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Liberty University President Jerry Falwell, Junior says he supports calls to change the name of Lynchburg. The city was named after its founder, John Lynch, ...
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President Trump has called Black Lives Matter a "treasonous" organization in recent days but the co-organizer of what she calls a "Peaceful Protest" on Sunday ...
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Repair work is under way on a section of the Blue Ridge Parkway in the Roanoke Valley, but major damage is keeping another section shut ...
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The World Champion Washington Nationals are scheduled to open the abbreviated 2020 season at home against the NY Yankees on July 23rd - but one ...
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Roanoke City has given approval to a street mural that will be painted Sunday on the 200 block of Campbell Avenue; officials say the words ...
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Chalk it up as another side effect of the COVID pandemic: a nationwide coin shortage. Some area stores have posted signs asking customers to use ...
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Those have hiked the popular McAfee's Trail from Route 311 in Roanoke County know its somewhat of mad dash to cross from the parking lot ...
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic’s impact on Virginia’s state budget hasn’t been as bad as previously feared. Gov. Ralph Northam announced Thursday that ...
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A group of Roanoke College alumni are asking the school to make changes in order to make campus more inclusive and promote anti racist behavior ...
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Roanoke City fire officials say a child playing with a lighter started a house fire today, one that displaced 10 people living on the 800 ...
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On the one-year anniversary of a special session he convened last summer to address gun violence - one gaveled down by Republican lawmakers who then ...
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Since 2006 the Playwright's Lab at Hollins University and Mill Mountain Theatre have teamed up every summer for "Overnight Sensations" - six short plays written ...
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In a Facebook post The Village Grill in Grandin Village reports today that they have shut down temporarily after an employee tested positive for COVID-19 ...
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In an interview yesterday on NBC’s “Today” Show, Maryland’s Republican Gov. Larry Hogan said the name of Washington D.C’s professional football team “probably should be ...
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Explore Park is once again reachable from the Blue Ridge Parkway, and while its operators are among those happiest with the move, they say many ...
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According to the latest numbers released this morning by the Virginia Department of Health there are 25 new probable or confirmed coronavirus cases being attributed ...
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Its a first for The Innovation Mill in Vinton - one of the dozen or so startups they are nurturing has received a grant to ...
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Virginia no longer has a backlog of untested rape test kits used to collect and test DNA samples from sexual assault victims, and advocates for ...
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The Virtual Summer Reading Program, through Roanoke City Public Schools, got started this afternoon when new Superintendent Verletta White read to students outside of Round ...
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Governor Northam held a ceremonial bill signing today that will prohibit hand-held cellphone use when the measure takes effect about six months from now. AAA ...
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