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[ANCHOR=Shannon]
Dramatic weather is ahead of and behind us.
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We'll check on storm damage from last night and tell you what Hurricane Charley will be bringing with him.
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[Sports-Head]
[ANCHOR=Mike]
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[ENG#=2]
Tonight on News 7 sports - time trials at Watkins Glen are washed out.
Gretna is in the Friday Football Extra spotlight tonight,
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[VO-NAT]
and Ernie Els may be at the top of the leader board at PGA - but Chip Sullivan is in the money - earning his way to play on the weekend.
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[WX-Head]
[ANCHOR=Robin]
[SS=None]
Tropical rain bands will soak central and eastern Virginia tomorrow afternoon but the heaviest rain will miss southwest Virginia. Details ahead.
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[ANCHOR=Shannon 3-Shot]
News 7 is next.
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[VO-NAT]
It may have lasted just a few minutes but the cleanup will take much longer as Danville tries to recover from last night's severe storm.
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[ANCHOR=Shannon]
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Good evening, I'm Shannon Young. Keith is off tonight.
[Storm-Cleanup]
[ANCHOR=Shannon]
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The National Weather Service is not yet ready to call that storm a tornado, but for Southside residents, it doesn't matter. They're just glad to have survived it.
High winds and heavy rains ripped through Danville last night, uprooting trees, tearing off roofs and knocking down buildings.
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Steve Smallshaw is in Danville tonight. Steve, even though the storm has passed, I understand city officials are still keeping an eye on the sky.
[LIVE= Steve /FULL Starlink]
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[SUPER=05-Danville]
(adblib flooding to the region.)
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[SUPER=01-Dan Newell/G. W. High School Football Coach; :15]
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(Steve tosses to Robin)
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[Pulaski-Dam]
[ANCHOR=Shannon]
[NEWSCAST=6pm]
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[TAPE#=04-17 TC1:54:22]
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The possibility of heavy rain is not good news for a Pulaski County Dam.
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[SUPER=03-Pulaski Co.;]
Hogan Dam is on a state watch list.
The nearly 90 year old structure is in danger of failing if it gets a significant amount of rain in less than 24 hours.
In recent months, Pulaski officials lowered the water level by about 8 feet as a precaution.
Plans are already moving forward to upgrade the aging structure.
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[IN Q=The town]
((JOHN HAWLEY: THE TOWN WORKING WITH WILEY AND LAWSON A CONSULTANT AND ENGINEER FIRM OUT OF LYNCHBURG. WE'VE AUTHORIZED THEN TO GO AHEAD AND START DOING THE PLANS TO WIDEN AND DEEPEN THE SPILLWAY. ))
[SUPER=01-John Hawley/Pulaski Town Manager;]
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[OUT Q=the spillway.]
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Fixing the spillway will cost an estimated 500-thousand dollars.
The town is still awaiting word on federal funding for the project.
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[Henry-Plywood]
[ANCHOR=Shannon]
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[GRAPHIC=Layoffs]
Henry County began its week with good economic news but ended it on a sour note.
Henry County Plywood Corporation has temporarily ceased production and laid-off personnel.
The company says employees may be recalled pending a potential sale.
It's unclear how many workers are affected but at one time the company hired more than 150 employees.
[Tease#1]
[ANCHOR=Shannon]
[SS=NONE]
[ENG#=APRISA]
It's taken 16 years, but area police say they've cracked a violent case.
Details, when News 7 returns.
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Plus Beamer's Restaurant gets punted from its spot on the Roanoke City Market.
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[County-Case]
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[ANCHOR=Shannon]
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[TAPE#=04-22 TC1:36:15]
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Authorities in Roanoke County believe they have solved a sixteen- year- old case.
Today, a grand jury returned indictments for breaking and entering and malicious wounding... crimes that date back to August, 1988.
[***NEWS 7 @ 6 IN MONITOR***]
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Joe Dashiell is in the newsroom tonight with more on the case. Joe how did they get a break in the case after so many years?
Shannon, this was a serious crime that involved a young victim,
[LIVE= JoeD /FULL Newsroom]
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and authorities never gave up.
Eventually, good police work, advances in technology, and the perseverence of investigators lead to a New York prison.
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[OUT Q=could have been a very dangerous situation.]
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((I WAS AN ASSISTANT COMMONWEALTH. I HAD BEEN FOR ABOUT THRE YEARS WHEN IT HAPPENED AND I REMEMBER IT VERY WELL. AND FOR YEARS AND YEARS WE NEVER THOUGH IT WOULD BE SOLVED.))
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[OUT Q=never thought it would be solved.]
A quiet community off Wood Haven Road was traumatized in August of 1988, when a man broke into a home armed with a knife, and assaulted a ten year old girl.
Though there was no immediate break, the case was never closed.
