[Breard]

[ANCHOR=Mel]

[NEWSCAST=noon]
[WRITER=chr]
[TAPE#=none]
[GRAPHIC=Virginia Death Penalty]


Time is running out for Virginia death row inmate Angel Francisco Breard.
The native of Paraguay is scheduled to die tonight, but U-S Secretary of State Madeline Albright says Americans abroad may suffer consequences if Breard is executed.
[ss=Jim Gilmore]


Governor Gilmore says he will wait to see what the U-S Supreme Court decides today before acting on Albright's request that the execution be blocked.
The United Nations World Court and Paraguayan officials say Breard was not informed that he could contact his native country's consulate after his arrest in 1992.

He is convicted of stabbing an Arlington woman to death. [E-Turner]


[ANCHOR=Melanie]
[NEWSCAST=noon]
[WRITER=chu]
[TAPE#98-25 TC 31:32]
[GRAPHIC=Legal Scales]


A guilty verdict has been handed down in the case of a Pittsylvania County man accused of killing his wife.
A jury recommended Mark Turner be sentenced to 38-years behind bars.
(----------------)
[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Chatham;]


Jurors announced their conviction of the 29-year old Axton man last night.
He was found guilty of shooting 31-year old Kimberly Turner in the head last October.
The defense claimed the shooting was an accident-- and Mark Turner was too drunk to know what he was doing.
The Commonwealth's Attorney says Turner was mad because he thought his wife was having an affair.
He says alcohol is no excuse.
(/////SOT/////)
[SOT 10:25:43-:02]
[IN Q=When people do things that]

(( ))
[SUPER=01-David Grimes/Pitts. Commonwealth's Attorney;]
[RUNS=:19]
[OUT Q=diminish my responsibility.]
(----------------)
[VO-NAT]


Turner is in jail this morning.
Formal sentencing is set for June fifth.

(----------------)[Roanoke-Rape]



[ANCHOR=Melanie]
[NEWSCAST=Noon]
[WRITER=kmc]
[TAPE#=none]
[GRAPHIC=none]


Roanoke police are investigating the alleged rape of a 15- year- old girl.
According to a statement, the girl told police the incident happened March first, when she accepted a ride from a man driving a blue Ford Escort.
The girl told police she'd asked for a ride to a friend's house, but instead was driven to the Mill Mountain Star.

She says the man then took her into the woods and forced her to have sex with him.
The suspect is described as a bearded man, six feet tall, 250 pounds, with brown and gray hair.

[5-Partial-Birth]


[ANCHOR=Melanie]
[NEWSCAST=noon]
[WRITER=equ]
[TAPE#598-17 20:45]
[GRAPHIC=Abortion]


The civil Liberties Union pledges to challenge the consitutionality of the state's new abortion legislation.
(----------------)
[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Richmond;]


Yesterday Gilmore signed a bill to ban so- called partial birth abortions.
Attending the state Capitol ceremony were conservatives Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell.
(/////SOT/////)
[SOT tape one 12:09:06]
[IN Q=This procedure]

((THIS PROCEDURE KNOWN AS PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION IS PARTICULARLY REPULSIVE AND IS NEVER MEDICALLY NECESSARY.))
[SUPER=@Gilmore;]
[RUNS=:06]
[OUT Q=medically necessary.]
(----------------)
[VO-NAT]


Lynchburg Senator Steve Newman co-sponsored the bill.
(/////SOT/////)
[SOT TAPE ONE 12:39:06]
[IN Q=The language]

((SEN. STEVE NEWMAN/R-LYNCHBURG: THE LANGUAGE THAT HAS BEEN TOPPLED IN THE COURTS OF COURSE IS MOSTLY BASED ON THE OHIO LAW, WHICH WAS VAGUE. I THINK EVERYONE UP HERE AGREES THAT IT WAS VAGUE. THIS LAW OF COURSE IS BASED ON THE AMA'S LANGUAGE.))
[SOT TAPE TWO 13:16:34]

((KENT WILLIS/VA. ACLU: THIS IS BASICALLY A COOKIE CUTTER LAW. 22 STATES HAVE ADOPTED LAWS. ALL OF THEM LOOK JUST ABOUT THE SAME. AND ALL OF THEM LOOK JUST SO SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT. THIS DOES NOT SEEM TO BE SUBSTANTIALLY DIFFERENT FROM 12 OTHER STATES WHO ADOPTED PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION BANS AND HAD THE STRUCK DOWN BY THE COURTS AS UNCONSTITUTIONAL.))
[SUPER=@Newman;]
[SUPER=01-Kent Willis/Virginia ACLU; :12]
[RUNS=:31]
[OUT Q=Unconstitutional.]
(----------------)
[VO-NAT]


Planned Parenthood of Virginia says the law's vague language could actually prohibit first and second trimester abortions.
It takes effect July 23rd.

