Lee Cobb has spent 18 years as the city's top business recruiter. Cobb says enforcing the lease is difficult because Hobbs has a position of power in city government. Potomac Air is a subsidiary of U-S Airways. The new airline flew 50 passengers between Roanoke, Greensboro and Washington D.C. today for about one hundred dollars round trip. With its maintenance and other operations based in Roanoke, the airline employs more than one hundred people.
Passengers can buy tickets at the airport right before they get on the plane.
Cowboys have been known to fling the bull around the campfire, but this weekend in Salem, it's the bull's turn. Jacey Birch will join us from the Rodeo. It's the annual Salem Stampede Days Rodeo. Our own Jacey Birch is out at the Salem Civic Center now getting a taste of what a real rodeo is all about. Trigon and Memorial Hospital in Martinsville have now agreed to extend their old contract until February 28th.