Emma Coleman
Covering crime and public safety for @RoanokeTimes - Previously: @TheNewsGazette @RockbridgeNews - Share your story with me: [email protected]
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2 months ago |
roanoke.com | Emma Coleman
NEW CASTLE — First responders in Craig County use a radio system that is nearly 20 years old. It doesn’t work in dead spots, and management has started to order parts off of eBay just to keep things running. “The manufacturers no longer make what we have. It’s just obsolete,” Craig County Emergency Management Coordinator Darryl Humphreys said Wednesday.
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2 months ago |
roanoke.com | Emma Coleman
About six months after the Roanoke Police Department’s Gang Violence Intervention Program hit the ground, the city is celebrating a successful reduction in gang and gun violence. “Right now, Roanoke is doing it better than anybody. OK? We are. We’re doing it better,” Chief Scott Booth said during an “appreciation luncheon” at the Berglund Center on Wednesday. “We’re going to have success this year. And the success is not because of me.
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2 months ago |
roanoke.com | Emma Coleman
A Roanoke woman whose nursing license was suspended almost two years ago because she was intoxicated on the job is now facing several felony drug possession charges. Megan Elizabeth Nash received her nursing license in 2016. But the Virginia Board of Nursing indefinitely suspended her license in March 2023 after it found that she had been using drugs, including fentanyl, while working as a nurse in Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital‘s intensive care unit.
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2 months ago |
roanoke.com | Emma Coleman
Franklin County first responder agencies are asking residents and visitors to stay away from a growing fire in the Callaway area. The county sheriff's office said in a Facebook post Wednesday afternoon that a large fire had been reported near the intersection of Wades Gap Road and Webster Corner Road.
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2 months ago |
roanoke.com | Emma Coleman
A Troutville man who was arrested in Mexico last spring and extradited back to Botetourt County on child sexual battery charges was sentenced earlier this month to two and half years of incarceration. Michael Dennis Hightower Jr., 41, was indicted in October 2023 on four counts of aggravated sexual battery of a minor with offense dates in October 2021, January 2022, July 2022 and January 2023.
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#OnTodaysFrontPage: #CraigCounty’s radio system is about 20 years old, and the locality has plans to replace it. But the project has a $4 million price tag, and government funding isn’t easy to come by. Full story here: https://t.co/qT5hDis5Mg. https://t.co/p2eimd5fCH