Consider borrowing 40Million Dollars to build a middle school and gymnasium for students in the northwestern part of the county. Wdbj7s tim saunders is live in bedford with a preview of tonights meeting. Jean, School Leaders have been talking about this project for a long time and tonight theyre hoping they need to move forward. Supervisors will consider a resolution on construction of a school and a competition gym for 40million of that amount would be borrowed. The board cast a similar vote last june, limiting the project to 38million. Since then three new members have been elected. Some members of the school board have said the project cant be done for 38million and tonight theyll get support from parents like john messier, who plans to speak at the meeting in favor of the larger amount. John messier parent we need to let the five supervisors who are in favor of the project at 100 of the funding know that we support them and appreciate that, and the other two supervisors we need to
As an investigation continues, students at Hargrave Military Academy are back to their normal schedule. After an threatening message was recieved over social media last week with possible ties to isis, the campus shut down for the weekend. Law enforcement spent the weekend patroling the area and students were allowed to go home. School leaders say to normal and there are no updates on the investigation. Pittsylvania county Sheriffs Officers say they are aggressively following up on many different leads. The man accused of abducting and killing teenager Nicole Lovell now has a new attorney. David eisenhauer hired Tony Anderson from roanoke to represent him in court. The Montgomery County juvenile and domestric Relations Court confirmed the change yesterday morning. Eisenhauer was first appointed christiansburg attorney chris tuck by the court. Natalie keepers is also charged in lovells death. Both eisenhauer and keepers are in the western virginia regional jail. The Supreme Court of vir
Go out tomorrow and vote in nevada. If we nominate someone that 40 to 50 of our party cant stand, we are going to lose. Trump and rubio dont want to defend their records. They scream liar, liar, liar. Meanwhile the democrats are gearing up for south carolina. Secretary clinton seems to be adopting more and more of the positions that we have advocated. Thats good. The u. S. And russia announced that a cessation of hostilities in syria will come into effect at midnight on february 27th. In michigan, uber driver jason dalton confessed to an attack that killed six people. Microsoft founder bill gates is weighing in on apples standoff with the fbi. They say theyre fighting it because theres no such thing as a onetime only fix. No tech company is ever going to volunteer information. Wild scene on a california street where a Small Plane Crash incredibly the pilot walked away. The crane caught fire and collapsed at a construction site in melbourne, australia. All that in washington, a portrait
Plus. The man accused of going on a shooting rampage in michigan. Appears in court. And. The Radford Police department receives thousands of dollars to upgrade its equipment. How the money will be used to help keep the community safe. Good evening, and thanks for joining us for wsls 10 at seven. Im lindsey ward. And im dawn jefferies. A roanoke man charged in connection with a double murder changes his stance midtrial. Demetrius wade is facing murder and firearms charges involving the deaths of ronald ramey and lenard hamlett. January 2015 in shenandoah avenue. Wade initially pleaded not guilty to his charges. But changed his mind this afternoon and pleaded no contest. Wsls 10s ananda rochita has more. Ananda rochita roanok e prosecutors talked about some of the evidence they wouldve presented today like witness testimonies. Witnesses say wade was angry when someone hit him in the head that night and then he started firing. Evidence he was firing at someone specifically they were quote
Brie how much money are we talking about here . Close to 22 thousand dollars. Thats how much the county could have paid Erica Williams. But tonight they voted 4 to 3 to eliminate that pay. During a work session this evening, board chair chris tuck presented information about Erica Williams attendance and past evaluations of her former employees. There have been a lot of questions surrounding her decision to not rehire 4 people after she was reelected. Since then there have been a lit of back and forth between county leaders. Tonight, they voted to eliminate her supplemental pay from the county. That money would have been in addition to the roughly 120,000 she recieves from the state. Some residents spoke in support of williams saying the county do. But county leaders decided to move forward with eliminate williams supplemental pay. Mary Alison Galloway moco resident 10 08 08 you are not the micromanagers of the constitutional officers and by the voters of the county. Chris tuck moco bo