACC.com) – Florida State has been selected as the 2018 Atlantic Coast Conference baseball preseason favorite in a vote of the league’s 14 head coaches, while North Carolina was tabbed as the favorite in the Coastal Division. The Seminoles were picked by 10 coaches as the team to beat […]
The New River Health District will offer free seasonal flu vaccine for adults and children in a series of clinics at each of the district’s local health departments. Dates, times and locations are: Montgomery Co. Health Department, 210 S. Pepper St., Suite A, Christiansburg – Monday, February 12, 8 a.m. […]
BRISTOL, Va. – An Abingdon resident is behind bars tonight on more than a dozen charges after beating a panhandler on the side of an Interstate 81 exit ramp. A. Victor Asher, 60, is being held at the Bristol, Va. Jail on multiple charges to include three charges of assault […]
CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) — A jury has been chosen for the trial of a former Virginia Tech student charged with killing a 13-year-old girl. A jury of eight women and six men — including two alternates — was chosen Monday in the trial of David Eisenhauer. He’s charged in the […]
Stuart Dean Kress, age 79 of Newbern passed away Sunday, February 4, 2018 at his home. Born May 6, 1938 in Pulaski he was the son of the late Albert & Maggie Turner Kress. His sister, Claudia Lee Crowder, brothers, June, Buddy and David Kress and half-sisters – Darlene Parks […]