Floyd County News

The effort hit a snag in Montgomery County, where ordinances govern signs on home businesses.

Adopt a more nuanced approach to personal technology for Floyd schools. The Floyd County School Board will meet on Monday to discuss revisions to the Standards of Student Conduct and Attendance.

If not for charges in Floyd County, Jeffrey Young might be a free man. Acquitted late Thursday night on charges of involuntary manslaughter, and leaving the scene of an accident involving the death of former Roanoke attorney Tom Farrell, the judge could not release Young since he has never been granted bond on several charges in Floyd County.

A murder trial for a man Roanoke County Police believe hit and killed a well-known attorney last year, begins on Monday.

A former service station has been transformed into a 17,000-square-foot space for retail and apartments.

Most candidates for local offices are running unopposed. When the November general election arrives, voters in the New River Valley will not find many options on their ballots.

There are creative people everywhere, but it seems to me that there is more opportunity to appreciate creativity when one lives out in the country.

As of 8:15 a.m. Friday, the National Weather Service reports that Mountain View Church in Floyd County has measured 2.8 inches of rain in the past 24 hours -- the highest amount for any station in the New River Valley.

June 3, 2009 Floyd Co. author releases second book Floyd County author, Fred First, has released his second book called "What We Hold in Our Hands." It's a compilation of his short essays and photography.

Well, not quite. In the latest production by Floyd County's maturing Young Actors Co-op, the Fab Four have become a faux four -- a boy band composed of fakers who couldn't twist and shout their way out of a wet paper bag.

For the first time since he fatally shot a man in Check last summer, Joshua Jonathan Hairston is expected to speak publicly about the incident at his jury trial today.

As bands of heavy rain and thunderstorms were moving across Southwest Virginia late Wednesday night, a tornado touched down just outside Galax, a National Weather Service survey determined today.

A FLOYD COUNTY SCHOOL BUS WAS INVOLVED IN A WRECK TUESDAY MORNING AFTER ITS DRIVER BACKED THE BUS INTO ANOTHER VEHICLE, SAID MIKE CARR, TRANSPORTATION DIRECTOR FOR THE COUNTY SCHOOLS.

Nobody was hurt, and the storm is being categorized as an EF0, the weakest kind.

A woman from Floyd died in a single-vehicle crash Sunday morning, police said. Ashley Renee Chaffin, 23, was not wearing a seat belt shortly after 10 a.m. when the 2004 Pontiac Sunfire she was driving went off a Floyd County road and flipped several times, said Sgt.

A site survey by the National Weather Service in Blacksburg has confirmed an EF0 tornado touched down in Floyd County Sunday evening as a result of a severe thunderstorm.

May 3, 2009 Woman killed in Floyd County crash A young woman is dead after an accident this morning in Floyd.

OK, I know we have already had a 'photo of the week', but I loved this picture so much I could not wait until next week to share it.

This snowy field in Floyd County isn't a snowy field at all. No, that's hail, two hours after it had fallen at Indian Valley ... so there was even more before this shot was taken byA occasional Weather Journal blog commenter "Indian Valley John."A If you look closely, you can even see some hail fog at ground level ... moisture condensing in air ...

THIS AFTERNOON, the Montgomery County Public Service Authority will begin moving some 650 homes and businesses in the Prices Fork area back to its normal water supply from the Radford Army Ammunition Plant.