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Next on News 7-
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The market suffers its worst single-day point drop in history- trading shuts down early.
Fire damages a Northeast Roanoke home.
And prosecutors grill the (O-pair) au-pair accused of killing a baby.
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Wx-Heads
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Another cold front is sliding through the region bringing rather chilly and breezy conditions. More on that forecast just ahead.

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In western New York state-- health officials say a 20-year-old H-I-V
infected man had sex with dozens of (----------------)
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school girls and young women-- knowingly passing on the virus.
The story, on Health Check.
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Never before has the Dow fallen so far.
It's a huge sell off-
The stock market indicator drops more than 550 points
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5-NYSE


ANCHOR=Jean
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Good Evening, I'm Jean Jadhon.
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Today's huge drop triggered an early shutdown of trading.
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The Dow closed the day at 554 point 26.
Under rules imposed after Black Monday in 1987, a decline of 550 points demands a one hour halt in trading.
So, the "mid-afternoon drop" ended trading for the day.
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((RAY BRADY/CBS ECONOMIC COORESPONDENT: THE THING TO WATCH OUT FOR WILL BE TOMORROW THE MARKET COULD BE UP VERY OFTEN IF A MARKET DROPS SHARPLY IN ONE DAY IT'SL IKE IF YOU DROP A RUBBER BALL FROM HIGH ENOUGH IT'LL BOUNCE BACK. SO YO'VE GOT TO BE CAREFUL TOMORROW THAT YOU DON'T GET LULLED AN THINK HEY IT'S COMING BACK IT MAY NOT BE. YOU'VE GOT TO WAIT A DAY OR TWO AND JUST SORT OF GET A FEEL FOR WHAT'S HAPPENING.))
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In terms of percentage, today's sell off is not as bad as the 87 crash.
The seven percent loss today is well short of the 22 percent loss then.
Today's plunge is in response to another sharp drop in the Hong Kong market.
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5-Bramblett


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The capital murder trial of Earl Bramblett is winding down... the Commonwealth may rest its case tomorrow.
In the meantime, the state Court of Appeals has cleared the way for the prosecution to call Roanoke Times Reporter Dianne Struzzi.
The newspaper wanted to quash the subpoena, but the Appeals Court said the issue wasn't properly presented, because the reporter had not been found in contempt of court.
Judge Roy Willett also ordered the newspaper to hand over notes and a tape-recording Struzzi made of her interview with Bramblett last year in South Carolina.
The trial resumes in the morning... with Struzzi scheduled to be ONE of the first witnesses.

5-Au-Pair


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The 19 year old Nanny on trial for the murder of a baby took the stand again today.
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This time prosecutors hammered away at 19 year old Louise Woodward-
Woodward defended herself denying she fatally shook 8 month old Matthew Eappen.
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((PROSECUTOR: DIDN'T YOU TELL THE NEWTON POLICE LATER THAT EVENING THAT YOU WERE A LITTLE ROUGH WITH MATTHEW THAT DAY? LOUISE WOODWARD: NO I TOLD YOU WHAT I SAID PREVIOUSLY. PROSECUTOR: SO YOU NEVER USED THE WORDS A LITTLE ROUGH? WOODWARD: NO THEY SUGGESTED THAT TO ME.))
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Woodward refused to budge-- repeating over and over she neither violently shook nor dropped the baby.
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5-Prom-Baby


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wipe wipe wipe
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The teenager who allegedly killed her newborn at her school prom- pleaded innocent today.
19 year old Melissa Drexler remains free on bail.
Drexler gave birth in a bathroom stall while she attended her prom.
An autopsy determined the child breathed on his own before he was strangled and suffocated.
A janitor at the catering hall later found the baby boy in a trash bag.
Prosecutors charge Drexler killed her newborn and then returned to the prom with her classmates.
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5-Roanoke-Fire


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In Northeast Roanoke-- Fire heavily damaged a home this afternoon.
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The owner of this house on Hildebrand Road says the inside was heavily damaged.
Fire officials say a painter working in the house left a drop cloth near a furnace.
He left for lunch, the furnace turned on and the cloth caught fire.
The blaze spread inside the house before a neighbor put it out with a garden hose.
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((BILL FREEMAN/PAINTER; I WAS ONLY GONE 20 MINUTES, I ONLY LIVE 3 OR 4 STREETS OVER, WHEN I CAME BACK ALL THESE FIRE ENGINES... I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON.))
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Fire officials say Freeman didn't know the furnace was on.
They've ruled the fire accidental.
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5-Cemetery-Vandalism


