Drivers are being asked to avoid the intersection of Challenger Avenue and Cloverdale Road after a car crashed into a utility pole as it was headed east. UPDATED: AEP on scene and the intersection ...

according to AEP's Outage Map. Most of these are in and just east of Martinsville. Most of the Roanoke area's 1,800+ outages are located in Cloverdale, which has 1,311 outages.

American Electric Power this week started a new round of job reductions, introducing a voluntary severance program that the power company says is necessary to cut the size of its workforce.

Federal regulators may be on the verge of wrapping up their investigation of American Electric Power and its role in the scandal-ridden Ohio House Bill 6 legislation adopted nearly five years ago.