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Facial approximation: The art of solving a mystery

By: Mitch Carr

PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) - When the Office of the Commonwealth Medical Examiner finds unidentified and unidentifiable remains, it turns to the FBI to try to figure out to whom the remains belong.

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In Our Hometowns: Recent Roanoke crime stats show violent crimes are down

By: Mitch Carr

The department released four years of numbers comparing two years before the arrival of Chief Scott Booth to two years since, and the numbers show a positive trend.

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Take a world tour of food and culture on Roanoke's Williamson Road

By: Mitch Carr

The stretch between Hershberger Road and Orange Avenue has dozens of immigrant-owned businesses. Published Dec. 18, 2025 at 6:19 AM CET

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Roanoke Police walk northwest zone as homicide numbers lead record pace

By: Mitch Carr

The monthly Chief's Walk centered on Melrose Park as violent crime is down overall while homicide numbers are ahead of the pace for 2023.

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A recovering addict's warning about 7-OH: “It's truly destroying people's lives”

By: Mitch Carr

The kratom concentrate is widely available, and one former user believes it shouldn't be. Published Apr. 7, 2026 at 12:00 AM CEST |

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Target 7: How do college athletes get paid?

By: Mitch Carr

Laws, lawsuits, policies, and money have changed college sports forever, and more change is coming.

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Target 7: Radford University tries new approach to help rural healthcare crisis

By: Mitch Carr

Proximity to rural Virginia causes Radford University to see itself as being in “the heart of the solution” when it comes to getting more people in rural areas access to healthcare.

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Target 7/Bridging the Gap: Southwest Virginia medical school tackles rural healthcare crisis

By: Mitch Carr

Virginia Tech's Via College of Osteopathic Medicine has been churning out doctors for rural areas for more than two decades.

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Target 7: How lowering opioid overdoses left chronic pain patients behind

By: Mitch Carr

Strict prescribing guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have helped quell prescription opioid overdose deaths, but they have also made it harder for chronic pain patients to get the medicine they need.

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Target 7: Lowering opioid overdoses has left chronic pain patients behind

By: Mitch Carr

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - In 1999, more than 3,400 Americans died from prescription opioid overdoses.