WDBJ 7 morning news for 05/18/00

[11BioMedical-Complex]

[ANCHOR=Kimberly]

[NEWSCAST=Morn]
[WRITER=tha]
[TAPE#=00-]
[GRAPHIC=Carilion Biomedical]

Roanoke is preparing to break ground on a new business park.
City leaders say the Riverside Centre for Research and Technology won't disturb any homes but will affect some businesses.
Teresa Hamilton has more.
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[IN Q=The research]
[SUPER=03-Roanoke; :00]
[SUPER=01-Darlene Burcham/Roanoke City Manager; :24]
[SUPER=@bowers; :39]
[SUPER=01-Laura Bullock/VDOT Spokesperson; 1:02]
[SUPER=@Teresa1; 1:14 ]
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[OUT Q=Hamilton, NEWS 7.]
(( The research and technology park will cover 74 acres along Jefferson Street and Reserve Avenue... just south of downtown Roanoke.
The goal is to attract high-tech healthcare-related industries to the valley.
Initially, the city will invest approximately 14- million dollars in the project-- money city leaders say will pay off.
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[in q=I would]
((I WOULD EXPECT NOT ONLY MEDICAL FACILITIES BUT RELATED BUSINESSES AND INDUSTRIES TO ALSO LOCATE THERE.)) [RUNS07]
[OUT Q= locate there.]

Indeed-- the research park has already attracted its first tenant.
The Carilion Biomedical Institute will be building a 10- million dollar facility at the site.
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[in q= We will]
((WE WILL WORK WITH THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TO BUILD A NEW INTERCHANGE OF ROY L. WEBBER EXPRESSWAY. THE NEW EXIT RAMPS WILL ROUTE TRAFFIC DIRECTLY INTO THE RESEARCH PARK PROTECTING NEARBY RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS FROM BUSINESS TRAFFIC.)) [RUNS16]
[OUT Q= business traffic.]

But a V -DOT spokesperson says any road improvements, at this point, are not set in stone.
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[in q= It sounds]
((LAURA BULLOCK/VDOT SPOKESPERSON: IT SOUNDS PROMISING BUT WE'VE GOT TO DO QUANTIFIABLE ANALYSIS, WE'VE GOT TO HAVE SPECIFIC FIGURES CONCERNING TRAFFIC WHERE TRAFFIC WOULD COME FROM, WHERE IT WOULD GO BEFORE WE COULD SAY WHAT COULD POSSIBLY BE DONE IN THAT AREA.)) [RUNS13]
[OUT Q= in that area.]

Laura Bullock says V-DOT is looking forward to working with the city and has told city leaders the project does look promising. Teresa Hamilton, NEWS 7.

))[Microsoft]

[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
[NEWSCAST=Mornin]
[WRITER=kmc]
[TAPE#=net]
[GRAPHIC=Microsoft]

The Justice Department is standing by its earlier findings, insisting that Microsoft be broken up into two companies.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=04-File Tape;]

Last night's filing claimed that breaking up the company is the only way to prevent anti- competitive behavior by the computer giant.
The Justice Department also rejected Microsoft's proposal, which included milder sanctions.
It said that proposal would NOT restore competition in the industry.
Microsoft representatives said they were not surprised by the ruling.
A hearing on the case is set for next week.
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[11McCoy]

[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
[NEWSCAST=morn]
[WRITER=khu]
[TAPE#=None]
[GRAPHIC=Legal scales]

An internet company in Arizona has been charged with providing the nitrous oxide that killed a Virginia Tech student last Fall.
Computer Science Major Andrew McCoy ordered the drug on line from bongmart- dot-com.
Federal agents raided the source in Tempe, Arizona and found an assortment of water bongs and pipes.
Nitrous Oxide is commonly used as a propellant, but is also widely abused as a recreational drug.

