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More troubling news from Dan River.
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And investigating what looks like the work of a serial arsonist.
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Tonight on News 7 sports - we'll head to the horse show for an early week conversation with Grand Prix king Aaron Vale,
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[VO-NAT]
and Serena Williams dodges the rain and the upset bug to advance at Wimbledon.
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[WX-Head]
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Clouds and humidity highlight a forecast that will bring showers to the region through tomorrow. The sticky details coming up.
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[ANCHOR=Keith 4-Shot]
News 7 is next.
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Hundreds of textile workers will soon be out of work.
[ANCHOR=Shannon 2-Shot]
At the same time, the city of Danville wonders what the future holds for one of its biggest employers.
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[ANCHOR=Shannon 2-Shot]
Good evening, I'm Shannon Young.
[ANCHOR=Keith 2-Shot]
And I'm Keith Humphry.
[Dan-River]
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Dan River Incorporated filed for bankruptcy in March.
Since then it has been trying to reorganize and get its financial situation in order.
[ANCHOR=Keith 2-Shot]
Part of that process now includes the elimination of more than 300 jobs company-wide, about 280 of them in Danville.
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Steve Smallshaw is at Dan River's Schoolfield plant tonight.
Steve, given the company's recent history did most people see this coming?
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With three fires in two nights, Montgomery County officials believe they are looking for a serial arsonist.
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A total of four fires have broken out in the Oak Forest Mobile Home park in the last two months.
This trailer caught fire around 4:30 yesterday morning.
The owners had recently moved out.
Firefighters were called back out to the park twice last night for two smaller fires.
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((LT. NORMAN CROY: ESPECIALLY IN A MOBILE HOME COMMUNITY. IT'S A GREAT CONCERN. THIS IS IN CLOSE PROXIMITY. ALL THE TRAILERS ARE NEAR EACH OTHER. SOMEBODY'S GOING AROUND WANTING TO DESTROY THINGS BY FIRE.))
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Police believe they are looking for one or two people.
Investigators also say the fires appear to be acts of vandalism and NOT designed to hurt anyone.
The fires have caused several thousand dollars in damages.
If you live in the northern section of Montgomery County and have any information, call the sheriff's office.
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[County-Supers]
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We may finally see a vote tonight on two controversial projects in Roanoke County.
They're known as Slate Hill and Keagy Road and both projects have seen some changes.
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Justin McLeod is at the Roanoke County administration building, where tonight's Board of Supervisors meeting is just getting underway.
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A case of the Democrats versus the Republicans is moving forward.
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A Richmond federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit brought by state Democrats.
The lawmakers are suing the Republican Party of Virginia over two eavesdropped phone calls.
The state G-O-P had argued that its former executive director, Ed Matricardi, was NOT carrying out party policy when he intercepted the calls.
The judge ruled otherwise.
He did, however, limit Democrats to seeking only ten thousand dollars in damages.
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[Nude-camps]
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Teenagers have the right to play volleyball naked... that's according to the A-C-L-U.
The group is threatening to sue over a new state law regulating youth nudist camps.
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The law makes it illegal for teens to attend a nudist camp without their parents or guardians.
The law targets Camp White Tail in southeastern Virginia which runs an annual camp for children aged eleven to 18.
A-C-L-U officials say the law discriminates against nude adolescents.
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((KENT WILLIS/ACLU OF VIRGINIA: NUDIST CAMPS PROBABLY MAKE MOST VIRGINIA LEGISLATORS UNCOMFORTABLE. NUDIST CAMPS FOR CHILDREN MAKE THEM EVEN MORE UNCOMFORTABLE. BUT THIS IS NOT ABOUT WHETHER THEY ARE COMFORTABLE WITH THIS. ITS ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT THESE CHILDREN HAVE A RIGHT TO ATTEND THESE CAMPS.))
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A spokesman for the Attorney General says the law is constitutional and the state's prepared to defend it.
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Still ahead on News 7, find out why some business owners fear the work to cool off the Roanoke City Market will have a chilling effect on their businesses.
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And a local veteran remembers his time, both good and bad, aboard the U-S-S Razorback...
a 60 year old submarine now on its way to a museum.
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[Fincastle]
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"If you build it, they will come," a voice told Ray Kinsella out in Iowa.
Some officials in Fincastle hope the same is true in their town.
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Currently, Fincastle is made up of 91-acres and about 350-residents.
With an expansion now under consideration, the town could grow to six-times that size with up to one-thousand people.
Officials hope this would be the jump-start the town needs for revitalization.
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((ROB HAGAN/FINCASTLE PLANNING COMMISSION: WITHIN THE 91-ACRES, FINCASTLE HAS BEEN DECLINING SIZE THE 1960'S. WE DON'T HAVE SHOPS AND SERVICES WHERE NEIGHBORS CAN COME MEET NEIGHBORS THE KINDS OF THINGS A TOWN CAN PROVIDE.))
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Town officials have been thinking about an expansion for about four-years.
Now they're taking their plan to the community.
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Fincastle will host two public meetings: Thursday at the firehouse and next Wednesday the 30th at the library.
Both meeting are at 7p.m.
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[City-Market]
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Roanoke hopes a new air-conditioning system in the Market Building will be hot for business.
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Parking along one side of Market Street is blocked off to accomodate vehicles involved in the installation.
Downtown Roanoke Incorporated says the construction could take up to nine months but that the inconvenience should pay off in cooler air and cold, hard cash.
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((DAVID DIAZ/DOWNTOWN ROANOKE INC.: MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT IT WOULD NOT JUST BE FOR THE FIRST FLOOR WHERE ALL OUR RESTAURANTS ARE BUT ALSO FOR THE TOP TWO FLOORS WHICH CURRENTLY ARE VACANT AND SO I SEE THIS AS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR LONG TERM REVITALIZATION OF THE MARKET BUILDING.))
