WFIR News Express 11-16-23

Prosecutors say a California man, who supplied as many as 30,000 pressed fentanyl pills a week to individuals who shipped the pills to Southwest Virginia, pled guilty yesterday to a pair of federal drug charges. Roanoke Pastor Tom McCracken tells WFIR News he has received an apology from Roanoke City Councilman Luke Priddy, who accused McCracken of touching a 15-year-old girl during a county school board meeting in August. Slowly but surely the 9th Street industrial park is being cleaned up, the first step in a long-term redevelopment project that could create a unique village of sorts in Southeast Roanoke. Work is just getting underway for the latest step in efforts to eventually create a continued Roanoke River Greenway from Explore Park to Montgomery County. As party leadership positions are announced, a former Governor of Virginia is discussing whether the criminal past of the incoming speaker of the House of Delegates should matter. The NCAA has rejected JMU football’s latest request to become bowl eligible.