Catawba News

Botetourt County Supervisor Steve Clinton helped vote down a $4 million proposal to build a Walgreens drugstore last month.

Charlie Whitener from the National Emergency Response and Rescue Training Center shows a first responder how to administer aid July 9 during a a three-day planning seminar for agencies that might have to react ...

Three days after her wedding, Justina Anderson could have lost it all. "She's doing a whole lot better," Ronnie Anderson, her new husband, said.

A woman who took an estimated $50,000 from three small, Catawba-area churches has been convicted of 7 counts of embezzlement.

A Walgreens drugstore won't be built at the corner of U.S. 220 and Catawba Road in Botetourt County, the board of supervisors decided Tuesday.

With his tanned legs, full beard and full backpack, Chris Johnson certainly looked the part of a long-distance hiker as he strode toward the Daleville Kroger on Wednesday morning.

After Meridium discovered last year that a trusted bookkeeper had embezzled more than half a million dollars over eight years, the reaction of company president Bonz Hart initially confused and even angered a ...

A Roanoke County woman charged with stealing from several churches, is found guilty.

“Often times, my friends mistake my mom for me and vice versa. We share similar features, such as our eyes, nose and mouth. I love my mom very much and consider it a privilege to look like her.”

Can you match them all? Trish , left, and Alyssa Sterling of Vinton Alyssa e-mailed: "We always seem to get confused as sisters. via Roanoke Times

A Roanoke County grand jury has indicted a woman on seven counts of embezzlement based on accusations that she took $50,000 from three Catawba churches where she volunteered as treasurer. via Roanoke Times

“I'm very disappointed to hear that”

Twenty-five beds at a state mental hospital in Roanoke County will continue to sit empty as the region copes with a space shortage in psychiatric treatment facilities. via Roanoke Times

“We cannot do all four with a tax decrease. ... I would say I'd rather see the schools renovated than a 1-cent decrease in the tax rate. I know some taxpayers won't like that.”

Roanoke County supervisors and school board members Tuesday reached a tentative agreement to proceed with plans to renovate -- or possibly replace -- at least two of the county's deteriorating elementary ... via Roanoke Times

“I got a chance to work with the staff, to watch how they worked and to really see the needs we would have through the upcoming years”

Roanoke County Administrator Elmer Hodge, who has led the locality through a 22-year span of growth and urbanization, announced Wednesday that he will retire at the end of June. via Roanoke Times

Spring is coming, and with warm weather comes great things to do with the little ones. via Roanoke Times

“I'm old enough to be wise enough to do it.”

Andrew Lewis Middle School Assistant Principal, shown in the school's recently renovated library, is the fourth candidate to announce his bid for one of Salem City Council's three seats. via Main Street Newspapers

“It's the sheer magnitude of the number of outages we've experienced in the last 24 hours”

Sunday's windstorms knocked power out to a handful of polling places in the Roanoke Valley, sending election officials scrambling to find alternate voting locations for today's presidential primaries. via Roanoke Times

“I'm at the age now when it's time for me to retire.”

In a surprise reversal, Roanoke County Police Chief Ray Lavinder, whose September retirement was announced last month, is now reconsidering that decision after being approached by the board of supervisors about ... via Roanoke Times

“Well, it's always windy on top.”

Just not THAT hard. The plan was to leave Troutville at 9:30 and run/hike the Appalachian Trail to route 311 near Catawba. via WSLS-TV Roanoke

“The Roanoke city and Roanoke County jails are currently warehousing persons in need of stabilization”

Twenty-five beds at Catawba Hospital that have sat empty for years while the Roanoke Valley struggled to treat its mentally ill could soon be back in use under a proposal to state lawmakers. via Roanoke Times