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ANCHOR=Keith

Coming up on NEWS 7 at SIX:
A man who swears he didn't do it is sentenced to die for murder.
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VO-NAT


And a home- grown national retail chain is up for sale.... so is one of Roanoke's favorite restaurants.
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Sports-Head
ANCHOR=Mike (ON TAPE)
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IN Q= Coming your way

((COMING YOUR WAY TONIGHT IN SPORTS... A LIVE REPORT FROM DAYTONA THAT INCLUDES NOT ONLY WINSTON CUP PRACTICE, BUT ALSO A LOOK AT LAST NIGHT'S SPACE SHUTTLE LAUNCH SOUTH OF HERE AT THE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER.))
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WX-Head
TALENT=Robin
SS=None


Clouds, cold weather, then more snow on Thursday. The forecast features full blown winter conditions through the weekend.

Ben-Lilly


ANCHOR=Keith
NEWSCAST=6
WRITER=tal
TAPE#97-5
GRAPHIC=Mark Lilly


Mark Lilly's statement to police helped convict his brother of capital murder.
Today, Lilly recanted those words, as a judge prepared
SS=Ben Lilly

to sentence Ben Lilly to death for the murder of a Virginia Tech student.
Tracy Altizer reports.
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IN Q=If it was to do over
SUPER=01-Mark Lilly/Ben Lilly's Brother; :00
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SUPER=01-Skip Schwab/Asst. Montgomery Co. Prosecutor; :34
SUPER=@Tracy1; 1:09
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SOT 9:23:40

((MARK LILLY/BEN LILLY'S BROTHER: IF IT WAS TO DO OVER I WOULDN'T HAVE TOLD Y'ALL NOTHING. I WOULDN'T HAVE TOLD Y'ALL NOTHING. ))
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What Mark Lilly DID tell authorities was that his brother Ben killed Alexander DeFilippis after they, and a third man abducted the Tech student.
But as Judge Ray Grubbs considered whether to impose the jury's recommended death sentence, Mark called his earlier statement a lie, and said he's not sure WHO pulled the trigger.
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((THE INVESTIGATORS START TALKING ABOUT ALL THESE LIFE SENTENCES I COULD GET. I GOT SCARED MAN, THROW'D IT OFF ON SOMEBODY ELSE. ))
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SOT 10:26:30

((SKIP SCHWAB/ASST. MONTGOMERY CO. PROSECUTOR: I THINK THE IMPORTANT THING IS EVEN NOW, HE WON'T SAY THAT HIS BROTHER WAS NOT THE ONE THAT DID IT, JUST THAT HE'S NOT SURE WHO DID IT. ))
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Lilly apologized to the victim's family for their loss, but denied responsibility.
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SOT 10:03:50

((THE ONE THAT KILLED HIM WILL HAVE TO LIVE WITH THAT FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIFE. BUT I DIDN'T KILL HIM, I SWEAR TO GOD I DIDN'T KILL HIM. ))
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The judge upheld the jury's verdict to send Lilly to death row.
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((WHERE ON THE 9TH DAY OF APRIL, 1997 YOU SHALL BE PUT TO DEATH. ))
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The case doesn't end here. A death penalty ruling is subject to an automatic review, and even though the judge set Lilly's execution date for this April, any actual date with death may still be years away. Tracy Altizer, News 7 Christiansburg.))

Burley


ANCHOR=Keith
NEWSCAST=6pm
WRITER=ssm
TAPE#96-104
GRAPHIC=James Burley


It was the same story in Amherst County, where convicted killer James Burley says he took the fall for two murders in order to protect a close friend.
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VO-NAT
SUPER=03-Amherst


Burley's surprise testimony came during his sentencing hearing this afternoon in Amherst County circuit court.
He'd been convicted of murdering Robin Burge and Jacqueline Carter in separate incidents in the winter of 1995.
On the stand today, Burley admitted he helped hide Carter's body, but claimed it was his friend.. Sammy Lee Brown.. who killed both women.
Burley spent a year in jail before coming forward with this information, but he left court today sticking to his story.
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SOT 3:52:14
IN Q=You're saying

