Laurence Hammack

Two Labrador Retrievers were missing for a week before they were found shot in the head on a roadside.

Jamaal Jackson, who is also a pastor, was indicted earlier this month on four counts of making false statements on an election form.

John McNeil has filed paperwork to run as a Democrat in the November election.

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Cellphone data linked the 43-year-old man convicted of the double murders to the Roanoke crime scene. Alex Rios, found guilty by a jury in December, continues to maintain his innocence. The judge in sentencing Rios described the gun-and-knife killings as "butchery."

A police dog specially trained to apprehend suspects was in pursuit of a wanted man early Friday when struck by a police car and fatally injured.

An employee of a fireworks company located on arsenal grounds had claimed toxic smoke entered his car as he drove past smokestacks.

Roanoke PD K-9 Knox was released to pursue a suspect fleeing on foot when he was fatally struck by a responding officer’s cruiser

Knox, one of six Roanoke police K-9s trained to apprehend suspects, was struck by a cruiser while pursuing a driver who fled on foot when his allegedly stolen vehicle broke down...

About 600 gallons of the highly corrosive acid was released from a rail car on the arsenal grounds. Workers at the military munitions plant were told to shelter in place for a time.