Morning news on WDBJ 7 for 11/23/95

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HEADLINES

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Police in California think the case of this missing model may be murder.
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And holiday travel has already turned to tragedy on the nation's highways. Larry-Head
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220-Ax

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The Thanksgiving Holiday brings out many travelers.
Unfortunately that can also mean many accidents.
In Roanoke County, a five car pile up last night left one man hospitalized in serious condition.
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It happened at about six-thirty at the intersection of Buck Mountain Road and 220.
According to witnesses this vehicle was struck in the intersection -trapping the driver inside.
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One driver says he could not avoid the collision.
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Police have not released the identity of the injured man and are still investigating.
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Olson-Ax

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Another accident in Roanoke County sent another man to the hospital after his vehicle went off the road and into a creek.
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SUPER=03-Roanoke Co./Last Night;

It happened in the ten o'clock hour on Olsen Road.
Police say the driver of the vehicle lost control, his car went into a creek, and flipped on it's top.
The driver was transported to a local hospital.
His condition is not known, however police say he was conscious.
His name has not been released and police are still investigating.
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Crash

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Authorities say seven people died in a fiery head-on collision in northern California.
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The crash north of Redding also disrupted the pre-holiday trip for thousands of motorists using interstate five, closing the highway in both directions for several hours.
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Meantime the hustle and bustle of Thanksgiving travel has brought lots of traffic to the nation's airports.
San Francisco International, for one, set a record yesterday thanks to reduced fares and an improving economy.
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Travel

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The nation's roads are busy, also, thanks to lower prices at the gasoline pumps.
As Ron Jones reports, authorities hope people are thinking about safety as they set out for the long weekend.
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(( According to Virginia Automobile Association Officials there will be more than 30 million people on the highways and in the air.
They say this is a two percent increase from last year.
Authorities are hoping motorists take precautions as they make that yearly trip to grandma's house.
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There's also advice for those travelling by plane.
Airport officials are asking passengers to travel light and to keep an eye on their valuables.
Ron Jones, News Seven, Roanoke.))
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State Police also suggest that travelers allow for more time to get to there destination.
And Virginia Department of Transportation Officials suggest that if there is snow or ice in the area you should call their office for road conditions.

Va-Lottery

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Somebody from Hampton is especially thankful today.
One ticket bought in that area won Virginia's fifth largest lotto jackpot.
SUPER=26-7-9-13-17-24-25;

The winning numbers for the 24-million dollar prize are seven, nine, thirteen, seventeen, twenty-four, twenty-five.

1-Sports

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In sports, Steve Mason chats with a couple guys who struck the A-C-C jackpot, plus he has highlights of last night's game between the Express and Hampton.
Good morning Steve.
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One-Larry

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(Roll cue:) Downtown Roanoke is beginning to look AND feel a lot like
Christmas.
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MODEL

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Police in California have arrested a Hollywood photographer in connection with the disappearance of a model.
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Linda Sobek was last seen November 16th when she headed out for a photo shoot without telling anyone who the photographer was.
Charles Rathbun was arrested at his Los Angeles home last night after he tried to shoot himself.
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((LT. DID HE OR DID HE NOT CONFESS TO ANY INVOLVEMENT AT ALL IN THE DISAPPEARANCE OF LISA sOBEK. LT. MARK WRIGHT/HERMOSA BEACH, CA POLICE DEPT: IT'S BEEN CONFIRMED THAT HE HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN THE DISAPPEARANCE OF LINDA SOBEK AS TO WHAT DEGREE WE ARE STILL INVESTIGATING AND QUESTIONING, I DO'T WANT TO STATE ANYMORE DETAILS BECAUSE WE ARE TRYING TO SECURE A WARRANT. ))
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Police believe the former L-A raiders cheerleader has been murdered. And one Los Angeles TV station reports that Rathbun told police he will lead them to Sobek's body.
Some of her personal items, have been found in the Los Angeles National forest.
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Amherst-Body

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Amherst County authorities are still trying to identify a woman found dead near Galt's Mill yesterday.
The body of a white female was discovered along a riverbank by two deer hunters, one of them an off- duty Amherst County deputy.
The victim had no identification. ESS/FULL
She's in her mid- 20's, about 5 feet 5 inches tall, with brown hair and brown eyes.
She has a wound to her upper torso and police are treating her death as a homicide.
Anyone with information about the woman should call Amherst County authorities at 804- 929- 9300.

Ward

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The second suspect in last month's murder of a Henry County man is in custody.
Fairfax County Police caught Michael DeLloyd Ward yesterday at a motel in Northern Virginia.
They're holding him on a grand larceny charge for the theft of the B-M-W he'd been driving.
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The 34-year old Maryland resident was already wanted for second-degree murder and FIVE armed robberies in Henry County.
His brother, HARDEN ANTHONY Ward turned himself in Tuesday.
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Both brothers are suspects in the murder of 25- year old Orbin Smith, Junior.
Smith was shot to death in an armed robbery in his Henry County home a month ago.

