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After nine months on the picket line, union workers at Rubatex are back on the job this afternoon. We'll have a live report.
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[ANCHOR=Joe]
And The Supreme Court weighs in on school prayer.
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[ANCHOR=Joe]
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Stay with us News 7 at noon is next.
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[Rubatex]
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Nine and a half months after it began, the longest strike in Rubatex history officially ended this morning, as hundreds of employees returned to work.
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Steve Smallshaw is in Bedford today. Steve, how has the first day back gone so far?
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[OUT Q=best we can.]
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[Celanese]
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While Rubatex brings back its union workers, Celanese and union leaders are back at the table today in hopes of avoiding a walkout.
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On Saturday, the union agreed to come to the bargaining table with the company.
The main issues are over wages, pension, insurance, and mandatory overtime.
The union had originally said members would strike tonight at 11 if a new contract could not be reached.
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[ANCHOR=Joe]
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We'll bring you the latest on contract negotiations later today on News 7 at 5 and 6.
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[ANCHOR=Joe]
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Another Supreme Court ruling on prayer .. this one involving high school football games.
The Court ruled today that public
school districts cannot let students lead stadium crowds in prayer before games.
This morning's ruling reaffirms a landmark 1962 decision that outlawed organized, officially sponsored prayer in public schools.
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Jury selection gets under way today in the Branch Davidian wrongful death lawsuit.
The jury will decide if the government shares responsibility for the deaths of more than 80 people in the 1993 raid.
Terisa Estacio reports from Waco, Texas.
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Police open up a truck and find 58 bodies inside. The details are still ahead on News 7 at Noon.
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And a fighter plane putting on the moves makes a wrong one .. spectators at an air show see the aftermath.
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[Truck-Deaths]
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A Dutch driver is under arrest in Britain after 58 bodies were found in the back of his truck.
The dead are suspected illegal immigrants... who were trying to sneak into the country.
Kimberly Dozier reports from London.
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(( Narr: Customs officials, on a routine check, found the gruesome cargo
-- dozens of illegal immigrants....MOST of them, men...lying dead in the
back of a truck's sealed refrigeration container. The truck had sailed
here to Dover,England on a >ferry from Zeebruger, Belgium.
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When we stop cargo we never know what we'll find. This was a real shock.
>Narr:There WERE two survivors... They are recovering in a nearby
hospital, too traumatized to speak.
>SOT Mark Pugash, Police Spokesperson
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We need more information....this is a criminal case
> Narr:The victims were of East Asian origin...but carried NO
identification
>papers. It's thought they MAY have died of suffocation in the cramped
refrigeration container. Officials say when they made their
discovery...the refrigeration was OFF...the container...sealed shut.
>Narr:It's estimated that THOUSANDS of illegal immigrants pass through
this port every year.
Officials are now using new sophisticated detectors and heavy
fines...but
the human cargo...just keeps coming.
>Kimberly Dozier, CBS News, London
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The plane that crashed during a Pennsylvania air show this weekend was based in Virginia.
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Both people on board the F-14 Tomcat were killed.
The jet was attempting a manuever used in carrier landings when the trouble developed.... Witnesses say the Tomcat careened into nearby woods and burst into flames.
The F-14 was based at the Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach.
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[Blacksburg-Fatal]
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The town of Blacksburg is sending its condolences to the family of a Lynchburg man ... killed Sunday while competing in the the Third Annual Greater Blacksburg Triathlon.
30 year old Gary Wayne Taylor died about an hour after his bicycle collided with a car near the Virginia Tech Colisem.
The triathlon is sponsored by the town of Blacksburg.
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It started as a routine traffic stop ... it finished as anything but routine.
State police say the stop ended in a high speed chase ... all over an expired state inspection sticker.
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Authorities say after pulling the man over they found drug paraphernalia inside his car.
But before they could process the information... the man sped off taking authorities on a high speed chase down Interstate 81 and Route 460 before police cut him off in Elliston by Big Spring road.
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((TROOPER MATTHEW BRANNOCK:HE WAS GOING IN EXCESS OF 90 MILES AN HOUR SOMETIMES. WE FELL IN BEHIND HIM AT ELLISTON. HE MADE A COUPLE OF TURNS AND FELL OUT BEHIND THE RAILROAD TRACKS AND THAT'S WHERE HE BAILED OUT. WE DID A SEARCH OF THE AREA AND FOUND HIM HIDING IN A LOCAL RESIDENTS GARAGE.))
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Authorities say the man told them he had smoked marijuana earlier and swallowed 4 ecstasy pills during the chase.
He was taken to the hospital.
Authorities have NOT released the man's name or details on any charges.
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[ANCHOR=Joe]
Still ahead ... the hunt is on in Washington for the killer of a Roanoke native in the C-I-A.
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and, John Shaft proves that an old classic can still steal the show at the box office.....more on these stories when we return...
