Minor adjustments will be made at the polls for Floyd County voters.

Jail time figures into plea agreements and also cases involving probation violations.

Problems from the ice storm were compounded when rain and drizzle began to saturate the ground.

The hang up: the state requires that 51 percent of the jobs created by economic activities at the sites must be low-to-middle income residents.

By NATE HUBBARD/Staff

Caleb Cox is taking a break from the classroom, but he’s found a new venue to broaden his education: the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond.
Cox, a 2003 graduate of Fort Chiswell High School, is the new legislative assistant for state Del. Anne Crockett-Stark, R-Wytheville.

By WAYNE QUESENBERRY/Staff

The 5,600 members of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons elected Wytheville native Dr. W. Randolph Chitwood Jr. as their new president last month. The group includes surgeons, researchers and allied health professionals worldwide.

Goins settles in to new role as treasurer

A prosecutor filed a motion Monday to revoke bond on a man arrested twice in 27 hours, then released both times on bond, in alcohol-related incidents—one of which left a Virginia State Trooper seriously injured.
Smyth County Commonwealth’s Attorney Roy Evans is seeking to revoke the bond of Barry Dean Marshall II, 32, of 18042 Black Hollow Road, Abingdon, and send him back to jail.

Emory & Henry’s football field hasn’t been the most accommodating for visiting team, especially if those visiting teams had hoped for a night game.
The college hopes to change that before the first kickoff of the next season. 

The Department of Defense announced in a press release Monday that 35-year-old Staff Sgt. Chad A. Barrett of Saltville died Feb. 2 in Mosul, Iraq, as a result of a non-combat related incident. He was based out of Fort Carson, Colo., with the 64th Brigade Support Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division. According to the Defense Department, the incident is under investigation.