The Knights defeated Marion 3-1.

The 2024 General Election will be held on Nov. 5. You can find results for Smyth County here.

A former central Kansas police chief who led a raid last year on a weekly newspaper has been charged with felony obstruction of justice.

Two special prosecutors say they plan to charge a former central Kansas police chief with obstruction of justice over his conduct following a raid of the local newspaper last year.

A former reporter for a weekly Kansas newspaper has agreed to accept $235,000 to settle part of her federal lawsuit over a police raid on the paper that made a small city the focus of a national debate over press freedoms.

Officials in America’s hottest big metro are working to better protect people amid temperatures already hitting the triple digits this spring.

Check out the Morning Sprint for trending stories that’ll make you smile.

A truck hauling zebras and camels for a series of weekend circus performances caught fire on a northeastern Indiana highway, prompting a police rescue of the animals.

Marion Noel was honored for his service in World War II Saturday.

It took only a week for the central Kansas police chief who led an August raid on the local newspaper to go from looking like he had enough support at city hall to keep his job to resigning.

The police chief who led an August raid on a small weekly newspaper in central Kansas has resigned, days after he was suspended from his post.

The police chief who led a highly criticized raid of a small Kansas newspaper has been suspended.

Authorities told 10 News that there will be a heightened police presence in Marion on Thursday afternoon.

The lawyer for a small Kansas newspaper raided by police last month said he believes officers didn't follow the search warrant's requirements to only seize computers believed directly involved in suspected identity theft.

A judge ordered Kansas authorities to destroy all the electronic copies they made of a small newspaper’s files when police raided its office this month.

Newly released video shows the 98-year-old mother of a Kansas newspaper publisher confronting police officers as they searched her home in a raid that has drawn national scrutiny.

A Kansas Department of Revenue spokesperson says the initial online search of a state website that led a central Kansas police chief to raid a local weekly newspaper was legal.

The police chief who led the raid of a Kansas newspaper has alleged in previously unreleased court documents that a reporter either impersonated someone else or lied about her intentions when she obtained the driving records of a local business owner.

Tensions between public officials and the press are hardly unusual.

A small newspaper and a police department in Kansas are at the center of a dispute over freedom of speech after police raided the office of the local newspaper and the home of its owner and publisher.

Indiana Jones.

Della Simpson Maynor was just 14 when she marched for voting rights in her hometown of Marion, Alabama, but she says she clearly remembers the police attacking the demonstrators.

Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina says conservatives are “starved for hope,” as he tries to present a more positive vision for the future than his potential rivals for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination.

Del. Jeff Campbell (R-Marion) announced he will not seek re-election to a sixth term in the Virginia House of Delegates.

When Mary Ellen Withrow first ran for public office, she was not allowed to have a credit card in her name.

It’s time to announce our 3 Degree Guarantee recipient!

A little-known but important piece of American history stands vacant on a two-lane highway in rural western Alabama.

Thanks to Brian for sending us today's Picture of the Day from Marion!

A 48-year-old Smyth County man faces multiple charges after an incident Monday afternoon outside the Sheriff’s Office.

A Carolina couple made their first-ever trip to the beach at 90 years old, according to WPDE reporting.

MARION, Va. – The Mount Rogers Health District announced Friday it is making major changes to the COVID-19 contract tracing process, effective immediately. I mean, people need to take precautions – safety for themselves, their families and their loved ones,” said Dr. Karen Shelton, Director of the Mount Rogers Health District. Bland County, Wythe County, Carroll County, Galax and other localities outside of the WSLS 10 News viewing area make up the health district. “When you double your cases, you can’t provide the same level of thorough case investigation and contact tracing,” said Dr. Shelton. Information on isolation, quarantine, contact tracing, and other relevant COVID-19 topics is listed on the Mount Rogers website, https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/mount-rogers/.

MARION, Va. – Police in Virginia say a woman and three young children are dead in an apparent murder-suicide. The Smyth County Sheriff’s Office said authorities discovered the bodies of a 27-year-old woman, a 10-year-old and 3-year-old child after responding to a call Friday morning in Marion, a small town in Virginia’s southwest. Police said a preliminary investigation shows the woman killed the children and that there are no other suspects. Police did not immediately release the names of the woman and children. Police did not say what the woman’s relationship was to the children.

