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1-News-Head

ANCHOR=Keith

Coming up NEWS 7 at SIX:
One of the UNsuccessful Republican city council candidates accuses the G-O-P of elitism and bigotry.
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VO-NAT

And a Montgomery County man is caught up in a nationwide crackdown on child pornography.
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Sports-Head
ANCHOR=Mike

Tonight in sports, the Commonwealth Games are looking for an Olympic effort this year, there's more disturbing baseball news off the field for Hobson and McLain.
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And Grindstone, the Kentucky Derby is put out to pasture, after bone chips are found in the horse's right knee.
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WX-Head
TALENT=Robin
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Good day for shorts & t-shirts. Carbon copy ahead tomorrow as readings climb into the upper 80s.

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Artis

ANCHOR=Keith
NEWSCAST=6pm
WRITER=lbe
TAPE#96-31
GRAPHIC=Jeff Artis

A former Roanoke city council candidate has some harsh words for the Republican party.
But Jeff Artis insists this isn't sour grapes following his defeat in Tuesday's elections.
Len Besthoff reports.
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SUPER=07-Alvin Nash; 1:25
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From the tone of his comments you can probably tell that Jeff Artis is leaving the Republican party.
A statement he issued says I cannot support a political party whose most powerful faction has one set of standards for Whites and another set of standards for Blacks.
I cannot support a local political party which has a party chairman who, in my opinion, is nothing more than a homophobic and racist bigot.
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The party chairman says he's supported Artis ever since he first ran as a Republican.
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Alvin Nash, another African American who lost on the Republican ticket, disagrees with Artis.
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Artis says he's not sure if he'll run for public office again, but if he does, it will likely be as an independent.
Len Besthoff, News-7.

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VaTech-Players

ANCHOR=Tracy
NEWSCAST=6
WRITER=tal
TAPE#None
GRAPHIC=Virginia Tech

One of two students who accused Virginia Tech football player George DelRicco of assaulting him has, himself, been found guilty of assault and battery. Montgomery County District Judge Thomas Frith fined Jesse Phillips 250 dollars for hitting DelRicco over the head with a beer bottle at a Blacksburg bar called Top of the Stairs.
In a separate case, the judge is still hearing testimony that the feud may have led to a fight outside the same bar three weeks later. Philips and his roommate, Sean Elko, claim DelRicco, Tech quarterback Jim Druckenmiller and two brothers, John and Chris Bishock, jumped them.
Philips and Elko both needed surgery for facial injuries.

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Child-Porn

ANCHOR=Keith
NEWSCAST=6
WRITER=KHu
TAPE#96-26
GRAPHIC=None

A nationwide child- pornography investigation has led postal inspectors to search 130 homes and businesses across the United States- -including the home of an elderly man in Riner.
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VO-NAT
SUPER=03-Washington, D.C.

First they raided a San Diego company that was distributing tapes depicting children as young as seven performing sexual acts.
They say it wasn't enough to simply shut down "Overseas Mail," as the company was called.
The crackdown then shifted to those who buy the stuff.
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IN Q=If the addressee
((IF THE ADDRESSEE ACCEPTED THE PARCEL, POSTAL INSPECTORS THEN SEARCHED HIS RESIDENCE OR BUSINESS TO RECOVER THE TAPE THAT WAS ORDERED AND ANY OTHER EVIDENCE RELATED TO THE DISTRIBUTION, POSSESSION OR RECEIPT OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY. ))
SUPER=01-Kenneth Hunter/Chief Postal Inspector
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OUT Q=child pornography.
ANCHOR=Keith
SS=None

Postal Inspector Martin Davis says that's essentially what was done in the Riner case.
The man has not been charged, Davis says... and may not be... because Davis says the suspect is not considered a threat to the community- -because of his age- -and might not be worth prosecuting.