((Reporter: You're saying you did not do this? BURLEY: STILL SAYING THAT. Reporter: Why didn't you come out with this sooner? BURLEY: LONG STORY.)) ((ED MEEKS/PROSECUTOR: WE GOT SOME INDICATION YESTERDAY THAT THAT MIGHT BE COMING, AND I TALKED WITH MY INVESTIGATOR AND WE WERE PRETTY MUCH READY FOR IT.))
SUPER=01-James Burley/Convicted Killer; :00
SUPER=01-Ed Meeks/Prosecutor; :07
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OUT Q=ready for it.
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Judge J. Michael Gamble upheld both jury verdicts and sentenced Burley to two consecutive life terms in prison plus eight years.
An appeal is likely.
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Brown


ANCHOR=Keith
NEWSCAST=6pm
WRITER=ssm
TAPE#96-105
GRAPHIC=Troy Brown


A Lynchburg jury says Troy Brown should spend 23 years in prison for a fatal confrontation outside a night club last summer.
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VO-NAT
SUPER=03-Lynchburg


The panel convicted Brown of first degree murder for the shooting death of 18- year- old Derrick Crews July 27th.
Brown and Crews had gotten into a shouting match after leaving the Pepper Baux (box) restaurant that night.
Brown fired several shots into the air, then shot Crews once in the chest.
Defense attorneys had argued Brown was in fear for his life.
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Chartered-Schools


ANCHOR=Keith
NEWSCAST=6pm
WRITER=equ
TAPE#97-4
GRAPHIC=Dick Cranwell


The charter school concept that Vinton Delegate Dick Cranwell's warned would "Balkanize" and re-segregate Virginia schools has new life in Richmond.
That's thanks to Cranwell's fellow Democrat Bill Clinton.
And now the chief Republican patron of charter schools says Cranwell isn't playing fair.
Ellen Qualls has the story.
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IN Q=For the past
SUPER=@file; :00
SUPER=03-Washington, DC/February 4; :08
SUPER=01-Del. Kirk Cox/(R) Colonial Heights; :15
SUPER=@Ellen2; :23
SUPER=@Beyer; :32
SUPER=@Cranwell; :44
SUPER=01-Del. Phillip Hamilton/(R) Newport News; 1:02
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OUT Q=Qualls, News 7, Richmond.


(( For the past two years, a limited bill to allow some public schools to be freed from most state oversight has died in Richmond.
But as of last week, supporters, who are mostly Republican, got a new ally: Democrat Bill Clinton.
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((DEL. KIRK COX: PRESIDENT CLINTON NOT ONLY PAID LIP SERVICE TO THIS SUCCESSFUL PROGRAM, BUT HE BACKED UP THOSE WORDS BY PROVIDING FUNDING IN HIS BUDGET.))
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Virginia Republicans say it's like Goals 2000 in reverse...Democrats are turning down federal funds for schools.
Democrats are scrambling for a response.
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((LT. GOV. DON BEYER: AND THERE MAY WELL BE ALL THE MAGNET SCHOOLS, AND GOVERNOR'S SCHOOLS, AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE ACADEMIES THAT ARE ALREADY OF A CHARTER SCHOOL NATURE IN VIRGINIA THAT WILL ALLOW US TO USE THAT MONEY.))
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((DEL. DICK CRANWELL: BUT THE IMPORTANT THING TO UNDERSTAND IS THERE'S BEEN ONE MAJOR STUDY OF CHARTER SCHOOLS IN THE UNITED STATES. AND IT CAME TO TWO CONCLUSIONS. NUMBER ONE IT DOES NOT IMPROVE QUALITY IN EDUCATION. AND NUMBER TWO IT RESULTS IN DE FACTO SEGREGATION.))
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But the very Harvard study Cranwell's citing is about VOUCHERS...to be used at private schools.
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((DEL. PHIL HAMILTON: WELL I DON'T KNOW HOW EXTENSIVELY HE HAD STUDIED THE REPORT THAT HE PROVIDED TO ME. AND I CERTAINLY DON'T WANT TO QUESTION ANYBODY'S INTEGRITY. I DO KNOW THAT THE INFORMATION HE SENT TO ME WAS NOT A STUDY ON CHARTER SCHOOLS, BUT RATHER A STUDY ON SCHOOL CHOICE WITH A FOCUS ON VOUCHERS.))
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So for 1997's session, charter schools aren't dead 'til the last gavel's pounded.
Ellen Qualls, News 7, Richmond.))
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HARD MUSIC UNDER
ANCHOR=Keith
SS=NONE


Still to come on News 7 at Six--
"Voices From the Past"--We'll meet a disc jockey from Lynchburg who had a following on F-M back before F-M was cool.
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and new ownership for two home-grown companies. We'll find out what it means for Advance Auto and Innotech.
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ANCHOR=Robin

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Advance-Auto


ANCHOR=Keith
NEWSCAST=6
WRITER=lbe
TAPE#97-2
GRAPHIC=None


One Roanoke company is being taken over and another may want to be.
Double Boxes=Keith and Len/Microwave

Len Besthoff joins us from the company that may soon be looking for a suitor. Here's Len.
Live= Full/Microwave
SUPER=@Len1;
SUPER=05-Roanoke;
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(Rollcue: be for sale.)
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Double Boxes=Keith and Len/Microwave

((Keith question: Innotech just went public a year ago, are investors happy with this arrangement?))

