RICHMOND, Va. – Despite a significant decrease in fatal traffic crashes over the 2021 Labor Day holiday weekend for Virginia, there was still an alarming number of deaths among motorcyclists. Of the eight traffic deaths reported for the holiday weekend to date, four involved motorcycles and one involved a moped. During […]
Pulaski Co. has been fortunate in finding a replacement game for this Friday, Sept. 10. Pulaski Co. will now host James Wood High School out of Winchester this Friday at 7:00 pm. James Wood is a member of the Northwest District and Region 4C, James Wood has enrollment of 1,500. […]
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A crowd erupted in cheers and song Wednesday as work crews hoisted an enormous statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee off the giant pedestal where it has towered over Virginia’s capital city for more than a century. One of America’s largest monuments to the Confederacy, […]
Albert “Al” Newton Walters ll, age 54 of Pulaski passed away Friday, September 3, 2021 at his home. Born June 3, 1967 in Radford, he was the son of the late Albert Newton Walters and Evelyn Montgomery Walters. He was a 1986 graduate of Pulaski County High School. He is […]
Jeffrey Wayne Taylor, age 52 of Pulaski passed away Saturday, September 4, 2021 at the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center after a brief illness with leukemia. Born November 13, 1968 in Pulaski, he was the son of Patricia “Patsy” McGlothlin Taylor and the late Robert Gene Taylor. He was also preceded in […]
Cecil “Gene” Eugene Cross, age 67 of Pulaski passed away Monday, September 6, 2021 at the New River Valley Medical Center. Born October 14, 1953 in Washington County, Virginia he was the son of the late Cecil Delaney Cross & Charlotte Williams Cross. He was also preceded in death by his sister, […]
Nancy Jean Horton Thornton, age 81 of Pulaski passed away Monday, August 30, 2021 at her home. Born February 29, 1940 in Pulaski she was the daughter of the late Walter Mack Horton & Ruby Mae King Horton. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Carl E. Thornton (2012) and […]
Pulaski, Virginia – Interim Police Chief Jill Neice, who formerly served as the Pulaski Police Department’s Patrol Lieutenant, has been selected to serve as the Town of Pulaski’s next Police Chief. Out of 16 applicants that applied for the position, Neice was the unanimous choice of the interview panel. She […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Kyle Busch was fined $50,000 by NASCAR on Tuesday for recklessly entering the garage following a crash in the opening race of the playoffs. Busch was fined for a safety violation, actions detrimental to stock car racing and violating NASCAR member conduct guidelines during Saturday night’s […]
Georgia jumped three spots to No. 2 behind Alabama in The Associated Press Top 25 released Tuesday, giving the Southeastern Conference the top two teams in the country for the 30th time in the 85-year history of the college football poll. It is the second time in the last three […]
Richmond — As of September 5, 2021, the unpaid “Waiting Week” for unemployment insurance (UI) has been reinstated. The “Waiting Week” is the very first week of your claim. You must claim the week and meet all eligibilty requirements, but nobody is paid for that first week. The first payable […]
Congressman Griffith’s Ninth District STAFF will be available at the following locations during the month of September. Traveling office hours follow the status of local government offices, which vary across the 22 counties and nine independent cities of the Ninth District. As local government offices reopen, office hours will be resumed. September 9, […]