UPDATE: Roanoke City emergency crews say one person and a dog have died as the result of a house fire this morning in the 4 hundred block of Albemarle Avenue Sw near Highland Park Elementary School. Authorities say two firefighters sustained non-life-threatening injuries.Two victims were rescued from the home. Previous: Roanoke City emergency crews responded…… Continue Reading
Roanoke City emergency crews are responding to house fire this morning in the 4 hundred block of Albemarle Avenue Sw near Highland Park Elementary School. One person has died as the result of the blaze. We will provide additional details as they become available. The post One person is dead after house fire in Southwest…… Continue Reading
Pregnant women with any concern about getting a flu shot – with the upcoming “season” expected to be more “normal” when it comes to the number of people infected – should be assured its safe. So says a Carilion physician, as WFIR’s Gene Marrano reports: 10-12 Flu Wrap#2 The post Carilion: expecting moms should get…… Continue Reading
In conjunction with a new coalition called the Roanoke Foodshed Network, Carilion Clinic is bringing back the Fall Harvest Festival: WFIR-AMNE Register here to guarantee a free meal and a flu shot The post Fall Harvest Festival is all about better health first appeared on News/Talk 960-AM & FM-107.3 WFIR.… Continue Reading
NEWS RELEASE: On October 10, 2022 at 2:45PM, the Bedford County Sheriff’s Office responded to the area of H&H Market in Big Island, Virginia for an individual with a gunshot wound to the head. Danelle Brown, age 37 of Monroe, Virginia was identified as the suspect and has been arrested on charges of Aggravated Malicious…… Continue Reading
A Roanoke College sports legend will be posthumously inducted this weekend into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame, nine years after his death from a debilitating disease. John Pirro helped lead the lacrosse program to prominence, winning the national title one year after he graduated in 1977. Pirro later returned to campus as lacrosse coach…… Continue Reading
Wombat Camper, a Roanoke startup which manufactures small, overland-style camper trailers, will unveil its first production model this weekend at the Roanoke Go Outside Festival. A prototype was displayed at a previous GoFest. Julie Meilak is the company’s co-owner with husband Brad; they are working with Lift Arc Studios and TxTur to build the $75,000…… Continue Reading
A parking lot painted with simulated streets, bike lanes, railroad crossings – along with “Stop” and “Yield” signs – is now the “Westside Traffic Garden” in northwest Roanoke at Westside Elementary School, where Kristen English is the Principal. Westside students on bikes got the chance to check out the Traffic Garden after a ribbon cutting…… Continue Reading
Attorney John P. Fishwick, Jr. holds a news conference today at 2pm outside his office on Franklin Road; he’s requesting Congressional legislation to rename the Poff Federal Building in downtown Roanoke, quote, “to honor one of Roanoke’s undeservedly forgotten legal, “civil rights attorney Reuben E. Lawson.” Fishwick says Lawson was an African American attorney who…… Continue Reading
This is Substance Abuse Prevention Month and at least in Virginia and a handful of other states there has been some good news regarding overdose deaths, as WFIR’s Gene Marrano reports: 10-11 OD Deaths Wrap#1 The post Drugs overdose deaths decline in Virginia first appeared on News/Talk 960-AM & FM-107.3 WFIR.… Continue Reading