La-Maison


ANCHOR=Keith
NEWSCAST=6
WRITER=KHu
TAPE#97-3
GRAPHIC=None


Thinking about a romantic dinner for two Friday Night, Valentine's Day, at say: La Maison?
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VO-NAT
SUPER=03-Roanoke


Well you're out of luck.
The up-scale restaurant went on the auction block today... SO suddenly that it was news to the man who's run the kitchen here for the past two decades.
The tables are set for dinner tonight, but reservations won't be honored.
Thomas Taylor had been running the restaurant and was trying to buy the place. He handed over the keys to the property owners Saturday.
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IN Q=My understanding

((JIM WOLTZ/AUCTIONEER: MY UNDERSTANDING WAS HE WAS TRYING TO COME UP WITH SOME FUNDS TO CLOSE ON THE LEASE-PURCHASE AGREEMENT AND WAS UNSUCCESSFUL IN COMING UP WITH THE SECONDARY FINANCING. And wound up defaulting? IT APPEARS THAT WAY, YES.))
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OUT Q=that way, Yes.
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The auction will held sometime in the next couple of months.
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Stocks


ANCHOR=Keith
NEWSCAST=6
WRITER=tbr
TAPE#=None
GRAPHIC=NONE

The Dow posted a solid gain today, UP 51 and a half points. NASDAQ lost four points.
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Voices-Dan


ANCHOR=Keith
NEWSCAST=6PM
WRITER=TST
TAPE#97-10
GRAPHIC=Voices From The Past

**Note Anchor Tag****
There was a time not so long ago when F-M radio was what you listened to when you couldn't find an A-M station you liked.
Tonight in our series "Voices From The Past," Ted Stone remembers one of the first deejays in our area to have a following on the F-M side of the dial.
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((During the 1960s and early 70s, WLLL was one of the most popular radio stations in central Virginia.
In those days, the station was located right here, on a hill west of Lynchburg. It had a powerful A-M signal that was on the air during daylight hours only.
But for a number of years, beginning in 1970, the station beamed out a clearer F-M signal around the clock.
If you wanted to hear rock 'n' roll after dark in Lynchburg, you tuned in WLLL F-M, and Dan Marks. ((VOICE OF DAN MARKS/FORMER WLLL DISC JOCKEY: I NEVER DREAMED THAT F-M WOULD BE SUCH A BIG COMMODITY. I MEAN, IT'S MONSTROUS.))
The 19-year old Pittsburgh native was fresh out of broadcasting school when he took over the six-to-midnight shift at WLLL in 1970. ((DAN MARKS/FORMER WLLL DISC JOCKEY: EVERYBODY LISTENED TO WLLL BACK THEN. BECAUSE THEY PLAYED ROCK 'N' ROLL.))
At WLLL, he won gold records for debuting songs that later became hits.
Yet he sometimes had to fight to keep the station rocking. ((DAN MARKS: WE HAD A STATION MANAGER THAT DIDN'T LIKE "LAYLA." DEREK AND THE DOMINOS BACK THEN, YOU KNOW, THE MONSTROUS HIT RECORD. I PLAYED IT ANYWAY. I MEAN, I WAS ALWAYS BEING CALLED IN, SAYING "MARKS, DON'T PLAY LAYLA!" BUT I WOULD CONTINUE TO PLAY IT. I MEAN, ALMOST TO THE POINT OF ALMOST LOSING MY JOB A COUPLE OF TIMES.))
The boss probably went off again when Marks impersonated a military officer, called a McDonald's, and ordered 10-thousand burgers to go. ((DAN MARKS: I THINK THAT'S WHY PEOPLE LIKED ME AT THE TIME, BECAUSE I WAS DIFFERENT. I DIDN'T JUST SIT THERE LIKE A BUMP ON A LOG AND PLAY MUSIC.))
Today there's a new WLLL on the air, playing gospel music.
Marks is now a freelance deejay, but he's also back on the F-M airwaves, playing oldies on the weekends at WRDJ/WLDJ.
He's finding a new audience with the songs that once got him into trouble. ((DAN MARKS: I DID A PARTY LAST SUMMER. SIXTH AND SEVENTH GRADERS. WHAT DID THEY WANT TO HEAR? THE BEATLES. THE ROLLING STONES. ALL THAT STUFF. PEOPLE LOVE IT. IT'S SOMETHING THAT'LL NEVER DIE.))
And Dan Marks says he'll play it as long as a station will put him on the air.
Ted Stone, News 7.))
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Next-Voices


