Pulaski dropped the opening game of a two game home series against the Princeton Rays on Monday night by a score of 6-2. The Rays jumped out early win a run in the first and cruised from there. Princeton got their lead off man aboard via a walk from Yankees […]
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia State Police say a $100,000 reward is being offered for information that can lead to solving the decade-old slaying of two Virginia Tech students. Authorities announced last week that a group of 10 agencies led by Virginia State Police would be reexamining evidence from the […]
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma judge on Monday found Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiaries helped fuel the state’s opioid crisis and ordered the consumer products giant to pay $572 million to clean up the problem. Cleveland County District Judge Thad Balkman’s ruling followed the first state opioid case […]
On Friday, Aug. 23 around 9:30 pm the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office, Pulaski County Emergency Management and Newbern Fire Department responded to Covey Campground in the Dublin area of Pulaski County, in reference to a missing swimmer. After initial investigation the Pulaski County Search and Rescue Team and The Department […]
BLACKSBURG – The Virginia Tech football team opens the 2019 season on the road at Boston College on Saturday, August 31. Kickoff time at Alumni Stadium is set for 4 p.m. and the game will be broadcast on ACC Network. For more information on the ACC Network, click here. GAMEDAY INFORMATION Saturday, […]
Burlington, NC – The Pulaski Yankees capped off the three game series against the Royals with a 3-0 win that clinched the Appalachian League East Division Championship and assured themselves home field advantage throughout the playoffs. As has been the case this entire series, the pitchers showed up to play […]
Len Smith proudly served in the Korean War and was in the Army from 1954 to 1956. When he came out of the military he went to work for Hercules in Utah and was later transferred to the Hercules Plant (also known as the Radford Army Ammunition Plant) here where […]
Before a much larger crowd that you would expect for a pre-season scrimmage, Radford took the measure of Pulaski County in a “Benefit Game” Friday night in Kenneth J. Dobson Stadium, 17-7. There was much anticipation for the game, and you knew the two teams would […]
The Appalachian League today announced Pulaski Yankees skipper Luis Dorante as the league’s 2019 Manager of the Year. It is the second such recognition for Dorante, who won the award in 2017 during his last stint at the helm of the rookie-level Yankees. “My goal this year was to teach […]
The Calfee Training School Project is proud to announce the selection of the founding Board of Directors for the future Calfee Community and Cultural Center. A number of Calfee Training School alumni joined representatives from several local churches and community organizations in May to begin the board selection process. Over […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has completed radiation therapy for a cancerous tumor on her pancreas and there is no evidence of the disease remaining, the Supreme Court said Friday. It is the fourth time that the 86-year-old justice has announced that she has been treated for cancer […]
RADFORD, Va. – Karl Kuhn has been named Radford University’s sixth head baseball coach as announced by Director of Athletics Robert Lineburg on Thursday afternoon. Kuhn spent the past 16 seasons as the pitching coach at the University of Virginia, where the pitching staff has met unparalleled success. “We are thrilled to announce that Karl Kuhn is […]