RADFORD — It didn’t take long for Radford’s new leaders to make an abrupt change to the city council’s operating procedures. Blacksburg Town Council: No invocation or moment of silence. Botetourt ...

For the first time on Tuesday, Oct. 21, a Hindu clergyman will give the opening invocation at Meridian and Star’s city council meetings. Rajan Zed, a Reno, Nevada-based chaplain and interfaith leader, ...