The 38-year-old woman struck by a train in Christiansburg on Sunday mistook the direction it was traveling, a Norfolk Southern Corp. spokesman said.

Shortly before 6 p.m. Sunday, the woman was walking her dog on railroad tracks near Railroad Street when she was struck by a train, according to town spokeswoman Becky Wilburn.

The animal control unit of the Bedford County Sheriff's Office responded Jan. 28 to Goose Creek Valley Road in the Montvale area in response to an owner who had discovered three horses with severe cuts on their necks.

The man who ran the private bus company that operates Roanoke City Schools' fleet has been charged with driving while intoxicated and refusing a blood or breath test.

Andre Harris is no longer employed by Mountain Valley Transportation, his attorney Ray Ferris said.

A proposal would add branches at Countryside and Crystal Spring and scuttle a planned branch in northwest Roanoke.

A Roanoke plan to build a "superbranch" library in the city's northwest quadrant has bitten the dust.

Library officials presented the city council a revamped plan Monday that scuttles the superbranch in favor of a new downsized "storefront" branch in the Countryside neighborhood, a new "e-branch" in the Crystal Spring area and investments of between $2.2 million and $3.2 million each for the Main Library on South Jefferson Street and the Williamson Road, Raleigh Court and Melrose branches.