(-------0---------)[CLINTON-STAFF]



[ANCHOR=Melanie]
[NEWSCAST=noon]
[WRITER=mel]
[TAPE#net-]
[GRAPHIC=noon]


One week after Transporation Secretary Federico Pena announced plans to leave the Clinton administration the President loses his top budget advisor.
(----------------)
[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Washington DC;]

[10:01:36]
This morning Mr. Clinton announced that Office of Management and Budget Director Franklin Raines is stepping down to take a job in the private sector.
President Clinton says Raines is the first budget director to put together a blanced budget in nearly 30 years.
(/////SOT/////)
[SOT]

[11:00:05-18]
[IN Q=]

((FRANK RAINES HAS BEEN A TRUSTED ADVISOR AN ABLE SPOKESPERSON AND A REAL FRIEND. ))
[RUNS=:12]
[OUT Q= A REAL FRIEND.]
(----------------)
[VO-NAT]

[10:01:00]
The President has named deputy budget director Jack Lew to succeed Raines.
(----------------)


[NAPALM]


[ANCHOR=Melanie]
[NEWSCAST=none]
[WRITER=MEL]
[TAPE#net-]
[GRAPHIC=none]


A train loaded with thousands of gallons of vietnam war-era napalm left California for an Indiana disposal company two days ago, but now the company says it won't accept the shipment.
(----------------)
[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-San Diego, CA;]


"Pollution Control Industries" had agreed to take the jellied gasoline but is now backing out of the deal because political pressure.
The napalm had been stored at a weapons facility in a California farming community, where officials were afraid it would contaminate the soil.
(/////SOT/////)
[SOT]

[4:06:09]
[IN Q=]

(( REP. RON PACKARD&1/4R-CALIFORNIA NAPALM IS SAFER TO SHIP THAN PROPANE AND A VARIETY OF OTHER SUBSTANCES THAT WE DAILY SHIP ACROSS THE COUNTRY. ))
[SUPER=01-Rep. Ron Packard/(R) California;]
[RUNS=:14]
[OUT Q=across the country.]
(----------------)
[VO-NAT]


But critics worry that the fuel could spill and burn on the rail journey or explode during recycling.
(----------------)


[County-Schools]


[ANCHOR=Melanie]
[NEWSCAST=12]
[WRITER=jda]
[TAPE#=98-]
[GRAPHIC=Roanoke County]


The latest plan for a new high school in Roanoke County is raising concerns in the neighborhood where the site is located.
(------------)
[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Roanoke Co.]


School Officials have apparently narrowed their search to the Woods End property on Farmington Drive.
The county and the owner of the 70- acre tract have not reached agreement, but the county has given notice that it may move to condemn the land.
Meanwhile, residents of the neighborhood say they have many questions about the project, including concerns about the site's suitability, and the additional traffic that a new high school would bring.

(------------)[5-Walton]



[ANCHOR=Melanie]
[NEWSCAST=noon]
[WRITER=equ]
[TAPE#598-19 16:30]
[GRAPHIC=Walton]


Attorneys for Danville spree killer Percy Walton faced a skeptical bench yesterday in Virginia's highest court.
(----------------)
[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Danville/January 1997;]


Walton was given the death sentence for the Thanksgiving week of 1996 murders of Jesse and Elizabeth Kendrick, and nearby neighbor Archie Moore.
[SUPER=03-Richmond;]


Yesterday, Walton's attorney argued other cases with more brutal elements have gotten lighter sentences.
(/////SOT/////)
[SOT 09:05:23]
[IN Q=Our point]

((OUR POINT IS THAT THE FACTS OF THIS CASE, NO MATTER HOW UNPLEASANT THEY ARE, ARE NOT NEARLY AS EGREGIOUS AS THE FACTS IN THESE SAMPLE CASES.))
[SOT 09:05:36]

((JUSTICE LEROY HASSELL: THE FACTS ARE PRETTY EGREGIOUS FACTS TO ME. YOU HAVE A FELLOW WHO COMMITS MULTIPLE MURDERS. HE KILLS...HIS OR HER SPOUSE.))
[SUPER=01-Lawrence Gott/Walton's Attorney; :00]
[SUPER=01-Justice Leroy Hassell/Va. Supreme Court; :18]
[RUNS=:34]
[OUT Q=his or her spouse.]
[TALENT=Melanie]
[SS=Walton]


The court's decision is expected in several weeks.