[11Ferrum]

[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
[NEWSCAST=morn]
[WRITER=tte]
[TAPE#=00-05 TC1:25:44]
[GRAPHIC=Ferrum College]

Ferrum College's president will step down in two years.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Ferrum;]

Jerry Boone rejected an offer from the Ferrum Board of Trustees to work an extra year.
Students have been angry at Boone recently for slicing athletic programs and changing the housing plan.
Faculty have criticized him for letting enrollment slide almost twenty percent in the last decade.
But Boone says faculty pressure did not push him out.
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[IN Q=If you think]
((IF YOU THINK I'M PLEASED WITH IT, NO. I WOULD SAY NO TO THAT BUT AGAIN, I ANSWER TO A BOARD OF TRUSTEES THAT IS VERY PLEASED WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF FERRUM COLLEGE.))
[SUPER=01-Jerry Boone/Ferrum President;]
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[OUT Q=Ferrum College]
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[VO-NAT]

Boone plans to spend retirement with his family in Asheville, North Carolina...
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[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
[SS=HOLD]
but he says before he leaves he'll make more big changes at Ferrum College.

[11Roanoke-Radio]

[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
[NEWSCAST=morn]
[WRITER=jmi]
[TAPE#=00-08 TC1:24:58]
[GRAPHIC=None]

Two of Southwest Virginia's favorite radio stations have merged.
News 7 Business Reporter Jennifer (Mee-lee) Miele has more on the story.
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[IN Q=Just moments]
[SUPER=03-Roanoke; :00]
[SUPER=01-Leonard Wheeler/WPVR President; :26]
[SUPER=01-Herm Reavis/WSLC General Manager; :53]
[SUPER=19-Jennifer/Miele; 1:09]
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[OUT Q=News 7 Salem.]
((Just moments before revealing Arrow 94's new format, phones were ringing off the hook with complaints about listening to 12 hours of the Rolling Stone's song, "It's only rock and roll."
[NATSOUND=]
((TUNE IN AT NOON)) Leonard Wheeler is President of Mel Wheeler, Inc., the company that owns The Arrow.
[SOT]
[IN Q=Besides, we'll]
((BESIDES WE'LL BE ABLE TO COVER ROANOKE, LYNCHBURG, NEW RIVER VALLEY, IT'S A 100,000 WATT STATION IN THE MARKET PLACE.
IT WILL GIVE COUNTRY MUSIC LISTENERS AN OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR A SIGNAL OF THAT STREAM.)) [RUNS14]
[OUT Q=of that stream.]

Star 94 will be simulcasting with WSLC-AM. Once a classic country station, WSLC's switch to mainstream country could mean powerhouse advertising opportunities for sponsors.
[SOT]
[IN Q=We look]
((WE LOOK AT THIS AS A GROWTH PATTERN TO TRY TO BROADEN OUR SERVICE AREA AND OUR LISTENING AREA TO TRY TO GAIN MORE LISTENERS TO BETTER SERVE OUR ADVERTISERS WITH A GREATER COMMERCIAL ACCEPTANCE.)) [RUNS13]
[OUT Q=commercial acceptance]
[SOT]

Now, both stations are playing country music with now live voices, but listeners are encouraged to call in with complaints. Jennifer Miele, News 7, Salem.))

[Church-Bombing]

[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
[NEWSCAST=Mornin]
[WRITER=kmc]
[TAPE#=net]
[GRAPHIC=Bombing]

Two former Ku Klux Klansmen are facing murder charges in the 19-63 church bombing that killed four black girls in Birmingham, Alabama.
Teri Okita reports.
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[IN Q=]
[SUPER=01-Doug Jones/U. S. Attorney; :16]
[SUPER=01-Rep. John Lewis/(D) Georgia; :55]
[SUPER=01-Teri Okita/Reporting; 1:16 ]
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[OUT Q=Teri Okita, CBS News, Washington.]

((
It was a shocking crime during the height of the civil rights movement. Four young black girls KILLED ... in a 1963 church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama. And now -- nearly 37 years later -- two longtime suspects are charged in the attack.

((sot: Doug Jones/U-S Attorney))
"This case was re-opened...there was new information that came to light ..."
Bobby Cherry and Thomas Blanton Jr. surrendered to authorities... after a grand jury indicted them on murder charges. Cherry and Blanton were among four Ku Klux Klansmen initially suspected of carrying out the blast ... at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.
The explosion took the lives of 11-year old Denise McNair ... and 14-year olds Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Addie Mae Collins.

