BRISTOL, Va. (AP) — It’s open season on ginseng hunting in Virginia from now until the end of the year.The Bristol Herald Courier reports that means you’re allowed to dig up the roots of a plant that could fetch as much as $700 per pound.But because wild American ginseng is […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A snoozer of a NASCAR season got a huge jolt of energy right before the playoffs with back-to-back wins by Brad Keselowski.Keselowski wasn’t a championship contender before the two crown jewel victories — at the Southern 500 and the Brickyard 400 — pushed him into the […]
Hurricane Florence has forced the cancellation of several Top 25 games this weekend, including No. 13 Virginia Tech’s home game against East Carolina, No. 14 West Virginia’s trip to North Carolina State and No. 18 UCF’s game at North Carolina.The Category 4 storm’s approach led to a series of schedule […]
The Richmond Times Dispatch is reporting that East Carolina University, citing safety concerns, has announced it will not make the trip this week to Blacksburg to play Virginia Tech.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on Hurricane Florence (all times local):4:40 p.m.Forecasters at the University of Michigan predict that 2.4 million people will lose power from Hurricane Florence and some outages could be prolonged.That’s about one-fourth the number who suffered outages from Hurricane Sandy, which hit a more populated […]
Charlottesville, Va. –The Virginia athletics department announced today (Sept. 11) its home football game against Ohio, scheduled to take place Saturday, Sept. 15 at Scott Stadium, has been relocated to Vanderbilt Stadium on the campus of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. The venue change was made due to the threat […]
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on Hurricane Florence (all times local):3:30 p.m.President Donald Trump says the safety of the American people is his “absolute highest priority” as Hurricane Florence takes aim at portions of the East Coast.Trump was being briefed by the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency […]
In response to a state of emergency being called for Hurricane Florence, Pulaski County Public Schools will be closed on Thursday, September 13, 2018 and Friday, September 14, 2018. Thursday will be an Employee Code 1 with all eleven and twelve month employees reporting for regular work-day hours. Friday will […]
Pulaski County High School’s football game this week at home against Carroll County has been moved up to 6 p.m. Wednesday.
Maynard (Jiggs) Ernest Sutphin, 81, of Pulaski, died Monday, September 10, 2018 at Highland Ridge Rehabilitation Center. Maynard was born January 14, 1937, in Pulaski County, the son of the late Edith Sirt Sutphin and Tazwell Ellett Sutphin. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by brothers […]
Annual Homecoming events at Randolph Avenue United Methodist Church, which were scheduled for Sept. 15 and 16, have been canceled.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on Hurricanes Florence and Isaac (all times local):2:30 p.m.Some residents in the Outer Banks have decided to ignore a mandatory evacuation order.Liz Browning Fox in the village of Buxton is one of them. The 65-year-old Fox says her 88-year-old mother has refused to evacuate […]