
Appalachian Power email scam targets Roanoke-area residents
The Better Business Bureau serving Western Virginia warns Appalachian Power customers to be careful of utility email scams.

The Better Business Bureau serving Western Virginia warns Appalachian Power customers to be careful of utility email scams.

This is the Second Amendment in full-on action: Republicans running for office gleefully pretending to defend the country from whomever. Only a good guy with a gun can stop a politician with a big mouth. A literal civil war is fomenting, or so it seems, and Jan. 6 was just a practice run.

Voters who don’t want to see a Republican who voted to overturn the 2020 election on the ballot in the Sixth District in November have an alternative in Tuesday’s GOP primary.

Virginia Commonwealth University and the VCU Health System generate $9.5 billion in economic activity and create or support 58,000 jobs in Virginia.

Virginia is one step closer to passing a budget that includes a $13 million allocation over the next two years to support gun violence prevention to be administered by the state’s Department of Criminal Justice Services.

America is awash with weapons, and the tragic consequences are before us every day. The world is also awash with weapons, as reported by the Stockholm Peace Research Institute in Sweden, the leading source for data on military spending and the arms trade.

The 11th annual Richmond International Film Festival brings six days of award-winning film premieres to various venues across Richmond June 7-12.

And another sex scandal pops into the news. This time it’s the Southern Baptist Convention, the country’s largest Protestant denomination.

The 2022 YOVASO Summer Leadership Retreat will be held July 14-17 on the James Madison University campus in Harrisonburg.

Quarantime, an exhibition of multi-media works by Colleen Pendry, opens Friday, June 3 at Arts Council of the Valley’s Smith House Galleries.
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