Friday’s Games Pulaski at Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Johnson City at Bristol, 6:30 p.m. From the Appalachian League CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – The 2019 Appalachian League playoff matchups are set after the West Division was decided Wednesday on the final day of the regular season. The first round of the postseason […]
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Dorian became a Category 1 hurricane on Wednesday as it struck the U.S. Virgin Islands, with forecasters saying it could grow to Category 3 status as it nears the U.S. mainland as early as the weekend. The British Virgin Islands and the Puerto Rican […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Purdue Pharma would devote its profits to cleaning up the devastation wrought by opioids, and the controlling Sackler family would be out, under a $10 billion to $12 billion nationwide settlement taking shape at the negotiating table, according to published reports Wednesday. The agreement, if it […]
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — The Atlantic Coast Conference finally has its TV channel airing hundreds of league sporting events each year thanks in no small measure to its schools. Administrations around the ACC played a critical role in getting the channel up and running, spending millions to ensure campus […]
Yankees welcomed 95,897 fans to Calfee Park during 2019 regular season For the fifth consecutive season, the Pulaski Yankees have set a single-season franchise attendance record. It is also the second straight season in which Pulaski has set the Appalachian League single-season attendance record. The Yankees welcomed 95,897 fans to […]
Virginia Employment Commission figures put Pulaski County’s unemployment rate for July at 3.4 percent.
ROANOKE – Beginning today, eligible Appalachian Power customers in Virginia will receive a one-time credit to return $22 million in savings associated with federal corporate tax reform. A Virginia residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per month could see a credit of about $22.50 which will be deducted during this […]
Pulaski County opens the 2019 football season at home in Dobson Stadium Friday evening at 7pm against longtime rival Northside. It will be the 35th meeting between the two schools. PCHS holds the series advantage 20-14. It will be a telling opener for the Cougars. The Vikings have finished 9-3 […]
Connie Jean Ellis Dalton, age 54 of Pulaski passed away Tuesday, August 20, 2019 at her home. Born January 24, 1965 in Radford she was the daughter of Betty Jean Powers Ellis and the late William Chaffin Ellis. Her maternal grandparents, Roy, SR. & Rosa Lee Powers and aunt, Margaret […]
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 […]