Roanoke College News

John Long Long, a Roanoke Times columnist, is director of the Salem Museum and teaches history at Roanoke College.

Radford University's Web site will be upgraded over the next year through a contract with Digital Wave Technologies Inc.

The terms for two of the five members of the Salem School Board will expire this year, and on Monday night the city council heard from most of the nine candidates who want to fill those positions.

Two Roanoke College students face charges for sexually assaulting a fellow student.

With elections two weeks down, it's time to gear up again. In Vinton, two town council seats will be up for grabs in May 2010 and someone already has their sights on them.

Two Roanoke College students have been charged with abduction and sexual battery after allegedly assaulting a fellow student.

CHARLES EQUI JR. has moved his accounting practice to the firm of R. William Johnson Jr.

Breakfast to benefit Boxler: Jollivue Barterbrook Ruritan Club will host a benefit breakfast for MaDee Boxler 7-10 a.m. Saturday at Applebee's on Greenville Avenue.

A Roanoke College lecture by the biographer of Pope John Paul II scheduled for this evening has been postponed, school officials said.

Piney and She were girding up for the madness of Halloween. The ancient Druid rites for harvest had been joined by the Christian All Saints Day into a new kind of celebration .

But McDonnell-Deeds II is looking like a blowout, not a nailbiter. The momentum has shifted so strongly to McDonnell in the waning days of the campaign that CQ Politics is re-rating the Virginia governor's race as "Likely Republican," supplanting the "Leans Republican" rating that had anticipated a close race.

Republican gubernatorial nominee Bob McDonnell has opened a 17-point lead over Democratic nominee Creigh Deeds in a poll conducted by The Center for Community Research at Roanoke College.

When Chris Thomas was executed by the Commonwealth of Virginia in January 2000 for a brutal double murder he committed at the age of 17, he became one of the last juvenile offenders put to death before the U.S Supreme Court ruled that the execution of juveniles constituted cruel and unusual punishment.

Bob McDonnell greets Creigh Deeds before the final gubernatorial debate at Roanoke College in Salem, Va., Tuesday, Oct.

"We learned of the news and we certainly felt a lot of empathy not only for the students involved but we certainly felt Roanoke County's pain with the financial status a lot of the public schools are in," says HopeTree Education Director Dr.

President Bill Clinton is campaigning for Virginia gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds in McLean Tuesday.

Gubernatorial nominees Bob McDonnell and Creigh Deeds will square off in a final debate tonight from 7-8 p.m. InsideNoVA.com will show the debate, which is being held at Roanoke College in Salem.

Whether at the local, state, or federal election level, debates are often contentious affairs filled with accusations of dishonesty.

Tonight at 7 p.m., Roanoke College's Olin Hall will host the final scheduled debate in this year's gubernatorial contest.

The men who would be Virginia governor, Democrat Creigh Deeds and Republican Bob McDonnell, are preparing to debate one last time.