Paige Duke, a 24-year-old beauty served — until this past week — as one of three “Sprint Cup Girls” for the National Association of Stock Car Racing (NASCAR) racing series. The Sprint Cup girls aren’t chosen for their knowledge of racing, their intellectual prowess or their educational credentials. They get picked because they’re young, beautiful [...]

For the third straight month, Floyd County Supervisors rejected the school board budget and sent it back for more tweaking. The Supervisors Tuesday rescinded their transfer of $125,000 in May from the administrative budget to other categories with instructions to use the money to fund a one-percent, across-the-board raise for all system employees. The school [...]

The more we learn about the tragic Memorial Day events that led to a Franklin County deputy sheriff gunning down his ex-wife in the parking lot of a Roanoke gas station the more the incredible ineptitude of sheriff Ewell Hunt is exposed. Recordings released by the Roanoke City Police Department shows their emergency center ran [...]

    In Franklin County, folks thought things at the sheriff’s department couldn’t get any worse after scandal-tarred sheriff Ewell Hunt eeked out a narrow election victory by less than 250 votes in November 2007. A year later, Hunt was under arrest — charged by a county grand jury with keeping faulty records. He beat [...]

The escalating controversy over just how much Floyd County School superintendent Terry W. Arbogast is paid and where the money comes from dominates public discussion not only in Floyd County but beyond the borders and around the region. At a meeting of the New River Valley Harley Owners Group Saturday morning, several people who don’t [...]