WFIR News Express 2-7-24

The Montgomery County School Board has selected Roanoke-based law firm Gentry Locke, to conduct a third-party review of events leading up to a murder-suicide in November that claimed the lives of Blacksburg High School students Serenity Hawley and her ex-boyfriend Croney Monk. With a deal to secure the US-Mexico border hanging in the balance, a UVA political expert believes Republicans want the deal to fall apart. Members of Roanoke City Council are weighing whether or not to install ticketing cameras in school zones to catch speeders. A lawmaker shares scrapbook images with the General Assembly, which he says paint the picture of a different Virginia than we know today. A recent map indicates that respiratory viruses are at the "high" level in Virginia, but the local health district director says the trend is downward. She also says this is not the time to let our guard down.