((nat sot )) "we were screaming...hollering"

Their deaths also sparked outrage among blacks and some whites -- already in the midst of fighting to end segregation.

SOT: Rep John Lewis/D-Georgia
The bombing just shattered that sense of hope and optimism and created indignation and it forced people black and white to say - enough is enough .
Since then, the bombing has been a -tough case to crack. In the 1970's, one suspect was convicted. He died while serving a life sentence.
Teri Okita, CBS News, Washington

))[11Louisa-Bombing]

[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
[NEWSCAST=morn]
[WRITER=jda]
[TAPE#=500-16 TC07:43]
[GRAPHIC=hOLD]
A man State Police say they believe is responsible for a bombing in Louisa County that killed a pregnant woman and her unborn child has been arrested.
Investigators believe Coleman Leake Johnson Junior set the bomb to avoid making child support payments.
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[VO-NAT]

Tammy Lynn Baker was killed when the bomb went off
[SUPER=03-Louisa/December 1997; ]
outside her apartment early on the morning of December 3rd, 1997.
Her murder was one of three bombings in that area over several months.
Johnson was arrested in Newport News.
If convicted, he could face the federal death penalty.
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[11Coal]

[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
[NEWSCAST=morn]
[WRITER=dse]
[TAPE#=None]
[GRAPHIC=Coal Mining]

King Coal can provide Virginians jobs for some 50 more years.
But some researchers say the reserves may not last nearly that long.
Virginia Tech's Powell River Project estimated that Virginia's coal fields have an estimated 28-Billion tons of coal remaining, but less than a tenth of that can be extracted cost effectively.
The study also concluded that coal production will decline in the coming years.

[Health-Check]

[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
[NEWSCAST=Morn]
[WRITER=chr]
[TAPE#=NET]
[GRAPHIC=Mornin Health Check]

In medical news, new research shows eating fish may help with depression.
Tricia Kean has that story and more in this morning's Health check.
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[SUPER=01-Tricia Kean/Reporting; :00 ]
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[OUT Q=CBS News, New York.]
((Information:
ONCAM=TRICIA
((on cam))
WE'VE ALL HEARD THAT AN APPLE A DAY KEEPS THE DOCTOR AWAY. WELL, CAN A FISH A DAY KEEP -THE BLUES- AWAY?
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A NEW STUDY OUT OF FINLAND FINDS... THAT PEOPLE WHO ATE FISH LESS THAN ONCE A WEEK WERE 31 PERCENT MORE LIKELY TO HAVE -MILD- OR -SEVERE DEPRESSION- THAN PEOPLE WHO ATE IT MORE OFTEN.
FISH CONTAINS OMEGA -3- POLY-UNSATURED FATTY ACIDS...... A SUBSTANCE EARLIER STUDIES HAVE SHOWN IS -EFFECTIVE- IN TREATING -MANIC DEPRESSION-.
WHILE THE RESULTS MAY BE PROMISING, RESEARCHERS SAY... ITS STILL TOO EARLY TO RECOMMEND THAT PEOPLE EAT FISH TO AVOID DEPRESSION.
VT=VO
((vo))
WHILE ADDING FISH TO YOUR DIET MAY BE A GOOD IDEA... ANOTHER STUDY SAYS ITS A GOOD IDEA TO TAKE SALT OUT.
RESEARCHERS WITH THE NATIONAL HEART, LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE FOUND THAT -LESS SALT- AND MORE FRUITS AND VEGETABLES CAN LOWER YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE AND PREVENT FUTURE HYPER-TENSION.
THE CURRENT RECOMMENDED SODIUM INTAKE IS -24- HUNDRED MILLIGRAMS A DAY. BUT THE SCIENTISTS SAY THATS TOO HIGH. THEY SAY THE BEST AMOUNT IS -15- HUNDRED MILLIGRAMS A DAY.
VT=VO
((vo))
AND.... PHYSICIANS TREATING YOUNG DIALYSIS PATIENTS MAY WANT TO RECONSIDER USING LARGE DOSES OF CALCIUM CONTAINING MEDICATIONS.
A STUDY IN THIS WEEK'S NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE SAYS... ABOUT -90- PERCENT OF THESE YOUNG ADULTS SHOWED SIGNS OF -LARGE CALCIUM DEPOSITS- ALONG THE WALLS OF VESSELS THAT SUPPLY BLOOD TO THE HEART.
THIS CONDITION CAN LEAD TO CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE... WHICH RESEARCHERS SAY ACCOUNTS FOR NEARLY -50- PERCENT OF ALL DEATHS IN DIALYSIS PATIENTS.
ONCAM=TRICIA
((on cam))
AND... THAT'S A LOOK AT -THE DAY IN HEALTH-. I'M TRICIA KEAN, CBS NEWS, NEW YORK.))