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Danville-Ax

ANCHOR=Keith
NEWSCAST=6pm
WRITER=THa
TAPE#None
GRAPHIC=None

A Danville teenager was killed this morning when the vehicle he was riding in struck a fence and overturned.
State Police say 19- year old Mathew Lee Montgomery died at the scene.
Montgomery was a passenger in a 1993 Chevrolet Barretta driven by Eric Wayne Burton.
The accident happened around 8:20 on Route 863.

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Rising-Expectations

ANCHOR=Keith
NEWSCAST=6
WRITER=Dal
TAPE#596-14
GRAPHIC=disability awareness

Organizers of Rising Expectations are hoping Awareness Day at Valley View Mall puts to rest some of the stereotypes surrounding the disabled.
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VO-NAT
SUPER=03-Roanoke;

Organizations catering to the needs of the disabled were on hand to show the services they offer.
The latest electronic equipment which may help make life a little easier was also on display.
Organizers say this is a chance for the general public to learn more about one segment of the American population.
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((CHRISTENE MONTGOMERY/RISING EXPECTATIONS AWARENESS DAY: PEOPLE NEED TO BE MORE AWARE THAT PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES ARE REGULAR PEOPLE. I'M NOT ABLE TO WALK, BUT MY BIGGEST DISABILITY IS PEOPLE NOT TREATING ME AS AN INDIVIDUAL.))
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The day wasn't all business.
Dennis Helms provided a musical interlude.
Christine Montgomery says showcasing disabled entertainers broadens the public view of the physically challenged.
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ANCHOR=Keith
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Still to come on News 7 at Six-- The latest in the case of a state lawmaker accused of indecent exposure.
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and a building bearing the name of a slain police officer is taking shape. The officer's widow says it's a fitting tribute.
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Nelms

ANCHOR=Keith
NEWSCAST=6pm
WRITER=equ
TAPE#96-38
GRAPHIC=Robert Helms

Suffolk Republican lawmaker Robert Nelms pleaded NOT guilty to indecent exposure today in a Richmond court. He was arrested in a city park in February.
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VO-NAT
SUPER=03-Richmond;

Nelms turned himself in today and was fingerprinted.
A grand jury decided Monday to indict Nelms, even after a judge threw out the initial charge on the grounds of legislative immunity.
Richmond police released vice crime statistics for city parks today, after Nelms said he was the victim of a witch hunt.
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((FRED RUSSELL/RICHMOND DEPUTY POLICE CHIEF: WE HAVE VICE OFFICERS ON A REGULAR BASIS GOING THROUGH THESE PARTICULAR AREAS JUST TO KEEP A HANDLE ON WHAT'S GOING ON. SO YOU KNOW THEY HIT THEM FAIRLY REGULARLY. IT'S NOT A TWO MONTH SWEEP OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. THEY'RE IN THERE WEEKLY, SOMETIMES DAILY.))
SUPER=01-Fred Russell/Richmond Dep. Police Chief;
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Nelms' attorney says he is researching legal precedent for reviving a charge after it's thrown out on the grounds of immunity.
Nelms is scheduled to be tried by a jury next month.
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B'burg-Police

ANCHOR=Keith
NEWSCAST=6
WRITER=tal
TAPE#None
GRAPHIC=None

In Blacksburg, police managed to avoid a shootout with a Virginia Tech student who pointed a gun at them this morning.
Officers heard gunshots when they responded to reports of fireworks on a walking trail between Janie Lane and University Village Trailer Park.
Police say they spoke to a man who rounded the corner as they approached a home on Janie Lane.
20 year- old Jon Christopher Overton allegedly pointed a shotgun at the officers, then ran when they told him to drop it.
Overton is charged with brandishing a firearm and discharging a firearm within town limits.

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C'burg-Shoot

ANCHOR=Keith
NEWSCAST=6
WRITER=tal
TAPE#None
GRAPHIC=State Police Investigation

A woman who was shot in the leg by a Christiansburg police officer last month has been charged with reckless handling of a firearm.
Officers responded to 9-1-1 call from a woman threatening suicide at Old Farm Village- One apartments.
Police say Stella Arcaro advanced on them with a gun, prompting Officer Alicia Smith to shoot.
Montgomery County Commonwealth's Attorney Phil Keith reviewed the results of a state police investigation and ruled that Smith acted properly.

