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

Exposed ceilings and plumbing work helps students see the structures they’re studying in class. 

It will be in the track lot, on Spring Road from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

A new student center is now open to honor a man hailed a hero

When William L. “Billy” Mullins started his career with the postal service, he was out on the mail route, as a substitute rural carrier. That was 30 years ago, and when Mullins retires May 2, he will be leaving as postmaster. 

For an evening of fun and laughter, come see The 3 Musketeers performing live on stage May 2, 3, 9, and 10 at 7 PM, and May 3, 4, 10, and 11 at 2 PM. All proceeds benefit the Jarrett Lane Memorial Scholarship, the Jarrett Lane Governor’s School Scholarship, and the Lexi Thompson and Melissa Lawrence Mann Scholarships. 

Radford University will hold a memorial service this weekend for professor Forrest Green.

The university says the laptop belongs to an outside company, who did work for Virginia Tech back in 2000