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[SUPER=19-Melanie/Moon;][7E-Caldwell]



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The man accused of killing another man just hours before the fatal Church Avenue apartment fire still faces first degree murder charges.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Roanoke;]


Willie Caldwell is charged with shooting Kevin Jones at a Northwest Roanoke apartment last month.
Kerrin Tisdale testified Caldwell came to the apartment with a gun and started arguing with Jones.
Caldwell's lawyer tried unsucessfully to get the charged reduced to second degree murder, saying there was no evidence his client planned to shoot Jones.
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((DENNIS NAGEL/ASSISTANT COMMONWEALTH'S ATTORNEY; FIRST DEGREE MURDER WOULD BE A WILLFUL, DELIBERATE, PRE-MEDITATED ACT, AND THE COMMONWEALTH'S THEORY OF THE CASE WOULD BE THAT MR. CALDWELL CAME OVER TO THE APARTMENT UNINVITED TO TAKE REVENGE FOR AN EARLIER CONFRONTATION.))
[SUPER=01-Dennis Nagel/Assistant Commonwealth's Atty.;]
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Tisdale testified after the gunshot, he heard Caldwell say "how does it feel to know you're going to die".
Caldwell didn't testify at the hearing and had no comment afterward.
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[7E-Roanoke-Murder]


[ANCHOR=Melanie]
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The fatal shooting of a man this weekend led to the arrest yesterday of a Roanoke teenager.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Roanoke;]


Authorities have not said whether the 17-year old will be charged as an adult.
The unidentified youth was charged after the weekend shooting death of 22-year old Keith E-Sandifer.
It happened in the 12-hundred block of Jamison, in Southeast Roanoke.
Witnesses told police Sandifer and his killer were arguing over a woman.
Police found Sandifer lying in a parking lot.
He died at the hospital.
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[7DuPont-Closing]


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More than half a century of work will be put to rest today in Martinsville.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=04-File Tape]


After 57 years in business in the Southside city, the DuPont nylon factory is closing its doors.
The plant once employed as many as five-thousand people, but has seen a series of layoffs over the past twelve years.
When the plant opened in November 1941, it was the world's second nylon plant.
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was given the first pair of nylon stockings made from Martinsville yarn. Plans to close the facility were announced two years ago.
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[7E-Dan-River]


[ANCHOR=melanie]
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Business is better in Danville, where one employer is buying out another textile manufacturer.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Danville/File Tape;]


Dan River Incorporated says it will acquire The Bibb Company for more than 250-million dollars.
The Bibb Company is based in Atlanta, Georgia and specializes in home fashions and engineered products.
Dan River's Vice President of Finance says the acquisition will make Dan River the third largest bedding manfacturer in the country.
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[IN Q=It increases our sales]

((SCOTT BATSON/DAN RIVER VICE PRESIDENT: IT INCREASES OUR SALES BY APPROXIMATELY 50-PERCENT-- TAKES US FROM 500-MILLION TO 750-MILLION IN SALE-- MAKES US MORE IMPORTANT TO OUR CUSTOMERS.))
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The aquisition is expected to be completed by this September.
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[7State-Laws]


[ANCHOR=Melanie]
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The beginning of July means more than 800 new Virginia laws are set to go into effect.
One law will make non-prescription drugs exempt from sales taxes.
[ss=Abortion]


Meanwhile a law banning so-called partial-birth abortions was supposed to take effect tomorrow. A federal judge blocked its enforcement until a lawsuit over it's constitutionality is heard in August.
State officials are trying to overturn the injunction today in federal appeals court.


