WFIR News Express 12-15-23

During a protest in downtown Roanoke, Rafeeq McNamara with Occupy Roanoke for Palestinians, says the US is hurting its reputation on the world stage by helping Israel’s operation in Gaza. The mother of a 6-year-old who shot his teacher in Newport News is expected to be sentenced today for felony child neglect, nearly a year after her son used her gun to critically wound his teacher. It could have been much worse: the report that students at an Amherst County elementary school were hospitalized - after ingesting gummies that came from a baggie testing positive for fentanyl. A customer at Berglund Automotive is alleging in a lawsuit that he and about 51 thousand others were the victims of a data breach at car dealerships that collected their personal information. Used car prices in the Roanoke region have fallen a bit on average in the last 12 months, reversing the often-sharp increases that emerged during the heart of the pandemeic.