Trump left China on Friday with no major breakthroughs on trade or tangible help from Beijing to end the Iran war, despite two days spent heaping praise on Xi Jinping.
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The former Virginia Tech coach is the new men's basketball coach at his alma mater.
- JASON DUNOVANT The Roanoke Times
Two months before a scheduled final vote, Franklin County is putting a pause on a planned update to its zoning ordinance.
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A new traffic flow is coming to U.S. 220 in Franklin County where it intersects with Wirtz Road and Virginia Market Place Drive.
- JASON DUNOVANT The Roanoke Times
Rocky Mount residents will see no new tax increases in the new fiscal year starting on July 1. But water, wastewater and solid waste collection rates will go up.
- ETHAN HUNT The Roanoke Times
In a move aimed at reallocating resources to grow student readership, the Collegiate Times has ended its biweekly print edition and will move to a primarily digital format.
- MATT CASE The Roanoke Times
Tessa Hampton takes over for Thomas Hering, who spent this past season as the interim head coach in the wake of the shooting death of Tony Gill last July
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Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger has signed a bill into law she says closes a loophole in the state code allowing guns on college campuses.
There has been no explanations provided after a pilot was escorted off a plane in Charlottesville leaving passengers headed to Atlanta stranded for hours last month.
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Jeremiah Harrison left high school with a chip on his shoulder.
Attorneys for the Palmer family and the defending VHSL and Roanoke County School Board stated their cases before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Dillon in court Monday
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North Main Street eastbound lanes will close for a waterline replacement project starting May 18, with one lane open each way and motorists advised to expect delays.
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Westbound lanes on Route 40/Franklin Street near the Tractor Supply development will close May 14, with traffic shifted eastbound between CVS and Schewels Home Store.
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