Threat of violence against the school prompted increased security and parents getting no prior notification. That left many parents with Unanswered Questions and School Leaders allowing execused absences at both the middle school and the high school. As wfxrs bill wadell reports, while many Unanswered Questions do remain with both parents and students, Officials Say theyre doing what they can to ease concerns. 00 00 00 0500 20 00 25 Tom Mccracken i as well have heard embezzlement and fraud and all these other things and the rumors get juicy. Tom control. He and other Roanoke County School Board Members are getting an earful online. The first complaint parents werent notified fast enough about a threat of violence at northside high last week. Billy spence id rather play it safe than sorry, you know. If they could have got it out quicker, that had been nice. Billy spence kept his kids home friday. Police determined the threat was not credible. Mccracken says an alert was posted on facebo
School back on february 12th after longtime principal frank dent suddenly resigned citing personal and family reasons. Then days later, dents assistant principal amy puckett asks to be reassigned. She had been with the School District in that role for nearly two years. On thursday, a possible threat of violence against the security and parents getting no prior notification. That left many parents with Unanswered Questions and School Leaders allowing execused absences at both the middle school and the high school. As wfxrs bill wadell reports, while many Unanswered Questions do remain with both parents and students, Officials Say theyre doing what they can to ease concerns. 00 00 00 0500 20 00 25 Tom Mccracken i as well have heard embezzlement and fraud and all these other things and the rumors get juicy. Tom mccracken is on damage control. He and other Roanoke County School Board Members are getting an earful online. The first complaint parents werent notified fast enough about a threa
Monday scattered showers possible with highs in the middle 50s tuesday passing rain showers light snow ice possible with highs in the upper 30s and lower 40s wednesday passing rain time now for your timesaver traffic report. A former Bedford Police officer indicted on child porn charges. Returns to court today for an attorney advisement hearing. Brian mcalexander is facing six felonies. And is currently being held without bond. Wsls 10 obtained indictments in the case. The documents say mcalexander is being investigated for six videos. Some of those involve children as young as nine years old. The accused ring leader of the gang said to be at the center of kevin quicks murder is once again on the witness stand Defense Attorneys started calling witnesses for the first time thursday. Testimony centered around alleged gang ringleader halisi uhuru. 4 suspects are charged in connection with quicks death, however the alleged gang leader and another suspect are not charged in the murder. But
Cell phone pings from the other three murder suspects, shantai shelton, daniel mathis, and travis bell, also apparently led police to the spot in Louisa County where they discovered quicks stolen toyota rav4. Now of course, this is just part of the evidence the defense is going to need to refute. The prosecution has previously brought forward experts from the state crime lab that said fingerprints inside that car matched all four suspects. It has also called forward one witness, leslie casterlow, who said she directly heard the suspects discussing quicks murder, and another witness, jamar rice, who says he heard about the murder through the suspects close acquaintance anthony stokes, who is charged separately with rackateering and obstruction of justice. The picture the prosecution has painted up to this point is one of a gang killing, claiming all of the suspects are members of the 99 goon syndicate. Each one of the defendants has their own attorney, and it several days of trial to ch
Position fairly and purley based on their qualifications. And he says even with the background check, minor convictions wouldnt bar someone from getting hired. Larry spencer, blacksburg attorney if a 35 year old man that had a Marijuana Possession charge when he was 19, and hes had a steady work history since then, and good references from his employer, then were probably going to hire the person. But to ron rordam, blacksburg mayor so many times if someone has something in their background that normally the town would not really see as a problem, they wouldnt apply, because so often someone who checks that box yes, the application just gets tossed aside. Rordam says the switch only required changing one section of the application and the town used montgomery countys application as a guideline. Rordam says going forward, he hopes other localities will follow in blacksburgs footsteps, including the town of christiansburg. In studio, rob manch wsls 10. A martinsville man pleads guilty Ke