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Truckers and down time. The issue is debated on capitol hill... we'll hear from drivers.
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[TALENT=Keith]
And we'll see what's new about the drowning death of a two- year old in Vinton.
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Tonight on News 7 sports, Bill Elliott talks about his new lease on life in Winston Cup racing.
Plus, regional high school action is well underway. Softball and Soccer highlights are on the way,
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Along with a look at how William Byrd earned itself a trip to the state tournament in baseball this afternoon in Lynchburg.
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Heading for a two day warm up with temperatures near 90. Full forecast details and a Wednesday WeatherSchool coming up.
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A proposed federal regulation could change the number of hours truckers drive on the road.
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Kate Weidaw has been examining the impact in our area.
Kate, I gather most truck drivers think this is a bad idea.
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[Halifax-murder]
[ANCHOR=Keith]
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Halifax County authorities say an apparent domestic argument led to death.
Investigators say someone shot 56 year old Henry Lionel Link of South Boston.
His wife Mary Link called deputies and stated someone had been shot and she needed a deputy.
That's when officers found Link dead in his home.
Authorities seized several firearms. Charges are pending.
[Freeman]
[ANCHOR=Keith]
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[WRITER=sch]
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A Danville judge has convicted a man accused of using underaged girls in pornographic material.
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25 year old Roger Donovan Freeman of Danville was charged with eight counts, including sodomy, statutory rape and child pornography.
Prosecutors entered about two dozen photographs that include Freeman and two juvenile girls.
Several police officers who served the warrant testified today.
Freeman pled NOT guilty to all charges.
But shortly after closing arguments tonight Judge James Ingram convicted him on all eight counts.
He'll be sentenced June 29th. In the meantime, Freeman will be held in the Danville jail.
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[Jackson]
[ANCHOR=Keith]
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[WRITER=jda]
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[GRAPHIC=Legal Scales]
Brian Eugene Jackson faces trial next week on charges of arson and murder.
Today, his attorneys went to court seeking more information on three jailhouse witnesses who may testify in the case.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Roanoke/May 18, 1998;]
Jackson is charged with the Church Avenue rooming house fire that killed six people in May of 1998.
He was in court today, as his attorney asked for more information on three inmates who may claim that Jackson made incriminating statements while in the Roanoke City Jail.
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Prosecutors have agreed to provide more information, once it is clear the inmates will testify. Jackson's trial is scheduled to begin on Monday.
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[West]
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A year and a half after his release from prison, convicted killer Dennis West was in court again today... accused of assaulting a co-worker.
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Because he was paroled with 10 years left on a 20-year sentence for killing his wife in Salem, this case had greater significance than the average assault and battery.
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Shona Reynolds filed the charge, because she says he scared her.
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West has been the assistant manager at Holiday Inn Express on Gainsboro Road since the first of the year.
He felt Reynolds was undependable and was ready to fire her.
When he got to work on April 22nd, he says she was yelling and cussing at him.
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Reynolds says he grabbed her arm in the midst of all this.
West denied touching her.
Judge Jackie Talevi concluded there was a confrontation but no criminal touching. So she dismissed the charge.
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[Vinton-Drowning]
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Vinton police are trying to determine how a two year old wandered off and drowned yesterday while in the care of a baby-sitter.
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Teresa Hamilton has been looking into the story and has more on the investigation.
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Keith, Vinton police aren't the only ones conducting an investigation. Other agencies are also involved because the caretaker in this case was not registered with the state to be caring for more than five children.
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Vinton police are collecting information to determine if charges will be filed against Leni (WHIT-MEYER) Whitmire-- the baby sitter caring for two year old Hailey Wilson.
Right now-- Vaught says it appears Hailey wandered off and got past a secured gate gaining access to the swimming pool.
He says what investigators want to know is how the child managed to get out of the house and out of Whitmire's sight... as well as how the toddler got the gate open.
The medical examiner who performed an autopsy today ruled the child died from accidental drowning.
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The Department of Social Service is also conducting an investigation because Whitmire was caring for six children and NOT registered with the state to be a child care provider.
She also did NOT have a business license or a zoning permit for a child care facility in Vinton.
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Keith, all the different agencies will be forwarding their information to the Commonwealth's Attorney to collectively determine if charges will be brought against Whitmire.
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Kroger goes shopping - in Eastern Virginia. We'll tell you about the latest addition to the company's division based in Roanoke.
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And farmers know how to live off the land -
Now the state's offering them a way to make money - by NOT using it.
We'll tell you about it, just ahead.
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With a 68 million dollar boost from Washington, Virginia's about to start what may be its biggest conservation effort ever.
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The Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program -- yes, the acronym is CREP -- begins Monday.
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The program pays landowners to set aside their riverside land in its natural state for 15 years.
It targets 25 thousand acres around the Chesapeake Bay, and 10 thousand acres along Southside and Southwest rivers.
The state will outright buy another eight thousand acres in easements to permanently preserve some of the land.
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[Tex-Wood]
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Patrick County's almost perennial candidate is back at it in the courts.
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Tex Wood has filed a federal lawsuit, charging that Virginia's election laws erect barriers to ballot-access -- and violate the constitutional rights of would-be candidates.
Wood is running for the U-S Senate this fall as an independent candidate.
He objects to the law's requirement that office-seekers must collect voter signatures from all 11 Congressional districts ... but are restricted on where they can collect those signatures.
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Workers stripping paint are being blamed for starting a fire that damaged a rooming house in Lynchburg this afternoon.
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Flames were coming from the porch roof of this home on Rivermont Avenue when firefighters arrived.
Traffic in both directions was blocked for more than an hour while crews brought the fire under control.
