Candidates have scheduled events in our state before the march 1st. Primary. Donald trump will take part in regent universitys president ial candidate series on wednesday. Ben carson will also be at that series next monday. Todays event with john kasich starts at 6 30 p. M. Super tuesday is close and that means several deadlines are coming up for voters who want to participate. Since you can vote absentee in primaries, the deadline to request a mailed absentee ballot is tomorrow at 5pm. The deadline to vote absentee in person is february 27th. You can only vote in one Political Party primary election when multiple Party Primaries are held on the same day. Voting Officials Say make sure your voter details are correct now. Andrew cochran city of roanoke director of elections you can go to electionsdot virginiadot gov and in the upper lefthand corner is a red box that says citizen portal you can go in, put in your information and it will pull up your correct Voter Registration information
Work scheduled for interchange project postponed because of the weather. Vdot announced that lane closures would be put in place from tonight until to 6 tomorrow morning for the northbound lanes of interstate 58. Exit 3c off i 581 was also scheduled to be closed for three vdot says it will reschedule the work. New at noon david bowers will not run for congress. Seeking the nomination for the 9th district congressional seat, which is currently held by republican morgan griffith. Bowers says he decided not to run, because he couldnt overcome the thought of representing a district where he doesnt live. He announced in november that he would not run for re election as mayor of roanoke. Instead, he says he plans to re open his law practice fulltime. The murder trial for Demetrius Wade is scheduled to start today in roanoke. He is charged with two counts of murder, after a shooting on shenandoah avenue in january of last year. Two men died in that shooting, and four others got hurt. Another