Perks make 'volunteering' fun
| KYLE GREEN The Roanoke Times | Tommy Firebaugh, from Roanoke, works a laser measuring device which relays ball distances to television reporters during the first round of The Greenbrier Classic. | W...
It's time NASCAR decides races on the track the good, old-fashioned way
| If NASCAR wants to understand why fan interest is declining, let me give the following analogy: | If NASCAR had been in charge of the Roman gladiatorial games, the combatants would all have had rubb...
Dixie Boys World Series players, parents find their field of dreams
| Photos by Kyle Green The Roanoke Times | The Phenix City, Ala., baseball team lines up at the start of the 2010 Dixie Boys World Series opening ceremonies held at Christiansburg High School. | Teams...
Prosecutor says shooting of Blacksburg man was justified
| The fatal shooting of a drunken Montgomery County man who held two knives as he approached officers in June was justified, a special prosecutor has found. | County Sheriff's Deputy David Light shot ...
Roanoke Co. sheriff candidate Stovall says Turner is a turncoat
| The race for Roanoke County sheriff turned personal and antagonistic Friday. | As expected, Roanoke County police Lt. Steve Turner made his formal announcement seeking the Republican nomination for ...
Franklin County Chamber of commerce sends distress signal
| The financially struggling Franklin County Chamber of Commerce could be broke as early as Aug. 15 unless members come to the rescue with cash donations, according to the group's leaders. | The organ...
Firefighter Altice takes final ride on fire engine No. 1
| SAM DEAN The Roanoke Times | Danny Altice's fiancee, Frances Holley, is presented with an American flag after a graveside service for the Rocky Mount firefighter killed in an accident Monday. | Fire...
Community showers civic leader and firefighter Posey Dillon with love at funeral
| JARED SOARES The Roanoke Times | Ann Dillon, widow of Rocky Mount Fire Chief and Vice Mayor Posey Dillon, holds a flag that was draped over his casket during his burial service Friday. | ROCKY MOUNT...
Around the NRV
| GUIDES | New directory links residents, local food | VT Earthworks helped to produce the new Roanoke Valley Locavore Directory, which lists local growers, farmers markets and local-foods restaurants...
Drill provides vital experience
| Photos by JUSTIN COOK The Roanoke Times | Emergency crews tend to pretend injuries during a training exercise using an overturned school bus accident on Shadow Lake Road in Blacksburg. | Local child...
NCAA talks to Clemson players
| Clemson athletic director Terry Don Phillips said Friday that the NCAA had been on the Tigers' campus this week to talk with two members of the football team. | Phillips issued a statement Friday ab...
Gardening calendar
| Gardening calendar | -- today -- | l Parking Lot Garden Beds | The Urbiculture Foundation is building five raised garden beds at the West End Center and would like help. | When: 9 a.m. | Where: West...
Sports digest: July 31
| College basketball | Pitino aide helped ex-wife get an abortion | LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Rick Pitino never said a woman who claimed the Louisville basketball coach got her pregnant after a one-night stan...
Big Daddy's chef, owner indicted
| Federal agents arrested the owner of a popular restaurant in Virginia Beach and charged him with running a major drug ring. | DEA agents say Fred Wills, Jr., used his southern style eatery, Big Dadd...
'The greatest party in the world'
12345 | WHEN A FRIEND recently showed me a documentary about Burning Man I insisted that hanging out with a bunch of half naked, weekend hippies in tutus and goggles in the middle of nowhere wasn't fo...
WikiLeaks suspect, US Army private, moved to Virginia
| A 22-year-old tech-savvy US Army private, suspected to be behind the disclosure of 91,000 classified documents on the war in Afghanistan, has been transferred from Kuwait to America following the bi...
Thousands of errors unearthed at Arlington
| THE debacle at the Arlington National Cemetery on the edge of Washington is much worse than first thought, with thousands of graves estimated to be unmarked or wrongly labelled. | A Senate report re...
NASA, West Virginia Partner For New Aerospace Scholars Program
| Download image | , April 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --NASA has partnered with the West Virginia Space Grant Consortium to implement the West Virginia Aerospace and Engineering Scholars (WVAES...
War on terror's other cost: undeserved anger at all Muslims
| Alexandria, Va. – This September and October, Americans mark the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and the ninth year of war in Afghanistan, respectively. This war has become arguably the ...
Appalachian Power, Wheeling Power Reach Settlement Agreement in West Virginia ENEC Case
If Approved, Increase Would Be 20 cents a Day for Residential Customers | , June 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Appalachian Power and Wheeling Power, together with the Public Service Commission of (P...
