[News-Heads]
[ANCHOR=Teresa]
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Coming up next-
A student is accused of bringing a gun to school in Pulaski County.
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[VO-NAT]
More than 600 protesters are arrested in the nation's capital.
Flames damage a Roanoke County construction business.
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[ANCHOR=Teresa]
And, a couple of Tech and U-V-A players are headed to the N-F-L.
News 7 is next.
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[ANCHOR=Teresa]
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(( LET US GO, LET US GO. ))
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[VO-NAT]
Hundreds of protestors are taken into custody after facing off with police in the nation's capital.
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[ANCHOR=Teresa]
[GRAPHIC=News 7 at 11]
Good evening, I'm Teresa Hamilton.
[World-Bank]
[ANCHOR=Teresa]
[NEWSCAST=11pm]
[WRITER=tha]
[TAPE#=net]
[GRAPHIC=News 7 at 11]
The 600 or so demonstrators arrested were attempting to disrupt upcoming meetings involving the World Bank and I-M-F.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Washington, DC;]
Right now, police in the nation's capital have sealed off about 50 blocks around World Bank headquarters.
Earlier today-- police raided the protesters headquarters ousting some 300- organizers saying their building had become a fire hazard.
The protesters claim the raid was a sham.
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((THIS IS A CLEAR REPRESSION OF PEOPLES RIGHTS TO MAKE THEIR VOICES HEARD.))
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[VO-NAT]
The major demonstrations are planned for tomorrow and Monday.
That's when financial ministers and central bank heads have their main meetings scheduled.
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[ANCHOR=Teresa]
[ss=None]
The protesters accuse the banks of destroying the environment by funding dams and other such projects.
[School-Gun]
[ANCHOR=Teresa]
[NEWSCAST=11pm]
[WRITER=jsu]
[TAPE#=None]
[GRAPHIC=None]
News 7 has learned that a student at Dublin Elementary brought a gun school to yesterday.
Pulaski County Superintendent David Cox says the child was immediately removed from the school along with the firearm.
All Dublin elementary school students were given a note to take home informing their parents.
Cox says this is an isolated incident involving one student and that the school responded quickly and appropriately.
He would not say what will happen to the child-- but did say the gun has been turned over to Dublin police who are handling the investigation.
[Buck-Mt-Fire]
[ANCHOR=Teresa]
[NEWSCAST=11]
[WRITER=jha]
[TAPE#=00-09 TC1:27:08]
[GRAPHIC=Fire]
Part of a local business went up in flames this afternoon in Roanoke County.
The blaze destroyed a building full of construction equipment.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Roanoke Co.]
It started just after one this afternoon at J-P Turner Construction on Buck Mountain Road.
Fire officials say when they arrived, the garage and maintenance shop was engulfed and there was nothing they could do to save it.. so they focused efforts on keeping the fire contained.
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((DONALD GILLISPIE: FIRE MARSHALL: THEY CONCENTRATED WHAT EFFORTS THEY HAD ON PROTECTING THE TRAILER THAT IS ON THE EAST END OF THE SHOP BUILDING AND THE AREA WHERE THE FIRE HAD NOT PROGRESSED.))
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[VO-NAT]
How much was lost and the cause of the fire may not be known for several days.
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[VMI-Official]
[ANCHOR=Teresa]
[NEWSCAST=11pm]
[WRITER=tha]
[TAPE#=None]
[GRAPHIC=Plane Crash]
The pilot who died after crashing his plane in the Shenandoah National Park had strong connections to V-M-I.
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[TAKE FULL SCREEN PICTURE]
42- year old Jeffrey John Morgan was executive vice president of the school's Keydet Club.
He joined the fundraising organization in 1991.
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[anchor=Teresa]
[ss=HOLD]
Morgan was returning from a Keydet Club function in Williamsburg when his plane crashed yesterday around noon.
He was killed on impact.