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Descendants of the Frantz family in Roanoke County want to know who desecrated their family burial site.
The small cemetery sits on a hill near Peters Creek Road.
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SUPER=03-Roanoke Co.;


Sometime during the past three weeks vandals toppled gravemarkers-- some dating back to the 17-hundreds.
The care taker discovered the damage Wednesday and reported it to police.
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((JERRY FRANTZ/CEMETERY CARETAKER: IT WAS JUST DISGUSTING TO IMAGINE ANYONE COULD DO THAT AND NOT BOTHER THEM AND TEAR UP STUFF THAT WAY AND JUST WALK AWAY LIKE IT DON'T MEAN A THING.))
SUPER=01-Jerry Frantz/Cemetery Caretaker;
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Frantz's grandfather, father and brother are buried in the "Old France Cemetery."
He believes there are slaves buried just outside the stone wall and that slaves actually built the wall around the cemetery.
The Roanoke County police are investigating the incident.
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A Roanoke County company is hoping its money can help promote reading and working-- details ahead on NEWS-7 at FIVE...
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And if you want a black cat between now and Halloween-- we can tell you where NOT to go...
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On Health Check--
Another warning about the potential dangers with hot tubs-- plus, the Salem V-A enters the global call for education about Tuberculosis. 2-SHOT
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Patrick is checking out some of the more bizarre art classics...
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And the Virginia Cavaliers talk about the future and the beating they took from Florida State over the weekend....stay tuned. cc sponsor
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5-United-Cities


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A natural gas distributor with offices in the New River Valley is scaling back its work force.
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SUPER=03-Blacksburg;


This comes after a merger between United Cities Gas Company and Atmos
(AT-muss) Energy Corporation.


Today United Cities began offering incentive packages to some employees.
The company has offices in Blacksburg, Radford and Pulaski.
The affected workers can either take the package or stay with the company through July.
A company spokeswoman declined to say how many workers are involved.
United Cities serves about 22-thousand customers in Virginia.
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5-Ward-System


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Roanoke voters have just about a week to decide whether they want a modified ward system.
But some citizens believe public opinion is being influenced unfairly.
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The Committee for Better Representation says Mayor Bowers and Roanoke city council members are using their public offices to criticize the ward system.
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((BILL BESTPITCH/COMM. FOR BETTER REPRESENTATION: THE MAYOR COULD HAVE GONE A BLOCK AND A HALF DOWN THE STREE TO HIS PRIVATE OFFICE AND MADE ANY ANNOUNCEMENT HE WANTED TO AND THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN PERFECTLY APPROPRIATE. BUT TO USE THE TAXPAYER'S OFFICE, THE OFFICE WE PROVIDE TO HIM TO MAKE A POLITICAL STATEMENT, WE FEEL IS GROSSLY INAPPROPRIATE AND AGAINST THE LAW. ))
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Mayor Bowers says council promotes public debate in Roanoke on both sides of this issue.

5-TAP


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R-R Donnelley hopes a high-tech gift to the community will help move people from welfare to work.
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SUPER=03-Roanoke Co.;;


The book-manufacturing company gave Total Action Against Poverty -- a check for 45-thousand dollars today.
The money will pay for a computer lab.
TAP says knowing how to use computers is a crucial skill for people trying to get into today's work force.
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((STEVE MUSSELWHITE/TAP BOARD OF DIRECTORS: THE COMPUTER LAB, IT WILL BE STATE-OF-THE-ART. IT WILL HELP THE PEOPLE WE'RE SERVING RIGHT NOW. IT WILL ENABLE THEM TO GET BETTER JOBS AND BE MORE PRODUCTIVE IN THE COMMUNITY. ))
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R-R Donnelley says it wants to be a good corporate citizen.
The company hopes the computer lab will also help promote literacy in the valley.
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Picasso, Renoir, Rockwell and Grandma Moses can all be found at Roanoke College.... along with Patrick Evans.
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STOCKS BUMP NEXT