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[Shooting]
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Police in Washington DC are looking for a gunman who shot and killed a Roanoke native in a weekend holdup.
28 year old John Muskopf Junior was walking home with some friends when a car pulled up and a gunman demanded money.
Officials say when Muskopf refused, the gunman shot him in the head and neck.
Muskopf was a 19-90 graduate of Patrick Henry's Governors School and attended the University of Virginia.
He was a C-I-A nuclear engineer and considered rising star within the agency.
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An overpass on one of the busiest motorways in Canada collapsed early Sunday, killing one person and seriously injuring two others.
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A car with three men inside was trapped under the rubble for hours as rescue workers struggled to free them. Cranes had to be brought in to remove huge concrete slabs from the car.
Two of the men were freed and brought to a local hospital with serious injuries, but rescuers were unable to save the third.
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((THEY MANAGED TO GET ALL OF THE CONCRETE SLABS AWAY FROM THE TOP OF
THE CAR AWAY FROM THE ROOF, AND THEN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT MANAGED TO CUT OPEN THE ROOF TO ACTUALLY REMOVE THE ROOF TO GET ACCESS TO THE PATIENT.))
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Officials have launched an investigation to find out why an overpass that was still under construction collapsed.
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[Shaft]
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John Shaft is still big at the box office, more than 20 years since his big screen debut.
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This weekend the new version of the 70s classic opened at number one, taking in more than 21- million dollars.
Samuel L. Jackson stars as the nephew of the legendary Harlem Detective John Shaft. The original shaft, Richard Roundtree also appears.
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A distant second at the box office this weekend was "Gone in 60 Seconds" at $14-point-7 million.
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[ANCHOR=Kimberly]
Coming up in sports,
the rain doesn't keep the Avalanche from clinching the victory over Winston-Salem...
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and, Tiger Woods makes golf history with a dominating victory at the US Open....Patrick will have the details when we return..
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It could be the best performance ever on a golf course. Tiger Woods smashed a series of records on the way to a remarkable victory at the U-S open.
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Woods played the front nine at even par.
Then he turned it up on the back nine with four birdies at Pebble Beach. He finished with a 4 under par 67 .. 12 under for the tournament.
Tiger's 272 total ties the record for the lowest score in Open history. He's the first player in the 106 year history of the open to finish 72 holes in double digits under par.
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((TIGER WOODS/U.S. OPEN WINNER: IT'S AN INCREDIBLE FEELING TO BE OUR NATIONS OPEN CHAMPION AND SOMETHING THAT WE ALL OS KIDS WHO PLAY GOLF AND WO WANT TO ASPIRE TO BECOME PROFESSIONALS THIS IS WHAT WE LOOK FORWARD TO PLAYING OUR NATIONS OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP AND HOPEFULLY ONE DAY WINNING AND TO COME OUT THIS WEEK AND WIN IT ON FATHERS DAY. I CAN'T WAIT TO GET THIS THING TO MY DAD AND LET HIM RUB IT A LITTLE BIT.))
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Ernie Els and Miguel Angel Jimenez tied for second place at 3 over.
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The Salem Avalanche finished the first half of the Carolina League season on a winning note beating Winston-Salem 6 to 2.
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The sun finally broke through the clouds at Salem Memorial yesterday.
Trailing 1 to nothing, Winston-Salem's Kevin Connacher hits this shot down the third base line scoring a run and the game was tied at 1 to 1.
[SUPER=37-Salem/6/Winston-Salem/2/;]
The Avalanche rallied Chone Figgins hit the liner down the left field line for a double Choo Freeman scores to make it 2 to 1 Avalanche. Figgins was thrown out trying to make it to third but the Avalanche won it 6 to 2.
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John Rocker got his first major league save in a month as the Braves beat Philadelphia 5 to 3.
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[SUPER=03-Philadelphia, PA/TBS; :]
The fans celebrating fathers day in Philly yesterday afternoon.
Philadelphia scored in the first inning. Pat Burrell doubles to left field Doug Glanville scored when a fan interferred with the ball and the Phillies took the 1 to nothing lead.
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But the Braves came back in the seventh. Chipper Jones singled to right field Andruw Jones scored to make it 4 to 1 and Atlanta won it 5 to 3.
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[SUPER=03-New York, NY/WGN; :]
The White Sox routed the Yankees in New York.
Chicago scored nine times in the top of the first and that was enough for the 17 to 4 win.
And here are the rest of the scores.
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The NASCAR Winston Cup drivers are back at work at this hour.
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[SUPER=03-Long Pond, PA/TNN Sports; :]
Rain and fog covered the Pocono Raceway yesterday forcing NASCAR to postpone the Pocono 500 until today.
Crews were working on drying the track after the rain ended but a heavy fog covered the track and visibility was at a minimun.
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[TALENT=Roy]
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When the green flag dropped Rusty Wallace led the field from the pole with John Andretti on the outside.
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