Superintendent Josiah Bunting says Morgan embodied the absolute best of V-M-I, from character to enthusiasm.
[Toss-2-Robin]
A fairly warm but wet day... Let's head over to Andrew to find out if tomorrow is shaping up any better.[WX1]
[11:00pm]
[04/15/2000]
WEATHER OFFICE
[WXPRO/FULL]WEATHER MAP
WAKE UP FORECAST
[Toss back to anchor][Meningitis]
[ANCHOR=Teresa]
[NEWSCAST=11pm]
[WRITER=jsu]
[TAPE#=99-60 TC2:02:45]
[GRAPHIC=Meningitis]
Health officials believe they've treated everyone who may have come in contact with a former Radford University student diagnosed with Meningitis.
The 19 year old left Radford on April 7th and become very ill while at home in Richmond.
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[VO-NAT]
Dr. Jody Hershey says the teen is in stable condition at a Richmond area hospital.
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((Dr. JODY HERSHEY/NEW RIVER HEALTH DISTRICT: ONLY THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE IN CLOSE INTIMATE CONTACT WITH AN INDIVIDUAL ARE THOSE WHO WE THINK MAY BE AT INCREASED RISK AND AGAIN THE RELATIVE RISK TO MOST PEOPLE IS EXTREMELY LOW))
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=@File;]
Dr. Hershey says there are usually one or two cases a year on local college campuses.
The symptoms of the bacterial infection include sudden high fever, an intense headache, nausea, vomiting and occasionally a rash.
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[ANCHOR=Teresa]
[GRAPHIC=HOLD]
It can be fatal -- a 15 month old Pulaski County child died last month and a Radford University professor died in September.
[Auburn-Teacher]
[ANCHOR=Teresa]
[NEWSCAST=11]
[WRITER=dse]
[TAPE#=None]
[GRAPHIC=Legal Scales]
A Montgomery County teacher's aide is accused of molesting a 13-year old student.
46-Year old Wanda Fraser of Christiansburg was served with six warrants yesterday.
She's charged with carnal knowledge and taking indecent liberties with the boy.
Fraser was suspended from her job at Auburn Middle School in February.
Indictments allege the acts occured between December and February at her home.
Fraser was released on four-thousand dollars bond.
[Wise-Embezzler]
[ANCHOR=Teresa]
[NEWSCAST=11p]
[WRITER=chr]
[TAPE#=00-03 TC1:42:37]
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After four years on the run, one of Virginia's Most Wanted has turned himself in to Wise County authorities.
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[VO-NAT]
David Stanley was reportedly running an Internet start-up... and former co-workers say they had no idea he was a convicted felon.
Stanley pled guilty in 1989 to 55 counts of taking money in a fraud scheme in the Commonwealth and in Tennessee.
He disappeared in 1996.
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[ANCHOR=Teresa]
[SS=none]
He still owes between 160- and 300-thousand dollars in restitution.
Stanley - who's been living under an assumed name... turned himself in after hearing authorities were closing in on him.
[Cuban-Boy]
[ANCHOR=Teresa]
[NEWSCAST=11pm]
[WRITER=tha]
[TAPE#=net]
[GRAPHIC=Elian Gonzalez]
Protesters continue to surround the home of Elian Gonzalez's Miami relatives.
Meanwhile-- President Clinton says he still believes the boy should be reunited with his father.
Cathy Moss has the latest.
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[SUPER=01-Abraham Tirado/Elian's Cousin;]
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((After a scorcher of a day, protesters still stood shoulder to shoulder behind police barricades .. breathing a bit easier when the sun finally cooled things down. Earlier, Elian played with friends like cousin Abraham Tirado.
((Abraham Tirado/Elian's cousin))
"We were swinging and playing catch"
While the kids played., the Miami relatives now wait for another important court ruling. The government wants the appeals court to reverse the injunction earlier this week that keeps here in the U-S. The
Justice Department has told Lazaro Gonzalez his custody of Elian has expired, and he must now turn over the boy to his father. Manny Diaz , a lawyer for the family says they don't want to betray Elian.
