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Four men accused of planning to kidnap two Roanoke County women and hold them for ransom were indicted Thursday in U.S. District Court in Roanoke. Joshua Kasongo, 19, of Roanoke; Mohammed Hussein Guhad, 19, of Roanoke; Luke Musa Elbino, 19, of Vinton; and Anthony Eugene Muse, 18, of Roanoke are each charged with conspiring to kidnap and attempted kidnapping. Guhad and Muse are students at Patrick Henry High School. Elbino is a student at Virginia Western Community College.

There were plenty of tears and cheers last night as a local Marine was welcomed home from Iraq. An entire Cave Spring neighborhood community came out to give David Mason a hero's homecoming. More than a hundred people lined the streets holding signs and waving flags. "When you think about what's going on, what they are doing, what they are giving, what their families are giving up, this is just one little thing," says Beverly Stroud. But there was nothing little about this gathering. A local school group showed up and neighbors decorated their homes with balloons, flags, and yellow...