ROANOKE, Va. (AP) — A Virginia school system is investigating a social media post in which supporters of a high school football team used a photo of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd’s neck to celebrate a victory.
SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — A police department in Maryland has released body camera video that captured two of its officers berating a 5-year-old boy who had walked away from his elementary school, calling him a “little beast” and threatening him with a beating.
ABINGDON, Va. — Washington County schools are slated to resume a hybrid schedule Jan. 25.
Conditions inside the nation’s hospitals are deteriorating by the day as the coronavirus rages across the U.S. at an unrelenting pace and the death toll has reached 250,000. Here's the latest.
As students ease back into attending classes in person, the No. 1 goal of educators is to keep students and staff members safe from the coronavirus.
Bland County students will return to the classroom for four days a week, starting on Monday, Nov. 2. The Bland County School Board made the de…
When your child is on screen all day, sprucing up their background with a wall decal or two can help keep them in school mode, especially when virtual backgrounds are prohibited by school systems. Consider shopping for a school-themed wall decal like crayons, pencils, numbers or books. A quick search on Amazon or Etsy pulls up dozens of choices for under $15.
Bluefield, Va. – Three of the four schools in the Bluefield area will go completely online Sept. 25.
A community effort to help provide childcare for children of essential workers has finally come to fruition.
The Bland County School Board last week approved measures to be taken if someone within the school system tests positive for the COVID-19 virus.
Members of a grounds crew contracted to perform work around the Bland County schools recently tested positive for COVID-19. Tests on school pe…
ABINGDON, Va. — Washington County extended students’ summer break by another two weeks after the county School Board delayed the start of the semester from Aug. 10 to Aug. 24.
School will look drastically different in 2020-21 under a plan released Thursday by Wythe County Public Schools.
Bland County Elementary School has a new principal. The school system hired Mike Grim to oversee school operations. He begins his new job on July 1.
With a green light from the state to begin in-person classes in Phase Three of the Forward Virginia re-opening plan, Smyth County educators ar…
Smyth County educators aren’t going to let a little thing like a pandemic stand in the way of their seniors checking a major academic mileston…
No cases of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19 have been reported in Southwest Virginia, but the region is still feeling the disease’s impact.
Local health, school and community leaders are taking preventative measures and devising contingency plans to help protect against the spread …
The Wythe County School Board will host the first of three town hall meetings Thursday to receive public input regarding capital improvement p…
A group dedicated to keeping religion and government separate has succeeded in having a second plaque imprinted with a prayer removed from a W…
For all the contested local and state races in the November general election, the News & Messenger asked the candidates several questions …
ABINGDON, Va. — Two retired educators are vying for the Monroe District seat on the Washington County School Board in the Nov. 5 election.
Wythe County Public School officials are investigating possible student involvement in a racially insensitive post shared on social media Wedn…