5-art-show


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One of the greatest and most ec-lectic group of master works outside of a major museum can be found at Roanoke College.
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Patrick Evans joins us from Olin Galleries in Salem with a look inside this impressive collection.
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SUPER=21-Patrick Evans
SUPER=22-Salem;
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Forecasts
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SUPER=332-Occasional Flurries/Early/28-32/Partly Sunny/Wind SW-10/48-52;
SUPER=333-Occasional Flurries/Wind NW-15/25-30/Partly Sunny/And Breezy/50-52;
SUPER=334-Flurries Early/Then Clearing/28-32/Mostly Sunny/Wind W-10/48-54;
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It was a day late, but a winner was crowned today at the AC-Delco 400 in North Carolina. Mike has highlights in TOnight's Ticker.
ANCHOR=Connie


Officials in Western New York say an H-I-V-infected man may have knowingly spread the virus through at least one community--
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especially targeting teenage girls.
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((MANY OF THE CASES INVOLVE TEENAGERS, SOME QUITE YOUNG WITH INITIAL CONTACT APPARENTLY BEGUN AT SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY PARKS ))
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six-preview


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Good Afternoon, I'm Keith Humphry--
Here's a look ahead to News 7 at 6.
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Don Beyer is now in the final miles of a marathon campaign... and tonight we'll take a closer look at this personal history.
Joe Dashiell has part one of our profile on the Democratic Candidate for Governor.
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((THIS IS NOT ABOUT LIVING IN A BIG YELLOW HOUSE IN RICHMOND. IT'S CERTAINLY NOT ABOUT HAVING STATE POLICE ATTENTION.))
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We'll hear what he believes the campaign IS about...
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beginning with the first part of our profile tonight on News 7 at six.
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Seven days until election day thanks, Keith.

5-HIV-Girls


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A community in Western New York is having to learn fast about AIDS and teenage young women in their town.
Officials in Mayville, New York say a 20-year-old H-I-V infected man had sex with at least 28 teen girls--
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He reportedly knew he was H-I-V positive in at least half of those cases-- many of which involved trading sex for drugs.
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((DR. ROBERT BERKE/CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY HEALTH COMMISSIONER: IT APPEARS HE DID NOT WARN HIS CONTACTS ABOUT HIS POSITIVE STATUS. TO DATE IN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY OUR STAFF HAVE EVALUATED 28 DIRECT CONTACTS, AND 53 SECONDARY CONTACTS.. AND CONTINUE TO WORK ON 17 MORE. ))
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In all, as many as 100 people may have been exposed to the H-I-V virus through either direct or secondary contact.

5-Hot-Tub


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In Los Angeles, an eleven-year-old girl remains hospitalized after her hair was sucked into a hot tub drain.
She was caught underwater in the spa for several minutes-- she was unconscious when she was finally freed from the tremendous suction.
Officials say it reinforces the lesson that people should never swim or use a spa alone.

5-Tuberculosis


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Last week we told you about the global warning call from health officials concerning tuberculosis.
They're worried about a multi-drug resistant strain of the disease-- making it's way around the world.
Now, the Salem V-A is getting into the education act-- with a national, interactive satellite seminar on the topic planned for TOMORROW.
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((CHARLENE MCCADDEN/INFECTION CONTROL PRACTITIONER: IF EVERYONE HAS THE SAME INFORMATION THEN OUR PROGRAM OVERALL WILL BE MORE EFFECTIVE AND WE HAVE SOME ISSUES AS FAR AS RESISTANCE, NOT ONLY WITH TB BUT WITH OTHER EMERGING
PATHOGENS. SO WE WANT TO HAVE EVERYONE WELL-INFORMED.))RUNS=:15
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The day-long seminar is open to all medical professionals.
It's an especially important topic, with the resurgence of this disease.
It's becoming a problem everywhere-- even in Virginia.
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((DR. STEPHANIE NAGY-AGREN/SALEM V-A CHIEF OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES: WE DO HAVE SOME MULTI-DRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS HERE IN VIRGINIA-- ALTHOUGH THE HOT ZONES IN THIS PARTICULAR COUNTRY ARE IN THE MORE LARGER URBAN AREAS. ))
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In 1996, Virginia reported 349 cases of the disease-- including four cases of multi-drug resistant t-b.
And it isn't just t-b health experts are worried about.
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((DR. KENNETH SOSNOWSKI: GENERALLY SOME OF THE COMMON BACTERIA SUCH AS STAPH HAVE LEARNED TO FIGHT OFF SOME OF MORE COMMON DRUGS.BUT THAT TENDS TO BE A MINOR PROBLEM. THE PROBLEM REALLY IS WHEN WE GET INTO INTENSIVE CARE, WHEN A PATIENT HAS VERY LITTLE LEFT OF HIS IMMUNE SYSTEM AND HE';S TOTALLY DEPENDENT ON THE DRUGS TO PROTECT HIM AGAINST THE INFECTION, THEN THE RESISTANT ORGANISMS CAUSES MUCH MORE OF A PROBLEM. ))
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Pharmaceutical companies are now trying to develop new systems of antibiotics.
And medical research will also be reaching BACK a few years.
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((DR. SOSNOWSKI: THERE WAS A BIG PERIOD AT THE START OF WORLD WAR TWO WHERE VACCINES WERE GOING TO BE THE ANSWER. THEN WHEN ANTIBIOTICS CAME OUT, VACCINES FADED AWAY BUT THEY ARE COMING BACK. THAT MAY BE ONE OF OUR MAJOR DEFENSE MECHANISMS-- VACCINES AGAINST A NUMBER OF BACTERIA NOT JUST THE COMMON VIRUSES NOT JUST THE COMMON VIRUSES LIKE WE DO NOW. ))
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And certainly not too soon--
Even from 1985 to 1992, there was a 20-percent increase in tuberculosis cases.
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ANCHOR=Jean