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Student-Bomb

ANCHOR=Keith
NEWSCAST=6
WRITER=tal
TAPE#595-17
GRAPHIC=Legal Scales

Two boys who set off a homemade bomb at Floyd County High School have each been convicted of a felony.
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VO-NAT
SUPER=03-Floyd/March 7;

The students--ages 14 and 15-- detonated the device inside a boys locker room toilet, which was destroyed.
No one was hurt, though other students were in the locker room at the time.
The school board expelled both boys for a full year.
The students may ask the board to reconsider the decision in July.
A judge will sentence them in June.
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Forensic-Mapping

ANCHOR=Keith
NEWSCAST=6
WRITER=bmy
TAPE#
GRAPHIC=Roanoke County Seal

The painstaking process of collecting evidence at an accident or crime scene is going to get a little easier for Roanoke County police officers, thanks to some new high tech equipment.
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VO-NAT
SUPER=03-Roanoke Co.

Seven officers are being trained this week to use the Forensic Mapping system.
Measurements and fine details of the road surface can be highlighted with this equipment.
Experts say conventional methods, like measuring surfaces with steel tape, are never as precise as this new system.
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((MIKE CAPMAN/FORENSIC MAPPING SPECIALIST: BECAUSE STEEL TAPE IS LAYING ON THE GROUND ISN'T A TRUE MEASUREMENT, IT COMPOUNDS THE ERROR THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE SCENE. WITH THIS BECAUSE IT'S SO ACCURATE, AND HAS A RANGE OF ABOUT THREE THOUSAND FEET WE CAN TAKE A LOT OF INFORMATION VERY VERY ACCURATELY. ))
SUPER=01-Mike Capman/Forensic Mapping Specialist;
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Moose Lodge 284 in Roanoke County donated the 14-thousand dollars to cover all the expenses.
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Simmons says Roanoke County police plan to share this technology with other local police departments.
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Stocks

ANCHOR=Keith
NEWSCAST=six
WRITER=sly
TAPE#=Stocks
GRAPHIC=NONE

The stock market edged up a bit today. The Dow gained a point, to close at 54 hundred 75.
NASDAQ was up four and a half points.
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MASTER-GARDENER

ANCHOR=Keith
NEWSCAST=FIVE
WRITER=PEV
TAPE#96-32
GRAPHIC=NONE

The Master Gardener Program has been pruned out of the state budget, so localities are being asked to bear the costs.
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VO-NAT

Local projects such as the Fishburn Rose Garden, along with other duties including seminars and consumer phone calls, are primarily handled by Master Gardeners.
Cooperative Extension agents rely on the volunteer Gardeners, as well as the work of a paid Coordinator.
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ANCHOR=Keith
SUPER=NONE

The cost of the local coordinator will be shared by Botetourt, Craig, and Roanoke counties, and the city of Roanoke.
Total proposed allocations equal just over $41,000.

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Sports Tease

ANCHOR=Mike
NEWSCAST=6pm
WRITER=Mike
TAPE#sports tease
GRAPHIC=NONE
Coming up tonight in sports, derby winner Grindstone is retiring, the Commonwealth games are returning, George Lynch is styling,
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And either Butch Hobson or his friend is lying. The latest on his cocaine saga coming up after this.
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S-Grindstone

ANCHOR=Mike
NEWSCAST=6pm
WRITER=Mike
TAPE#S6-5
GRAPHIC=VISA TRIPLE CROWN

For the first time since 1985, when "Spend A Buck" failed to pursue the Triple Crown, the Kentucky Derby winner will miss next week's Preakness.
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SUPER=03-Louisville, KY/ABC - Saturday; :00

Today the handlers for Derby winner "Grindstone" announced that they are retiring the horse to stud, after bone chips were found in the thoroughbred's right knee.
The problem was discovered during the horse's first workout since the dramatic win on Saturday.
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S-Lincoln

