WFIR News Express 1-10-24

38-year-old James Buckland, was sentenced in Wise County Circuit Court yesterday to serve two life sentences plus eleven years consecutively in prison without the possibility of parole after being convicted of shooting Norton Police Chief James Lane in 2021. The Virginia General Assembly opens this year's session later today with a new look -- and many unanswered questions on what it might accomplish. A man was taken into custody following a standoff at a home near the Advanced Auto Parts store in the 12 hundred block of Orange Avenue in Northwest Roanoke. A woman who attended last year’s Blue Ridge Rock Fest says what organizers promised did not match up with reality. The director of the Roanoke City and Alleghany Health Districts says the number of people who have recieved the latest version of the COVID vaccine and the flu shot many get around this time of year, are not where she would like them to be.