((Manny Diaz/Lawyer for Miami relatives))
And on top of that, the Miami relatives are excusing the father Juan Miguel of emotional and physical abuse of the boy and his mother when they were back in Cuba. In an exclusive interview with 60 Minutes to air
Sunday night Juan Miguel told CBS's Dan Rather those accusations are quote totally false.))
[Tease1]
[ANCHOR=Jean]
[writer=chr]
[NEWSCAST=11p]
[SS=None]
We hear a lot about peer pressure.
Next on News 7, find out about a Roanoke program that teaches kids to use peer pressure for positive results.
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[VO-NAT]
And a last stand of trees now has federal protection.
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[Reach-2000]
[ANCHOR=Teresa]
[NEWSCAST=11pm]
[WRITER=jsu]
[TAPE#=00-14 TC02:27]
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Some local teenagers are meeting this weekend at a Roanoke high school to talk about drug and alcohol abuse.
It's all part of the 2-thousand Reach Conference.
Joy Sutton has the story.
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(( Madell Stanley is in the 8th grade at Breckenridge Middle School -- she says even kids her age are confronted with the decision to smoke cigarettes and marijuana.
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((how big is the marijuana issue. MADELL STANLEY: IT'S VERY BIG CAUSE. PEOPLE DO IT WHEN THEY'RE NERVOUS OR DEPRESSED))
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((MICHAEL OLDSON/WILLIAM FLEMING STUDENT: IT'S A BIG ISSUE ESPECIALLY AROUND THIS CAMPUS, CAUSE A LOT OF KIDS HERE TRY HIDING FROM THE SECURITY GUARDS .. WHEN THEY'RE SMOKING CIGARETTES OR SAY THE DON'T SMOKE SOME KIDS EVEN BRING ALCOHOL PUTTING IT IN THE SLUSHIES AND STUFF))
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Many students say that's why they are participating in the Reach Conference at William Fleming -- a program designed to teach youth how prevent alcohol and drug use among their peers.
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Christian Graham says he uses entertainment as a tool to teach-- a method he encourages them to use when they reach out to other kids.
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((CHRISTIAN GRAHAM/REACH COORDINATOR:WE'RE TRYING TO TO TEACH THIS HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS HOW TO PUT ON PROGRAMS FOR THE YOUNGER KIDS AND PART OF THAT GIVES THEM THE MOTIVATION THEMSELVES TO STAY CLEAN))
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((JOY SUTTON/REPORTING: THE STUDENTS SAY THAT PEER PRESSURE AT SCHOOL IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST FACTORS ENCOURAGING HIGH SCHOOL AND EVEN YOUNGER STUDENTS TO BRING ALCOHOL, SMOKE CIGARETTES AND EVEN TRY MARIJUANA))
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And many are hoping a little positive peer pressure from kids who have gone through the conference will encourage other students to just say "no".
Joy Sutton, News 7, Roanoke.))
[Gilmore]
[ANCHOR=Teresa]
[NEWSCAST=11pm]
[WRITER=tha]
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[GRAPHIC=Jim Gilmore]
Governor Gilmore now has an important position with the Bush presidential campaign.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Henry Co./Yesterday;]
Gilmore, who was in Henry County yesterday to announce the creation of new jobs, has been named co-chairman of the Republican National Committee's Victory two- thousand effort.
The committee will oversee election efforts for Governor George W. Bush as well as other candidates.
Bush was reportedly instrumental in having Gilmore named to the position.
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[Senate-Fundraising]
[ANCHOR=Teresa]
[NEWSCAST=11]
[WRITER=dse]
[TAPE#=None]
[GRAPHIC=Campaign 2000]
Republican George Allen is still winning the money race for one of Virginia's U-S Senate seats.