Time for sports-- The Cavaliers are regrouping after this weekend's loss to Florida State.
ANCHOR=Connie


Plus -- many race fans probably played hooky today to check out the AC-Delco 400. Here's Mike

S5-Race


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Earlier this Fall the rain wiped out a race at Martinsville and forced a lot of folks to skip work on Monday.
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The same was true today at Rockingham as the AC Delco 400 finally got the green flag a day late.
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83 Laps into the race - Pontiacs were were in control as Kyle Petty, Bobby Hamilton and Bobby Labonte ran one, two , three at the top - and that would eb good omen.
Dale Jarrett in a Ford, ran strong all day and was at the front with 40 laps to go in the race and seemingly on his way to his first win at The Rock.
But Greg Sacks brought out the caution flag with less than 30 laps to go. That enabled Hamilton and Ricky Craven to get in position to get by Jarrett.
Hamilton would eventually get by everyone and stretch out his lead over the final 15 laps. Bobby gets his second career win in the King's car with Jarrett second and Craven third.
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((BOBBY HAMILTON/SECOND CAREER WIN:)) ((DALE JARRETT/FINISHED SECOND))
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Jeff Gordon finished fourth, with Mark Martin 6th, Dale Earnhardt 8th, Michael Waltrip 14th, Ward Burton 26th and Jeff Burton 38th.
Gordon needs only to finish 13th or better each of the last two races to win the points race.

S5-UVa


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4-and-3 Virginia is in College Park this coming Saturday for another ACC battle with the Maryland Terrapins.
And Steve Mason says the Cavs need to get some kinks out of their armor before they can worry about cracking the Terps shell.
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SUPER=01-Doug Karczewski/UVa Co-Captain; :12
SUPER=01-Dan Ellis/8-15 & 122 Yards vs. FSU; :32
SUPER=01-George Welsh/UVa Head Coach; :42
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Much more coming up for you tonight at six.
Have a super night folks. take a break

5-SPCA


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Halloween brings out black cats-- but some animal shelters and pet stores aren't playing along.
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The SPCA and Petland store say they will NOT allow black cats to be adopted or sold this time of year...
They say most people want to own them as a novelty, but then they lose interest.
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((SHARON MULLEN/PETLAND SALES COUNSELOR;LAST WEEK WE STOPPED ADOPTING OUT BLACK CATS AND WE WILL HOLD CLEAR ON THAT POLICY THROUGH HALLOWEEN , AFTER IT IS OVER THEY WILL BE AVAILABLE AGAIN. ))
SUPER=01-Sharon Mullen/Petland;
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Just last week, the Roanoke Valley SPCA took its only black cat off its adoption list, for fear it would be mistreated.
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((DON THORNE/SPCA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR;YOU HAVE SEVERAL DIFFERENT TYPES OF PEOPLE YOU HAVE CULTS OUT THERE THAT USE BLACK CATS AND WHITE CATS EVEN AT HALLOWEEN TIME BUT THERE AGAIN ARE BASICALLY YOUR KIDS THAT ARE TIEING CANS TO TAILS. ))
SUPER=01-Don Thorne/SPCA Executive Director;
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Petland says the problem has NOT gotten worse, but there's more attention recently drawn to it. (----------------)
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