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Incumbent Roanoke Mayor David Bowers has won re-election to a second consecutive and fourth overall term, defeating challenger Mark Lucas.

Ask any political candidate of the past few years the No. 1 thing on voters' minds, and they'll tell you: jobs and the economy.

The New Ballard's Branch Bogtrotters took their group's name from the original Bogtrotters, the famous Galax, Virginia, area band of the 1930s, and because band leader Dennis Hall lives on Ballard's Branch.

Community Bank of Tri-County, southern Maryland's oldest independent financial institution, opened its first Virginia location on Monday in the new shopping center off U.S. 301 near Naval Support Facility Dahlgren.

In Kanturk, County Cork, Ireland, farmhouse cheesemaker Mary Burns , is one of the farmers whose cows produce the extraordinary milk that goes into making Kerrygold Pure Irish Butter and cheeses, lower right.