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Taking a look at your Tuesday forecast.. Expect more sizzling temperatures today, with highs expected to reach the mid-90's under sunny skies. There could be some relief this afternoon, with breezy conditions and the possibility of some storms.
Storms will end this evening, with clouds remaining in the area. Lows will drop into the mid-60's.
The extended forecast looks a little cooler...
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[7BIRTHDAYS!] 7/1/98
Wednesday:

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[SUPER=130-36/Karen Cardwell/Roanoke]



[SUPER=130-1/Mary Shupe/Newport]



[SUPER=130-6/Sabrina Vest/Christiansburg]



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No Pictures:
Anniversary:
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Anniversary:
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[SUPER=19-Melanie/Moon;][45E-Roanoke-Murder]



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There is no word yet whether a teenager arrested in connection with a fatal weekend shooting will be charged as an adult.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Roanoke;]


The 17 year old boy turned himself in yesterday.
The unidentified youth was charged after the weekend shooting death of 22-year old Keith E-Sandifer.
It happened in the 12-hundred block of Jamison Avenue.
Witnesses told police Sandifer and his killer were arguing over a woman.
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[45DuPont-Closing]


[ANCHOR=Melanie]
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After nearly 60 years in business the Dupont plant in Martinsville will close its doors for the last time today.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=04-File Tape]


The plant once employed as many as five-thousand people, but has seen a series of layoffs over the past twelve years.
When the plant opened in November 1941, it was the world's second nylon plant.
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was given the first pair of nylon stockings made from Martinsville yarn. Plans to close the facility were announced two years ago.
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[45E-VA-Aids]


[ANCHOR=Melanie]
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[GRAPHIC=AIDS]


Scores of Virginians turned out for confidential testing this weekend, on
National HIV Testing Day.
A trend emerged in the Commonwealth but it's difficult to guage whether that same trend holds true nationally or not.
That's because NO national statistics on HIV are kept separately from AIDS.
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[IN Q=Last year]

((SUSAN POLLARD/VIRGINIA DEPT. OF HEALTH: LAST YEAR WE LEVELED OFF WITH HIV. AND WE DID REPORT A DECREASE OF TWO-POINT-NINE PERCENT FOR AIDS CASES. I THINK WE WILL SEE EVENTUALLY A DECLINE FOR HIV. HOWEVER, WE ARE SEEING CERTAIN GROUPS, SUDDENLY MINORITIES AND WOMEN, THEY ARE BEING AFFECTED.))
[SUPER=01-Susan Pollard/Virginia Department of Health;]
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An increasing trend of heterosexual transmission of the disease is also emerging.
For new AIDS cases last year, 43- percent were transmitted from men having sex with other men.
But heterosexual transmission is now the number two way the disease spreads in Virginia, at 20- percent of all new cases.
The H-I-V numbers, before full-blown AIDS develops, show an even smaller gap between transmission methods.
31- percent of new HIV reports in Virginia were homosexually transmitted.
23- percent were heterosexually transmitted.
The number of I-V drug user cases is declining in both columns.
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[45E-Avalanche]


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It was an avlanche of good fun for some very special children.
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Some outpatients from Carilion Medical Center for Children were invited by the Salem Avalanche to watch the team's batting practice and stay for the game. Baseball fan or not it was a day for all-American good times.
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((I'VE NEVER BEEN BEFORE, BUT I THINK I'M GOING TO HAVE A LOT OF FUN.))
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[VO NAT] and the players say they enjoy visiting the patients off the field as well.
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((BLAKE BARTHOL/SALEM AVALANCHE CATCHER:WE HAVE A GOOD TIME, WE SIGN, SPEND A LITTLE TIME WITH THEM. WE GOT TO PLAY SOME CARD GAMES, JENGA AND NINTENDO, SO WE HAVE A GOOD TIME WHILE WE'RE THERE.))
[SUPER=01-Blake Barthol/Salem Avalanche Catcher; ]
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This is a new program for Carilion and the Salem Avalanche. Both sides say they hope to team up again and make it a tradition.
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Time now to check out the Tuesday forecast--
Partly sunny and breezy early today, then clouding up later with some afternoon thunderstorms.
Highs today in the low to mid 90s.
Storms ending tonight, then skies will turn partly cloudy.
Lows in the upper 60s.
The extended outlook is drier, and a bit cooler.
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[WRITER=eea]
[TAPE#=98-40 1:18:51]
[GRAPHIC=Caldwell, Willie]


