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A Virginia Tech student has stepped forward to claim ownership of animals and insects found in a campus steam tunnel Thursday morning.

The sound of his 70-pound pointer terrier's tail anxiously beating against its cage in the veterinarian's office was a welcome sound for Joseph DeMasi on Friday.

A blitz of lawsuits claiming that Southwest Virginia malls and businesses discriminated against disabled people came to an end this week, when the 11th and final case was settled.

Carilion Clinic more than tripled enrollment in its Medicare Advantage insurance plans after making adjustments that included bringing in a partner to help manage the product and broadening its physician network to include its biggest competitor.

A woman was airlifted to a Roanoke hospital after a Hummer lost control and struck another vehicle on U.S. 460 in Giles County on Friday evening, according to state police.

The long backup and stop-and-go traffic that followed Thursday morning's fatal tractor-trailer crash in Botetourt County took a second life in a crash 16 hours later in Rockbridge County.

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Kazim Shrine Circus

Celebrating 54 years of family fun. Saturday, 10 a.m., 3 and 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, 1 and 6:30 p.m. Kids, $8 or $10; adults, $16 or $18. Roanoke Civic Center. 853-5483.

It is 8 p.m. Thursday and the Conquerors varsity boys basketball team practice is about to begin at the Salvation Army center in southeast Roanoke.

The team is not affiliated with a school. Its home court is Lakeside Baptist Church in Salem. Its players are drawn from Roanoke, four surrounding counties and Rockbridge County.

Concerns about possible health risks from dust and lead paint chips generated by construction at Highland Park Elementary School have prompted a state investigation.

Advance Auto Parts Inc., the corporate powerhouse that flourished during the recession by selling replacement auto parts to a new-vehicle-shy American public, on Thursday announced an $8 million expansion of its Roanoke headquarters and 75 new jobs.

UPDATE Feb. 3: Man killed in crash in Thursday evening’s I-81 backup in Rockbridge County

Part of Brandon Avenue in southwest Roanoke, from Grandin Road to Edgewood Street, reopened Thursday evening after crews cleaned a diesel fuel spill that occurred earlier in the day.

Fire and hazmat crews responded about 10:45 a.m. after a fuel truck malfunctioned, leaking diesel as it came down the hill on Brandon toward Grandin.

Donald Rumsfeld mused on the future while defending his past during a sprawling, one-hour conversation in Roanoke on Thursday.

RICHMOND — It's been 15 months since Dawn Decker had to bury her husband, Norfolk police Officer Victor Edward Decker, after someone shot him to death while he was off duty early one morning by the side of Oceana Boulevard in Virginia Beach.

A woman being held in the Shenandoah County jail faces 20 charges, the majority felonies, filed by the Blacksburg Police Department, Lt. Steve Taylor said in a news release.