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The Roanoke County School Board approved a pilot program outsourcing maintenance work at three schools, a system spokesman said.Ohio-based GCA Services Group will take over the maintenance work at Hidden Valley High, Cave Spring Middle and Cave Spring Elementary schools for one year beginning July 1. School system spokesman Chuck Lionberger said in an email […]

Jason Shell was sentenced to 18 years for beating elderly Bedford County store owner Bob Terry.BEDFORD — Prosecutors at a Tuesday plea hearing admitted right away they had no forensic evidence and no eyewitness to say Jason Andrew Shell beat and robbed an elderly shopkeeper a year and a half ago. […]

At least two people will seek the Democratic nomination in the race to replace Roanoke Sheriff Octavia Johnson in November.Tim Allen, a retired officer at the Western Virginia Regional Jail, on Tuesday confirmed his plans to run. A 26-year veteran of the jail system, Allen said he'll make a formal announcement Friday morning in the city council chambers […]

That process will take months, raising questions about meeting federal timetable goals.If Medicaid is expanded in Virginia, it likely will happen only with serious tinkering by state lawmakers.As part of a budget bill that keeps the proposal alive, the General Assembly over the weekend created a legislative commission that will determine how Virginia applies […]

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea fired its fifth short-range missile in three days on Monday and condemned South Korea for criticizing what it said were its legitimate military drills. […]

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is seeking to build trust with India on his first foreign trip since taking office, which comes just a few weeks after a military standoff between the Asian giants on their ill-defined border in the Himalayan mountains. […]

(Reuters) - A massive storm front swept north through the central United States on Sunday, hammering the region with fist-sized hail, blinding rain and tornadoes, including a half-mile wide twister that struck near Oklahoma City. News reports said at least one person had died. […]

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Cricket hero Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf party won a revote in an upmarket constituency of Karachi on Sunday, unofficial results showed, a day after gunmen killed a party leader, setting the stage for protests and counter-protests. […]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- More than 85,000 veterans were treated last year for injuries or illness stemming from sexual abuse in the military, and 4,000 sought disability benefits, underscoring the staggering long-term impact of a crisis that has roiled the Pentagon and been condemned by President Barack Obama as ""shameful and disgraceful."... […]