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 […]
NOTING ACC BASKETBALL ACColades The ACC’s fourth ESPN “Big Monday” of the season features Louisville at home versus Syracuse … the Cardinals have won the last three meetings in the series, including both matchups in 2016-17 … Syracuse ranks fourth nationally in field-goal percentage defense (.381) and seventh in scoring […]
Naomi Davis Brunk, 84, of Pulaski, VA died Sunday morning, February 4, 2018 at her home. She was born in Bland County, Virginia on May 13, 1933 and was the daughter of the late Gilford and Beatrice Kitts Davis. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Vance Clayton […]
William S. “Bill” Kelly, 89, formerly of Pulaski, Virginia died peacefully Friday February 2, 2018 at the Melech Hospice House in Temple Terrace, Florida. The fourth son of the late William and Anna Stover Kelly, he was born in Long Branch, West Virginia on March 4, 1928. Bill was quite […]
Boys Basketball: Pulaski Co. @ Cave Spring JV @ 5:30, Varsity to follow Girls Basketball: Cave Spring @ Pulaski Co. JV @ 5:30, Varsity to follow
CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) — A former Virginia Tech student has pleaded not guilty in the killing of a 13-year-old girl. Media reports say David Eisenhauer entered his pleas to first-degree murder, abduction and concealing a dead body just before jury selection began Monday in the stabbing death of Nicole Lovell […]
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Villanova, Virginia and Purdue are making themselves comfortable atop the AP Top 25. The Wildcats are ranked No. 1 in Monday’s latest poll, followed by the second-ranked Cavaliers and the third-ranked Boilermakers. It marked the fourth straight week that with the trio sitting 1-2-3 in the […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Nick Foles did his best Tom Brady impersonation, leading a late-game comeback to cap a season that began as a backup and ended as Super Bowl MVP. Foles’ journey mirrored Brady’s 16 years ago and ended late Sunday night, with green-and-white confetti falling as delirious Philadelphia Eagles […]