Allen has a substantial lead over incumbent Democratic Senator Chuck Robb.
That's according to financial reports released yesterday.
Allen raised just over a million dollars in the first quarter of the year, while Robb raised about 750-thousand dollars.
[Jail-Lock-Up]
[ANCHOR=Teresa]
[NEWSCAST=11pm]
[WRITER=jsu]
[TAPE#=99-57 TC1:54:14]
[GRAPHIC=none]
Some local folks got to experience life behind bars today.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Roanoke]
These willing volunteers -- agreed to be locked-up at Valley View Mall to raise money to fight against domestic violence.
Each prisoner was equipped with a cell phone and phone book, to call friends and family to pledge money for their bail -- with all of the money going to benefit the TAP Women's Resource Center.
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((SGT. TAMMY CARMICHAEL/ROANOKE CITY POLICE DEPT: THE MORE AWARENESS THAT WE GET TO THE PEOPLE THAT THERE ARE AGENCIES OUT HERE THAT ARE HERE FOR THEM TO HELP THEM THE BETTER WE ARE. IF WE CAN HELP ONE VICTIM NOT BECOME A VICTIM OF A HOMICIDE THEN WE'VE DONE SOMETHING RIGHT))
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[VO-NAT]
Sergeant Carmichael says last year -- domestic violence related deaths accounted for about half of the homicides in Roanoke.
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[Tease2]
[ANCHOR=Jean]
[writer=chr]
[NEWSCAST=11p]
[SS=None]
Kids turn out to get their hands dirty on National Youth Volunteer Day.
Details on that are still ahead.
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[VO-NAT]
[****USE NAT SOUND****]
And 225 years later, the Shot Heard Round the World is heard again.
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[Volunteer-Day]
[ANCHOR=Teresa]
[NEWSCAST=11pm]
[WRITER=jsu]
[TAPE#=00-15 TC01:23]
[GRAPHIC=None]
Today's rain didn't dampen the spirits of some local kids working hard in the outdoors.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Roanoke]
About a dozen volunteers from the Red Cross Youth Council got wet and muddy this afternoon planting flowers and trees and picking weeds on the playground of the Lincoln Terrace Head Start office.
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[IN Q=Just knowing that]
((EVAN PERRY/RED CROSS YOUTH COUNCIL: JUST KNOWING THAT I'M DOING SOMETHING MAKES ME KIND OF HAPPY THAT I'M RETURNING TO THE COMMUNITY. IT JUST GIVES YOU A FEELING THAT YOU CAN'T MATCH))
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[VO-NAT]
The kids were taking part in a nationwide event -- National Youth Volunteer Day.
Each year these students pick a different location to volunteer their time.
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[Sequoias]
[ANCHOR=Teresa]
[NEWSCAST=11pm]
[WRITER=tha]
[TAPE#=]
[GRAPHIC=Bill Clinton]
President Clinton spent the day amongst the nation's last remaining giant sequoia trees high in the Sierra Nevada.
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[VO-NAT 15:08:43]
[SUPER=03-Sequoia National Park, CA;]
Clinton was there to place almost all the majestic trees under permanent federal protection from logging and other dangers.
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((PRESIDENT CLINTON: WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO THE FIRST EARTH DAY OF THE NEW
MILLENNIUM AND I THINK THE BEST TO CELEBRATE IT IS TO DEDICATE THE TRAIL
OF GIANTS THE "GIANT SEQUOIA NATIONAL MONUMENT".))
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[VO-NAT]
Sequoias once thrived across western North America, but after centuries of logging and development now stand in only about 70 groves on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada.
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[S-Wrath]
[ANCHOR=Roy]
[NEWSCAST=11pm]
[WRITER=rst]
[TAPE#=SP-65 (23:24)]
[GRAPHIC=Roanoke Wrath]
The Roanoke Wrath opened their 2000 soccer season last night as the Charlotte Eagles made a visit to the Star City.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Roanoke/Wrath vs Eagles; :]
Dave Patterson on the sideline for his first game as the Wrath head coach.