[Goode]


[ANCHOR=Melanie]
[NEWSCAST=Noon]
[WRITER=jmc]
[TAPE#=none]
[GRAPHIC=Goode]


Congressman Virgil Goode appears to be a shoo-in for a second term.
No one is opposing him for the Democratic nomination this year.
And the head of the Republican committee in the Fifth District says no one filed to run for the GOP nomination by the deadline.
Independents have until June 9th to file as candidates, so there's a chance Goode might still have some opposition

. [air-safety]


[ANCHOR=Mel]
[NEWSCAST=noon]
[WRITER=mel]
[TAPE#net-]
[GRAPHIC=airplane safety]


The American airline industry may have the safest track record in the world but the Clinton administration has plans to make it even safer.
(----------------)
[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Washington DC;]


The White house today announced a new safety plan for the skies.
The goal is reduce the number of accidents by 80 percent over the next ten years. [10:01:59]
[SUPER=04-Computer animation;]


The program would include an order to put ground-warning systems onto planes, to avoid disasters like the Korean Airlines crash last year in Guam when the pilot flew the plane into the ground.
Another proposal would include more rigorous engine inspections.
(----------------)


[WIPE/WIPE/WIPE][DELTA]


[ANCHOR=Melanie]
[NEWSCAST=noon]
[WRITER=MEL]
[TAPE#]
[GRAPHIC=WIPE/WIPE/WIPE]
(----------------)
[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=@File;]


Flying delta ?
Check your baggage carefully.
Beginning tomorrow, laptop computers will be considered as one of two carry-on-items allowed.
Delta is also cracking down on the size and weight of carry-on luggage.
(----------------)


[INTERNET]


[ANCHOR=Melanie]
[NEWSCAST=Noon]
[WRITER=MEL]
[TAPE#net-]
[GRAPHIC=internet]


Hang on to your lap tops and desktop computers, a newer and faster Internet is coming.
(----------------)
[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=@File;]


Three high-tech companies are chipping in a half BILLION dollars to help develop a faster version of the Internet for researchers and scientists.
Vice President Gore gave details about the project today.
Virginia Tech is one of several universities working on the project.
The new network is so fast it will be able to transmit the entire 30-volume Encyclopedia Brittanica in one second.
(----------------)


[TITANIC]


[ANCHOR=Melanie]
[NEWSCAST=noon]
[WRITER=mel]
[TAPE#net-]
[GRAPHIC=none -- roll cold from break]
(----------------)
[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=@File;]


It was 86 years ago today that the world's most famous ocean liner went down in the Atlantic.
Just before midnight On April 14, 19-12 the Titanic rammed into an iceberg off the coast of Southampton, England.
It took four hours for the luxury liner to sink taking 15 hundred lives with it.
The tragic story continues to fascinate around the world.
It inspired the blockbuster film sensation Titanic.
And in four years a replica Titantic ship sets sail to mark the 90TH anniversary of the disaster.
(----------------)


[Boty-Zoning]


[ANCHOR=Melanie]
[NEWSCAST=noon]
[WRITER=tte]
[TAPE#=net-o]
[GRAPHIC=none]


A proposed apartment complex isn't getting the red carpet treatment from many people in Botetourt County.
(------------)
[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Daleville;]


This three-acre field off Route 220 was once slated for a retirement community -- but a 41-unit apartment complex may sprout up here instead.
First developers must sell the idea of brick colonial townhouses for young professionals.
(/////SOT/////)
[SOT 18:22:48]
[IN Q=The demand]

