From Virginia State Police: The investigation remains ongoing at this time into the fatal shootings that occurred Monday (March 14, 2022) in the City of Covington. The incident began at approximately 4:30 p.m. Monday, when Toney S. Poulston Jr., 42, of Covington, Va., entered a gas station/convenience/hardware store in the 100 block of North Alleghany…… Continue Reading
The Miles 4 Tab Virtual Walk and Run created to honor Tabitha Thompson – a Carilion Clinic neo-natal Intensive Care Unit nurse killed last month while riding her bike – donated a check to the Carilion Clinic Foundation today in her honor. Carilion President and CEO Nancy Agee accepted that $25,500 Miles 4 Tab check…… Continue Reading
On March 13 at approximately 4:15 p.m., Roanoke Police were notified by the City of Roanoke E-911 Center of a motor vehicle crash in the 3400 block of Melrose Ave NW. Responding officers located a two vehicle collision. Roanoke Fire-EMS pronounced an adult male passenger deceased on the scene. The deceased has been identified as…… Continue Reading
Dr. Pepper Park will welcome the Indigo Girls to Roanoke on August 17. Their 1989 major label debut sold over two million units, with the singles “Closer to Fine” and “Kid Fears” and help turn the Indigo Girls into one of the most successful folk duos in history. The Grammy-winning duo has recorded sixteen studio…… Continue Reading
While he wasn’t at Virginia Tech’s first ACC Tournament Title win, Governor Glenn Younkin stopped by the Virginia High School League Basketball Championship. WFIR’s Ian Price has more. 3-14 Governor Bball WRAP The post Governor talks basketball at VHSL championship first appeared on News/Talk 960-AM & FM-107.3 WFIR.… Continue Reading
On Sunday, March 13, at 4:26 a.m., Roanoke Fire-EMS was dispatched to the 700 block of Brownwood Dr. NW for a reported fire. Units arrived to find fire showing from the rear of the home, and smoke showing from the roof. The fire was knocked down by the first-arriving units with no injuries to personnel…… Continue Reading
From TSA: ROANOKE, Va.– A man from Atlanta, Ga., was cited by police after Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers prevented him from carrying a handgun onto his flight on Saturday, March 12, at Roanoke-Blacksburg Regional Airport. The revolver was not loaded, but the man had eight bullets with the gun in his carry-on bag. A…… Continue Reading
A Washington and Lee professor of comparative literature who knows all about fleeing from oppressive regimes – even if it means leaving her beloved home country – has written a no-holds-barred memoir about her journey from Eastern Europe almost 40 years ago. She spoke to WFIR’s Gene Marrano recently about her life … and here…… Continue Reading
A Virginia Tech economics professor says the invasion of Ukraine has handed the Biden administration a way to seek blaming Russia for inflationary pressures here — even if prices had already been rising before the military action began. David Bieri says it’s nothing political, just economics at work: it was clear, he says, that COVID-related…… Continue Reading
The President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly hails from the Commonwealth – 11th District Congressman Gerry Connolly – and his boots were on the ground at the Ukraine-Poland border last week. WFIR’s Gene Marrano on what he saw: 3-14 Connolly Wrap#1 The post VA Congressman on what he saw at Ukraine-Poland border first appeared…… Continue Reading