For a man who may be armed in roanoke county. The man is suspected of being the driver of a car that was chased by state police last night. The car crashed, flipped and caught on fire. The county says the vehicle was coming from Franklin County on route 220 when it hit another vehicle near webb road. Taken to the hospital. Stay with wdbj7, and wdbj7dotcom for any updates. A Pulaski County the outcome in ashley whites trial opening arguments lawyers are prepared to call 23 witnesses to testify in the case. A judge agreed to change the trial location because the potential jurors interviewed monday and tuesday knew about the case. But late tuesday night the judge and lawyers agreed to have a bench trial instead of a jury trial. A lawyer not asssociated with this case says that decision may now benefit ashley white. Richard chidester giles county attorney you may certainly get the same outcome but the judge is certainly more likely to be not caught up in the emotion and the passion of the
Be armed in roanoke county. Suspected of being the driver of a car that was chased by night. Flipped and caught on fire. The county says the vehicle was coming from Franklin County on route 220 when it hit another vehicle near webb road. Four people were stay with wdbj7, and wdbj7dotcom for any updates. Judge will now decide instead of a jury. Opening arguments begin today and lawyers are prepared to call 23 witnesses to testify in the case. A judge agreed to change the trial location because about 60 percent of the potential jurors interviewed monday and tuesday knew about the case. But late tuesday night the judge and lawyers agreed to have a bench trial instead of a jury trial. A lawyer not asssociated with this case says that decision may now benefit ashley white. Richard chidester giles county attorney you may certainly get the same outcome but the judge is certainly more likely to be not caught up in the emotion and the nature for a jury not familiar with the law to preceive cert
Kelsey bulger, objected six times to pictures submitted of home. They showed the bedrooms, and messy. The judge overruled that objection. White is back in shackles today and is wearing a black and white jail uniform. She has cried during many of the details described in court. The case is continuing inside and well have updates throughout the afternoon on wdbj7. Com. Live in pulaski, justin ward, wdbj7 lynchburgs mayor is leaving the elected office hes held for 12 years. Mike gillette has announced he will not run for reelection to city council in may. Gillette is an independant and represents ward one on city council. He was first elected in 2004 and foster as mayor in 2012. Gillette says hes putting a term limit doesnt want to be a career politician on advance auto is out with its Fourth Quarter earnings report. The auto parts giant reported sales of just over two billion months of 2015. Thats a twopoint six percent decrease from the same time period in 2014. President and interim ce
Ice and rain, it was nice to see the sun return on tuesday. However, we will still be dealing with the ramifications of the last storm, as there numerous Power Outages due to downed trees and powerlines. Also, we will be monitoring the river levels over the next couple of days because of all the precipitation that fell. A weak clipper system will impact the region tonight bringing some light precipitation with it. We will start to see some light snow southern nrv and mountain empire during the mid evening hours. As the storm progresses east towards southside, the light snow showers could changeover to rain showers. Some flurries are possible across southside, but the light accumulations should stay just west of you into the nrv and mountain empire. These locations could see up to 1 of snow. All this is gone by daybreak wednesday. Tonight turning mostly cloudy with sct. Light snow rain showers possible, especially south of highway 460. Lows in the upper 20s and lower 30s. Please be awar