FILE - In this April 13, 1921, file photo, President Warren G. Harding throws out the first ball to open the Washington Senators' baseball season. The illegitimate grandson of U.S. President Warren G. Harding has gone to court seeking to dig up the Republican's remains from the presidential memorial where they have lain since 1927. (AP Photo/FIle)COLUMBUS, Ohio – The grandson of U.S. President Warren G. Harding and his lover, Nan Britton, went to court in an effort to get the Republican’s remains exhumed from the presidential memorial where they have lain since 1927. James Blaesing told an Ohio court that he is seeking Harding’s disinterment as a way “to establish with scientific certainty” that he is the 29th president’s blood relation. The openings of the renovated historic sites in Marion and of the Warren G. Harding Presidential Center have been indefinitely delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic, Beach said.

MARION, Va. – A small town in Southwest Virginia became the backdrop for a opposing protests on Friday. As Black Lives Matter and LGBTQ+ protesters were marching Friday evening, counter-protesters with the American Patriots followed them. Police asked the Black Lives Matter protesters to keep walking up one side of the road. It all started back in June, one day after a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest was met with counter-protesters. The family organized that Black Lives Matter protest and the one on Friday.

WYTHE COUNTY, Va. – Virginia State Police are investigating a deadly crash that happened early Wednesday morning on Interstate 81. At 3:54 a.m., near mile marker 63 in Wythe County, police responded after a car traveling south ran off the road and came to a stop on Radio Drive, which runs parallel to the interstate. The driver of the vehicle, Borve Carlyle Fisher Jr., 33, of Marion, Virginia, was transported to Wytheville Community Hospital for treatment; however, the passenger, Jessica Roberts, 39, also of Marion, died at the scene. Police said neither person was wearing a seat belt. Charges are pending, according to police.

This Monday, April 20, 2020, photo, shows the Marion Correctional Institution in Marion, Ohio. Systemwide in Ohio, 3,762 inmates have tested positive and nine have died, including seven at the Pickaway Correctional Institution, southwest of Columbus. The head of the prison guards’ union is in self-quarantine after his wife, a guard at the Lorain Correctional Institution, tested positive. State Commissioner of Prisons Todd Ishee said more 90% of prisoners testing positive were asymptomatic. Several Marion inmates also charged that guards initially handled the outbreak as a security situation, appearing on cell blocks with pepper spray pistols.

That man, 27-year-old Trevor Rowe, is in the Lubbock County Detention Center. She was, she was actually learning to walk," said Emlilio Montoya, Marion’s father. Marion Montoya was just two months away from turning one, but the birthday party her grandmother was planning isn’t going to happen. “It was going to be Minnie Mouse,” said Sheila Montoya, Marion’s grandmother, when talking about the party’s theme. She wouldn’t be gone,” said Katrina Montoya, Marion’s aunt.

Tim White has the details on their celebration of all things Mayberry, when Mayberry comes to Marion! How you can get tickets, and a sneak peek performance! Copyright 2019 by WSLS 10 - All rights reserved.

Tim White has the details on their celebration of all things Mayberry, when Mayberry comes to Marion! How you can get tickets, and a sneak peek performance! Copyright 2019 by WSLS 10 - All rights reserved.

ROANOKE - Tim White shares about the events coming up this month in Marion, Virginia at Song of the Mountains and gives another unforgettable performanceCopyright 2019 by WSLS 10 - All rights reserved.

Tim White shares about the events coming up this month in Marion, Virginia at Song of the Mountains and gives another unforgettable performanceCopyright 2019 by WSLS 10 - All rights reserved.

MARION, Va. - Police are searching for the man who they say stole someone's car while it was parked at a bank. On Aug. 5, at about 4:30 p.m., Marion police responded after they said a man stole a black 2006 GMC Yukon Denali from in front of the Bank of Marion main branch. Police described the suspect as being 5 feet, 8 inches tall, weighing 170 pounds and being in his late 20s or early 30s. The vehicle was equipped with OnStar and was found abandoned that evening, 26 miles away at the Abingdon Lowe's. Wes Thomas, with the Marion Police Department, at 276-783-8145 or email wthomas@marionva.org.

Tim White fills us in on all the exciting things coming up at their next "Song of the Mountains" taping in Marion, VA on June 1. Copyright 2019 by WSLS 10 - All rights reserved.