An Alabama man is in custody after leading state police on a high speed chase through Pulaski and Montgomery counties Thursday. The Virginia State Police received information that a subject driving a vehicle displaying a Alabama tag had made threats to harm another and was traveling to through Virginia on […]
Pulaski County’s number of confirmed COVID-19 cases has increased to 10, according to the Virginia Department of Health. The number of hospitalizations is still at two.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress delivered a nearly $500 billion infusion of coronavirus spending Thursday, rushing new relief to employers and hospitals buckling under the strain of a pandemic that has claimed almost 50,000 American lives and one in six U.S. jobs. The measure passed almost unanimously, but the lopsided tally […]
In this most unique of drafts, filled with technological concerns and even uncertainty when real football might return, there was one constant Thursday night: Joe Burrow. For months, the national champion quarterback from LSU was linked with the Bengals. Cincinnati began the draft by sending the name of the Heisman […]
The Town of Pulaski will host a series of public hearings on May 6 concerning amendments to the current town budget as well as next fiscal year’s budget proposal, garbage and water rates. The hearings will begin at 7 p.m. in the Municipal Building in Pulaski. Legal notice advertisements pertaining […]
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Gov. Ralph Northam on Thursday announced he will extend a ban on nonemergency surgeries for another week, even as a group representing more than 100 hospitals in the state asked him to allow the ban to expire on Friday. Northam imposed the ban last month in […]
The Pulaski Yankees today provided the following updates regarding the 2020 season. 2020 Season: The 2020 Pulaski Yankees season is still expected to begin on June 22. We are in constant communication with the Appalachian League and Minor League Baseball about the season and will provide further updates as needed. At […]
Lavie Young Coltrane, 90, of Draper peacefully passed away at home surrounded by her loving family on Tuesday, April 21, 2020 in Wythe County. She was born November 15, 1929 in Pulaski County and was the daughter of Claude S. Young and Lucy Ann Carr Young. She was also preceded […]
Virginia ‘Odair’ Dalton, 74, of Dublin, VA passed away Sunday, April 19, 2020. She is preceded in death by her husband Jackie Dalton, her mother Virginia Compton, her father Grat Compton, her sister Christine King and her brothers Henry Tibbs and John Tibbs. She is survived by her son and […]
Edward Wallace Arnold, age 71 of Chambersburg, Pa. and formerly of Dubin, Virginia born August 5, 1948 in Pulaski, Virginia passed away Friday April 17, 2020 after a short illness at SSM Health St. Clair Hospital ICU in Fenton, St. Louis, Missouri. His death was not related to the Corona […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — For weeks, the Trump administration played up the dangers of the coronavirus as it sought to persuade Americans to disrupt their lives and stay home. Now, as President Donald Trump aims for a swift nationwide reopening, he faces a new challenge: convincing people it’s safe to come […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 4.4 million laid-off workers applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week as job cuts escalated across an economy that remains all but shut down, the government said Thursday. Roughly 26 million people have now filed for jobless aid in the five weeks since the coronavirus […]