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For Baltimore-based independent journalist Amelia McDonell-Parry, the Baltimore City courtroom audio captured during Keith Davis Jr.’s previous trials isn’t just a series of recordings. It’s the key to helping audiences understand why Davis, who was shot by Baltimore police in 2015 after he was wrongfully identified as a robbery suspect, is being tried yet again […] → Read More
Two days before Hurricane Michael hit Panama City, Florida, Justin Kiefer’s wife and their two sons headed for Nashville, Tennessee. Kiefer, who was chief meteorologist for Panama City station WMBB-TV, stayed to cover the storm. He and his family had weathered minor hurricanes and tropical storms during his career, but Hurricane Michael was different. The […] → Read More
In January 2018, Los Angeles Times Houston bureau chief Molly Hennessy-Fiske proposed that she and a photojournalist move close to the US-Mexico border. Hennessy-Fiske, who has lived in the Lone Star State for eight years, suggested the project because she wanted to hone in on the Rio Grande Valley—an area in south Texas where the […] → Read More
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In 2016, York Daily Record photographer Jason Plotkin saw a man throwing furniture out of the third-floor window of a house that had recently burned. When he entered the home to document the scene, he encountered a large hole in the floor that led to a two-story drop. Plotkin used the stair railing to climb […] → Read More
AFTER THE ROANOKE TIMES released its new podcast, Septic, reporters Jacob Demmitt and Robby Korth braced themselves for negative comments. The series was the Southwest Virginia newspaper’s first attempt at a narrative podcast, created on a nearly non-existent budget. It was also Korth and Demmitt’s attempt to set the record straight on a criminal case that sparked […] → Read More
Survivors in Appalachia face sizeable obstacles to leaving. Rural abusers are more likely to use weapons; intimate partner violence is more likely to end in homicide. Shelters and health centers can be impossible to reach. → Read More
When El Nuevo Día reporter Benjamín Torres Gotay came to a remote neighborhood in western Puerto Rico nearly two weeks after Hurricane Maria, some residents thought he was with the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Help, they hoped, had finally arrived. The Category 4 hurricane, which lashed the island with 150 mph winds and claimed more […] → Read More
A 27-year-old Roanoke man was killed Thursday evening after the vehicle he was driving rolled down an embankment on U.S. 220, according to a Roanoke police official. → Read More
A 49-year-old Salem man was charged with aggravated malicious wounding Thursday night after he was accused of shooting a man several times on Chestnut Street, according to a Salem police release. → Read More
All north and southbound lanes on U.S. 220 are closed near Rocky Mount in Franklin County after a wreck happened near Bonbrook Mill Road, according to the Virginia Department of Transportation's website. → Read More
One person was taken to the hospital Thursday morning after a vehicle and a Valley Metro bus collided at the intersection of Roanoke Boulevard and Electric Road in Salem, a city official said. → Read More
A woman questioned about a fatal hit-and-run on Interstate 581 told state police she thought she hit a deer while driving back from Valley View Mall, according to a search warrant filed in Roanoke County Circuit Court. → Read More
A wreck involving a tractor-trailer has closed all northbound and southbound lanes on Interstate 81 at mile marker 139.7 in Roanoke County, according to the Virginia Department of Transportation's website. → Read More
Several gunshots were fired in the parking lot of Smokey Bones at Valley View on Saturday morning after an altercation inside the restaurant, according to a Roanoke police press release. → Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began a controlled release Saturday morning of some of the water accumulated at Lake Moomaw after torrential rain caused widespread flooding in Alleghany and Botetourt counties Friday, according a press release. → Read More
At least 10 people are seeking assistance from The American Red Cross after a fire Saturday morning at Liberty Pines Apartments, according to a Roanoke Fire-EMS press release. → Read More
A former substitute teacher with Roanoke County Public Schools has been charged with one count of assault and battery of a minor after he was accused of inappropriately touching a student, according to a joint release from the school system and Roanoke County police. → Read More
Salem and Roanoke County saw a slight increase in reported crimes between 2014 and 2015, while the number of crimes reported in Roanoke continued to decrease, according to Virginia State Police's annual report of crime statistics. → Read More