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The chair of Roanokes Republican committee is running in a heavily-Democratic district.

A Roanoke man will serve 10 years in prison for what was described in court as a fraught confrontation that ended with a woman jumping out of a moving vehicle

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RICHMOND — The General Assembly elected new judges Tuesday to benches around the Roanoke Valley, including someone to fill a vacancy left by a Roanoke Juvenile and Domestic Relations District judge who recently and quietly stepped down. Heather Ferguson will succeed John Weber III, who became a domestic court judge in 2015. His first term on the bench was due to extend through June, and his motivation for departing early has not been announced and remains unclear. Judge Hilary Griffith, ch...

A series of schemes that quickly bled a Roanoke church of tens of thousands of dollars began as a technical error, according to the employee convicted of the embezzlement. At her sentencing hearing Friday, Nicole Gibson Martin, 45, claimed that in taking on bookkeeping duties at Southview United Methodist Church in 2018, and in setting up direct deposit software, she inadvertently caused herself to be paid twice. Citing what she said was embarrassment over that error, she never corrected the mi...