Draper News

The preacher of a Newbern Church has been charged with taking indecent liberties with a minor.

A former employee of the Pulaski County commissioner of the revenue's office who took more than $167,000 from her church pleaded guilty to five embezzlement charges Wednesday.

Betty W. Austin Betty Webb Austin, 80, of Austinville died Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009.

J. Lloyd Gregory, who served 40 1/2 years with the Martinsville Fire Department, including nearly 20 as chief, died Tuesday at Memorial Hospital in Martinsville.

Since 1948, come rain or shine, Bill Wendell of Draper has been paddling his boat across the New River to go to church - even in the winter months.

Christiansburg officials are asking residents to contact the town offices if they notice errors on their personal property tax and real estate bills, which were mailed out Wednesday.

The oldest of three suspects charged in connection with two armed robberies in Fairlawn has served time in prison and his female co-defendant has an outstanding drug charge, court records show.

Two hours after polls opened, only 7 percent or 1,402 of Pulaski County's 21,141 registered voters had cast ballots in Tuesday's general election.

Pulaski County authorities have arrested three Pulaski residents in connection with double robberies in Fairlawn Friday.

Three people are charged for their alleged roles in two armed robberies last Friday in Pulaski County.

An intricate case involving four local adults accused of offenses against children took another twist Thursday afternoon when a substitute judge rejected a plea deal worked out between Wythe County prosecutors and one of the defendants.

State police say a 70-year-old man died after running off the road and over-correcting in Pulaski County.

Sgt. Michael T. Conroy of the Virginia State Police sent us some photos from a tractor-trailer fire on Interstate 81 in Pulaski County on Sunday night.

MEDIA GENERAL NEWS SERVICE WYTHEVILLE, Va. - A Wythe County man, facing a laundry list of violent charges including first-degree murder, was convicted Thursday on two counts of taking indecent liberties with a minor.

A group of officials and Ingles family descendants visits the Ingles Ferry Tavern buildings, which are located across the New River from Radford.

Ingles Ferry Farm in Pulaski Co. is now fully protected after the owners, three direct descendants of pioneer heroine Mary Draper Ingles, donated the land under a permanent conservation easement to the Virginia Outdoors Foundation and Virginia Dept.

Hikers may have more trail choices in Pulaski County in the future if the county is successful in obtaining a grant through the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation.

Diana and John York shop in the frozen foods section of Ukrop's on Franklin Road in Roanoke.

A certified nurse anesthetist has pleaded guilty to giving himself pain medication intended for patients at two Virginia hospitals.