Stanley Wayne Farley, 56, was taken into custody Friday afternoon in Portland, Maine, said Lt. Ron Hamlin of the Giles County Sheriff's Office.

The sheriff's office had named Farley as a suspect in a break-in at Super Val U Grocery in Newport. On the night of Oct. 11 someone struck the store's glass doors with a truck and took $2,600 worth of cigarettes, Hamlin said.

Security cameras at the store captured the image of two people inside. The sheriff's office received calls from people who said they recognized one of them as Farley, Hamlin said.

Deputies went to Farley's home in Camp Creek, W.Va., to talk with him, Hamlin said, but Farley took off. Kimberly April Rhoten, 46, was arrested at the home. She is charged with breaking and entering, grand larceny and destruction of property.

Farley will face the same charges after he is returned to Giles County, Hamlin said. He said Farley remains in police custody in Maine.

-- Shawna Morrison

CITIZENSHIP

Gen. Pulaski gets posthumous honor

Gen. Casimir Pulaski, whom Pulaski County and the town of Pulaski are named for, has been granted posthumous U.S. citizenship.

President Obama signed into law Nov. 6 a resolution to grant citizenship to the Polish military officer and Revolutionary War hero. Pulaski died Oct. 11, 1779, after fighting the British near Savannah, Ga.

Pulaski rose to fame following his first skirmish with the British at the Battle of Brandywine on Sept. 11, 1777. There, history says, he helped the colonists avoid defeat and saved the life of Gen. George Washington.

According to the resolution -- which passed both houses of Congress unanimously -- after arriving in America, Pulaski wrote to Washington: "I came here, where freedom is being defended, to serve it, and to live or die for it."

Pulaski is only the sixth person named an honorary American citizen. The others are British prime minister Winston Churchill in 1963; Raoul Wallenberg, who worked to free Jews from German concentration camps in World War II, in 1981; Pennsylvania proprietors William and Hannah Callowhill Penn in 1984; humanitarian Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, better known as Mother Teresa, in 1996; and French Revolutionary War fighter Marquis de Lafayette in 2002.

-- The Roanoke Times

FLOYD COUNTY

3 farms, 250 acres put under easement

Nola Shelor Albert has put three Floyd County farms under easement through the Virginia Outdoors Foundation to protect it from future development, according to the New River Land Trust.

The easements include 250 acres of farmland.

Albert worked 43 years as a business education teacher and then a guidance counselor at Floyd County High School. Inside the walls of her house at the intersection of U.S. 221 and Canning Factory Road is the original cabin Albert's great-grandfather James Floyd Shelor hauled off an adjacent hill in the 1860s.

"We're grateful that she's decided to donate these three easements to the Virginia Outdoors Foundation and set an example for other landowners in Floyd County," Ruth Babylon of the Virginia Outdoors Foundation said in a news release.

More than 4,900 acres in 32 easements are now protected in Floyd County through work by the New River Land Trust and the Virginia Outdoors Foundation.

-- The Roanoke Times

BLACKSBURG

Entries being taken for holiday parade

The deadline for entries for the town holiday parade is Friday.

Registration forms may be picked up at the Blacksburg parks and recreation administrative office at 615 Patrick Henry Drive or online at www.blacksburg.gov.

The parade is at 7 p.m. Dec. 4 in downtown. The theme is "Sounds of the Season."

For more information, call 961-1191.

-- Sharla Bardin

SHAWSVILLE

Rescue squad to host open house

The Shawsville Rescue Squad at 6620 Roanoke Road will hold its holiday open house from 1 to 4 p.m. Nov. 28.

The open house will include light refreshments and booths from vendors.

-- The Roanoke Times