Fort Chiswell News

Sarah Bolen, 6, tests out exercise equipment at a yard sale Thursday in Radford while her grandmother Sharon Bolen checks out merchandise.

Crash scene workers survey a bridge that collapsed Wednesday with a concrete truck on it over Big Walker Creek on Virginia 713, Old Church Road, in Giles County.

A steel truss and timber deck bridge collapsed under the weight of a crossing concrete truck today, sending the driver to the hospital.

DOT says a tractor-trailer accident has closed both lanes of Interstate 77 Southbound, near Poplar Camp in Wythe County. via WSLS-TV Roanoke

“It is at this present time that we are in negotiations with the board of supervisors and the industrial developmental authority to purchase 90 acres at the intersection of I-77 and Route 58, Exit 14, for the purpose of mixed-use development”

'Mayberry Opry' plans revealed Photo by Mended Wings Productions Mayberry Opry Theater would have a 600-seat, state-of-the-art theater, offices, a country store and parking for 250 cars, as well as buses. via Galax Gazette

“He was the first one who lost his life in our class and just his memory...each student that graduated with him carried that with them and they remembered Darrell.”

A local high school wants the memory of one of its former classmates, killed in the line of duty, to live on. via WSLS

“I had two guys performing in the play who accepted the life of Christ”

Two men found dead on logging trail UPDATED 3/4: Police have not been able to identify the bodies of two Hispanic men found on a logging road in Grayson, both of whom appear to have died of gunshot wounds. via Galax Gazette

A tractor trailer fire that sparked early this morning , still has part of Interstate 81 in Wythe County closed as of 10:15 a.m. State Police tell us the accident happened at the Max Meadows Road accident, near ... via WSLS

A tractor trailer accident has closed the two left southbound and two left northbound lanes on Interstate 81 at Exit 80, the Virginia Department of Transportation said. via Roanoke Times

“Here the technology we're missing is a tape recorder.”

Dutton murder trial begins The defense attorney for Robert Allen Dutton -- accused of killing his estranged wife -- questioned the lack of a murder weapon, an unsigned confession and the absence of an audio or ... via Galax Gazette

We can breathe a sigh of relief. Some moron over in Wythe County wasn't trying to blow up Fort Chiswell when he tossed blasting caps into a dumpster there. via From On High

“You're supposed to have a license and properly dispose of them. You have to make sure you render them safe.”

An attendant at the Fort Chiswell Recycling Center on Saturday found three improperly discarded blasting caps in one of the station's Dumpsters, Virginia State Police reported. via Roanoke Times

“I didn't think we were going to be able to get the fire out or keep it off of them.”

HUNTINGTON -- Three local women are recovering after a five-vehicle crash in southern Virginia that pinned them between pavement and flames from a burning vehicle hauler for more than an hour. via The Herald-Dispatch.com

An out-of-state driver has been charged for his part in a chain reaction crash that happened last Friday. via WAVY-TV