A Roanoke man is celebrating a momentous milestone: 5,000 consecutive days of running.

The Foot Levelers Blue Ridge Marathon and Freedom First Down by Downtown Music Festival are just around the corner.

The Roanoke County Public School’s Backpack Run returned for its 12th year!

The federal government announced a $241.5 million settlement with Marathon Oil on Thursday for alleged air quality violations at the company’s oil and gas operations on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota.

The NAACP over the weekend issued a travel advisory for Florida, joining two other civil rights groups in warning potential tourists that recent laws championed by Gov_ Ron DeSantis and Florida lawmakers are “openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals.”.

Roanoke will be filled with visitors from all over the world this weekend for “America’s Toughest Road Races.”

More than 500 Cuban immigrants have come ashore in the Florida Keys since the weekend, the latest in a large and increasing number who are fleeing the communist island.

A green sea turtle was found with a 3-foot-long spear in its neck and rescued, according to nonprofit Turtle Hospital in Marathon, Florida. WSVN in Miami reports.

LYNCHBURG, Va. - Lynchburg police are looking for a man who they say distracted gas station employees and grabbed cash. It happened Thursday evening at the Marathon gas station on Wards Road. Police say the man drove off in a white vehicle after taking the money. They believe that he lives in either Lynchburg or Campbell County. Anyone with information is asked to call Officer Bond with the Lynchburg Police Department at (434) 455-6060, extension 550.