Cherise shelley, love font lafont was laid to rest today. And while his mother says they want answers, tonight was not about that. Tonight was about honoring his life with car racing. The roar of engines followed by a moment of silence. Corey lafonts telltale blue mini cooper part of a parade of race cars that paused friday night to honor him. His mom behind the wheel. Its very overwhelming to see what everybody here has the track owners, all the racecar drivers and their families and crews. Cherise lafonts friday nights were spent here at the twin state speedway, the first friday since hes been gone. This is where his heart is, right here. It hurts, but its what he would want. Cherise family and friends were decked out in the number 24, still in shock. On the same day he was laid to rest, the Attorney Generals Office released the name of the officer who shot lafont in the chest three times following some sort of altercation. As part of protocol, Corporal Ian Kibbe has been taken out o
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Police are following up on leads, concerned by the suspects actions. We take pride in what we do. There is a lot of ep training that goes behind that. We try to provide a safe and secure environment for hero citizens here in franklin. So we found that to be very alarming to us. If faced with a similar situation, Police Recommend driving to a well lit area and calling over where you are and what is going on. We can try to dispatch a unit. Posing as a Police Officer is a felony, and this suspect could face 3 1 2 to seven years in point. Anyone with information is asked to call police. In franklin, mike cronin, wmur news 9. Right now commercial street in manchester is shut down because after motorcycle crash. Injured, and right now they are in the hospital. Officers are asking drivers to use canal street whoo while they investigate. Authorities have identified the suspect in a manchester murder. Tonight that person is at large. Police are searching for billy maldonado, who killed a person
Weather tomorrow. Forher and a a a a a an a in that yes nokia already very cold temperatures in place is there we have seen yet to feel like temperatures in the Single Digits and below zero for many along and west of the blue ridge and its feeling like negative two degrees off i am blacksburg nine in lewisburg electric seventeen in hot springs so be sure you would do whatever you can do to dave works because we are going to stay very cold over the next twelve hours temperatures tomorrow afternoon will only fay mills over twenty city sure you dress appropriately as are having operating valentines day plans the good news is the snow will hold off for sunday afternoon at five till sunday night will be our first few snowflakes its all from this this am that swinging through the upper level trough that would bring it down to the south and east you can see right now are the code uswere the snow is falling across the code us doubts i live in parts of illinois that is the same system. No impac
We now know who will be the democratic candidate for roanokes next mayor. Last night, sherman lea came out on top in the mayoral primary over fellow longtime councilman david trinkle. He won by a little more than a hundred votes. Thousands voted at roanokes Berglund Center for the nominees that will be may. Currently, three City Council Seats are up for grabs as is the the large crowd was unexpected which caused several problems. Happy about waiting others were glad to see a good turnout. Those in charge say the process was challenging and couldve went Stephen Niamke democratic chairman we could of changed the poll book so that we had more of them and divided them differently instead of just dividing them by letter we could have divided them by number. There were forty nine thousand people registered. We could divided that a little bit differently freeda cathcart, anita price and Trish White Boyd will be the democrats on the city council ballot. More information on an accident in campb