Coca Cola Bottling Company of Roanoke donated 12 barrels which will be painted by professional artists, and school children

The $235,000 grant will be used for programs to reduce and prevent violence against women

Virginia Tech researchers have received a $1 million federal grant to study smuggling in the Black Sea region.

The Town of Blacksburg is issuing a traffic alert for work to make adjustments on several traffic signals starting Friday.

Wondering if there’s been a crime on your street?  A new WSLS.com fucntion makes it easy to find out.

Apartments at Salem Ridge are under new ownership. 

Melvin is one of two Virginia natives NASA has assigned to the crew of the space shuttle Discovery’s planned mission for October 2009

An apartment complex in Salem that is in a flood zone is expected to be sold today.

Campbell County Utilities Service Authority have found the water leak and are working to fix the problem.

Appomattox Town Council voted Tuesday to waive about $90,000 in water and sewer availability fees to developers of a planned Wal-Mart. 

Three young Central Virginia women have been chosen to compete in the state’s Junior Miss program. 

Sculpture entitled ‘In My Hands’ celebrates the city’s 125th anniversary.

A Charlottesville television station cancels the debate Virgil Goode tells us he never agreed to.

Danville Police are searching for an armed robbery suspect Wednesday night. They say he held a man at gunpoint while trying to rob the victim.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, through its Rural Development agency, is providing a federal grant in the amount of $18,150 to the Town of Pulaski to assist with the purchase of a new command vehicle for the Town’s Fire Chief.

A Garden City Elementary School teacher is nominated for a special gift.

The credit freeze is affecting businesses that rely on loans for day to day operations.

“It wasn’t my intention in any way to suggest the calamity down at the City Market building is in any way compared to the tragedy and loss of life on 9/11 in New York,” Bowers said.

Radford Registrar Tracy Howard: “Hopefully to say in very plain english that a student may choose their education community or their home community to register to vote and I think it needs to be that simple.”

Officers are investigating two incidents in which two men entered the homes of two elderly women

An elderly couple from Roanoke County say they’re victims of an international scam.  Roanoke county police are investigating and plan to contact federal authorities about the case.

A Lynchburg man charged with threatening the life of Jerry Falwell Jr. has been arrested again after sending threatening e-mails to a reporter for The News & Advance. 

Liberty University does not plan to allow members of the gay activist group Soulforce to step on campus Wednesday, despite the group’s announcement Monday of plans to do just that.

Three men caught after cutting cable at Citizen’s Cable in Wythe County.

Seattle law firm files secon lawsuit in the case of an E. coli break out at a local Boy Scout camp.

Soulforce organizers say bus tour aims to promote inclusion

Ten On Your Side talked to Ryan Sink’s wife, who defended her husband, flat out saying he didn’t do it.

City Market Vendors are distraught over the potential plans to re-open and close again for major renovations.

Investigaotrs believe this man who abducted, robbed, and assaulted a woman on Friday, September 26th.

City leaders officially axed a DRI plan at a retreat Tuesday and talked of “major renovations” at the City Market this Spring.