16 years later the perseverence of county investigators and the state crime lab paid off... with a fingerprint match to a prison inmate in New York State.
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((LOTS OF TIMES THEY PURGED RECORDS BUT THEY RECOGNIZED THIS WAS A SERIOUS CASE AND IT CAUSED A LOT OF CONCERN IN THE COUNTY AT THE TIME, SO THEY WENT THE EXTRA MILE AND SAVED THE RECORDS AND SAVED THE PHYSICAL EVIDECNE JUST IN THE OFF CHANCE THAT SOMETHING LIKE THIS WOULD HAPPEN, AND SOMETHING LIKE THIS HAPPENED AND NOW WE HAVE A CASE TO PROSECUTE IN WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN A VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION.))
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[OUT Q=what could have been a very dnagerous situation.]))
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[LIVE= JoeD /FULL Newsroom]
Earl Bowman says the break in was a traumatic event that his family will never totally forget... and though he was surprized by the news of today's indictment, he says it was something they had left in the hands of the Lord.
[DOUBLE BOXES=Shannon & JOeD /NEwsroom;]
Shannon, the suspect is identified as Juan Castillo, a man authorities say was an illegal alien passing through Virginia on interstate 81.
Today he's in a New York State prison serving time for rape and murder.
[Reid]
[ANCHOR=Shannon]
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An execution date has been set for a man convicted in the 1996 murder of an elderly Christiansburg woman.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Christiansburg/File Tape;]
58 year old James Edward Reid will be executed September 9th.
He's been on death row since 1998 for the brutal slaying of 87 year old Annie Lester.
Reid's attorneys say they may still try to appeal and they could still ask for clemency from Governor Mark Warner.
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[Beamers]
[ANCHOR=Shannon]
[NEWSCAST=6 PM]
[WRITER=jus]
[TAPE#=04-26 TC1:19:54]
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[ENG#=3]
Virginia Tech's head football coach has apparently been "locked" out of Roanoke.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Roanoke]
The sign on Beamer's Restaurant says the landlord has changed the locks, and that the restaurant is closed until further notice.
[SUPER=04-August 16, 2003; :]
Beamer's opened a year ago next week on the city market.
The owner, Mike Williams, did not return our phone calls seeking comment.
We should point out Frank Beamer only lends his name to the restaurant.
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[ANCHOR=Shannon]
[SS=None]
Beamer's also has a Christiansburg location. It is unaffected.
[Allen]
[ANCHOR=Jean]
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Senator George Allen says he wants to make Virginia one of the leading states for a new revolution.
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[SUPER=03-Roanoke]
Allen was in Roanoke today addressing the Regional Chamber of Commerce.
The senator says nanotechnology will affect health sciences, engineering and agriculture.
One local university has already invested in research and development and created many jobs in the area.
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((SENATOR GEORGE ALLEN; VIRGINIA TECH IS MAKING A BIG BIG INVESTMENT IN IT. THAT MEANS THERE WILL BE SPINOFF BUSINESSES FROM THAT, FROM VIRGINIA TECH. WITH INVESTMENTS THEY'RE MAKING IN NOT JUST SQUARE FOOTAGE BUT ALSO FACULTY.))
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Allen also called for keeping the internet free of taxation and maintaining a reliable supply of natural gases.
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[Stocks]
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Stocks closed higher today, but it was a struggle.
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The DOW rose eleven points.
NASDAQ gained five.
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[Roanoke-Fatal]
[ANCHOR=Shan]
[NEWSCAST=6 p.m.]
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[TAPE#=04-25 TC1:13:06]
[GRAPHIC=Fatal Accident]
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A Roanoke County man is dead after wrecking his vehicle on Route 220.
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Roanoke Police say Donald Wane Graham was travelling *NORTH* on 220 at about a quarter after eleven this morning.
Shortly after passing the Wonju exit Graham crossed *over* the median.
The vehicle then crossed both lanes of southbound traffic and ended up in a ditch.
Graham was taken to Roanoke Memorial Hospital where he died a short time later.
Graham was in his sixties.
No one else was injured.
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[Seat-belts]
[ANCHOR=Shannon]
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Virginia drivers are buckling up in record numbers.
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[SUPER=03-Richmond/File Tape]
The DMV says almost 80 percent of vehicle occupants are using their safety belts.
That's a ten percent increase from two years ago.
Officials at D-M-V credit the national Click It or Ticket campaign with prompting more Virginians to buckle up.
But they say a primary seat belt law in the state could help push those numbers even higher.
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((VINCENT BURGESS/DMV ASST. COMMISSIONER: WE'RE NOT AT 100 PERCENT AND THAT'S WHERE WE NEED TO BE. THIS LAST 20 PERCENT, THIS LAST MILLION, 100-THOUSAND PEOPLE, THEY'RE THE HARDCORE FOLKS. THEY'RE THE ONES THAT DON'T BELIEVE THAT SEATBELTS WILL HELP THEM IN A CRASH.))
