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Keeping our children safe – Roanoke Rapids Daily Herald

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These numbers are certainly chilling, but Friday in Roanoke Rapids, 86 children gathered at Belmont Elementary School to learn how to avoid becoming a statistic.Braxton Brown presented “Dignity Memorial Escape School,” a program designed to teach children how to free themselves from a potential abductor.“We want to do something proactive,” Brown, an instructor for Escape School, which is sponsored locally by Hockaday Funeral & Cremation Service, stated. “The way the times are, the way the...Read Full Story

Winter workouts give Roanoke Rapids edge in on diamond

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Winter workouts give Roanoke Rapids edge in on diamond For many Roanoke Rapids baseball players, the baseball season is in its third month. Read more on Roanoke Rapids Daily Herald Boxer to host public workouts Professional boxer Eloy Perez is scheduled to hold two public workouts in Salinas beginning today at 2 Steps Ahead, 832 S. Main St. Read more on The Salinas CalifornianRead Full Story

Investigation into Lynchburg shooting comes to Roanoke - WDBJ7 Roanoke News and Weather NRV Lynchburg Danville |

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Investigation into Lynchburg shooting comes to Roanoke - WDBJ7 Roanoke News and Weather NRV Lynchburg Danville | : "search for answers in a deadly shooting led Lynchburg investigators to Roanoke. In a search warrant filed Monday in Roanoke, investigators asked to seize DNA and fingerprint evidence from a man who staying at the Tinker Creek Manor Apartments. Lynchburg police say Cory Brown is a person of interest in the case. In the warrant, police say Brown lives in a house on Floyd Street in...Read Full Story

$18,000+ in items stolen in latest RR break-in – Roanoke Rapids Daily Herald: News

By JohnJohnSaidIt on  From johnjohnsaidit.com
Abreak-in at a Roanoke Rapids business Sunday could be connectedwith a string of break-ins going back into September, RoanokeRapids police are saying. Det.Sgt. Jeff Baggett said at 6:10 a.m. Sunday, Officer Lee Mason wason patrol in the 1100 block of Julian Allsbrook Highway when henoticed a business there, Hip Hop City, had been broken into. [...]Read Full Story

Eyewitness report from Allyn Hughes, freshman

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The Roanoke Times has eyewitness reports from students at Virginia Tech. One of the reports is from freshman Allyn Hughes: "When I left the dorm this morning, no one really knew what was going on until I walked outside and there were [about] 20 police cars in the quad. So I knew something was up, but no e-mails had been sent out yet. And when I got to class, people were talking, they were like, 'What happened?,' and no one knew. And then the e-mails started coming. The building that I...Read Full Story
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School Shooting on April 16th

School Shooting on April 16th

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Flick prepares to hide the plastic baby in a king cake she made. Whoever gets the piece that contains the trinket wins an honor, such as king or queen of the party. King cakes are always decorated in the traditional Mardi Gras colors of green, purple and gold.  
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ROANOKE, Va. (AP) Two wrongful death lawsuits filed over the 2007 mass shootings at Virginia Tech will proceed without the university's president as a defendant. The Roanoke Times (http://bit.ly/wlCeBT ) reports that Special Justice William Alexander refused on Tuesday to  
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ROANOKE, Va. - Two wrongful death lawsuits filed over the 2007 mass shootings at Virginia Tech will proceed without the university's president as a defendant. The Roanoke Times ( http://bit.ly/wlCeBT) reports that Special Justice William Alexander refused ...  
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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fitch Ratings assigns a rating of 'AA+' to the following general obligation (GO) bonds to be issued by Roanoke, Virginia (the city): --$7,345,000 GO public improvement bonds, series 2012A (tax-exempt); --$5,855,000 taxable GO public improvement refunding bonds, series 2012B; --$14,365,000 GO public improvement refunding bonds, series 2012C (tax-exempt). The bonds are scheduled for competitive sale the week of...  
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... the horse shit you write?How the good people of the Star City who subscribe to the Roanoke Times must long for someone at the city's only major newspaper to some day hire smart people to populate its editorial board. (I don't subscribe so I don't lose out; I just laugh and click through to the funnies.)This morning?  A two-star double-chuckle.Why?The Roanoke Times editorial page comes out (see "ICLEI alarmists get iced, for now") four...  
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Let me get this straight. The Roanoke Times editorial board is on record in support of raising gas taxes.  Which will have a crushing impact on the poor.The Roanoke Times editorial board is on record in support of SCHIP, which raised the cigarette tax through the roof.  A tax which fell overwhelmingly on the poor.The Roanoke Times editorial board is on record in support of legislation that would put payday lenders out of business.  A business...  
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I'll believe you're sincere when you get consistent on this (or any other) subject:"There's something repugnant in suspecting our neighbors of drug use simply because they're out of work. The idea of drug testing the unemployed builds on an effort to test those turning to public assistance. What makes the unemployed more unclean?"Really.Let me speak for everyone on the planet.  They're not unclean.  But they're no better than the rest of us...  
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This is a partial list and only includes victims who have been specifically named in the media.  Collection originally compiled at Wikipedia.org:

First shooting: West Ambler Johnston Hall Dormitory

    * Ryan Clark, 22, a senior from Augusta, Georgia triple-majoring in Biology, English, and Psychology. A resident advisor at the West Ambler Johnston Hall Dormitory, Clark was killed in the dormitory as he rushed over to investigate what was going on and came upon the gunman.  Clark played the baritone in the Marching Virginians.

    * Emily J. Hilscher, 19, a freshman from Woodville in Rappahannock County, Virginia.

Second shooting: Norris Hall Engineering Building


    * Ross Alameddine, a sophomore from Saugus, Massachusetts.

    * Caitlin Hammaren, a sophomore in International Studies and French.

    * Matt La Porte, a freshman from Dumont, New Jersey in University Studies.

    * Jarrett Lane, a senior from Narrows, Virginia in Civil Engineering.

    * Henry Lee, a freshman from Roanoke, Virginia in Computer Engineering.

    * Juan Ortiz Ortiz, a graduate Puerto Rican student in Civil Engineering.

    * Daniel Pérez-Cueva, a student from Peru in International Relations.

    * Mary Read, a freshman from Annandale, Virginia.

    * Reema Samaha, a freshman from Centreville, Virginia.

    * Leslie Sherman, a sophomore in History and International Studies from Springfield, Virginia.

    * Maxine Turner, a senior from Vienna, Virginia in Chemical Engineering.

    * Christopher Jamie Bishop, an instructor killed while teaching a German class.

    * Kevin Granata, a professor.

    * Liviu Librescu, a professor and Holocaust survivor killed while holding off the gunman so his students could escape out the window.

    * G. V. Loganathan, a professor.

    * Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, a French teacher from Montreal, Quebec.

    * Brian Bluhm, a graduate student in Civil Engineering.

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A toll-free information line has been established for parents and family:
1-800-533-1144


Anyone who has information related to the incidents is encouraged to go to the Blacksburg Police Department to make a statement.
To call the Blacksburg polics, dial:
540/231-6411
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