Daniel Schultz of Wythe County tumbled from a raft and could not get to shore, Pulaski County officials said.

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Todd Brewster becomes Blacksburg's police chief on July 1.
Flooding ended active mine work — and the physics research that went on alongside it — several years ago, a Virginia Tech professor said.
A sign outside Lhoist North America’s lime-processing plant said that before Monday’s fatal accident, the facility went about 6½ years without…
Stuart R. Moore had been working at the mine for just nine weeks, the Virginia Department of Energy said.
Also hurt were occupants of a sedan that was involved in the wreck.
Authorities have so far released no details about the situation.
The Virginia attorney general's office says it will not challenge a recent appeals court ruling that exonerated David Wayne Kingrea.
Elected as Democrats, Michael Worrell and Justin Griffith say they no longer agree with the party's approach to law and order and now support Republicans.
Freed from a Virginia prison last August, a Wythe County cop killer was arrested again in Oklahoma over the weekend on a firearm charge.