Chase

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A chase that began in Bristol, Virginia ended when a Tennessee sheriff's deputy was struck and killed by the van authorities were pursuing.
Deputies arrested a 15-year-old boy, the driver of the van, and two 15-year-old girls at the scene yesterday.
Authorities say the chase began when Virginia authorities pursued a van believed to be stolen.
Deputy Steve Mullins was standing outside his cruiser on Tennessee Highway 44.
Witnesses say the van turned in the officer's direction, struck another car and knocked Mullins into a third vehicle.

Jarrells

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Lawyers for a Franklin County woman convicted of the murder of her husband plan to take the case to Virginia's Court of Appeals.
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They will argue there was insufficient evidence to convict Judy Jarrells.
No date has been set for the hearing.
Jarrells and a former boyfriend, Curtis Deel, were convicted of the murder of Robert Jarrells.
Testimony showed Mrs. Jarrells asked several men, including Deel to kill her husband.
Deel admitted shooting Jarrells and said Mrs. Jarrells was involved in the plot.
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2-scores

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Turning now to sports and the latest from the N-H-L --
New Jersey lost its second straight game to a Florida team, dropping a 3-to-1 decision to Tampa Bay.
For that score and more, let's go to the scoreboards.
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SUPER=103-Detroit/==5/San Jose/==2//Winnipeg/==3/Ottawa/==1;
SUPER=103-NY Rangers/==4/Pittsburgh/==3//NY Islanders/==5/Los Angeles/==2;
SUPER=103-Dallas/==4/Vancouver/==3//Colorado/==6/Chicago/==2;
SUPER=103-Edmonton/==2/Anaheim/==0;
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Two-Larry

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(Roll cue:) Here's Anna Wentworth with this week's movie review.
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(( Anna Wentworth/Arts Reviewer: Hollywood has moved into that famous address with the white house in Washington D.C. and there's a new commander-in-chief too. ((THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT/COLUMBIA PICTURES: I AM MONUMENTALLY SORRY FOR HAVING INSULTED YOU. ARE YOU UNDER THE IMPRESSION I AM MAD AT YOU? WELL, SYDNEY, SELDOM DOES A DAY GO BY THAT I'M NOT BURNED IN EFFIGY.))
Annette Benning's character is a political strategist for an environmental group. She is wonderfully natural and completely believable.
Michael Douglas is the widowed President who epitomizes the saying "it's lonely at the top"...till Sydney Wade comes along.
President Douglas is smitten with Sydney and the feeling is mutual; their attraction to each other is obvious on the screen.
As for the President's staff, Terrific!
From terrier like Michael J. Fox to a sleazy senator played by Richard Dreyfuss. ((PRESIDENTS GOT A GIRLFRIEND.))
"The American President" has charm, intelligent and sometimes very funny dialogue and insight into the deal making that drives American politics.
But how hard is it to date when you're the President of the U.S. and leader of the free world? ((THIS IS THE PRESIDENT...OF THE UNITED STATES.))
As long as the movie concentrates on the romance and especially Sydney's discomfort with the limelight, it works.
But its political agenda and extremely unlikely--in this political climate--ending, ring false and get this romantic movie a "B+".))
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2HEADLINES

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Here's a look at today's top stories.
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A crucial U-N vote to support peace in the Balkans.
The Security Council has voted to suspend trade sanctions against Serb-led Yugoslavia.
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House Speaker Newt Gingrich comes under fire for blaming a heinous crime on welfare.
It concerns the case of three people charged stealing an unborn baby from the uterus of a pregant woman.
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And more than two million spectators are expected to turn out for the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City.
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And that's what's making news on thie Thursday, November 23rd.
Stick around, News 7 Mornin will be right back.

Bosnia

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President Clinton will make the case for deploying 20-thousand peace-keepers to Bosnia with a nationwide address Monday night.
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The Army's top general says casualties are inevitable if American troops are sent to Bosnia.
The White House says the U-S troops are essential to ending the war there.
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Meantime, U-S Ambassador Madeleine Albright says a United Nations vote to lift an embargo is a vote to support peace in the Balkans.
The security council has suspended crippling economic sanctions against Serb-led Yugoslavia, and is lifting an arms embargo in the region.
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Gingrich

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An Illinois family touched by a brutal crime says its tragedy should stay separate from politics.
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Debra Evans was killed last week and her full-term, unborn child was cut from her womb.
Two of her children were also killed.
A family spokesperson says House Speaker Newt Gingrich was wrong to cite the case as the product of drugs, bad schools and welfare.
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Two men and a woman are accused of murdering Evans and her children because they wanted her baby, who was released Tuesday from a hospital.
Evans was a welfare recipient.
It has not been revealed whether the three suspects were also on welfare.

