From the south of the next couple days highs in the sixties by saturday and sunday alayna how long that will stick around and will southside received a threatening message this week, supposedly from isis. Wdbj7s Christian Heilman is here with more on the threat and whos on alert. Hargrave military academy in chatham is under increased security tonight. That threatening message on tuesday. It could be linked to the islamic state. Hargrave touts itself premier military boarding school primarily for seventh through 12th graders. Its located in chatham. The schools president says they immediately got in touch with local Law Enforcement after receiving the message. Now, that investigation includes other state and federal agencies. Today, the school held assemblies with cadets and employees. They also sent a message to parents. Internal security is up at the school tonight. Other Law Enforcement have increased patrols on campus, too. There was an open house planned for this weekend but be al
Weather tomorrow. Forher and a a a a a an a in that yes nokia already very cold temperatures in place is there we have seen yet to feel like temperatures in the Single Digits and below zero for many along and west of the blue ridge and its feeling like negative two degrees off i am blacksburg nine in lewisburg electric seventeen in hot springs so be sure you would do whatever you can do to dave works because we are going to stay very cold over the next twelve hours temperatures tomorrow afternoon will only fay mills over twenty city sure you dress appropriately as are having operating valentines day plans the good news is the snow will hold off for sunday afternoon at five till sunday night will be our first few snowflakes its all from this this am that swinging through the upper level trough that would bring it down to the south and east you can see right now are the code uswere the snow is falling across the code us doubts i live in parts of illinois that is the same system. No impac
First on wdbj7, the trial for ashley white will continue thursday now but without a jury. Just hours ago the judge accepted a compromise from the commonwealths attorney and whites lawyers to hold a bench trial instead of a jury trial. White is charged with child abuse and neglect. Her son noah thomas was found dead in a septic tank near the familys Pulaski County home. Kelsey bulger, her attorney, said it was impossible to seat a jury in Pulaski County because so many people know about the case either through media or social media. Both sides waived a jury trial. This comes after the court interviewed 66 potential jurors in two days and and filled its jury pool. About 60 percent of jurors were dismissed because they said they had an opinion or had heard about the case. New at 11 police are looking for a man they say robbed a pharmacy in rocky mount. It happened just after 5 at the Family Pharmacy in the Schewels Plaza on franklin street. Authorities say Joshua Cundiff took an unknown a
We now know who will be the democratic candidate for roanokes next mayor. Last night, sherman lea came out on top in the mayoral primary over fellow longtime councilman david trinkle. He won by a little more than a hundred votes. Thousands voted at roanokes Berglund Center for the nominees that will be may. Currently, three City Council Seats are up for grabs as is the the large crowd was unexpected which caused several problems. Happy about waiting others were glad to see a good turnout. Those in charge say the process was challenging and couldve went Stephen Niamke democratic chairman we could of changed the poll book so that we had more of them and divided them differently instead of just dividing them by letter we could have divided them by number. There were forty nine thousand people registered. We could divided that a little bit differently freeda cathcart, anita price and Trish White Boyd will be the democrats on the city council ballot. More information on an accident in campb
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