Pupils at Huddleston Elementary are some of the top collectors in a nationwide program designed for schools.

Recycling can be gross.

Imagine encountering tobacco juice spat into an empty soda can.

Nasty.

Fifth-graders Chris Akers, 11, and Jason Williams, 10, scrunch their noses at the recollection.

A garden in memory of Zach Parsons and other deceased Franklin County High School students was dedicated Tuesday on the campus of the Rocky Mount school.

Officers with the Roanoke County Police Department on Monday arrested a Boones Mill man on firearm and assault charges, authorities said.

Benjamine Leonard Foley II, 49, faces charges of assaulting a law enforcement officer, reckless handling of a firearm, brandishing a firearm and carrying a concealed weapon, police said.

The pit bull bit one officer and charged at others, department officials said.

Roanoke police shot and killed a pit bull Tuesday that bit one officer and charged at others, officials said.

Two officers fired shots at the 62-pound male pit bull when it attacked them, police spokeswoman Aisha Johnson said in a news release. The dog had been under a quarantine notice following a May 16 dog bite call, she said.

The jury recommended a sentence of eight years on each count.

CHRISTIANSBURG — DNA evidence placed a man at the scene of a sexual encounter that a jury decided Tuesday will put him behind bars for 16 years.

Keshaun Webb pleaded guilty to selling crack cocaine twice to a police informant.

The last of the eight southwest Roanoke cocaine dealers indicted in December by a grand jury pleaded guilty Tuesday in Circuit Court, closing the book on another phase of the police's recent Drug Market Initiative project.

Leland Wilson Jr. faces up to 23 years in prison for opening fire during a standoff with police last fall.

ROCKY MOUNT — Leland John Wilson Jr., a Ferrum man who opened fire on two police officers in October, leading to a brief standoff before surrendering, pleaded guilty Tuesday to two counts of attempted malicious wounding of a police officer and one count of using a firearm in a felony.

Berglund Automotive Group will help fund the event after The Roanoke Times pulled out.

The producer of Roanoke's longtime Fourth of July concert and fireworks display said Tuesday that this year's show will go on thanks to a $12,000 sponsorship by the Berglund Automotive Group and an anonymous donor.

A Montgomery County man will face a retrial on an attempted capital murder charge this summer after a mistrial was declared earlier this month.

The new trial for Jeramiah Chamberlain is set for Aug. 20.

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