White will continue tomorrow, but without a jury. Yesterday the judge accepted a compromise from the commonwealths attorney and whites lawyers to hold a bench trial instead of a jury trial. White is charged with child abuse and neglect. Her son noah thomas was found dead in a septic tank near the familys Pulaski County home. Kelsey bulger, her attorney, said it was impossible to seat a jury in Pulaski County because so many people know social media. Jury trial. This comes after the court interviewed 66 potential jurors in two days and and filled about 60 percent of jurors were they said they had an opinion or had heard about the case. New details were revealed in a danville murder case during a Christy Michelle beskin pleaded guilty court to arson and murder of donna hiattlanier in march 2015. Beskins Attorney Says the two were friends for a long time. She says beskin did not go to hiatt laniers house with intentions to kill. In court yesterday, beskin admits her actions in the home we
Just one person is dead after a deadly crash in vinton involving two cars. It happened late last night. Crews arrived at the scene on hardy road near temple drive. A vehicle traveling westbound crossed the center line and struck another vehicle headon traveling east. Rushed to the hospital with serious one of the drivers, 19 year old Kayla Simmons of Roanoke County, died as a result of her injuries. Passengers. Investigators say drugs and alcohol may have played a role in the crash. Well bring you more it both on the air and on our website at wdbj7dotcom. Late yesterday afternoon a Pulaski County judge ruled ashley white abused and neglected her children. Wdbj7s justin ward tells us what white said happened the day her son noah thomas went missing nearly a year ago. Ashley whites lawyers had nothing to say friday afternoon just moments after judge Bradley Finch ruled white is guilty of three counts of child abuse and neglect. Finch said this was a disaster waiting to happen. White admi
Freezing rain all rain late monday night could see anywhere from three to as much is six inches of snow across a good portion of the area a little less across the south ready for the snow. This time, theyre running into a different type of fight with the winter weather. Heilman explains about this storm and how vdot is planning to handle it. Well nadia, the snow is bad enough but its those low temperatures that make tackling this storm even more difficult. We were checking in on some of the preps with vdot this afternoon. They tell us when temperatures are in the low 20s, salt doesnt work as effectively. And the pre treatment doesnt work as well, either. Vdot had a small window today to pre treat some of those interstates and major roads. Even so, theyre urging folks to stay home and travel later in the week because mondays commute is expected to be pretty difficult. Once the snow be salting the roads. Theyll be pre wetting the salt with liquid calcium chloride to jumpstart the melting
Freezing rain continues for some. Watch for heavy rain and ice this morning. This winter storm continues to wreak havoc on our area and is making things tricky for commuters and people just even trying to walk their dog this morning. Wdbj7s shayne dwyer is live in Downtown Roanoke for us this morning. Shayne how are the roads looking right now . Good morning garrett. Roanoke, the roads primaries are in decent shape too but the Virginia Department of transportation is reporting slick spots pretty much all across our region. There is some snow and ice on primary routes in bedford, floyd, Henry Patrick and pulaski counties. Garrett ice continues to be the problem causer here this morning and may even be worse than the snow. Shayne Power Outages now topping more than 20 thousand. Where are the hardest hit areas . Garrett that number were no more than 21thousand three hundred right now. Right now some of the hardest hit areas are right in the Roanoke Valley where you see all that red. Roano
Bring your10 in roanoke in a 100 in Martinsville Martinsville to be sure you bring your pets inside and on telepathy do have to venture outside we tomorrow morning and then were tracking on next winter storms will write sunday night and continue until we tuesday. We are considering this a significant store because it will have Significant Impact on the road and traveled what conditions thats because the snow will arrive late sunday thinking around 9 52 pm continues through the overnight hours and even into monday morning then by the Late Afternoon on monday the snow gradually changed to a wintry mix of sleet and snow cutting down the snowfall totals right now were thinking snowfall amounts will range anywhere between three to six inches less towards southside war in the mountains and of course ice is possible we can freezing rain developed monday night aunt ruby tuesday, the deeper look at this coming up underway at the Berglund Center. Voters will determine the nominees to run in the