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Flaws in Virginia’s ID system might have allowed terrorism suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami to buy the handgun authorities say he used to wound two police officers in a New Jersey → Read More
ROANOKE — Norfolk Southern Corp. expects to receive nearly $2 million from the state to help defray the cost of moving jobs from Roanoke to Norfolk, government records show. → Read More
State police are investigating a failed Appomattox factory project that received $1.4 million in taxpayer money partly based on phony credentials posted on a company website. → Read More
Federal agents have increased to $10,000 the reward for tips about a break-in at an Appomattox County sporting goods store and the whereabouts of numerous stolen guns. → Read More
Seeking to recover $1.4 million that Virginia invested in a failed Chinese business venture, the state is trying to intercept a $1 million foreclosure payment to the site consultant who advised the company. → Read More
Court officials plan to use an anonymous jury and provide overflow spectator seating for the trial of six alleged gang members charged in the slaying of reserve Waynesboro police captain Kevin Quick, which is scheduled to start Monday in Roanoke. → Read More
Spending from the state fund tapped by governors to lure business to Old Dominion has hit a two-year high under Virginia’s dealmaker-in-chief, Gov. Terry McAuliffe. → Read More
At a private ceremony Monday morning, John Fishwick was sworn in as U.S. attorney for the Western District of Virginia, his office announced. → Read More
A unit of Roanoke-based Southern Coal Corp. has agreed to perform environmental cleanup projects in far Southwest Virginia and pay penalties and attorney fees for pollution violations detected four years ago. → Read More
Federal regulators have rejected Amtrak’s plan to board train riders in Roanoke on a low platform that requires climbing stairs or using a lift to enter the rail car. → Read More
Authorities who shot a bear suspected of attacking a woman at Douthat State Park on Aug. 8 killed the wrong animal. → Read More
A black bear attacked and injured an adult hiker at Douthat State Park on Saturday. → Read More
A 51-year-old Bedford area man overturned during a float on the James River and died Sunday, said John Koloda, a conservation police officer with the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. → Read More
Virginia’s senators are telling President Barack Obama he should pick Roanoke attorney John Fishwick as the next U.S. attorney for Western Virginia. → Read More
A new public campaign to expand passenger train service, this time to the New River Valley, is under way. → Read More
The children of radio personality Joseph Seth Williamson will collect $500,000 from the maker of an infusion pump in use at the time of his death at LewisGale Hospital Montgomery, according to papers unsealed Friday in Roanoke federal court. → Read More
A legal settlement will provide more than $13 million for the lifelong care of a German man who was hit by a truck while bicycling in Pulaski County in 2011. → Read More
After five years as the top federal prosecutor in Western Virginia, Timothy Heaphy said Monday he will quit as U.S. attorney for the Western District of Virginia for a job in private practice. → Read More
Southwest Virginia’s top two state highway leaders have left their posts, one under circumstances that are unclear. → Read More
The spot picked for Roanoke’s new passenger rail platform is about a minute’s walk from the outdated city bus station, which has spawned talk of a future joint-purpose passenger facility. → Read More