The home's residents won't be allowed back for at least another day.
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[Kroger-Hannaford]
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Kroger is expanding in Virginia.
The company is purchasing 20 Hannaford supermarkets in the Richmond and Tidewater areas.
Kroger currently operates 44 stores in Virginia. Its Mid-Atlantic division is based in Roanoke.
[Stocks]
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After a one-day rally - the bulls retreated on Wall Street today.
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The Dow was just about unchanged... off not quite five points. Nasdaq lost 59 points. The Bloomberg - News 7 local index gained a little more than a point.
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Virginia's unemployment rate dropped in April.
But Martinsville still tops the list - with nearly seven times the state's percentage of jobless residents.
Statewide, the jobless figure is 2-point-3.
It stands at 16-point-2 percent in Martinsville.
[Jobs]
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But even in areas where unemployment is low, many companies are still trying to be choosy in selecting candidates for open jobs.
As Jennifer Miele reports, that's why internships can be especially valuable to college students preparing for careers.
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((It's an offer few college graduates could seemingly refuse... a thriving local company doing international business.
But businesses like XPEDX can't always find the help they need. So what do they have to do to get and keep qualified workers? Just ask college educators.
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That's what companies like XPEDX have been doing.
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Danielle Yarber says her company has moved away from the old "hire-any-warm-body" policy.
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So even when jobs are hard to fill, an internship may still be the ticket to that signing bonus, new car, and anything else they'll offer.
Jennifer Miele, News 7.))
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Coming up tonight on the Big 7, big time regional highlights from high school baseball, softball, and soccer.
Plus,
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Bill Elliott isn't dodging questions about his future any longer.
We'll hear how he's as pumped up as ever about racing as he approaches his 45th birthday.
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We begin tonight on the regional softball base paths at Lynn Saunders field, where Cave Spring played host to the Halifax County Comets this afternoon in the Northwest regional semi-finals.
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The Comets were upbeat about their chances of knocking the Knights for a loop.
But Cave Spring would rule the diamond in the early going as Tessa Ashwell smacks a base hit up the middle to drive in Lauren Lancaster from third. It's 1-to-nothing Knights.
Lancaster would again try to make it home in the third.
But this time the Comets tag her out on the slide.
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The Knights shut down Halifax and earn a spot in the state tournament with the 3-0 win.
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At the region three baseball tournament at Liberty University, William Byrd became the first are team of the day to earn a spot in next week's state tournament as it beat Heritage.
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The Pioneers, the champs of the Seminole got a first round bye in the tournament.
But today they got an eyeful of the Byrd bats. Nick Jones hits one all the way to the center field wall. He gets a double and sets the Terriers' offense in motion.
A few batters later, Brent Adkins will drive home Jones from third with the sacrifice fly. The Terriers manufacture a run the old fashioned way and it's 1-to-nothing.
In the top of the 2nd, the Terriers will try to add to that lead as Andy Goodman slaps one into left field. Chris Trent will try to score from second, but he is gunned down at the plate by Thomas Giles.
In the top of the 3rd, Trent would get back at the Pioneers as he hits one into right field for the single.
That would set the table for Goodman, who hits another one into left. Trent and another runner will make it home.
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The Terriers win it 12-to-3. They play for the regional title Friday.
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The Northwest regional soccer semi-final for girls is taking place at this hour as Patrick Henry plays Cave Spring with a trip to the state tournament on the line.
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Patrick Henry opened up the first half with a score as Mya Chapman puts up a great leading pass to Barbara Evans. She will convert and it's one to nothing Patriots.
P.H. would continue to keep the pressure on the Cave Spring keeper. Terra Poplstein makes this great save to keep another ball from finding the back of the net.
But it was just a matter of time. Chapman breaks away from the defense and scores.
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PH leads this game right now 2-to-nothing late in the first half.
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[S-Golf]
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A local golfer is making a name for himself on the national level.
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In the May 29th issue of Sports Illustrated that features the NBA's Brian Grant and Kobe Bryant, the Golf Plus section of the magazine has a short blurb on Lexington's Kevin O'Connell.
The sophomore at Greensboro College led the Pride to the division 3 national title and he also won the individual national crown. O'Connel is a graduate of Rockbridge Co. High school.
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[S-Elliott]
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[GRAPHIC=WINSTON CUP SERIES]
So far the 2000 Winston Cup season has been the year of the rookie with Dale Earnhardt Junior and Matt Kenseth making a name for themselves after just over a third of races.
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But it's also been the year that veteran Bill Elliott has once again found some fun in this sport.
The 1988 Winston Cup champ
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[SUPER=03-Concord, NC/May 8; :00]
has 10 top ten starts in the first 12 races of the year, and five top 10 finishes in those events.
But more importantly he has a clear head and a renewed enthusiasm for racing now that he knows he'll be the centerpiece in Dodge's return to NASCAR next season.
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The man responsible for putting the bounce back in Elliott's step is Dodge King Ray Evernham - the man who made Jeff Gordon and the man who plans to remake Bill Elliott.
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The NCAA track and field championships opened today in Durham.
Two local ladies hope to make their mark by the end of the week.
Trish Nervo, the Glenvar grad who now runs for North Carolina has a shot at qualifying for the olympic trials with a good showing in the 5000 meters on Friday.
Also, Christiansburg's Beth Eigel a senior at JMU will run in the 3000 meters tomorrow.
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[ANCHOR=Keith]
Plans to build a biomedical research center near the Roanoke River already have some critics.
Among the early concerns ... dozens of small businesses would have to relocate.
The city of Roanoke holds a meeting for those business owners later today. We'll look into their side of the sto
ry tonight on News 7 at 6.
by SS