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You have ten days left to file your state income taxes.  Commissioners of the Revenue say a lot of the returns that come in have ...

As runners line up for the Boston Marathon this morning - one year after the terrorist bombing at the finish line - a Franklin County ...

Roanoke County Supervisor Charlotte Moore says she is taking it upon herself to keep providing the county software designed to track and reduce carbon emissions ...

For the first time in 20 years a City Council candidate will run as a Republican in Salem. Maggie Newman received an endorsement today from ...

Next weekend's Down by Downtown Music Festival and the Blue Ridge Marathon will also bring RV's and pop-up campers to Roanoke. WFIR's Gene Marrano explains: ...

State Police are working to determine whether a convicted child sex offender interacted at all with children at a Roanoke day care center. Police an ...

One of the few areas of contention among Roanoke City Council candidates at several forums seemed to center on interpreting crime rate trends. WFIR's Gene ...

Authorities are asking for help identifying two men suspected of using stolen credit cards at stores in multiple jurisdictions. Police say the men may be ...

NATURAL BRIDGE, Va. (AP) _ An emergency official says two Washington & Lee University students were chilly but uninjured after they became lost while hiking ...

Those lucky enough to get through to Jefferson Center this morning for Sheryl Crow tickets can look forward to her July 31st concert at the ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) _ The Virginia Supreme Court has upheld a judge's decision rejecting a conservative group's attempt to obtain a former University of Virginia ...

Need a cat to chase after mice in your barn or garden? Barn Cat Buddies wants you to know April is "Adopt a Barn Cat ...

VDOT officials says once all the bills are in, they expect their snow removal spending this winter to total $350 million dollars, well over twice ...

A lunchtime forum for Roanoke's ten City Council candidates at the Sheraton Hotel today marks the third time they will get together this week. Three ...

CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) _ A man accused of shooting and wounding two women at a community college inside a Christiansburg mall has pleaded guilty to ...

 RICHMOND, Va. (AP) _ Virginia Tech has paid federal fines for its actions on the morning of April 16, 2007, when a lone gunman killed ...

Once you complete "America's Toughest Road Marathon," as the Blue Ridge Marathon in Roanoke is promoted, most races afterwards will be a piece of cake ...

Republican leaders in Richmond call it blinding hypocrisy, accusing Democrats who opposed federal government shutdown threats last fall of an obvious about-face in threatening a ...

Roanoke City Councilman Sherman Lea spent 32 years working for the Virginia Department of Corrections. Now he has been appointed to the Virginia Parole Board ...

Two subjects have been targeting Kroger, Food Lion, and Wal-Mart in multiple jurisdictions.  They are using stolen card numbers to buy gift cards and other ...