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On the morning of August 26, 2015, news reporter Alison Parker and photojournalist Adam Ward, both employees of CBS affiliate WDBJ in Roanoke, Virginia, United States, were fatally shot while conducting a live television interview near Smith Mountain Lake in Moneta. They were interviewing Vicki Gardner, executive director of the local chamber ...
The Roanoke Times is the primary newspaper in Southwestern Virginia and is based in Roanoke, Virginia, United States. It is published by Lee Enterprises. In addition to its headquarters in Roanoke, it maintains a bureau in Christiansburg, covering the eastern New River Valley and Virginia Tech. According to the 2011 Scarborough “Ranker Report ...
Fleming Alexander founded the Roanoke Tribune newspaper in 1939 at 5 Gilmer Avenue, later moved to 312 Henry Street, and then to Melrose Avenue in Roanoke. As an African-American newspaper, it brought attention against the Jim Crow laws of Roanoke and Western Virginia, and championed black representation on Roanoke's public boards and better schools for the black children in the segregated South.
4. Weapons. Handgun. Arson. Earl Conrad Bramblett (March 20, 1942 – April 9, 2003) was an American mass murderer, convicted for the killing of four members of the Hodges family in August 1994 in Vinton, Virginia. Bramblett murdered each family member in their residence before setting it on fire, and in 1997 was sentenced to death for the murders.
The Roanoke Tribune / The Tribune (1951–) 1939: current: Weekly: The Roanoke Tribune: LCCN sn98068354; OCLC 39072181; The Tribune: LCCN sn98068351; OCLC 39072118; Official site; Free online archive; Founded by F.E. Alexander. Billed as the "[o]nly negro newspaper published in Southwest Virginia." Roanoke: Roanoke Weekly Press: 1891: 1897: Weekly
2022 Bridgewater College shooting, occurred on February 1, 2022. 2022 University of Virginia shooting, occurred on November 13, 2022. 2022 Chesapeake shooting, occurred on November 22, 2022. Shooting of Abby Zwerner, occurred on January 6, 2023, when an unidentified 6-year-old boy open-fired at a teacher in her mid-30s, critically injuring her.
The incident caused widespread fear among the gay community in Richmond and Virginia and was regarded by members of the local gay community as a homophobic hate crime. [1] The shooting was a result of the business dealings and criminal activities of Leo Joseph Koury (1934–1991), a well-known figure in the Block community who had exploited the ...
William Morva. William Charles Morva (February 9, 1982 – July 6, 2017) was an American-Hungarian man convicted of the 2006 shooting deaths of Sheriff's Deputy Corporal Eric Sutphin, 40, and hospital security guard Derrick McFarland, 32, in the town of Blacksburg, Virginia. He was sentenced to death for the crime and was executed on July 6 ...