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[Two-Steve]

[ANCHOR=Steve]
[NEWSCAST=Morn]
[WRITER=spa]
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[Small Studio]
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[Take Campin' with Steve Board---FS---8700ESS]

[Double Boxes=AFR & SPA]
(toss to Andrew)
[2-HEADLINES]
[2-shot=Mel/Kmc]
[SUPER=#4049; Morning Headlines]
[ANCHOR=Melanie]

Here's a look at today's top stories.
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[VO-NAT]
[ANCHOR=Kim]

Roanoke is investing 14- million dollars in a new business park that'll be located just south of downtown.
The Riverside Centre for Research and Technology promises to attract high- tech health- care industries to the Star city.
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[VO-NAT]
[ANCHOR=Kim]

A re-trial is underway in West Virginia in the 20-year- old Rainbow Family murder case.
Jacob Beard was convicted of murder in 1993, but was released last year after a judge ordered a new trial.
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[VO-NAT]
[ANCHOR=Kim]

And a Cincinnati- based company wants to buy 16 million dollars worth of assets from Tultex.
In Bankruptcy Court hearings in Danville, a judge approved the deal between T-S-C Acquisition and Tultex..
The buyer will acquire clothing, furniture, office and warehouse equipment.
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[ANCHOR=Kimberly]

And that's what's making news on this Thursday, May 18th .
[ANCHOR=Andrew]

News 7 Mornin' will be right back.

[2-11BioMedical-Complex]

[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
[NEWSCAST=Morn]
[WRITER=tha]
[TAPE#=00-]
[GRAPHIC=Carilion Biomedical]

A new business park will be built in Roanoke.
As Teresa Hamilton reports, City leaders say the Riverside Centre for Research and Technology won't disturb any homes but it will affect some businesses.

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[SOT]
[IN Q=The research]
[SUPER=03-Roanoke; :00]
[SUPER=01-Darlene Burcham/Roanoke City Manager; :24]
[SUPER=@bowers; :39]
[SUPER=01-Laura Bullock/VDOT Spokesperson; 1:02]
[SUPER=@Teresa1; 1:14 ]
[RUNS=1:25]
[OUT Q=Hamilton, NEWS 7.]
(( The research and technology park will cover 74 acres along Jefferson Street and Reserve Avenue... just south of downtown Roanoke.
The goal is to attract high-tech healthcare-related industries to the valley.
Initially, the city will invest approximately 14- million dollars in the project-- money city leaders say will pay off.
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[in q=I would]
((I WOULD EXPECT NOT ONLY MEDICAL FACILITIES BUT RELATED BUSINESSES AND INDUSTRIES TO ALSO LOCATE THERE.)) [RUNS07]
[OUT Q= locate there.]

Indeed-- the research park has already attracted its first tenant.
The Carilion Biomedical Institute will be building a 10- million dollar facility at the site.
[sot 00:12:38 ]
[in q= We will]
((WE WILL WORK WITH THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TO BUILD A NEW INTERCHANGE OF ROY L. WEBBER EXPRESSWAY. THE NEW EXIT RAMPS WILL ROUTE TRAFFIC DIRECTLY INTO THE RESEARCH PARK PROTECTING NEARBY RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS FROM BUSINESS TRAFFIC.)) [RUNS16]
[OUT Q= business traffic.]