Roanoke would get on the board first. In the first half Leto Alibaruho plays the ball off his chest he boots it into the corner of the net for the score to make it
[SUPER=34-Roanoke/1/Charlotte/3/;]
1 to nothing but Charlotte goes on to win the season opener for both teams 3 to 1.
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[S-Jones]
[ANCHOR=Roy]
[NEWSCAST=11pm]
[WRITER=rst]
[TAPE#=SP-56 (2:05:36)]
[GRAPHIC=NFL Draft]
Virginia's Thomas Jones was the first player from the state and the second running back selected in the 2-thousand draft.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Charlottesville; :]
Jones was selected with the seventh pick by the Arizona Cardinals. Jones earned All America honors last year rushing for nearly 18-hundred yards and 16 touchdowns.
During his career at U-V-A Jones gained 31-hundred yards for 29 touchdowns and added 50 receptions for 418 yards and 3 touchdowns.
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[TALENT=roy]
[GRAHIC=Hold Logo]
Former Fleming star John St. Clair was the last pick in the third round going to the St. Louis Rams.
[S-Tech]
[ANCHOR=Roy]
[NEWSCAST=11pm]
[WRITER=rst]
[TAPE#=SP-64 (21:48)]
[GRAPHIC=Draft 2000]
Two Virginia Tech defensive players were chosen in the second round of the N-F-L draft.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Blacksburg; :]
First to go was defensive end John Engleberger. He was the 35-th selection in the second round by the San Francisco 49-ers. Engleberger is 6 foot 4 and weighs 270 points he runs the 40 in 4.7.
Then Cornerback Ike Charlton was the 52-nd pick in the round. He gets a shot with the Seattle Seahawks. Charlton runs a 4.4 40 and he's 5 foot 11 and weighs 205 pounds. He was a leader on the Hokie top ranked defense.
All America Corey Moore was the 89-th pick in the third round. Moore, who will play linebacker in the N-F-L, was selected by the Buffalo Bills.
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[S-NFL]
[ANCHOR=Roy]
[NEWSCAST=11pm]
[WRITER=rst]
[TAPE#=SP-55 (2:03:45)]
[GRAPHIC=NFL Draft]
Penn State defensive lineman Courtney Brown was the first player selected in the draft.
The Six Foot five, 270 pound defensive lineman was picked by the Cleveland Browns.
[GRAPHIC=Washington Redskins]
The Washington Redskins had the number 2 and 3 picks in the draft and the Skins went for offense and defense.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=04-NCAA; :]
With the second pick the Skins selected Penn State Linebacker LaVar Arrington. Arrington won the Butkus award last year while leaving the Nittany Lions a year early.
Last season Arrington had 72 tackles, 10 sacks and 20 tackles for a loss despite several minor injuries.
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[TALENT=Roy]
[GRAPHIC=Hold Skins]
The Skins over-looked receiver Peter Warrick and selected Alabama offensive lineman Chris Samuels with the third pick.
Samuels was an All America last year receiving the Outland Trophy.
[GRAPHIC=NFL Draft]
Warrick the Wide receiver from Florida State was the fourth pick by the Cincinnati Bengals.
The Brewers beat the braves. More when we return.
[S-Braves]
[ANCHOR=Roy]
[NEWSCAST=11pm]
[WRITER=rst]
[TAPE#=SP-66 (2:39)]
[GRAPHIC=BRAVES/BREWERS]
Milwaukee scored the go ahead run in the 8-th on an Andres Galarraga error and held on to beat Atlanta 6 to 3.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Milwaukee, WI/TBS; :]
Jeromy Burnitz fan's at the ball game.
Burnitz drove in the first run in the first then in the fifth Mark Loretta smokes this solo homer to left field his first of the year the Brewers led 3 to 1.