GOP

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The decision may have come a day late, but it's news Senator John Warner is happy to hear.
Attorney General Jim Gilmore is upholding Warner's right to choose nomination through a primary election.
Some G- O- P leaders are upset with the decision.
They wanted the nomination to come from a convention.
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But Gilmore says he must defend state laws unless they are clearly unconstitutional.
Warner says he's pleased with the Attorney General's ruling, but right now he wants to focus on the holiday.
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Polls show a primary gives Warner the best chance of winning renomination.
Some Republican activists are still angry with Warner for opposing Oliver North's Senate candidacy.
Republican Party head Patrick McSweeney says he has the solution to the controversy.
He said he thinks Warner should retire.

Bumpers

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The parole of an inmate who embarrassed the Allen administration, is being reviewed following the resignation of Parole Board Chairman John Metzger.
Braxton Bumpers was to be released last month, but Metzger said the Parole Board decided to delay the release.
He said the board wanted to await a decision on whether to prosecute Bumpers on new charges.
Bumpers allegedly used current and former prison employees to buy a car, open bank accounts and acquire cellular phones in an apparent check-kiting scheme.

Allen-Thanksgiving

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Thanksgiving is tax time for two of Virginia's Native American tribes and Governor Allen was more than happy to serve as tax COLLECTOR today.
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The chiefs presented the Governor with their tax payment of two deer yesterday.
Allen was pleased to receive the bucks, but seemed even more interested in an Indian weather rock.
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Elementary school students later joined the chiefs in an American- Indian friendship dance.
The ceremony has been a tradition since 1646.
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PARADE

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And in another Thanksgiving tradition --
In New York City inflation is sky high...
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but it's the good kind of inflation.
They're blowing up the big balloons for the Macy's Thanksgiving day parade today.
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In Hawaii they're getting ready for the Aloha Parade and Toronto is preparing for the Santa Claus parade.
You can catch highlights of all the parades right here on your hometown station beginning at 9 this morning.

3-Sports

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And while we're thinking of turkeys, the Virginia Cavaliers are thinking of PEACHES.
Steve Mason explains in sports.
Good morning Steve.
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Three-Larry

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County-Ax

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Increased traffic this Thanksgiving holiday unfortunately increases the chances for accidents.
In Roanoke County, a five car pile sent one man to the hospital in serious condition.
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It happened at about six-thirty last night at the intersection of Buck Mountain Road and 220.
Witnesses say this vehicle was struck in the intersection -trapping the driver inside.
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One driver says he could not avoid the collision.
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Police have not released the identity of the injured man and are still investigating.
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Motorists

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Lower prices at the gasoline pumps are sending even more holiday travellers out on the highway.
Reporter Ron Jones has one for the road.
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(( According to Virginia Automobile Association Officials there will be more than 30 million people on the highways and in the air.
They say this is a two percent increase from last year.
Authorities are hoping motorists take precautions as they make that yearly trip to grandma's house.
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((VICKIE HOPKINS/AAA OFFICE MANAGER: WELL, MAKE SURE YOU GET PLENTY OF REST BEFORE YOU HIT THE ROAD AND MAKE SURE THAT YOU TAKE STOPS ALONG THE WAY AND GET REST. AND ALSO DON'T DRINK AND DRIVE.))
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There's also advice for those travelling by plane.
Airport officials are asking passengers to travel light and to keep an eye on their valuables.
Ron Jones, News Seven, Roanoke.))
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State Police also suggest that travelers allow for more time to get to there destination.
And Virginia Department of Transportation Officials suggest that if there is snow or ice in the area you should call their office for road conditions.

RAM

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About 200 less fortunate Roanokers are expected at an annual Thanksgiving dinner today.
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Fifteen turkeys, fifty pounds of potatoes and 4 cases of green beans highlight the holiday meal at Roanoke Area Ministries.
RAM House volunteers have been busy cooking the dinner since Monday and started planning it last month.
But officials say they could not pull it off without the public's support.
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((WENDY MOORE/ROANOKE AREA MINISTRIES: THE GENEROSITY OF THIS COMMUNITY, EVERYTHING HAS BEEN DONATED. IT'S ALL COME IN SO WE'RE SET AND WE'RE READY. ))
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Moore says this is one of the busiest times for her organization.
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Va-Lottery

4-scores

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In the N-B-A -- Boston beat Charlotte in the Hornet's fifth straight loss.
For that score and more, let's take a look at the scoreboards.
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SUPER=96-Houston/115/Philadelphia/106//Orlando/=95/Vancouver/=93;
SUPER=96-Washington/=98/Detroit/=97//Chicago/103/San Antonio/=94;
SUPER=96-Seattle/106/Minnesota/=97//Milwaukee/=96/Toronto/=86;
SUPER=96-New York/=94/Cleveland/=84//Phoenix/117/Atlanta/112;
SUPER=96-Utah/116/Sacramento/=95//LA Clippers/125/New Jersey/=92;

SUPER=97-Villanova/=77/North Carolina/=75//Vanderbilt/=75/UCLA/=71;
SUPER=97-Georgetown/=94/Georgia Tech/=72//Iowa/=78/Ohio Univ./=51;
SUPER=97-Arizona/=86/Michigan/=79//Connecticut/102/Texas Christian/=76;

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