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Strauss and his family donated millions of dollars to health, education and economic development efforts around Roanoke.

The current plan is to place the statue at Rocky Mount’s Veterans Memorial Park. But the decision came after a close vote of the commission that oversees the park.

But the marker won’t be at the actual site where leaders of the effort believe the 1891 lynching occurred, nor will soil be collected from the site as part of the remembrance project, because the property owner won’t allow it.

It’s unclear whether the arrangement is temporary or permanent.

He once made a guitar for Eric Clapton, and the book about its creation made Henderson famous.

The court still must rule on questions of how much it has cost to care for dozens of seized animals, and who should foot the bill.

A circa-1930 school building in the Bedford County community of Montvale has largely fallen into disrepair. It will take years, and several million dollars, to bring it back to life.

The torch run has become an annual tradition for the Henry County Sheriff’s Office and Martinsville Police Department.

Twenty-three years after it was dedicated, the D-Day memorial pursues its mission of honoring veterans, even as the number of living D-Day survivors continues to dwindle.

The retired Presbyterian pastor from Abingdon, who recently celebrated his 100th birthday, landed on Utah Beach in Normandy six days after D-Day.