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Police are investigating after anti-Semitic flyers were discovered across Southwest Roanoke City over the weekend. Jewish students at Virginia Tech are responding to a recent campus protest that resulted in close to 90 arrests. Virginia Commonwealth University says multiple arrests occurred last night as police broke up a pro-Palestine protest on campus. Virginia’s Junior U.S. Senator Tim Kaine says he believes there’s action the executive branch could take regarding protests. Governor Youngkin says his administration will continue to fully support campus, local and state law enforcement and university leadership amid recent Pro-Palestinian protests at several schools including Virginia Tech.

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Bedford County authorities say a man is in custody following a shooting this morning in the Montvale area. According to Virginia State Police, former Alleghany County Chief Deputy Chad Wickline has resigned and is now charged with two misdemeanors following an accident earlier this month. Phase 1 of a three-part makeover of what Roanoke College is calling its new forward-looking Science Center if officially underway, after a groundbreaking this past Saturday. Residents went before Roanoke City Council to voice concerns about how an increase in property values could impact them. Around 68 firefighters responded to a blaze at a Rocky Mount area recycling center. An attic cleanout is being used as a soft launch of sorts for a new art venue just outside of downtown Roanoke. Motel Studios is being founded by well-known local artist Sarak K Parcell and Pottery Instructor Celeste Hodges.

Roanoke City Police say a child is being treated for what appear to be serious injuries after being struck by a car last night in the 43 hundred block of Shenandoah Avenue NW. Virginia State Police now say six people, including a 2-year-old with life-threatening injuries, were injured Tuesday night when a Ford Mustang crashed into a home on Foggy Ridge Road in Franklin County. A Roanoke City parent is voicing concerns about potential changes to school district’s transportation system. A Giles County woman has been sentenced to 33 years in prison for killing her husband, a New River Valley Regional Jail officer, nearly three years ago. TikTok could disappear from mobile devices a year from now if the Chinese parent company doesn't sell it. Virginia State Police will be conducting Operation DISS-rupt on all 325 miles of Interstate 81 in Virginia today and tomorrow.

A woman is speaking out after her brother was injured during an officer-involved shooting in Roanoke earlier this week. Developers of the Mountain Valley Pipeline have filed a request with the federal government seeking permission for the pipeline to go into service by May 23rd, to get natural gas pumping through as soon as June 1st. As part of the Interstate 81 widening project in Roanoke County near Salem, VDOT says a nighttime lane and ramp closure on southbound I-81 is scheduled for this Friday and Saturday so a barrier wall can be moved and a new traffic pattern put in place. Weather permitting, starting at 8 p.m. on Friday southbound I-81 will be reduced to one lane between mile markers 138 and 136 until 7 a.m. on Saturday. The United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments this week stemming from two cases out West - where cities wanted to forcefully remove the homeless from public places - but do they have the right to do so? The Roanoke metro area was named among the nation’s cleanest cities for an eighth consecutive year for ozone pollution, according to the American Lung Association’s 2024 “State of the Air” report, released today.

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Iran has fired air defenses at a major air base and a nuclear site near the central city of Isfahan after spotting drones. Virginia Tech International Affairs Professor Ariel Arhem says this response could have been very different if the attack on Israel had been worse. A Roanoke grand jury has charged a pair of men with multiple federal crimes related to a 2023 drug robbery and a victim’s body being set on fire. An area State Senator believes the issue of skills games will be front and center during a special session next month. In a move that could imperil his speakership, Republican speaker of the House Mike Johnson will put foreign aid bills up for votes over the next few days. Virginia's junior Democratic Senator commends the move. A Lynchburg man has pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to rob a bank in Johnstown, New York. Three new bouncy friends are on full display at the Mill Mountain Zoo - a trio of Bennett's Wallabies native to Australia. Wallabies are a smaller cousin of the kangaroo.

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