Darrell Sheppard News Today

As an investigation continues, students at Hargrave Military Academy are back to their normal schedule. After an threatening message was recieved over social media last week with possible ties to isis, the campus shut down for the weekend. Law enforcement spent the weekend patroling the area and students were allowed to go home. School leaders say to normal and there are no updates on the investigation. Pittsylvania county Sheriffs Officers say they are aggressively following up on many differen...

Through social media. Why werent we updated sooner. Why did they wait until the next day . Parent Cliff Jennings says like many, he thinks more should have been done. Thank goodness it wasnt a threat, but had it been and something happen the next day and they didnt a alert parents, it couldve been a bad situation. School leaders admitted that more shouldve been done to alert parents. We should have sent you a message. Social media can be good, but in these situations, its really causing this the...

The write-in count for a Blacksburg Town Council seat remains unfinalized after hundreds of votes were missing from the first count.

The outcome of a majority of contested county Board of Supervisors and School Board races remains unclear Wednesday morning.

One of the big questions in the Roanoke and New River valleys is whether Democrats can win in two newly drawn districts — one in the House and one in Senate.

Six of the seven candidates running for seats on the Montgomery County Board of Supervisors answered questions Thursday night on subjects ranging from local taxes and affordable housing to whether they agree with using public funds to pay for private school or homeschool vouchers.

A number of candidates running for both the Montgomery County Board of Supervisors and School Board have received endorsements from a political action committee linked to the union for Montgomery

The elected bodies that could see some shakeups this year are the Montgomery County Board of Supervisors and School Board and Christiansburg Town Council.

The Town Council, on a 4-2 vote Tuesday night, decided to table an SRO measure, with several members requesting more time to go over a draft agreement between the town

There will be competitive contests in districts B and E.