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The Virginia Association of Broadcasters has again honored WFIR with its award for best radio newscast in the state. This is the third straight year ...
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FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (AP) — The only thing Matthew and Jacob Burgett liked more than playing cops and robbers was a TV show that depicted the ...
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — More than 30 years have passed since Larry “Sleepy” Belcher returned from a Chesterfield County Planning Commission meeting to deliver the ...
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Two people were sent to the hospital after a head-on collision last night around 8. The Bedford Fire Department's Facebook page says the crash happened ...
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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — A Virginia man has been found guilty of attacking his ex-girlfriend outside of her home and injecting her with a ...
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Parts of central Virginia have flooded after heavy rain swept through the area this week. News outlets quote the National Weather ...
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Lexington, VA (AP) - White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders acknowledged Saturday in a tweet that she was booted from a Virginia restaurant Friday ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A lawyer for immigrant children who say they were cuffed and beaten by staff inside a Virginia detention facility said Friday they ...
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that says states are allowed to collect taxes from online sales could boost Virginia’s ...
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For the past several years Family Service of Roanoke Valley and the West End Center for Youth have teamed for the "Pedal Up" program: WFIR-WDNE ...
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A West Virginia woman was stopped by the Transportation Security Administration with a loaded handgun at Roanoke-Blacksburg Regional Airport yesterday. A TSA officer at the ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Virginia’s two Democratic senators asked the Trump administration Friday for answers about operations at a juvenile detention facility in the state where ...
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The Regional Center for Animal Care and Protection is bursting at the seams with a recent influx of stray dogs brought in - and the ...
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Around 11 last night Blacksburg Police observed  a vehicle nearly striking another on South Main Street. An attempted stop on the 460 bypass failed - ...
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Researchers at Virginia Tech have found the oldest footprints. They date back more than 540-million years as WFIR’s Ian Price reports: 06-22 Oldest Footprints WEB-WRAP ...
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Sam Hentges talks about his comeback from elbow surgery; former caps coach Barry Trotz excited for new job with Islanders: WPLY-MIN ...
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Thirty-nine new troopers are set to join the ranks of the Virginia State Police. The Commonwealth's 128th generation of Virginia State ...
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Its back to square one for the Roanoke County School Board when it comes to remodeling Cave Spring High School. One board member and school ...
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The next Miss Virginia will be crowned this weekend, and for the first time in the pageant's 55-year history, it will not occur in Roanoke ...
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The furor over the separation of children from their parents at the southern border may abate with the President's decision to end that policy but ...
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