Sandra Brown Kelly, who started work at The Roanoke Times when it had a “women’s section” and helped guide the newspaper into the 21st century, died Saturday. She was 84.

A Salem judge sentenced Wilma Jean Jones to 21 years in prison Wednesday for killing her boyfriend in what she had claimed was an act of self-defense.

Election offices in the Richmond area are preparing for potentially high turnout Friday on the first day of early voting, with a number of local residents featured on the statewide ballot and a ...