WDBJ is a television station licensed to Roanoke,Virginia,United States,serving as the CBS affiliate for the Roanoke–Lynchburg market. It is owned by Gray Television alongside Danville-licensed MyNetworkTV affiliate WZBJ,channel 24. WDBJ and WZBJ share studios on Hershberger Road in northwest Roanoke;through a channel sharing agreement,the two stations transmit using WDBJ's spectrum from an antenna on Poor Mountain in Roanoke County.
Robert Creigh Deeds is an American lawyer and politician serving as a member of the Senate of Virginia representing the 25th district since 2001. Previously,he was the Democratic nominee for Attorney General of Virginia in 2005 and Governor of Virginia in 2009. He was defeated in both of those races by Republican Bob McDonnell. Deeds lost by just 323 votes in 2005,but was defeated by a wide margin of over 17 percentage points in 2009. He was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1992 to 2001.
Howard Morgan Griffith is an American lawyer and politician who has been the U.S. representative for Virginia's 9th congressional district since 2011. The district covers a large swath of southwestern Virginia,including the New River Valley and the Virginia side of the Tri-Cities. He is a member of the Republican Party and the Freedom Caucus.
Frederick Carlyle Boucher is an American politician who was the U.S. representative for Virginia's 9th congressional district from 1983 to 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He was defeated in his bid for a 15th term by Republican Morgan Griffith in the 2010 elections.
Salam "Sam" Rasoul is an American politician serving as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from the 11th district. He is one of the two Muslim members of the Virginia General Assembly. In November 2020,Rasoul announced his candidacy for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia in 2021. Despite a significant fundraising advantage,Rasoul lost the Democratic primary to Hala Ayala by a large margin.
Benjamin Lee Cline is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the U.S. representative for Virginia's 6th congressional district since 2019. A member of the Republican Party,he represented the 24th district in the Virginia House of Delegates from 2002 to 2018.
The Virginia Attorney General election of 2005 took place on November 8,2005,to elect the Attorney General of Virginia. Jerry Kilgore,who had been elected attorney general in 2001,resigned in February 2005 to run for Governor,as is the tradition in Virginia. He was replaced by Judith Jagdmann,the Deputy Attorney General for the Civil Litigation Division,who did not run in the election.
James William Joseph Morefield is an American politician of the Republican Party. Since January 2010 Morefield has been a member of the Virginia House of Delegates,representing the 3rd district in the southwestern part of the state. He serves on the House Committees on Counties,Cities,and Towns;Militia,Police,and Public Safety;General Laws;and Agriculture,Chesapeake and Natural Resources.
Joseph R. Yost is an American politician. A Republican,he was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 2011. He represented the 12th district from 2012 to 2018. Yost was indicted for embezzlement charges in January 2022.
On the morning of August 26,2015,news reporter Alison Parker and photojournalist Adam Ward,both employees of CBS affiliate WDBJ in Roanoke,Virginia,United States,were fatally shot while conducting a live television interview near Smith Mountain Lake in Moneta. They were interviewing Vicki Gardner,executive director of the local chamber of commerce,when all three were attacked by a gunman in a mass shooting. Parker,age 24,and Ward,age 27,died at the scene,while Gardner survived.
The 2017 Virginia Attorney General election was held on November 7,2017. The incumbent attorney general,Democrat Mark Herring,was expected to run for governor,but announced he would run for re-election instead. As only Herring and Republican John Adams qualified for their respective party primaries,the two automatically became their parties' nominees. In the general election,Herring defeated Adams to win a second term as Attorney General of Virginia.
Nicholas J. Freitas is an American politician. A Republican,he has been a member of the Virginia House of Delegates since 2016. He unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in 2018,losing in the primary election to Corey Stewart. He was the Republican nominee in the 2020 election to represent Virginia's 7th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives,which he narrowly lost to Abigail Spanberger,the incumbent Democratic congresswoman. Before entering politics,he served in the United States Army.
Danica Anthony Roem is an American journalist and politician. She is a member of the Democratic Party. She serves in the Virginia House of Delegates and has been elected to the Virginia Senate.
Virginia's 24th House of Delegates district elects one of 100 seats in the Virginia House of Delegates,the lower house of the state's bicameral legislature. District 24 represents the cities of Buena Vista and Lexington;counties of Bath and Rockbridge;and parts of Amherst and Augusta counties. Benjamin L. Cline held this seat until his 2018 election to Virginia's 6th congressional district. In a Republican firehouse primary,Rockbridge supervisor Ronnie Campbell won the Republican nomination by one vote. Christian Worth won the Democratic nomination. Campbell won the special election December 18.,and held the seat for nearly four years until his death on December 13,2022. Ellen Campbell was elected in a 2023 special election to succeed her husband.
Denver Lee Riggleman III is an American businessman and former politician from Virginia who served one term as the United States representative for Virginia's 5th congressional district. A former Air Force officer and National Security Agency contractor,Riggleman opened a craft distillery in Virginia in 2014. As a Republican,he ran for his party's nomination in the 2017 gubernatorial election,but withdrew from the race. Riggleman was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 2018. Riggleman was defeated in his bid for reelection in 2020,losing to Republican primary challenger Bob Good in a drive-through party convention. Riggleman co-authored a book with Hunter Walker titled The Breach,which was published in October of 2022. The book detailed his work on the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack.
Ronnie Ray Campbell was an American politician who served as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates,first elected in a special election in 2018. Campbell represented the 24th district comprising Rockbridge and Bath Counties,parts of Amherst and Augusta Counties,and the independent cities of Lexington and Buena Vista.
The 2021 Virginia lieutenant gubernatorial election was held on November 2,2021,to elect the next lieutenant governor of Virginia. Incumbent Democratic Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax was eligible to run for a second term,but instead unsuccessfully ran for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. On November 3,Hala Ayala conceded the race,making Republican Winsome Sears the first black woman to be elected to the lieutenant governorship of Virginia or any statewide office,as well as the first woman elected lieutenant governor in Virginia's history. Sears was also the first Jamaican-American to become a lieutenant governor.
Wendell Scott Walker is an American politician. Since 2020,he has been a Republican member of the Virginia House of Delegates,representing the 23rd district,consisting of parts of the city of Lynchburg,Bedford,and Amherst Counties.
The 2021 Virginia attorney general election was held on November 2,2021,to elect the next attorney general of Virginia. Democratic Attorney General Mark Herring attempted to win a third term. Herring initially planned to run for governor,but decided to run for re-election. Herring faced Republican nominee Jason Miyares in the general election. Herring conceded defeat at 5:02 PM EST the following day,November 3. Miyares became the first Cuban-American and Hispanic to be elected to statewide office in Virginia. Miyares was later sworn in on January 15,2022.
Jason Ballard is an American politician and attorney who is a member of the Virginia House of Delegates for the 12th district,which was renumbered as the 42nd district and had district lines altered for the 2023 election. Elected to the 12th district seat in November 2021,Ballard assumed office on January 12,2022.
