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NEW YORK (AP) — Verizon Communications Inc. and two unions representing 65,000 workers who had threatened to strike within hours agreed Sunday on a new three-year contract that provides 10.5 percent wage increases and changes in retirement benefits.

Roanoke's Target store hasn't given up on its intention to expand its grocery selection and everything else.

Last year, the discount retail chain submitted plans to the city's planning office, proposing that it add about 13,000 square feet to its store on Valley View Boulevard.

Adventurer Dick Rutan says a custom parachute and survival gear designed by Manley Butler helped save Rutan's life on Jan 9, 1998.

Uli Bennewitz is known for the natural, unfiltered beer made at his brewery, the Weeping Radish.

But at Saturday's MicroFestivus, one of the Square Society's annual fundraisers, Bennewitz was wearing the chef's hat.

The terms of all eight members of the panel in charge of overseeing Mill Mountain -- and all development proposals for it -- expired earlier this summer.

But instead of following tradition and automatically reappointing members of the Mill Mountain Advisory Committee, the Roanoke City Council instead has suggested to its members that it adopt bylaws, staggered terms, an odd number of members and even term limits. The proposed changes could result in new faces on a board where more than half of the members have served a decade or more.

Police charged a Blacksburg man with sexual battery Saturday morning.

Sgt. Nathan O'Dell said Adam Wayne Webb, 25, was charged after police responded to the 1000 block of University City Boulevard at 9:30 a.m.