Police officer whos facing child pornography charges will get a chance to leave jail before his case goes to trial. A judge agreed to release Brian Mcalexander on a 20thousand dollar bond. Mcalexander was month when a grand jury indicted him on six felony counts of possessing child pornography. A hearing in his case is scheduled for friday. Big changes for blacksburgs planned parenthood. A representative says its now referring new and current patients to roanoke for medical services because it wont be provided at the center anymore. The blacksburg location is instead, focusing on Community Outreach and educational programs. Read more about the decision on prosecutors charged a Northern Virginia man with perjury in connection with a Bedford County murdercase. Contest plea to perjury yesterday. Prosecutors say at two separate times, he knowingly gave false testimony when asked about the disappearance of lyon, two girls who maryland Shopping Mall in 1975. Trying to protect his welch, who
Warm. Appalachian power crews were attacking the outages. We found this truck on deyerle road this afternoon. But with so many limbs down, so many power lines to repair, the utility is still assessing how long its going to take to get everyone back on line. Here along Williamson Road the power is still out. Power has notified residents in the area that their power should be restored tonight. Live in roanoke joe dashiell wdbj7 the number of people without power in henry county is going down but it may take days to complete. Officials say they are now working to restore power to fifteen hundred people. The community of sandy level is one of the affected areas. Winds blew over an old gas station sign at the corner of axton and morgan ford road. Trees are still laying on power lines and a family was home last night when the tree fell. Well hear from them tonight at six. Power is slowly coming back for Dominion Virginia Power customers. 368 customers are without power in Alleghany County th
The warmer weather has been a welcome change, as the deep freeze of the last few days begins to thaw. While we saw more pavement and better driving conditions, thousands of people in central and western virginia are still dealing with Power Outages. The storm moved on, and made way for blue skies, bright sun and a beautiful winter landscape. As the ice began to melt, the Power Outages lingered. Applachian power crews were on the job, assessing the damage and attacking the problems they found but the layer of ice brought down many tree limbs and power lines in neighborhoods throughout the area, including roanokes raleigh court. Aleta delaplane actually at 3 45 we woke up to a transformer exploding. It was big green arc light in the back. It was amazing. It was kind of cool. And then the power went out. And then it came back on. And then it went out again, so i think weve been without power since 6 45 this morning. 10thousand people without power in southWest Virginia. The hardest hit ar
Trailed by marco rubio and jeb bush. The democrats in a tight race in nevada but Hillary Clinton way ahead of Bernie Sanders in South Carolina with a doubledigit lead. And with just three days to go before votes are cast in two states, the republicans are trading more nasty insults. Its your voice, your vote. We get the latest now from abcs megan hughes in washington. Good morning, megan. Reporter kendis, reena, good morning. All six remaining gop candidates will be in South Carolina today where, as you mentioned, donald trump remains on top and on the attack. Donald trump calls in on Stephen Colberts the late show. I can think off the top of my head three things that you have said on air that this is true, cbs will not let me repeat reporter though he vowed to clean up his dirty language, that doesnt mean trump is playing nice. Then bush, poor bush, he comes out. He goes, well, i dont think that donald trump can beat Hillary Clinton but i can. I say, well, why arent you i dont care wh
For most areas. Lows in the teens and 20s wednesday snow showers for counties boarding west va. Our west va. Counties. Scatt ered flurries for most areas. Highs in the lower 30s thursday increasing sunshine with highs in the upper r0s friday increasing clouds with highs in the middle 30s. Lateday the second day of jury selection is underway in the case against ashley white. White is the mother of noah thomas who was found dead in septic tank last march. Shes charged with felony child abuse and neglect. So far 22 potential jurors have been struck. Down to 12 jurors with two alternates. We will bring you the latest on todays jury selection tonight on wsls ten at five. A former Bedford Police officer is scheduled to being possesion of child pornography. 54yearold Brian Mcalexander has been indicted by a bedford grand jury. He is being held without bond after being arrested in henry county. The southern virginia crimes against Children Task force investigated this case and says mcalexander