A faith-based non-profit based about an hour from Roanoke is benefitting from its first-ever day of giving as it continues to provide relief efforts for Ukrainian refugees. Gleaning for the World is headquartered just outside Lynchburg, and it regularly works with faith-based organizations on the ground in other countries. Gleaning for the World raised a…… Continue Reading
Well before the phenomena of “Hamilton,” Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote another Tony award-winning musical, “In The Heights.” You can visit the Bodega in upper Manhattan – and the Washington Heights neighborhood – at Mill Mountain Theatre beginning this Wednesday, as WFIR’s Gene Marrano reports: 4-11 Heights Wrap#2-WEB The post In the Heights comes to Mill Mountain…… Continue Reading
NEWS RELEASE: PATRICK COUNTY, Va. – The incident originated in Halifax County, when a female subjectwas located by Park Rangers inside an unoccupied, unrented cabin in Staunton River State Park. The female suspect fled the cabin, and was able to get into her vehicle. She sped away from the scene, pursued by the park rangers.…… Continue Reading
NEWS RELEASE: A Buchanan County woman has been charged after a shooting incident involving a Town of Grundy Police Officer Saturday night (April 9, 2022). Virginia State Police charged Melissa M. Trammel, 46, with one felony count of assault on a police officer. Trammel is being held at the Southwest Virginia Regional Jail. Shortly before 8…… Continue Reading
COLONIAL HEIGHTS, Va. (AP) — A Virginia police chief retired less than a month after he was placed on leave following allegations of “inappropriate behavior” while off-duty. In an email to the city manager of Colonial Heights last week, Police Chief Jeffrey Faries wrote he would retire and his last day in office would be…… Continue Reading
CLEVELAND (AP) — A man was arrested and charged with murder Thursday night in the death of Cleveland Browns linebacker Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah’s older brother. Police in Hampton, Virginia, said Donald Ivan Scott has been charged with one count of murder and one count of arson. Joshua Emmanuel Owusu-Koramoah, who played linebacker at William & Mary,…… Continue Reading
From Governor Glenn Youngkin’s Office – RICHMOND, VA – Governor Glenn Youngkin signed SB8 this week, introduced by Senator Chap Petersen, to allow Sunday hunting on public land more than 200 yards from places of worship. Previously, Wildlife Management Areas and National Forests were only open to hunters every other day of the week, except…… Continue Reading
From Roanoke Fire-EMS — On Friday, April 8, at 11:36 p.m., Roanoke Fire EMS was dispatched to the 2200 block of Garstland Drive NW for a reported fire. Crews arrived to find smoke showing from a two-story residential structure and marked it a working fire. Crews found the fire on the second floor of the…… Continue Reading
BRIDGEWATER, Va. (AP) — A man was killed in a shootout with sheriff’s deputies in Virginia after a pursuit Thursday, state police said. Rockingham County sheriff’s deputies were pursuing a person who was fleeing on Thursday morning, Virginia State Police said in a news release. Deputies terminated their pursuit, but a short time later they…… Continue Reading
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A bill that will require Virginia schools to notify parents if their children are assigned books or other materials with sexually explicit content was among more than 100 measures Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed into law this week, his office said Friday. Youngkin held up the measure as part of an effort to fulfill a…… Continue Reading