Highlands crash crew figures out accidents

Jon Holbrook uses a Nikon survey like system to plot points and elevations of an accident scene.  Jon Holbrook is a member of the Abingdon Police Department and a member of the Highlands Regional Crash Team with other members of the Bristol Virginia Police Department.  The team responds to accidents and uses equipment to recreate the scene in a computer and try to come up with reasons for the accident.

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Teen helping out at Marsh Blood

Emily Brady is a Junior at Sullivan East High School and has been awarded a scholarship by Marsh Regional Blood Center.

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Cleaning up Emory & Henry Barns

Several barns just off Interstate 81 in Emory, Virginia are getting a makeover.  Wallace Brothers Construction is scraping and repairing and painting the barns white with Green Roofs.  Allen Cadle was using a beach umbrella to block some of the hot sunny rays of the sun off while he spray painted the green roof.

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Sandvik closing Bristol plant and moving to Mexico in 2016

Sandvik will be moving their operations to Mexico in the third quarter of 2016 away from Bristol, Washington County, Virginia area.

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Indian Motorcycles opens in Bristol

Friendship Motorsports is the new local dealership of Indian Motorcycles in Bristol, Virginia.



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Music Camp at Emory and Henry College

Cindy Teague, left, holds up her phone for her son, Noah Teague, 11, to practice to a music video outside during lunch at Emory and Henry College on Wednesday.  The two, from Charlotte, NC.,  are taking part in the week long Virginia Suzuki Institute 2015 music camp.  This is their 3rd. year attending the camp and Noah has played the violin for 6 years.

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Son charged with killing father in Abingdon

Police from Abingdon and the Washington Sheriff's Dept. leave the home of Edsel Copeland on Elementary Drive in Abingdon, Virginia.  Copeland was killed by his son Joshua Copeland behind the District 17 Probation office in Abingdon Thursday morning.

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Emory and Henry Football Coach survives car fire

Emory and Henry football asst. Clayton Matthews talks about the auto accident that he was involved in where is auto caught fire after blowing a tire.  Mathews had to be dragged out by a police officer to save his life.

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Qore Systems coming to Glade Spring

Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, right, jokes with Bill Peterson III, CEO and Founder, left,  Vince Adam, co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, center, and Bob Newberry, Management, all with Qore System LLC during a press conference on Wednesday in Glade Spring.  The company is moving their operations from Arizona to the SW Virginia area.

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Meet the 2015 Bristol Pirates

Wesley McGrew , 13, Bluff City, has his pirate flag signed by the members of the Bristol Pirates 2015 Team on Monday at the Meet the Pirates night in Bristol, Virginia.

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Bristol Virginia girl fights medical problems with flair

Madison Faith King plays outside her home in Bristol, Virginia with her brother, Issac, in the water slide.





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Old Bluff City City Hall gets new life

Inside the old Bluff City City Hall meeting room.  Sherry Grubb Photography recently bought the old building at auction and plans to remodel into a photography studio.  Grubb hopes that the new business will spur downtown growth in Bluff City where she grew up.

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Miss Tennessee Scholarship Pageant Thursday Night 2015

Photos from Thursday at the Miss Tennessee Pageant in Jackson, Tennessee.

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Send the Light moves to Bristol, Tennessee

Send The Light moved from Elizabethton, Tennessee to Bristol, Tennessee over the Memorial Day Weekend.  They did not miss any shipments during the move.  205 18 wheeler trucks moved the merchandise in the 90 hour move.



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Holocaust Survivor Story

Markus Reich talks about being a teenager and escaping twice from the camps in Poland.  Reich is a Holocaust Survivor and lost his entire family in the camps.

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Virginia High vs Lebanon for Boys Baseball State Game

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Gate City Girls Tennis gets State Title

Emily Smith plays Maggie Walker High School during Semi finals on Friday in Radford in Group 2A.



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New Morrison School to open next week

The New Morrison School is now complete and will open for summer school next week.  The ribbon cutting was held on Wednesday followed with a tour of the building.



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Virginia Intermont updates Bristol Virginia City Council

Trish Bane with Land Partners Real Estate talks about the properties of Virginia Intermont College to Bristol Virginia City Council, Economic Development Committee and the Industrial Development Authority in a called meeting on Tuesday to update the groups on the progress to sell the properties.

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Abingdon Girls Play for State Softball Title

#12 Morgan Turner #3 Kayla Keene #7  Jenna Gilbert , #11 Madison McClananhan and  are all seniors and playing Softball for Abingdon High School.



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