right now fairlawn and snowville share the zip code 24141 with radford and parts of floyd and montgomery county. it's caused confusion for businesses in the area. taxes from sales sometimes go to the wrong jurisdiction that share the same the pulaski county board of supervisors is requesting the u-s postal service gives fairlawn and snowville its own zip code. anthony akers/assistant pulaski county administrator: "obviously make sure that pulaski county is getting their just due in revenue as well as radford city and other areas. but we want to make sure it's fair." pulaski county asked the postal service to create a new zip code about a decade ago but it was never changed. supervisors will make the formal request after hearing from the community. in tonight's hometown health, it turns out bacteria that lives in the gut could be the key to helping people feel stronger and healthier. a doctor in new york has used the theory to create what's called the microbiome diet. the microbiome is another term for the trillions of bacteria that live in our digestive tract. each is unique, largely pas

they were traveling eastbound at snowville road at dewey with the sun behind them. the truck tim wolf was driving was traveling into the sun on snowville and made a left on dewey in front of the bikes causing the deadly chain-reaction crash. >> do you have a opinion to a reasonable degree of scientific certainty that the cyclists were traveling at a speed reasonable for conditions present at the to the debilitating sun glare known to be directly behind them. >> 35mile-an-hour or around 35mile-an-hour based on the elements of your hypothetical and in particular approaching an intersection with the crest of the hill i think that's too fast for conditions given all the elements of your hypothetical. >> reporter: at that point this family member of one of those killed quickly jumped up and ran out of the courtroom in tears visibly upset. >> you have bicycles leaving visible skidmarks and evasive action and two bicycles didn't leave physical evidence. you have the issue of sun glare. >> reporter: tim wolf is facing two counts of secular homicide of a count of wanton disr

driver who hit a it group of bicyclists killing two on september 17 to the woeful driving along along snowville road in brecksville in his pickup truck the track at five cyclists who died,wv he told police he never saw the bike riders because the sun was in his eyes charged with two counts of rs the uk homicide a month ago he was found not guiltyag for more on the story tonight at 10:00 o'clock . . lorain school leaders warning parents of a child predators on the loose searching for man a man accused of exposing himself to three young girls lorrie taylor joins us to talk to school for a lockdown today as i search for a man they say approached three girlsfofo, two of them elementary school aged one of them in happened just after 6:00 o'clock this morning around washington and west ninth not far from the second was approached a few blocks away around 7:20 a.m. near oberlin with the suspect exposed himself then they say he struck again at west 18th and and oakdale hawthorne elementary , they say that each time the girls were able to scream fight him off and ran off ,t the suspect is a white maleit

driver charged with hitting a group of bikers killing two was acquitted happened september 17 along snowville road in brecksville timothy wolf publicly said he never saw the bicyclists because the sun was in his eyes is was tried on two counts of vehicular homicide and just a short time ago, a jury returned a verdictct of not guilty , you can read more about the story at fox 8.coma. >> will have much more for you coming up at 7:00 p.m.. after police say they heard gunshots while the cruisers were parked in front of the fourth district headquarters,fr peggy gallek has the details. >> a scary situation for the two officers, nobody was injured but they're still trying to determine what happened.y e >> 10:30 p.m. wednesday two officers were in the police cruiser in front of the fourth district headquarters as they heard gunshotsar near there car. >> afterwords they saw a man running from this gas station across from the police station, the suspect led them on a brief but pursued. >> the suspect was apprehended a short distance away a la carte navan he had a gunshot wound to his thight they say th

- 26th anniversary jimmy & vickie steahly - roanoke - 37th anniversary hunter & shelva arehart - snowville - 62nd continue across the area today we have a low-pressure center located back toward western kentucky tennessee heading toward the great lakes but ahead of that getting a lot a golf moisture and also would that easterly component to the when some atlantic moisture all-time converging on our region. that's why flash flooding flooding concerns across our area today we get the yellows and oranges that's were getting some heavier downpours this morning had some thunderstorms down in north carolina. but still have this cool air locked at the servers that cool air wedge we have stable air so is those thunderstorms drive into stable air they tend to fall part that's are saving grace right now but later today that's can a get scour out temperatures warm up will start see little more in state unstable weather move in and that's rogan the potential some strong storms this afternoon just a marginal risk in the mountains far southwest virginia a slight risk through good portion of our area and

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wolf appears to have been texting around the time that he hit the cyclist at the intersection of snowville and dewey roads in brecksville. two siek of those cyclists did die. >>> for a look at the snowy forecast, here's sam roberts. >> samantha: periods of snow. your forecast for today, with temperatures holding steady if not dropping a little bit. very chilly. upper 20s and lower 30s, and on-again/off-again and windy today as well. two to three inches possible for most of us. primary snowbelt is looking at 3 up to 6 inches of snowfall for today. it should finally start to taper off by very late this afternoon. for tomorrow a little lake-effect possible in the morning. we dry out just in time for the weekend. oh, that weekend looks o the like button, facebook has now added buttons for love, wow, ha ha, sad, and other words, facebook copied adele album. >> i guess it did well in spain because it's now available they are. there is like. which we had. there is ha ha. is there wow.here is sad and there is enough with the baby photos already! >> facebook is doing what i moving -- moving beyond