Prosecutors obtained a guilty plea from a defendant in a gang prosecution case involving two Roanoke slayings. Trayvone Raycron Kasey, 21, now faces spending the rest of his life in prison.

A Roanoke prosecutor said the victim's mother supported the plea agreement because it prevented the child from having to testify about the April 2019 sexual assault.

Prosecutors said the church's total loss ran to $51,772, largely from salary overpayments, which they claim Nicole Martin arranged through her role as bookkeeper, drawing cash from other sources within the organization and editing records to hide the losses.

A Rocky Mount man has been arrested in a June break-in at the Exchange Milling Company.

Police said the man had run-ins with three different Food Lion employees and, each time, multiple clicks were heard as he attempted to fire his weapon, without success.