When government asks citizens to trust it with surveillance technology, there is one expectation above all others: get it right. Roanoke City failed that test …
Category: Crime
A Roanoke man convicted in the 2021 killing of 29-year-old Hakeem Logan has been sentenced to spend decades behind bars. Nashawn Devion Smith, now 22, …
Beginning July 1, a major change to Virginia law will allow some people with past criminal charges and convictions to have those records sealed from …
A Franklin County grand jury has indicted 19 individuals on a wide range of alleged narcotics and weapons-related offenses following investigations conducted between 2025 and …
ROANOKE, Va. — A review of crime data reported in Roanoke City during the first three months of 2026 shows that assaults, thefts, and other …
Two inmates who escaped from a North Carolina jail last week have been captured more than 250 miles away after a multi-agency search involving local, …
ROANOKE, Va. – Vinton Voice — Samantha Grimes and her husband have spent the past several weeks focused on one thing: their newborn son. Like …
Roanoke Police have arrested 42-year-old Kenneth Lynn Campbell Junior after a deadly Memorial Day crash at the intersection of Lafayette Boulevard and Melrose Avenue Northwest. …
A Franklin County courtroom handed down a lengthy prison sentence this week in one of the more disturbing child abuse cases the Rocky Mount area …
ROANOKE, Va. — A case that began as a malicious wounding in 2025 has now been upgraded to a homicide investigation after the victim died …