((RODNEY SPICKARD/DEVELOPER: THE DEMAND FOR APARTMENTS IS HIGH. THERE HASN'T BEEN APARTMENTS BUILT IN DALEVILLE FOR 20 YEARS. AND BOTETOURT COUNTY NEEDS APARTMENTS BECAUSE NOT EVERYONE CAN AFFORD TO BUY HOMES OR LAND IN BOTETOURT COUNTY BECAUSE THE VALUE OF LAND KEEPS INCREASING EACH YEAR.))
[SUPER=01-Rodney Spickard/Developer;]
[RUNS=:18]
[OUT Q=each year]
(------------)
[VO-NAT]


But neighbors say the apartment complex will cause their property values to DROP.
And nearby businesses dread more cars cutting through their lots.
(/////SOT/////)
[SOT 16:14:40]
[IN Q=This is going to]

((LEE SMITH/NEIGHBOR: THIS IS GOING TO INCREASE TRAFFIC SO MUCH THROUGH THIS AREA THAT IT WILL BE UNSAFE FOR CHILDREN, PEOPLE LIVING IN THE NEW FACILITY, AND NEIGHBORS HERE IN CEDAR RIDGE.))
[SUPER=01-Lee Smith/Neighbor;]
[RUNS=:10]
[OUT Q=here in Cedar Ridge]
(------------)
[VO-NAT]


The Planning Commission has approved the apartment complex -- now it just needs the go-ahead from the Board of Supervisors.
There will be a public hearing April 21st.
(------------)




[S-Parents-Drugs]


[ANCHOR=Melanie]
[NEWSCAST=noon]
[WRITER=ssm]
[TAPE#98-29 TC 25:12]
[GRAPHIC=Drug Use]


While many parents are aware of the nation's drug problem, they aren't as willing to accept that their child may be one of the statistics.
(----------------)
[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Lynchburg]


That can be a deadly mistake, says one Richmond mother.
Deborah Barr's daughter Tish was an honor roll student when she went off to college in 19-94.
Five months later, Tish overdosed on a mixture of cocaine and heroin.
(/////SOT/////)
[SOT 1:34:23]
[IN Q=And I'm talking]

((DEBORAH BARR/LOST DAUGHTER TO DRUG OVERDOSE: AND I'M TALKING TO PARENTS AND I HEAR THE SAME WORDS THAT I SPOKE OUT OF MY MOUTH.. I THOUGHT SHE WAS IMMUNE TO THE THREAT OF DRUGS, I THOUGHT I WAS IMMUNE. AND THERE'S STILL THAT WALL OF DENIAL, BUT IT'S A DEADLY WALL THAT'S GOT TO COME DOWN.))
[SUPER=01-Deborah Barr/Lost Daughter to Drug Overdose; :00]
[RUNS=:17]
[OUT Q=got to come down.]
(----------------)
[VO-NAT]


Barr says parents need to learn to recognize the signs of drug abuse and discuss the dangers of drugs with their children.
(----------------)


[E-Jumper]


[ANCHOR=Melanie]
[NEWSCAST=noon]
[WRITER=mfe]
[TAPE#=98-23 TC 35:11]
[GRAPHIC=None]


Fire robbed Gertrude Jumper of her possessions, but her loss was somewhat lessened by a generous bus driver.
(------------)
[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Roanoke]


Wendell Poff doesn't know Jumper very well-- she just rides his bus every so often.
But when he heard her house had burned last week, he did what he thought was right.
(/////SOT/////)
[SOT 14:20:57]
[IN Q=One hundred]

((WENDELL POFF/VALLEY METRO: 103 YEARS OLD AND THEN SOMETHING TRAGIC HAPPENS TO HER, IT JUST HURT ME AWFUL BAD, I KNOW IT HURT HER, AND I WANTED TO DO SOMETHING TO LET HER KNOW THAT THE WHOLE WORLD'S NOT BAD.))
[SUPER=01-Wendell Poff/Valley Metro; ]
[RUNS=:14]
[OUT Q=not bad.]
(------------)
[VO-NAT]


Poff met with Jumper yesterday afternoon and gave her the more than four-hundred- dollars he collected from friends and co- workers in less than a week.
(/////SOT/////)
[SOT 13:46:58]
[IN Q=It'll help]

((GERTRUDE JUMPER: IT'LL HELP A WHOLE LOT BECAUSE, I DON'T GET NO MONEY BUT ONCE A MONTH, WHAT LITTLE THAT IS, BY THE TIME I PAY MY BILLS, WHY, ALL OF THAT'S GONE.))
[SUPER=01-Gertrude Jumper/Fire Victim; RUNS=:09]
[OUT Q=that's gone.]
(----------------)
[ANCHOR=Melanie]
[SS=None]


The fire that gutted her home started in an abandoned building next- door.

