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Bob Shell. Robert Edward Lee Shell (born 1946) [ 1] is an American photographer and author who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for the death of his model, Marion Franklin, in his Radford, Virginia studio. The events surrounding his case have focused attention on photographers' professional conduct, and boundary issues with their models.
John White. John White ( c. 1539 – c. 1593) was an English colonial governor, explorer, artist, and cartographer. White was among those who sailed with Richard Grenville in the first attempt to colonize Roanoke Island in 1585, acting as artist and mapmaker to the expedition. He would most famously briefly serve as the governor of the second ...
WDBJ. / 37.195194°N 80.156139°W / 37.195194; -80.156139. WDBJ (channel 7) is a television station licensed to Roanoke, Virginia, United States, serving as the CBS affiliate for the Roanoke– Lynchburg market. It is owned by Gray Television alongside Danville -licensed MyNetworkTV affiliate WZBJ, channel 24 (and its Lynchburg-licensed ...
A woman died after falling roughly 100 feet inside a cave in Virginia on Friday, officials said. The Giles County Sheriff's Office received a 911 call that a woman had fallen "approximately 100 ...
Randall Lee Smith (June 29, 1953 – May 10, 2008) [1] was an American convicted murderer from Pearisburg, Virginia. [2] He pleaded guilty shortly before trial commenced to two counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of hikers Robert Mountford Jr. and Laura Susan Ramsay, both 27-year-old social workers from Maine who were murdered by Smith while hiking the Appalachian Trail in May 1981.
Getty Images. At least nine people are dead and four are missing after a fishing vessel sank in the South Atlantic about 200 miles off the coast of the Falkland Islands, Spanish authorities said ...
Since 1996, there has been an unusually high number of cases involving young women disappearing along U.S. Route 29 (US 29) in Virginia, or an area known as the "Route 29 Corridor". [ 1] Five young women disappeared in five years between 2009 and 2014, earning it a particularly notorious reputation. [ 2] Of the nine murders/disappearances, only ...
September 11, 2002 [2] The Grandin Road Commercial Historic District, also referred to as Grandin Village, is a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places located in the Raleigh Court neighborhood of the independent city of Roanoke, Virginia. [3] Centered at the intersection of Memorial Avenue and Grandin Road ( US 11 ...