CORVALLIS FIRE DEPARTMENT

Mali's interim leader Dioncounda Traore left Wednesday for Paris to undergo medical tests after an assault by protesters angry at his appointment to head a post-coup transition government.

By Sarah Bruyn Jones ROANOKE A medical transport helicopter had a close call with three military jets Thursday night in Rockbridge County, just north of Lexington. A pilot and three crew members were on board the Carilion Clinic craft. They were returning after dropping off a patient at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital, according to Carilion spokesman Eric Earnhart.