But a V -DOT spokesperson says any road improvements, at this point, are not set in stone.
[SOT 01:46:10]
[in q= It sounds]
((LAURA BULLOCK/VDOT SPOKESPERSON: IT SOUNDS PROMISING BUT WE'VE GOT TO DO QUANTIFIABLE ANALYSIS, WE'VE GOT TO HAVE SPECIFIC FIGURES CONCERNING TRAFFIC WHERE TRAFFIC WOULD COME FROM, WHERE IT WOULD GO BEFORE WE COULD SAY WHAT COULD POSSIBLY BE DONE IN THAT AREA.)) [RUNS13]
[OUT Q= in that area.]

Laura Bullock says V-DOT is looking forward to working with the city and has told city leaders the project does look promising. Teresa Hamilton, NEWS 7.

))[Brush-Fire]

[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
[NEWSCAST=Mornin]
[WRITER=kmc]
[TAPE#=net]
[GRAPHIC=Brush Fire]
While 60- percent of the Los Alamos, New Mexico wildfire is now contained.... the brush fires continue in Sarasota
County, Florida.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Sarasota Co., FL;]

Drought conditions are keeping the threat of wildfires extremely high across the state.
Florida's Agriculture Commissioner ordered a ban on all outdoor burning, except barbecue grills.
Yesterday, Interstate 75 was closed for several hours in Sarasota County as firefighters worked to get the three
- thousand- acre brush fire under control.
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[Resendiz-Trial]

[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
[NEWSCAST=Mornin]
[WRITER=kmc]
[TAPE#=net]
[GRAPHIC=Legal Scales]

A jury in Houston resumes its deliberations today in the trial of an admitted serial killer.
(ahn-HEHL reh-SEND-deez) Angel Resendiz is believed to have committed nine murders in three states.
But he's only being tried to the rape and murder of a Houston doctor.
Terisa Estacio has the latest.
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[SUPER=03-Houston, TX; :00]
[SUPER=01-Terisa Estacio/Reporting; 1:04]
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[OUT Q=Terisa Estacio,CBS News, Houston.]

[11Rainbow-Murders]

[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
[NEWSCAST=morn]
[WRITER=jda]
[TAPE#=00-11 TC47:59]
[GRAPHIC=HOLD]

A re-trial is now underway in West Virginia in the 20-year- old Rainbow Family murder case.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Lewisburg, WV;]

Jacob Beard was convicted of murder in 1993, but was released last year after a judge ordered a new trial.
19-year-old Nancy Santomero and 26-year-old Vicki Durian were hitchhiking to a Rainbow Family Gathering in the summer of 1980 when they were shot and killed.
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[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
[GRAPHIC=HOLD]

The trial was moved to Braxton County, where opening arguments began yesterday.
Court officials expect the trial to continue for eight to ten days.

[Unshackling-Past]

[ANCHOR=Kim]
[NEWSCAST=Mornin]
[WRITER=equ]
[TAPE#=net]
[GRAPHIC=Unshackling the Past]

Richmond is just months away from a new kind of tourism.
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[VO-NAT]

City leaders are looking back to the 19th century again-- but this time for a multi-million dollar slave memorial, and a slave trail walking tour.
It would start on the James River, where slaves were shipped to the deep South.
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[SOT 10:55:50]
[IN Q=Sold to Georgia]
((PHIL SHWARZ/VCU HISTORIAN: SOLD TO GEORGIA AS THE EXPRESSION WENT. SOLD DOWN THE RIVER. WERE THEY GONNA END UP ON A COTTON PLANTATION IN GANG LABOR WHERE THE CONDITIONS WERE HARSHER?))13
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((LLOYD FORD: IT MAKES ME WONDER HOW IT WOULD HAVE BEEN IF I'D BEEN HERE TO SEE IT.))03
[SUPER=01-Phil Schwarz/VCU Historian; :00]
[SUPER=07-Lloyd Ford; :14 QUICK!! ]
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[OUT Q=here to see it.]
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[VO-NAT]

NOT everyone who comes to the old Manchester Docks for recreation agrees the story should be told.
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[SOT 14:16:47]
[IN Q=I mean]
((BETTY WILLIAMS: I MEAN THERE'S STILL A LOT OF HATRED. A LOT OF PEOPLE MAY FEEL LIKE WE SHOULD STILL BE IN CHAINS.))

