Police say the man accused of shooting two people on the Appalachian Trail in Giles County is expected to be released from the hospital sometime today

The Virginia Tech Soil Judging Team finished in second place in both team judging and overall score at the 2008 National Championships hosted by the University of Rhode Island

Steven Branscome had three separate court hearings in West Virginia today.

“Officers from the department entered Norris Hall that day while shots were still being fired. Officers chose to run toward the gunfire and an unknown risk without regard for their own safety. Many had no time to put on protective gear such as bulletproof vests,” the commendation for the department read.

Officers with the U.S Forest Service and National Park service hiked the 28 mile stretch of trail between Bland and Giles Counties searching for evidence.

John Lawson (Randall Smith’s Neighbor): “He acted a little strange...he would seem like his mind would be in a different world.”

A former Bank of Floyd employee, who investigators say embezzled $2,900 from the bank while working in the Willis Branch, received a 12-month suspended sentence in Floyd County Circuit Court Tuesday

Scottie Stinson will serve two life sentences plus 92 years for his role in last fall’s shooting of a deputy sheriff

A Giles County man who served time for killing two Appalachian Trail hikers in the 1980s is the suspect in a Tuesday night double shooting near the Bland/Giles line

A couple left for a check-up at the VA Hospital in Salem.  When they got back, they noticed a lot of smoke near their home.

Tiffany Anderson may leave Montgomery County for BBQ and Blues in Memphis

Two men open a business in their hometown in hopes of revitalizing the area

Virginia Tech’s Dairy Challenge team achieved the gold award at the North American Intercollegiate Dairy Challenge

On April 27, M. Keith Blankenship, 43, was driving north on Huguenot Springs Road in a 2006 Subaru Forester at 5:15 p.m. when he swerved off the right side of the road and struck a telephone-line box, a state police spokeswoman said.

Deputies are looking for a man they say robbed the White Top branch of Grayson National Bank at gunpoint Tuesday evening.

Dickie Patterson wanted a bulldozer.  So he built one.  Then he decided he might as well build a fire truck, train, school bus, Hummer and dump truck, too.

It took firefighters three hours to battle a Tuesday afternoon blaze that caused an estimated $8,000 worth of damage at a Wytheville business. 

The Bland County and Giles County Sheriff’s Offices are investigating a double shooting that happened late Tuesday night.

The 45 minute flight took the blimp across Pulaski County to Claytor Lake. 

Polymer Solutions Inc. Owner Jim Rancourt: “We’re getting a lot of calls from domestic companies that are importing materials from China.”

A local school puts on the 3 Musketeers play to raise money for the Jarrett Lane memorial scholarships and two students killed in a car accident

Bob Hicok and Paul Sorrentino, faculty members in the Department of English in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech, were both awarded prestigious Guggenheim Fellowships.  Hicok has also garnered the 2008 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry.

The 192 foot long aircraft arrived Sunday night at the New River Valley Airport in Dublin and will leave Wednesday morning.

Tuition and fees to rise nearly 11% for in-state students.  Steger blames security and energy costs, highlights plan to protect lower-income students from future tuition hikes.

Officers tell us a man was stabbed during a fight in the 400 block of Fairfax Road, around 9:56 p.m. on Sunday (May 4th).

Michael Keith Blankenship is accused of failing to report an accident.

A former treasurer’s office employee, charged with embezzlement, receives probation instead of jail time.

Local high school students get a crash course in what can happen if they drink and drive

The film highlights Librescu’s past as a child-survivor of the holocaust, his life in communist Romania and the events that led to his final act of heroism

Investigators say a woman pulled out in-front of another car on Route 58