ANCHOR=Mike
NEWSCAST=6pm
WRITER=Mike
TAPE#R-32
GRAPHIC=CHARLOTTE

The three days worth of testing for the upcoming events on the Winston Cup circuit have come to a close at Charlotte.
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VO-NAT eng#
SUPER=03-Concord, NC; :00

This morning Jeff Gordon ins a very different looking Dupont Chevrolet turned in some of the fastest times of the week with laps in excess of 178 miles an hour. Gordon won the pole at Charlotte last May.
This car has attracted most of the attention this week. It's a LIncoln Mark 8 built by Michael Kranefuss and tested by John Andretti. And it performed pretty good with a lap over 177.
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S-Games

ANCHOR=Mike
NEWSCAST=6pm
WRITER=Roy
TAPE#S6-10
GRAPHIC=Commonwealth games

Virginia Amateur Sports is gearing up for the seventh annual Commonwealth Games of Virginia.
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VO-NAT ENG#
SUPER=03-Roanoke Co.; :

The 1996 games should be big and better than ever with the Olympics being held in Atlanta this year.
And many athletes have already made plans to attend this years game.
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SUPER=01-Peter Lapman/VAS President; :00
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VO-NAT ENG#
SUPER=04-1995 Games; :

An estimated 10-thousand amateur athletes from throughout the state will be competing in 44 different sports.
And one of the big draws this year is basketball.
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ANCHOR=Mike
SS=Hold Logo

The games are scheduled July 12-th through the 14-th.

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S-Dupont

ANCHOR=Mike
NEWSCAST=6pm
WRITER=Mike
TAPE#S6-9
GRAPHIC=DUPONT

Stage 9 of the Tour Dupont is history and although he did not win today's race, Lance Armstrong has all but wrapped up the overall title.
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SUPER=03-Charlotte, NC; :00

The cyclists traveled 105 miles from Blowing Rock, North carolina to downtown Charlotte today.
And for the first time during the Tour Dupont a member of the U.S. POstal Service sponsored team won a stage.
Sven Tautenburg crossed the line first on Tryon Street in the center of the Queen city as the business district shut down to watch the finish at two o'clock.
Tomorrow the rider will travel from Rock HIll, South Caroline to Greenville, South Carolina on a 118 mile ride.
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S-Hobson

ANCHOR=Mike
NEWSCAST=6pm
WRITER=Mike
TAPE#S6-4
GRAPHIC=mlb
The Butch Hobson saga has added another chapter today. Hobson is the former Redsox manager who found in a Rhode Island hotel by federal agents with 2 ounces of cocaine in his possession.
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VO-NAT eng#
SUPER=03-Mobile, AL/Monday; :00
Hobson returned home to Mobile, Alabama on Monday morning saying he did have the cocaine but it was sent to him unknowingly in an overnight mailing envelope.
Today the man who sent the envelope, Jerry Poe, Hobson's former high school teammate, says that's news to him.
Poe says the package contained literature about landfills in the state of Alabama.
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S-McLain

ANCHOR=Mike
NEWSCAST=6pm
WRITER=Roy
TAPE#S6-6
GRAPHIC=NONE
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VO-NAT ENG#
SUPER=04-MLB; :

Also, former Detroit Tiger pitcher Denny McLain has been indicted on conspiracy and pension theft charges. The U-S attorney's office says McLain and his partner Roger Smigiel purchased Chesaning's Peet Packing Company in 1984 they named themselves trustees of the pension fund.
They then transferred 12 million dollars of the fund to a bank and used three million of it for their personal and company use.
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S-Softball

ANCHOR=Mike
NEWSCAST=6pm
WRITER=sma
TAPE#S6-11
GRAPHIC=Softball

William Byrd and Cave Spring hooked up in a girls softball game over at Penn Forest Elementary this afternoon.
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VO-NAT #eng
SUPER=03-Roanoke Co./Terriers vs. Knights; :00

