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Could cost prevent some children from getting new, safer football helmets? Local 12’s chief investigative reporter Duane Pohlman travels to Virginia Tech’s Helmet Lab and visits with a medical doctor.

Q: My mother is getting on in age and I help out the best I can. She needs a new toilet seat and I told the family to leave it up to me. I don’t want to mess this favor up, so what do I need to think ...

A team of researchers at the Rochester Institute of Technology invented a "toilet seat-based cardiovascular monitoring system" that could help hospitals monitor patients for risk of congestive heart ...

A man is dead, and another is injured and in custody after a shooting at a gas station parking lot, according to Roanoke police. 1 arrested following vehicle pursuit in Lynchburg, police say One ...