[SUPER=07-Betty Williams;]
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[OUT Q=in chains.]
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[VO-NAT]

Tonight on NEWS 7 at SIX, the focus shifts to Richmond... at one time the slave trading capital of the world. [TAKE FULL SCREEN GRAPHIC HERE]
It's the final night of our series "Unshackling the Past."
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[11Tultex]

[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
[NEWSCAST=morn]
[WRITER=sch]
[TAPE#=500-8]
[GRAPHIC=Tultex Chapter 11]

A Cincinnati based company wants to buy 16 million dollars worth of assets from Tultex.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Henry Co.;]

In Bankruptcy Court hearings in Danville, a judge gives the okay for T-S-C Acquisition and Tultex to go ahead with the deal.
The purchaser will attain clothing, furniture, office and warehouse equipment from two out-of-state distribution companies Tultex owns.
The deal will close on Monday. Tultex lawyer, Bruce Matson, says the purchaser wants to keep the businesses running and hopefully keep the current employees.
An auction will be held next month for the remaining Tultex assets.
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[Soccer-Match]

[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
[NEWSCAST=Mornin]
[WRITER=kmc]
[TAPE#=net]
[GRAPHIC=none]

Last night's soccer match in Denmark turned violent.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Copenhagen, Denmark;]

At least 26 people are under arrest, while five others are seriously injured after the U-E-F-A match in Copenhagen.
At least 24- thousand Turkish and English fans attended the match.
But afterward, police in riot gear had to separate them.
Police quickly surrounded this car that was riding alongside some London fans.
Authorities smashed the windscreen and arrested everyone inside the vehicle.
The police crackdown followed earlier clashes, one in which a man was stabbed in the stomach.
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[11Roberts]

[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
[NEWSCAST=morn]
[WRITER=mjo]
[TAPE#=00-07 TC1:29:02]
[GRAPHIC=Legal Scales]

A star Virginia Tech basketball player pleaded guilty to drug possession.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Philadelphia, PA/March 1999]

21-year-old Rolan Roberts, a forward for the Hokies, will serve six months' probation for marijuana possession.
Police searched Roberts' apartment in February and found a pipe and less than half an ounce of marijuana in a plastic bag.
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[Local-Recap]
[SUPER=#4059;Local Recap]
[2-Shot=Kmc/Afr]
[ANCHOR=Kimberly]

Now here's another look at today's top local stories:
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[VO-NAT]
[ANCHOR=Kimberly]

A new business park will be built in Roanoke.
The Riverside Centre for Research and Technology will cover 74 acres along Jefferson Street and Reserve Avenue... just south of downtown Roanoke. The Carilion Biomedical Institute will be building a 10- million dollar facility at the site.

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[VO-NAT]
[ANCHOR=Kimberly]

A re-trial in the 20-year- old Rainbow Family murder case is now underway in West Virginia.
Jacob Beard was convicted of murder in 1993, but was released last year after a judge ordered a new trial.
Court officials expect this trial to continue for eight to ten days.
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[VO-NAT]
[ANCHOR=Kimberly]

The president of Ferrum college has announced he will retire in two years. Jerry Boone rejected an offer from the Ferrum Board of Trustees to work an extra year. He says faculty pressure did not push him out. Boone plans to spend retirement with his family in Asheville, North Carolina.
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[ANCHOR=Andrew]
(Andrew mic hot)
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(Andrew ad lib weather)
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[2-SHOT]
[ANCHOR=Kim]

Now here's Keith Humphry with a preview of News 7 at Six.
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[Double Boxes=Kimberly/Andrew and Steve]
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[ANCHOR=Steve]
(live ad lib, tease tomorrow)
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