The Lady Knights were guarding their 11 and 2 record while the Lady Terriers came into this one with a 12 and 2 mark.
In the bottom of the second, Cave Spring's Karry Whitney puts her team on the board first with this solo home run to dead center field. Byrd answered in the next inning.
Lady Terrier Jody Stuckey connects on the one bagger that brings in Brandy
SUPER=34-cave Spring/=11/William Byrd/==1;
Welch and the game is knotted at 1 a piece headed into the bottom of the third.
That's when Whitney broke the game wide open. The senior cracks her second homerun of the game with 2 runners a board. Cave Spring goes on to win 11 to 1.
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S-Lynch

ANCHOR=Mike
NEWSCAST=6pm
WRITER=Mike
TAPE#bb96-3
GRAPHIC=NBA PLAYOFFS

The NBA playoffs are over for George Lynch and the Los Angeles Lakers, and although George's playing time decreased this year, his recognition rating is on the rise.
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VO-NAT eng#

An article in the April edition of EBONY magazine, lists Big George as one of the NBA's most eligible bachelors.
The story entitled "Millionaire Hunks of the NBA" ranks George and his five year $7 million dollar contract right up there with the likes of Penny Hardaway and Grant Hill.
And speaking of Mr. Lynch...
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S-Camp

ANCHOR=Mike
NEWSCAST=6pm
WRITER=Mike
TAPE#BB96-4
GRAPHIC=NONE
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VO-NAT ENG#
SUPER=03-Roanoke/Last Summer; :00

And just a reminder that George will be back in Roanoke this summer to conduct his week long basketball camp.
It is scheduled for the Week of June 24th through the 28th.
And this year the camp will be held at Fleming and Ruffner.
Cost for the camp is $110 bucks.
And again a number of former and current college stars are expected to help with the instruction.
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Griffith-Center

ANCHOR=Keith
NEWSCAST=6
WRITER=tal
TAPE#96-46
GRAPHIC=None

Less than two years after a Christiansburg police officer was shot and killed in the line of duty, a fund in his name has raised enough money to begin construction on a youth center.
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VO-NAT
SUPER=03-Roanoke Co.;

The concrete has already been poured, and the building parts arrived this morning.
The Terry Lynn Griffith Memorial Youth Center is being erected next to Moore's Chapel Baptist Church in the Bradshaw area.
Shortly before Griffith was fatally wounded while trying to apprehend a shoplifter, his wife says he spoke of one day leaving police work to oversee such a center.
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((DIANE GRIFFITH/SLAIN OFFICER'S WIFE: THAT HE FELT GOD WAS LEADING HIM OUT OF THAT LINE OF WORK AND WAS GONNA USE HIM IN THIS WAY. TODAY IT JUST REALLY DAWNED ON ME THAT GOD DID. HE TOOK HIM OUT OF POLICE WORK AND BECAUSE OF THAT THE YOUTH CENTER IS A REALITY. ))
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So far, the fund at First National Bank of Christiansburg has collected about 65 thousand dollars.
The center is estimated to cost about 120 thousand to complete.
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Promo
ANCHOR=Keith
(toss to Jean)
NEWSCAST=6
WRITER=jmo
TAPE#Promo edit 96-31

An update on that hearing involving Virginia Tech football players.
A judge has DISMISSED the malicious wounding charge against Tech quarterback Jim Druckenmiller.
Defense testimony is just now getting started in the case against George DelRicco. Tracy Altizer will have a complete report tonight at 11.
It's been almost a week since a six- year- old girl was struck by lightning. She was shaken up but not seriously hurt.
Double Boxes=Keith and Jean/Newsroom

Jean Jadhon joins us in the newsroom with more on that.
Live=Jean Full/Newsroom
SUPER=@Jean1;

Latasha White was visiting her aunt in Giles County when it happened.
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VO-NAT

They were standing in the doorway on Sunday watching the storm when the lightning hit.
Fortunately, White didn't suffer any major injuries.
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Double Boxes=Keith and Jean/Newsroom

We'll talk her about that night and see how she's recuperating. on News 7 at 11. Join us for that story plus all the latest news, weather, and sports tonight