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Diaz says the project will cost more than one million dollars.
Owners of several of the businesses in the Market Building have expressed concern saying they've been told they might have to shut down for several days while their stalls are outfitted with the new equipment.
They say the city has told them they'll get at least a week's notice.
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[Stocks]
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A surge in technology shares pushed the stock market higher today.
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The DOW gained 24 points.
NASDAQ rose 20.
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[Razorback-Veteran]
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A sixty- year old submarine is just about unheard of.
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But there's a World War II- era sub now working its way up the Mississippi that's been in service 60 years.
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We met a man- -right here in Roanoke, today- - who served on the U-S-S Razorback.
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Earl Long was aboard the Razorback when the Japanese surrendered.
It was one of a dozen U-S subs in Tokyo harbor- -about a mile from the U-S-S Missouri where the surrender took place.
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((WHERE WE ANCHORED AT THE HARBOR, YOU COULD SEE THE MISSOURI OUT IN THE BAY THERE.))
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Eventually, following tours in southeast Asia, the United States handed over the Razorback to the Turkish Navy in 1970.
It'd been in use until this year when the Turks sold it for one dollar for use as the centerpiece of a maritime museum in Arkansas.
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((How did you become a submariner?
FOR THE MONEY.))
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Base pay was bumped up 50% for submarine service, another 10% for sea duty. Long was making good money, he says, by the time he was discharged from the Navy.
But money wasn't everything. He says he "really enjoyed" his time aboard the Razorback... and has a room full of relics to prove it.
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((THESE ARE SHIPS SUNK))
He recalls the constant dive drills, designed to make the process fast and flawless.
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((SURFACE AND DIVE, SURFACE AND DIVE. IT GOT SO MONOTONOUS. BUT THEN AFTER I HEARD TWO TORPEDOES GO ACROSS OUR BOW, I WAS GLAD THAT WE HAD THAT TRAINING.))
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Lately Long has begun to dwell on it more... the depth-charges, the time there was a galley fire during a silent run.
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((25 YEARS AFTER THE WAR I NEVER EVEN GAVE IT ANY THOUGHT. NOW A LITTLE OLDER, I THINK ABOUT IT PRETTY MUCH ALL THE TIME. AND IT'S NOT ALWAYS UNPLEASANT.))
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Earl Long is intrigued by the museum in Little Rock where the Razorback will be docked.
He's 88.
[ANCHOR=Keith 3-Shot]
I asked if he might like to go out and see it again. He said he might "one of these days."
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Coming up tonight on News 7 sports - Serena opens with a win at Wimbledon.
The Glove is staying put,
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and we'll check in with the king of the Roanoke Valley Horse show - Aaron Vale and his talented team.
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We begin tonight with day number two at Wimbledon.
The rain halted 14 matches, and there were a couple of upsets as Marat Safin and Elena Dementieva were knocked off, and Englishman Tim Henman barely survived his opening round match.
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[SUPER=03-Wimbledon, England/ESPN; :00]
Serena Williams opened her bid for a third straight Wimbledon title with a 6-3, 6-1 victory over China's Zheng Jie.
Serena hasn't won a Grand Slam title since beating sister Venus in last year's Wimbledon final. She is bidding to become the first player since Steffi Graf to win Wimbledon three straight years.
Serena is still improving from the knee surgery she had last August.
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[S-Lakers]
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The Lakers empire may be crumbling, but it hasn't completely fallen apart.
This afternoon Gary Payton exercised his option to stay with the team and make $5 point 4 million next season.
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Some of the Roanoke Valley Horse Show's big names turned out today in a warm-up for Saturday's $50 thousand dollar Grand Prix.
Steve Mason caught up with the front runner, defending champion Aaron Vale.
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((He has 12 horses in his stalls, not under the hood, his competition uniform is a far cry from the rainbow warriors or the red Budweiser number 8, but NASCAR is very much of Aaron Vale's vocabulary.
((AARON VALE/7 TIME RVHS GRAND PRIX WINNER:))
The Salem Civic Center ring would be most like say Martinsville. Both are short tracks. Vale and his team of 12 horses will compete in 46 horse shows a year at a cost in the neighborhood of a million bucks. Aaron is riding four of Rhonda Conley's horses at the Roanoke Valley Horse Show.
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Vale, who is ranked in the top 10 nationally, could enter as many as six horses in Saturday night's grand Prix. In Salem Steve Mason News 7 sports ))
[S-Auction]
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It's Roy Stanley week here at WDBJ-7 as we get ready for his Celebrity golf tournament, auction and autograph session on Friday.
The auction is on Friday night at 7 at Hanging Rock - and even if you hate sports - there's something for you.
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The Barber Twins - Tiki and Ronde - have once again been gracious to provide us with several autographed fiber optic mini-helmets.
But sports memorabilia is just a small part of what's up for grabs.
Bassett Furniture has donated this brand new all leather accent chair that has a retail value of just under Two Thousand dollars. It will be up for grabs in the LIVE auction along with this radio.
You collectors will want a chance at winning this Philco radio that was the top of the line back in 1941.
It is a 63 year old tube table top model that has both the AM band and the shortwave band. It has been completely checked out and the cabinet and the components are in mint condition.
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The golf event featuring Lee Suggs, Gary Clark, Ron McDole, Pat Fischer, Shayne Graham, Rick Mast and others is this Friday at one.
The autograph session runs from 6 to 7pm.
And the LIVE auction begins at seven.
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[talent=mike]
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The silent auction takes place from 5-to-7pm.