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Lake Station will again get a full-service grocery store years after Central Market closed.

A Salem judge sentenced Wilma Jean Jones to 21 years in prison Wednesday for killing her boyfriend in what she had claimed was an act of self-defense.

A Virginia Tech facility manager pleaded no contest to a felony embezzlement charge for taking posts from the Catawba Sustainability Center to build a deer fence for his neighbor’s apple orchard.