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Officials say the rise in seatbelt usage has helped cut the state's highway fatality rate by five percent.
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[Sports Tease]
[ANCHOR=Mike]
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Coming up tonight on News 7 sports - Chip Sullivan makes the cut at the PGA championship.
Rain washed out qualifying at Watkins Glen,
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and the Gretna Hawks - the only team to bring home the state gold last year - reloads for another championship season.
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[S-Chip]
[ANCHOR=Mike]
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Chip Sullivan has made the cut at the 86th PGA Championship at the Whistling Straits course in Kohler, Wisconsin.
During today's second round - Chip shot a one under ar 71 that included four birdies and three bogeys.
The key hole was the par five 16th. Yesterday Chip bogeyed it - today he birdied it.
He will safely make the cut with his two day total of one under par 143. Right now he's tied for 29th.
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[SUPER=03-Kohler, WI/TNT; :00]
Ernie Els has been hanging around the lead all afternoon long today thanks in part to shots like this birdie putt on the 3rd hole.
Ernie is at 9 under par through 14 holes.
Tiger Woods still has some work to do today before the sun sets tonight. Despite shots like this he is just one under today, and plus two for the tournament. The projected cut is set for plus one.
Robert Gamez had the shot of the day. Watch him hit this five iron on the par three 17th hole. But even with the hole in one, he may not the cut.
We'll have an update tonight on News 7 at 11.
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[talent=mike]
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Your Hometown Station has the final two rounds of the Championship this weekend. Join us tomorrow and Sunday - five hours each day from 2pm to 7pm.
[S-Roy]
[ANCHOR=Mike]
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In one other golfing note - the 3rd annual Roy Stanley Memorial golf event is coming up in a couple of weekends.
This year's tourney is on Sunday, August 22nd at Hanging Rock.
There are still some spots available in the both the morning at afternoon starts.
The cost is $325 per foursome, and remember all proceeds benefit the scholarship foundation in Roy's name.
The tournament sold out each of the first two years.
Again, it's Sunday August 22nd at the Rock.
[S-Hawks]
[ANCHOR=mike]
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[GRAPHIC=Friday Football Extra]
[ENG#=2]
The Gretna Hawks are the defending Group Two-A, Division 3 State Champs. But Robert Senseney's bunch is nowhere near satisfied.
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[SUPER=03-Gretna; :00]
Senseney welcomes back 6 defensive starters, and 8 more on offense.
Senior quarterback Vic Hall has already committed to UVA, but this season he wants some of the younger Hawks to get a taste of winning.
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Gretna has a new 6 thousand square foot fieldhouse, which includes a locker room, weight room, and coaches' offices. The building was funded largely through private donations.
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[SUPER=01-Horace Hubbard/Gretna Linebacker; :26]
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[OUT Q=look at film and everything."]
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[S-Qualify]
[ANCHOR=Mike]
[NEWSCAST=6pm]
[WRITER=mst]
[TAPE#=SP-182 4132TC]
[GRAPHIC=NEXTEL CUP]
[ENG#=3]
The Nextel Cup drivers arrived at Watkins Glen, New York this morning, but so too did the rain.
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[SUPER=03-Watkins Glen, NY/Speed; ]
Take a look at this place this morning around 10am.
The skies would finally clear as the afternoon arrived, but the saturated ground was too much.
As a result they will have to start Sunday Sirius at the Glen Nextel Cup race based on owner's points.
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[SUPER=0107-6. Elliott Sadler//7. Kurt Busch//8. Bobby Labonte//9. Kevin Harvick//10. Ryan Newman//;]
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[SUPER=0107-11. Kasey Kahne//12. Jeremy Mayfield//13. Dale Jarrett//14. Jamie McMurray//15. Mark Martin/;]
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[SUPER=0107-16. Casey Mears//17. Rusty Wallace//18. Michael Waltrip//19. Sterling Marlin//20. Terry Labonte//;]
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[SUPER=0107-21. Greg Biffle//22. Brian Vickers//23. Robby Gordon//24. Jeff Burton//25. Joe Nemechek//;]
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[SUPER=0107-26. Scott Wimmer//27. Dave Blaney//28. Ward Burton//29. Ricky Rudd//30. Brendan Gaughan//;]
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[SUPER=0107-31. Scott Riggs//32. Ken Schrader//33. Kyle Petty//34. Ricky Craven//35. Jeff Green//;]
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[SUPER=0107-36. Todd Bodine//37. Tom Hubert//38. Jimmy Spencer//39. Larry Gunselman//40. Morgan Shepherd//;]
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[SUPER=0107-41. Hermie Sadler//42. Tony Ave//43. Ron Fellows//;]
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