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
Too many rumors on social media. 00 00 00 0500 20 00 25tom 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 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 facebook but there were no phone calls or Text Messages to parents. Tom mccracken why werent we notified sooner. So thats a valid question. The other concern, rumors swirling about northside principal frank dent unexpectedly stepping down. As his assistant principal amy puckett asks to be reassigned only days later. While some accuse there was misconduct says its
Neighborhood for 14years tells us police came shortly after she called for help. Like others, she says this is the last place she would expect to hear gunshots. 571 03 i believe theres a couple of officers that live on the road, couple houses up i think theres a Roanoke County officer or state trooper. So, its pretty safe. 1 091 16 that neighborhood up there, thats exactly what i would expect when shots fired. A lot of residents hearing it, finding it odd that its going on and then calling to get us up there and thats exactly what happened. Now, police were out here earlier today talking to neighbors and gathering information and that did assist in their investigation. In roanoke, im christina craig, wsls10. A vinton man is behind bars following a child abuse investigation. 21year old Preston Chewning has been charged with aggravated malicious wounding. Abuse and neglect of a child. And child endangerment. Hes being held without bond. The charges stem from an incident last week. When e
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