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[7Bootleg-Tapes]
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It started as a traffic stop for aggresive driving on I-81.
State police say the stop led to the discovery of bootlegged video tapes and CD's .. worth 20 thousand dollars.
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[SUPER=03-Salem]
A total of 17-hundred movies, including some still in movie theatres, were confiscated by police.
Nearly 250 C-D's were seized as well.
Police estimate the street value of the merchandise at around ten dollars a piece.
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[IN Q=The quality of...]
((SGT. TOM FOSTER/STATE POLICE: THE QUALITY OF THE RECORDINGS TYPICALLY ARE NOT GOING TO BE AS THOSE THEY COULD PURCHASE COMMERCIALLY AND YOU KNOW THIS COSTS THE RECORDING INDUSTRY A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF MONEY EACH YEAR WITH PIRATED RECORDINGS.))
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Police have charged 30-year-old Rupert Sylvester James and 35-year-old Keith Liverpool with four counts each of felony conspiracy .. They're being held in the Montgomery County Jail.
The movies and C-D's were being taken from New York to Georgia or Florida.
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K-Mart will need about four months to close down 72 of its less-profitable stores in 28 states.
One store in our region is on the closing list ... the K-Mart in Princeton, West Virginia.
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[SUPER=03-Roanoke]
Circuit City is planning some big changes, and that includes big layoffs.
It'll use one billion dollars to revamp its stores ... and let one thousand workers go in the process.
The chain says it will stop selling major appliances, and focus on consumer electronics and home office products.
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A 13 year old Henry County teenager who fatally shot his friend has pleaded guilty to reckless handling of a firearm.
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Authorities say 13 year old Brandon Lee Moore was shot accidently in May by his best friend.
[SUPER=03-Henry Co./May 6;]
The teen initially was charged with involuntary manslaughter. Henry County Commonweath's Attorney Bob Bushnell says the lesser charge is an appropriate resolution and he says the victim's family wanted the most lenient punishment.
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[7-11Sharpton-Rally]
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For the second time in as many months, the outspoken civil rights activist Reverend Al Sharpton will be paying a visit to Lynchburg.
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[SUPER=03-Lynchburg/June 11]
Sharpton was there in June, lending his voice to a minority youth rally and to preach at Court Street Baptist Church.
He'll return next month with Martin Luther King the Third for another rally at the church.
This one will be to promote the "Redeem The Dream" march on Washington on August 26th.
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[SOT 10:09:14]
[IN Q=So we want]
((REV. JAMES COLEMAN/COURT ST. BAPTIST CHURCH: SO WE WANT TO ENCOURAGE ALL PERSONS TO COME OUT AND TO HEAR WHAT THE OBJECTIVES OF THE MARCH ARE.. IN ESSENCE, POLICE BRUTALITY, RACIAL PROFILING AND LOCAL ISSUES IN EVERY COMMUNITY WILL BE ADDRESSED AT THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON.))
[SUPER=01-Rev. James Coleman/Court St. Baptist Church]
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Sharpton and King will attend the rally at the church on Saturday, August 5th.
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Shifting gears now to weather....expect the clouds to stick around today...
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[45Easter]
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[GRAPHIC=Legal Scales]
A former athletic trainer and teacher's aide in Radford says he took advantage of two 14- year old students because HE was the victim of a child molester.
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[SUPER=03-Radford;]
In May, 44- year - old Cotton Easter was convicted of having sex with one of the boys he helped coach.
He was also convicted of in-appropriately touching another boy.
The judge yesterday sentenced Easter to 18- months behind bars.
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A Radford woman won't serve time for killing her own daughter in a traffic accident.
But she WILL go to prison for the death of another child.
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[SUPER=03-Radford;]
Terry (Cab-ull's) Cabell's 13- year old daughter and another child were killed when their pick-up crashed.
Cabell denies driving the truck but plead guilty to involuntary manslaughter.
In court yesterday-- family members said she was sorry for what happened.
The judge agreed the loss of Cabell's daughter, Leslie, was punishment enough.
But he sentenced her to two and half years in prison for the death of 12- year old Eden Hall.
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[IN Q=If she ]
((AL MORTON/EDEN HALL'S FATHER: IF SHE CAN GO TO ALL HER FAMILY MEMBERS AND EVERYBODY ELSE THAT SHE KNOWS AND SAY HOW SORRY SHE IS, HOW COME SHE DIDN'T COME TO US, NOT ONE TIME DID SHE SAY ANYTHING TO US ABOUT BEING REMORSEFUL, SORRY OR ANYTHING ELSE.))
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Eden Hall's mother and brother say Cabell has also not apologized to them.
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It's starting to look like a destructive TREND--
After killing an eight- year- old girl and her grandmother last year, a wrecker driver MAY have injured someone else.
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[SUPER=03-Franklin Co./Last Year;]
[TAPE#=99-19 1:25:33]
Michael Gray already has a manslaughter conviction for ramming into the back of a car and pushing it into a school bus last year, killing a little girl and her grandmother.
He appealed his manslaughter conviction in state court but lost today.