First- degree murder charges are still pending against the man accused of killing another man just hours before the fatal Church Avenue apartment blaze.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Roanoke;]


Willie Caldwell is charged with shooting Kevin Jones at a Northwest Roanoke apartment last month.
Kerrin Tisdale testified Caldwell came to the apartment with a gun and started arguing with Jones.
Caldwell's lawyer tried unsucessfully to get the charged reduced to second degree murder, saying there was no evidence his client planned to shoot Jones.
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[IN Q=First degree]

((DENNIS NAGEL/ASSISTANT COMMONWEALTH'S ATTORNEY; FIRST DEGREE MURDER WOULD BE A WILLFUL, DELIBERATE, PRE-MEDITATED ACT, AND THE COMMONWEALTH'S THEORY OF THE CASE WOULD BE THAT MR. CALDWELL CAME OVER TO THE APARTMENT UNINVITED TO TAKE REVENGE FOR AN EARLIER CONFRONTATION.))
[SUPER=01-Dennis Nagel/Assistant Commonwealth's Atty.;]
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Tisdale testified after the gunshot, he heard Caldwell say "how does it feel to know you're going to die".
Caldwell didn't testify at the hearing and had no comment afterward.
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[8E-Roanoke-Murder]


[ANCHOR=Melanie]
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[TAPE#=98-34 1:57:12]
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It's still NOT known whether the teenager arrested in a fatal weekend shooting will face charges as an ADULT.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Roanoke;]


The 17 year old boy turned himself in yesterday.
The unidentified youth was charged after the weekend shooting death of 22-year old Keith E-Sandifer.
It happened in the 12-hundred block of Jamison Avenue.
Witnesses told police Sandifer and his killer were arguing over a woman.
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[8DuPont-Closing]


[ANCHOR=Melanie]
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It's the end of a sixty- year- run for Martinsville's Dupont plant, which will close its doors for good today.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=04-File Tape]


The plant once employed as many as five-thousand people, but has seen a series of layoffs over the past twelve years.
When the plant opened in November 1941, it was the world's second nylon plant.
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was given the first pair of stockings made from Martinsville yarn. Plans to close the facility were announced two years ago.
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[8E-Dan-River]


[ANCHOR=melanie]
[NEWSCAST=am cutins]
[WRITER=chu]
[TAPE#98-50 24:52]
[GRAPHIC=Business news]


The news is better for another Southside textile maker--
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Danville/File Tape;]


Dan River Incorporated says it will acquire The Bibb Company for more than 250-million dollars.
The Bibb Company is based in Atlanta, Georgia and specializes in home fashions and engineered products.
Dan River's Vice President of Finance says the acquisition will make Dan River the third largest bedding manfacturer in the country.
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[IN Q=It increases our sales]

((SCOTT BATSON/DAN RIVER VICE PRESIDENT: IT INCREASES OUR SALES BY APPROXIMATELY 50-PERCENT-- TAKES US FROM 500-MILLION TO 750-MILLION IN SALE-- MAKES US MORE IMPORTANT TO OUR CUSTOMERS.))
[SUPER=01-Scott Batson/Dan River Vice President;]
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[OUT Q=to our customers.]
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[VO-NAT]


The aquisition is expected to be completed by this September.
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[8E-Interstate-785]


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[TAPE#98-31 1:55:00]
[GRAPHIC=highway improvements]


It's a new name for what some believe is a road to more economic development--
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[SUPER=03-VA-NC State Line;]


That's why Route 29 from Danville to Greensboro is being renamed Interstate-785.
New signs were unveiled yesterday.
It is still the same road-- but community leaders on both sides of the state line say the new interstate designation will boost economic development.
Parts of the highway in North Carolina must be upgraded before the road officially becomes part of the Interstate Highway System.
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Shifting gears now to weather--
Partly sunny and breezy, with scattered thunderstorms.
Highs in the lower 90s.
The storms will likely end tonight, with skies turning partly cloudy.
Lows in the upper 60s.
The four day forecast is calling for lots of sunshine through the end of the week.
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