Bart Strickland News Today

Patricia Strickland passed away. This is the full obituary where you can share condolences and memories. Published in the Record Eagle on 2024-02-08.

In March 1974, Roger Trenton Davis was sentenced to 40 years in prison for 9 ounces of marijuana, an unusually harsh punishment that would make him nationally known as the “marijuana martyr.” Today, possession of small amounts of marijuana is legal in Virginia. Davis is a free man. And the Southwest Virginia native, now 75, is making the best of both things. “That martyr? That’s who I am,” Davis said in an interview Thursday. “I believe that every person on the fac...

Property assessments have fallen slightly in an upscale Roanoke neighborhood because men are staying in a house there while they receive treatment elsewhere to try to stop getting high. They live in a large home in Oak Hill established as a sober-living residence last year by a national provider of opiate treatment services. Some of those who were already living in the neighborhood southwest of downtown came to see it as a bad fit soon after it opened. They reported that the home has generated ...