Roanoke News

Sarah Palin is coming back to the Roanoke Valley. With the release of her book "Going Rogue : An American Life" on Nov.

A Roanoke Circuit Court judge on Friday afternoon convicted a 17-year-old of killing another teenager.

A smiling yearbook photograph shows the Fort Hoot shooting suspect, Nidal Hasan, from his high school days at William Fleming High School.

Roanoke County police have arrested a man in a string of break-ins over the past three months.

A former writer for The Roanoke Star-Sentinel has been charged with illegally obtaining e-mails from her ex-boss, apparently in an effort to shed light on a controversial political ad that ran in the newspaper.

A Roanoke man was arrested Wednesday after he was released from a hospital where he was recovering from injuries he suffered while allegedly trying to rob a taxi driver.

A local utility is springing forward toward a new future. Thursday morning, the Western Virginia Water Authority convened and voted in its newest member.

Joshua Frazier, 20, was represented by Tony Anderson on Wednesday in Roanoke Circuit Court.

Four men who pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges in a plot to kidnap the wives of wealthy Roanoke-area men and hold them for ransom are going to prison.

Roanoke City Police say they're investigating a cab crash into new Fire Station #1 Monday night as a robbery case.

Republican candidate Bill Cleaveland won the open 17th District House of Delegates seat Tuesday night, defeating Democratic Roanoke City Councilwoman Gwen Mason by nearly 5,400 votes.

Roanoke City Sheriff Octavia Johnson has won re-election, in a very close race. Johnson's margin of victory was 141 votes, with 8,398 votes total cast for the Republican, 42.42% of votes cast in the Sheriff's race.

A taxi driver smashed his cab against the wall of a downtown Roanoke fire station Monday night as his passenger reportedly tried to rob him.

Governor Tim Kaine and the man who hopes to succeed him, Creigh Deeds, along with the rest of the Democratic ticket for Tuesday's election stepped out of the old Fire Station #1 to a crowd of about 150 supporters, Monday morning.

A Roanoke man who apparently tried to hop a moving train in Manassas died when he was run over, police said.

The parents of a Virginia Tech student missing for more than two weeks have set up a fund for contributions to help in their search for her.

When the First Baptist Church in Gainsboro burned in 1995, a local architect wanted to save the ruins -- four walls and the tower.

Let's start with the music. I had to leave at the end of the set, to make deadline, but apparently there was an encore, which means that the act played nearly 2.5 hours.

The unemployment rate dropped slightly from August to September in both the Roanoke and Blacksburg metropolitan statistical areas but the jobless rate for each continued to be significantly higher than a year ago.

After renovating the site, Interactive Design Group invited current and former firefighters to visit the old Roanoke Fire Station No.