[E-Countdown]


[ANCHOR=Melanie]
[NEWSCAST=noon]
[WRITER=chr]
[TAPE#=98-33 TC 11:22]
[GRAPHIC=Countdown to April 15th]


The federal tax deadline is drawing nigh...
With only one day left to work on your federal income tax, you may be worried how to get it all together.
If you just can NOT make the deadline you can file for an extension.
For an extension you must file form 48-68 by April 15th.
(-------------)
[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=04-File Tape;]


This does NOT put off paying your tax, you must still estimate how much you will owe and send in a check.
If you've gotten all your paperwork done and the math adds up to a refund...
(XXXXXXXXXXXXX)

[take pinnacle 1008]
The I-R-S says you can expect [take pinnacle 1009] a check to be issued within six weeks of the date your return arrives. [take pinnacle 1010]
If you filed electronically your refund should come in about three weeks.

(-------------)[Avalanche]



[ANCHOR=Andrew]
[NEWSCAST=noon]
[WRITER=dal]
[TAPE#=SP-11]
[GRAPHIC=Avalanche]


The Salem Avalanche came down on Winston-Salem last night to end chances for a Warthog sweep.
Last night's game made the series 1 and 3 for the Avalanche.
[super=19-Andrew/Freiden]
(------------)
[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Salem;]


The breeze at Salem Memorial Stadium blew in the first win of the season for the Avalanche.
The hogs took the board first--Dan Olson's single to right field brings home Jason Dellaro from third. It's 2-nothing Winston Salem.
But in the third inning the Avalanche mounted a comeback. Doug Livingston singles driving home Juan Sosa. Sosa avoids the tag at home and Salem is on the board.
[SUPER=37-Salem/8/Winston Salem/6/;]


Now Hammerin' Mark Hamlin is at the plate. He knocks one to the wall. Livingston crosses the plate and Salem wins it 8-to-6.
The Avalanche is is 1 and 3 this season.

(------------)[Longwood]



[ANCHOR=Andrew]
[NEWSCAST=noon]
[WRITER=mst]
[TAPE#=SP-9]
[GRAPHIC=HIGH SCHOOL HOOPS]


One of the stars off the 1998 Group Two A state hoop champs is staying in state to continue his college career.
(------------)
[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Norfolk/Group AA Title Game; :00]


Landa Martin, a six foot four inch, 200 pound forward from Magna Vista has signed to play for the Longwood Lancers.


Martin was a first team all-state selection this past season after he averaged 16 points and 11 rebounds a game for the warriors


(------------)[Barnes]



[ANCHOR=Andrew]
[NEWSCAST=noon]
[WRITER=mst]
[TAPE#=SP-7]
[GRAPHIC=NCAA HOOPS]


The ACC lost yet another of its coaches yesterday as the University of Texas welcomed Rick Barnes to campus.
(------------)
[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Austin, TX; :00]


Barnes get a multi- year contract worth nearly $750 thousand a season.
His job will be uniting a fragmented team that revolted against the previous coach Tom Penders.
(/////SOT/////)
[SOT]
[IN Q=I told them...]
[SUPER=01-Rick Barnes/New Texas Head Coach;:00]
[RUNS=:19]
[OUT Q=TO PLAY."]
(----------------)
[talent=Andrew]
[graphic=hold]


Keep an eye on the Clemson situation that Barnes has vacated in the coming days. Remember former UVa and Wake asisst

ant Ricky Stokes was just hired there a week ago.[YANKEE-STADUIM]


[ANCHOR=Andrew]
[NEWSCAST=noon]
[WRITER=MEL]
[TAPE#net-]
[GRAPHIC=none]


It may be baseball season, but there will be no hits or runs tonight at Yankee staduim.
(----------------)
[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-The Bronx, NY;]

[7:53:18]
New York's series with Anaheim has been postponed for a second night because of structural damage at the ballpark.
Yesterday a 500 pound steel support beam fell onto some empty stands. (----------------) If the problem is repaired today the two teams could play at Shea Staduim tomorrow.
by SS