[SUPER=35-Milwaukee/6/Atlanta/3/;]
Milwaukee took the lead in the 8-th then Geoff Jenkins added icing to the cake with this 2 run homer the Brewers beat the Braves 6 to 3.
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[S-Scores]
[ANCHOR=Roy]
[NEWSCAST=11pm]
[WRITER=rst]
[TAPE#=None]
[GRAPHIC=Avalanche Logo]
Myrtle Beach beat the Salem Avalanche 4 to 1 in game one of double header. In the second game Salem won 5 to 3.
And here's tonight's scores.
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[S-Foutz]
[ANCHOR=Roy]
[NEWSCAST=11PM]
[WRITER=dal]
[TAPE#=SP-67 tc :00:58:05]
[GRAPHIC=VT Baseball]
Injuries have slowed the Virginia Tech baseball team this season.
But Denise Allen reports that luckily for the Hammerin' Hokies, red-shirt senior Chad Foutz has returned with a new perspective on the game and life.
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[SOT]
[IN Q=]
[super=03-Blacksburg/1998 Season; :00]
[SUPER=03-Salem/April 1998; :06]
[SUPER=01-Chad Foutz/VT Senior Third Baseman; :13]
[SUPER=03-Blacksburg; :24]
[SUPER=01-Chuck Hartman/Va. Tech Head Coach; :46]
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[OUT Q=news 7 sports]
((Chad Foutz was hitting 341 with 22 RBIs when he tore his ACL against Richmond in 1998--a season ending injury.
He went through a year of rehab, which also was a lesson in patience.
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While experiencing the injury was difficult, the '99 season was even more painful. Chad didn't suit up for his senior year. His grades kept him off the field.
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Chad has return for 2000 to bat 343, score 30 runs with an on-base percentage of 456 in 38 games this season.
But the Rocky Mount native has learned what's important at home, as he's watched his mom battle Leukemia.
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Words he lives and shares with teammates as he works to a goal of batting 350 for the season.
Denise Allen News 7 Sports.))
[S-Busch]
[ANCHOR=Roy]
[NEWSCAST=11pm]
[WRITER=rst]
[TAPE#=SP-61 (1:21:07)]
[GRAPHIC=Rick Mast]
For the third time this year, Rick Mast will not race today. Mast Failed to qualify for the Die Hard 500 at Talladega.
[GRAPHIC=Talladega Logo]
Meantime, The Woods Brothers ford driven by Elliottt Sadler also failed to qualify for the race.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Talladega, AL/ESPN2; :]
In the Busch race yesterday afternoon, Joe Nemechek would take the checkered flag in the Touchtone Energy 300.
Nemechek would hold off the field with a litttle help from Bobby Hamilton Junior who finished fourth.
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[SOT]
[IN Q="He was...]
((JOE NEMECHEK/TOUCHTONE ENERGY 300 WINNER: HE WAS GOING TO GO WITH US AT THE END HE HAD A FAST RACE CAR AND I THINK BUCKSHOT KNEW IF HE JUMPED OUT OF LINE BOBBY WAS GOING TO POP IN BEHIND US. IT WAS PRETTY AWESOME.))
[SUPER=01-Joe Nemechek/Touchtone Energy 300 Winner; :]
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[OUT Q=.......PRETTY AWESOME."]
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[TALENT=Roy]
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Jones was second, Jeff Purvis third and Jeff Green fifth.
That's it for sports. Have a Great Day everybody.
[War-Reenactment]
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Thousands of re-enactors gathered in Massachusetts this weekend to celebrate the 225th anniversary of the start of the Revolutionary War.
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[SUPER=75-Lexington, MA]
At dawn, the "shot heard round the world" was heard again as gunfire sounded across the village green at Lexington.
Events like Paul Revere's ride and capture and the battle at Concord Bridge were played out today.
Organizers expected two-hundred-thousand spectators to attend today's events.
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