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Huddle Up Moms, a non-profit organization focused on empowering and educating mothers, is taking the first steps to launch a "maternal health collaborative" across the ...
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Roanoke City School officials say Lucy Addison Middle School is closed today due to a water main break. The Water Authority is estimating the outage, ...
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This spring, Mill Mountain Theatre Conservatory is offering in-person classes for students Pre-K through Adult. Classes will meet once a week beginning January 31st and ...
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Update: January 13, 2022 — Officers with the Roanoke County Police Department, with assistance from the Virginia State Police, have located and apprehended the suspect ...
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Roanoke County Fire and Rescue responded around 1:45 p.m. today in the 6600 block of Back Creek Road, in the Clearbrook area, for the report ...
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The Roanoke City Police Department is facing a staffing shortage that impacts its ability for now to respond to animal control calls. For the immediate ...
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The event called Mothers Matter: The Maternal Health Collaborative of the Roanoke Valley - will be facilitated by the Council of Community Services in cooperation ...
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Governor Northam's office says the commonwealth and Norfolk Southern have signed a "definitive agreement" to expand passenger rail service to southwest Virginia, a plan first ...
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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) - Virginia's attorney general says police in Virginia Beach used forged documents linking people's DNA to a crime to get them ...
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It wasn't pretty perhaps but Virginia survived two last-second shots by Virginia Tech and held on for a 54-52 men's basketball win last night in ...
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Now here's Brent Stevens from Hollins University At the Movies with what's new at the historic Grandin Theatre: "The 355," this weekend. 1-13 ATM ...
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Before the general assembly session started yesterday the Republican leadership in the House of Delegates laid out their plans for the year. With the story, ...
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Roanoke County is holding another open house-style public meeting tonight - this one focuses on the Route 460 corridor in the Bonsack area. More on ...
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From Roanoke City Public School District: The Virginia Department of Health (VDH) reports we are currently at record-high community transmission rates in the Roanoke City ...
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With the general assembly convening today, leaders of the new Republican majority outlined their plan this morning. WFIR's Caroline Moore, has the story. 1-12 GOP ...
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Senate Democrats are using Virginia as an example of why new voting rights legislation should be passed in Washington. WFIR’s Ian Price has more: 01-12 ...
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There are two major healthcare players in the Roanoke and New River Valleys - and one of them, the LewisGale Regional Health System - has ...
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The Virginia General Assembly opens its 2022 session later today in Richmond with major changes in place that will affect what does and does not ...
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RICHMOND, VIRGINIA – Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin  yesterday announced his Medical Advisory Team led by Dr. Marty Makary, Nancy Agee, Kathy Gorman, Alan Levine, Dr. Bogdan ...
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NEWS RELEASE: RICHMOND—Governor Ralph Northam today announced that Phoenix Hardwoods, Inc., an artisan manufacturer of high-quality furniture and home goods made exclusively from Virginia-grown hardwoods, ...
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