It was a lucky day for a tortoiseshell cat that was brought to the Washington County C. C. Porter Animal Shelter about a year ago. When Lena Wright, 34, heard that the cat had given birth to kittens that did not survive, she wanted to help. The foster mom took the grieving cat to her home to nurture and comfort her.

A retired Glade Spring veterinarian and his wife — who both tragically died in a fire last week — will be honored today at an Abingdon funeral home.

Three people were found dead and another seriously wounded early Friday in an apparent murder-suicide in the Thomas Bridge community of Smyth County, according to Sheriff Chip Shuler.

Just five years after departing Bristol, Virginia, Rick Tolley became the youngest head coach in major college football as the leader of the Marshall University Thundering Herd. He had made progress with the much-maligned pigskin program in Huntington, West Virginia, when tragedy occurred on the evening of Nov. 14, 1970.

While vaccines for COVID-19 could be approved later this year or early 2021, it will likely be months before they are available to the general public, a Ballad Health official said this week.

Just after noon Friday, smoke still rose from the charred, collapsed remains of a house near Glade Spring that was destroyed by a fire that killed an elderly husband and wife.