Now Gray has been sued by another man who says Gray told a tow truck driver to run over him.
Gray is the safety coordinator at Westar Towing.
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[45-1181-Barriers]
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[GRAPHIC=I-81 Safety]
Safety concerns along Interstate 81 intensified after Friday's deadly accident near Lexington.
Now traffic officials are considering the benefits of putting up concrete barriers to separate oncoming traffic.
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[SUPER=03-Roanoke Co.]
V-DOT officials say they are aware of the need for more barriers on Interstates, but say the solution is not always feasible.
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[SOT]
[IN Q=The center part of]
((LAURA BULLOCK/VDOT: THE CENTER PART OF THE INTERSTATE WAS NOT DESIGNED TO HAVE THAT MEDIAN THERE, I-81 WAS NOT DESIGNED THAT WAY SOME 50 YEARS AGO. THAT BEING SAID, THERE ARE PLACES THAT WE THINK ARE GOING TO HAVE CONCRETE BARRIERS ALONG I-81 WHEN IT IS WIDENED.))
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Concrete barriers are built to stop a 44-hundred pound truck traveling at 60 miles per hour from crossing into oncoming traffic.
V-DOT says some of the 10 billion dollars recently allocated to the state for road improvement may go toward concrete barriers.
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Taking a break from the news now to check the mid- week forecast...
STaying cloudy and cool today, but not as wet....highs around 70.
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A "No Contest" plea yesterday from the man who gave chase to Roanoke police last August.
Gary Wayne Proctor will be sentenced in November on malicious wounding and traffic violations.
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[SUPER=04-In-Car Camera]
Police had an in-car camera rolling as a suspect eluded roadblocks, dodged seven bullets, rammed numerous vehicles, including a police cruiser- even tried to run over a pedestrian.
It's still not entirely clear what happened or why. That should become more apparent
when Proctor is sentenced in November.
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[8-11Miller]
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A conviction yesterday for a Halifax County man who fired shots at police during a seven- hour standoff..
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[SUPER=03-South Boston/August 1999]
Kevin Miller was on trial yesterday and was convicted on seven charges including attempted capital murder on two police officers.
Miller held off police in a South Boston motel room nearly a year ago.
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[8-Pitts-Arrest]
[ANCHOR=Kim]
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[GRAPHIC=Murder Investigation]
Three Danville teenagers are now in custody and charged with murdering another teen.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Pittsylvania Co./July 6]
Pittsylvania County authorities arrested 19 year old Sean Antuan Clayborne and 18 year old Jesse Duran Stevens of Danville yesterday afternoon.
19 year old Javon Chauncey King was arrested last Friday.
The victim, 18 year old Antoine Lamont Jones was shot to death earlier this month.
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[8-11Jet-problem]
[ANCHOR=Kim]
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[GRAPHIC=US Airways]
French investigators are still trying to find out why a Concorde plane crashed near Paris.
Closer to home, Some tense moments for passengers on a US-Airways flight scheduled to depart from Roanoke yesterday. An engine blew on take off.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Roanoke]
U-S Airways flight 10-26 was just powering up to full speed when passengers heard a noise.
Some described it as an "explosion." Others called it a "pop."
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[SOT 2:06:35]
[IN Q=It was obvious]
((IT WAS OBVIOUS SOMETHING WAS WRONG. I'M JUST GLAD IT HAPPENED BEFORE WE GOT TO THE END OF THE RUNWAY.))
[SUPER=01-Lee West/Passenger]
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[OUT Q=of the runway.]
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In spite of the blown engine, the pilot was able to turn the plane around and return to the gate without further incident.
The 55 passengers bound for Pittsburgh had to be re-routed on other aircraft.
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[8-11Swimming-Class]
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Drowning is the second leading cause of death for children in Virginia. That's the big reason behind a new local effort to reduce the numbers.
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[SUPER=03-Roanoke Co.]
The American Red Cross says teaching kids how to swim could make all the difference in saving their lives.
For the past 15 years the American Red Cross has offered its learn to swim program in the summer.
But this year was the first time the service was offered free of charge, thanks to a grant from the downtown Roanoke rotary group.
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[SOT15:56;15]
[IN Q=As a parent of five]
((BETSY COMBS: AS A PARENT OF FIVE CHILDREN YOU'RE VERY CONCERNED ABOUT HOW THEY'RE GOING TO AROUND THE POOL WATER, THE LAKE WATER, THE OCEAN WATER, MY LITTLE ONE HAVE NO FEAR AND THEY CHARGE RIGHT FOR THE WATER SO IF THEY GOING TO GO INTO THE WATER I WANT TO KNOW THEY'RE WATER SAFE. I WANT TO KNOW THAT THEY CAN GET THEMSELVES UP AND PROPEL THEMSELVES TO THE SIDE))
[SUPER=01-Betsy Combs/Parent]
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[VO-NAT]
The kids not only learn the basics of swimming but survival skills as well.
The Red Cross hopes grant funding will continue that will allow them to offer the program for free.
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[8Weather]
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Before we wrap up this morning-- here's another look at the forecast.
STaying cloudy and cool today, but not as wet....highs around 70.
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