Duncan Adams
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Roanoke, VA, United States
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New overtime rule for salaried workers pushes employers to respond
Greg Brock worries that a new federal rule governing overtime pay for salaried workers could bleed the life from his small company’s uniquely unfettered culture — an attribute he said attracts talented, creative people to Firefli. → Read More
Karst landscapes bring challenges, concerns for pipeline projects
NEWPORT — Worry sometimes wakes widower George Lee Jones, 85, long before daybreak. → Read More
Forest Service seeks public comment about authorizing pipeline surveying
The U.S. Forest Service’s regional office seeks public comment about whether it should allow crews working for Mountain Valley Pipeline to survey sections of the Jefferson National Forest in Giles and Montgomery counties for a pipeline route identified as “alternative 200.” → Read More
Natural gas pipeline discussion considers combining routes
One big pipeline buried in one corridor? → Read More
Controversy over natural gas pipeline proposals leads to legislation
A self-described conservative, business-friendly Republican in the Virginia Senate hopes colleagues in the General Assembly will repeal an increasingly controversial state law that grants natural gas companies the right to access private property without an owner’s permission to study and survey the property, without compensation, for a possible pipeline route. → Read More
Anger, defiance mark pipeline meeting in Giles County
Nearly 300 people attended the Giles County Board of Supervisors' public hearing on a proposed natural gas pipeline from West Virginia to Virginia. → Read More
Mountain Valley Pipeline moves to initiate federal review of its proposed project
Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Monday to begin its informal review of the company's proposed 300-mile interstate natural gas transmission pipeline. → Read More
Talk of pipeline surveyance creeps into Franklin County
Sandy Arthur said her family searched for years before finding the perfect property in Franklin County. → Read More
Pipeline plan raises ire in Roanoke County
Kevin Orcutt’s voice vibrated with indignation. → Read More
'Resistance rather than surrender' was right path for family of Morgan Harrington
Gil and Dan Harrington believe that nearly five years ago in Charlottesville, Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr. played a role in the loss of their lively, lovely, giving and creative 20-year-old daughter. → Read More
'Resistance rather than surrender' right path for Harrington family
Gil and Dan Harrington believe that nearly five years ago in Charlottesville Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr. played a role in the loss of their lively, lovely, giving and creative 20-year-old daughter. → Read More
New route for natural gas pipeline avoids Floyd County, passes through Roanoke County
EQT Corp. confirmed on Tuesday that a revised route for a proposed interstate natural gas transmission pipeline will exclude Floyd County, where stiff opposition to the project emerged months ago. → Read More
Mountain Valley Pipeline partner faces criminal charges in Pa.
A division of EQT Corp., a partner in the joint venture proposing to build a high-pressure natural gas transmission pipeline through Southwest and Southside Virginia, faces six criminal charges in Pennsylvania tied to allegations of water pollution. → Read More
Work of pioneering Corning engineer visible in today's smartphones and flat screen TVs
Today, most people interact daily with devices whose thin but strong glass enables their connection to the digital universe — smartphones, laptops and more. The pioneering research and development work of Clint Shay and his colleagues — with much of that work occurring at Corning's plant in Blacksburg during the 1960s — touches nearly every life in some fashion. → Read More
House is a gift of freedom to a gravely wounded Marine
ARARAT — Joshua Benjamin Kerns dreamed as a boy of becoming a U.S. Marine. He dreamed too of living someday in a log cabin along the Ararat River. → Read More
As another family waits for news of a missing daughter, Gil Harrington speaks of 'path through the anguish'
Gil and Dan Harrington know about trauma and hope and the bone-deep agony of waiting and wondering. → Read More
As another family waits for news of a missing daughter, Gil Harrington speaks
Gil and Dan Harrington know about trauma and hope and the bone-deep agony of waiting and wondering. → Read More
Neighborhood, preservationists want to save crumbling Riverdale estate
The tenacious creep of foliage threatens to obscure the abandoned and crumbling brick house. Historic preservation advocates fear the building faces greater threats — continued decline and, ultimately, demolition. → Read More
New night vision contract — but no new jobs — at Exelis
Exelis reported Friday that the U.S. Army has awarded the company a contract valued at $8 million for high-tech night vision gear Exelis says provides soldiers "a significant tactical advantage on the battlefield." → Read More
Roanoke Star Tank to field pitches for capital
One question wields the power to drive the day's suspense. → Read More