ANCHOR=Keith
NEWSCAST=6PM
WRITER=TST
TAPE#96-101
GRAPHIC=WIPE/WIPE/WIPE
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Tomorrow night in our series, we'll find out what it was like to be the only female deejay in town.
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((WOMAN'S VOICE: SOME PEOPLE DIDN'T DEAL WITH IT VERY WELL.))
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OUT Q=very well.
Talent=Keith
SS=Voices From The Past


That's in tomorrow night's edition of "Voices From The Past, here on News 7.

S-Daytona


ANCHOR=Steve
NEWSCAST=6pm
WRITER=mst
TAPE#
GRAPHIC=Speedweeks 97


Plenty of sun and finally plenty of fun as the Winston Cup Cars got on the track and figured out how to pass in Daytona today.
Double Boxes=Steve/Mike STARLINK


Let's check in with Mike Stevens who has seen all kinds of sights in the last 18 hours.
LIVE=Mike Full
SUPER=@Mike1;
SUPER=06-Daytona Beach, FL;

(( Adlibs:)) Rollcue: just south of here before dawn this morning. ROLLED FROM THE TRUCK
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SUPER=03-Kennedy Space Cntr.- 3:56am; SUPER=01-Rusty Wallace/Miller Ford

Driver; :56
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LIVE=Mike FULL

Mike will adlib into short vo rolled from truck
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SUPER=04-BGN Qualifying;
SUPER=06-Daytona Beach, FL;


Sports tease


ANCHOR=steve
NEWSCAST=6pm
WRITER=sma
TAPE#=none
GRAPHIC=none


In other sports today, Roanoke's Page Moir speaks up after snapping naps a 5 game loosing,
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and The New York Jets hope to end their seasonal losing streaks now that this gentleman is at the helm.
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S-Parcells


ANCHOR=Steve
NEWSCAST=6pm
WRITER=sma
TAPE#=S6-28
GRAPHIC=New York Jets


Today, Bill Parcells began tackling the challenge of turning around the New York Jets.
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SUPER=03-New York, NY; :00


The Jets 5th coach in 5 years met the media today on his first day as the Jets new coach.
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((BILL PARCELLS/NEW YORK JETS HEAD COACH:)) ((LEON HESS/JETS OWNER:))
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SUPER=01-Leon Hess/Jets owner; :21
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S-Maroons


ANCHOR=Steve
NEWSCAST=11pm
WRITER=sma
TAPE#=BB97-2
GRAPHIC=ODAC


The Roanoke mens basketball team heads into tomorrow nights conference clash at Eastern Mennonite with new life.
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VO-NAT #eng
SUPER=03-Salem/Hornets vs. Maroons; :00


Last Night, the Maroons snapped a 5 game losing streak by beating Lynchburg 84-71. Jason Bishop lead the Maroons with 18,
while Derek Bryant tied Roanoke's record for career three pointers in the win.
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((PAGE MOIR/ROANOKE HEAD COACH:))
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Forecasts
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State-Song


ANCHOR=Keith
NEWSCAST=6pm
WRITER=equ
TAPE#97-7
GRAPHIC=State Song


He won't write his own version.
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VO-NAT
SUPER=03-Richmond;


But in the "for what it's worth" department, Grammy- winning pop star Bruce Hornsby says we need to retire "Carry Me Back to Old Virginia."
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((OH ABSOLUTELY IT'S A GOOD THING TO GET RID OF THAT SONG. IT'S SO OFFENSIVE TO SO MANY PEOPLE FOR SO LONG. I THINK THEY SHOULD HAVE BLASTED IT OUT WHEN DOUG WILDER ORIGINALLY BROUGHT IT UP BACK IN WHAT '71 OR SO.))
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Hornsby is a Williamsburg native who stopped off at the Capitol today for a quick hello.
He says writing a new state song would be a tough assignment. (-------0---------)
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