Approximately 19,200 people die every single year in the United States from homicide. More specifically, the homicide death per 100,000 population is 5.8, according to the Centers for Disease Control...
Carnis Poindexter, 83, is beloved to countless people throughout the Roanoke Valley. For more than four decades, Poindexter, affectionately known as Coach P, poured his heart and soul into hundreds of students,...
Macklyn Mosley is fully aware of just how blessed he is. A native of Roanoke, Mosley grew up in the inner-city with his mother, brother and sister. To get to where he is today, Mosley had to overcome...
If you do a Google search for an image of Vice President Kamala Harris, within seconds thousands of visuals show up. Among those photos is her February 2021 Vogue Magazine cover, pictures of her undergraduate...
For years, the assumption that women are not as serious or business-savvy as their male counterparts regularly hasbeen propagated. Mother-daughter duo Nickia Murray and Autum Murray-Burns never have bought...
Marijuana is misunderstood by many. In part, that’s because people tend to dismiss what they don’t understand. When it comes to marijuana and whether it should be decriminalized, there isn’t a lot of ambiguity...
The year 2020 yielded one of history’s greatest pandemics: COVID-19. Since the World Health Organization declared it a global health emergency last January, there have been more than a half million...
In the 137 years since Roanoke has been chartered as an independent city, all the 44 mayors have been male. Only a few women have served in the capacity of vice mayor. Those numbers mirror the reality...
It is January 2003 and Salem native Christine Poarch is an attorney living in Texas. A 1999 graduate of South Texas College of Law, she is licensed in Texas, Virginia, the Fourth and Eleventh Circuit...
Joe Sheffey knows Pulaski County and its surrounding areas about as well as anyone. Born February 26, 1951, at the Radford Community Hospital (now the New River Valley Medical Center), Sheffey has seen...
