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VDACS offers beekeepers' workshop

Sat, 25 May 2013 09:38:04 -0400

ROANOKE, Virginia - The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services is offering a workshop aimed at beginning beekeepers.

Va. butterfly garden has strict no-touch rules

Sat, 25 May 2013 09:17:15 -0400

ROANOKE, Virginia - Don't touch the butterflies.

Virginia golfer makes 2 aces in same round

Thu, 23 May 2013 11:36:15 -0400

ROANOKE, Virginia - A Roanoke golfer hit paydirt not once but twice after making two holes-in-one in the same round.

Va. landmark Natural Bridge up for sale

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:53:09 -0400

ROANOKE, Virginia - A Virginia landmark and tourism attraction once owned by Thomas Jefferson is up for sale.

Va. landmark Natural Bridge up for sale

Thu, 23 May 2013 08:46:13 -0400

ROANOKE, Virginia - A Virginia landmark and tourism attraction once owned by Thomas Jefferson is up for sale.

Men wearing werewolf masks rob Roanoke store

Wed, 22 May 2013 10:05:45 -0400

ROANOKE, Virginia - Roanoke police are searching for two robbers wearing werewolf masks who held up a convenience store.

DNA link found in 2005 Roanoke slaying

Tue, 21 May 2013 06:05:24 -0400

ROANOKE, Virginia - Court records show a recent DNA hit has linked a man to evidence left at the scene of a 2005 shooting death.

Cleaning lady at Va. university earns degree

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:05:44 -0400

ROANOKE, Virginia - A woman at Hollins University who's known to fellow students as the dormitory cleaning lady will join some of them in line at this weekend's commencement ceremonies.

Boat barrier on Roanoke River damaged

Fri, 10 May 2013 06:22:12 -0400

ROANOKE, Virginia - Appalachian Power says the rain-swollen Roanoke River has damaged a boat barrier upstream from the company's Niagara hydroelectric dam in Roanoke County.

Va group names state's top school superintendent

Thu, 09 May 2013 02:53:07 -0400

ROANOKE, Virginia - The superintendent for Roanoke City Public Schools has been named Virginia's Superintendent of the Year.

Ex-Virginia deputy gets 3 life terms for shooting

Wed, 08 May 2013 14:31:20 -0400

ROANOKE, Virginia - A former Franklin County deputy sheriff was sentenced Wednesday to three life terms in prison for the fatal shooting of his ex-wife and the wounding of a Virginia State Police sergeant.

Va. family wants its plastic aliens back

Tue, 07 May 2013 10:47:26 -0400

ROANOKE, Virginia - A Virginia family wants its aliens back.

Flood watch remains for much of Va.

Tue, 07 May 2013 07:05:45 -0400

ROANOKE, Virginia - A flood watch remains in place for much of Virginia.

Study on I-81 widening in Virginia expanded

Sat, 04 May 2013 10:49:10 -0400

ROANOKE, Virginia - Virginia highway officials are expanding the study into the possibility of widening Interstate 81 in the Roanoke and New River valley.

Scripps reporter Mary Deibel dies at age 65

Fri, 03 May 2013 18:21:15 -0400

WASHINGTON - By ANN McFEATTERS