WDBJ 7 news at 11 for 08/08/98

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Up next on News 7 at 11...
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The families of two little girls... possibly switched at birth, have reportedly already met...
The investigation continues and the death toll rises in the bombing of two American embassies in Africa.
And Bell Atlantic workers get ready to walk the picket line tonight...
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News 7 at 11 is next.

[Baby-switch]

[ANCHOR=Eric]
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Family members involved in the baby-switching case have already met--inspite of reports of a planned meeting Sunday.

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Paula Johnson, the mother of Callie Johnson, and the grandparents of Rebecca Chittum were scheduled to meet tomorrow... but according to published reports that meeting took place yesterday.
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Michael Irvine, the attorney representing Rebecca's paternal grandparents told the Washington Post the families actually met last night.
Irvine said the family rescheduled the meeting because they were afraid they'd be followed by reporters.
He said the children were not present, neither were the lawyers, and everything went well.
The family is still waiting for the results of DNA tests.
Meanwhile the state health department is now investigating the University of Virginia Medical Center where the alleged switch took place.
The department is looking into what procedures the hospital had in place, and whether the procedures were followed.

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[Arcadia-Ax]

[ANCHOR=Eric]
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One person was killed in a traffic accident near Arcadia this afternoon.
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The accident happened around 12:30 near the 172 mile marker along Interstate 81.
State police say a car travelling southbound ran off the road and up onto an embankment.
Authorities say the car then came down and hit the back of a tractor trailor.
The driver of the car was killed.
Police are not releasing the driver's name.
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[Henry-Ax]

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Another traffic accident left a man from Rocky Mount dead.
It happened around eight this morning along Route 57 in Henry County.
According to police the driver of a pick-up truck sped around a corner, lost control of the truck and slammed into an oncoming car.
Rescuers transported the driver of the car, 33-year old Manuel Ramos Torres, to Memorial Hospital in Martinsville where he later died.
Police are still investigating the accident.

[Africa-explosions]

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Investigators are searching the rubble of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, looking for clues.
The death toll from the terrorist explosions now stands at 140... 11 victims are Americans, two more Americans are missing.
Jonathan Freed has more.
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(( The explosion takes only an instant. But raking through the aftermath is a horror replayed in slow-motion.
Rescue and relief teams, like this one from Israel, are arriving from around the globe. The number of dead and injured climbed as more and more bloody stones were turned.
At the White House, it was a day of high-level planning of what to do next.
The President used his weekly radio address to send the message that the United States will not rest until justice is served.

(INSERT BITE OF CLINTON)

Meanwhile, fallen Americans began to be identified. Kenneth Hobson was an Army sergeant stationed at the embassy in Kenya.
His father was given the tragic news.
LOCATOR: LAMAR, MO.
BITE (KENNETH HOBSON/FATHER OF BOMBING VICTIM):
SOUND-UP: SEARCHING RUBBLE.
The Defense department says that more than a dozen military aircraft with security and anti-terrorist experts, medical supplies, and other specialists have been sent to help.
Still no official word on who might be responsible.
STAND-UP (JONATHAN FREED/CBS NEWS): DESPITE THE NATIONAL HUNGER TO IMMEDIATELY PUNISH WHOEVER IS RESPONSIBLE, HUNTING DOWN TERRORISTS IS SOMETHING THAT TAKES TIME. THE PRESIDENT IS ASKING AMERICANS TO HAVE FAITH THAT, WHOEVER THEY ARE, THEY WILL EVENTUALLY BE CAUGHT. J-F...WASHINGTON.))

[Bell-Atlantic]

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Unless an agreement is reached, telephone workers will strike in less than an hour.
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Workers with Bell Atlantic and Bell South are ready to walk off the job at one minute after midnight.
The walkout could mean delays in operator assistance, repair and customer service.
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((PAUL SAPIENZA/COMMUNICATIONS WORKERS OF AMERICA THERE'S GOING TO BE A TREMENDOUS INCONVENIENCE...IT'S SOMETHING WE DON'T WANT TO HAPPEN TO THE PUBLIC BUT WE'RE BEING PUSHED INTO THIS POSITION BY BELL ATLANTIC.))
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[VO-NAT]

Some of the problems holding up an agreement include forced overtime, and hiring non-union workers for some jobs.

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[Rain]

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It was enough to flood roads and crash cars.
But not everyone saw today's rain as a bad thing.
In fact, many farmers had been waiting for a day like this.
Scott Goldberg has more from Franklin County.
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(( It was family day out on the farms in Franklin County.
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A day when folks of all ages could learn about things like Cutting horses...the fast-moving, strong horses who are trained to keep misbehaving cows from returning to the herd.
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But on this day at the farm, the cutting horses had to move their show inside. [rain shots]
Outside, it was raining -- everywhere.
The rain made a mess on the roads and even caused floods in some places. [ambulances and stuff]
In Rocky Mount, it caused this accident where one car slid into another.
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((TROOPER TIM HARRIS/VA STATE POLICE: THE PROBLEM IS WE HAVEN'T HAD ANY RAIN IN SO LONG, AND ALL THE OIL THAT'S BEEN DEPOSITED ON THE ROAD IS SITTING RIGHT THERE ON TOP OF THE ROAD AND THEN WITH THE RAIN WE HAD THIS MORNING, IT'S MADE THE ROADS VERY SLICK.)) [RUNS10]
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But back on the farm, the rain was a welcomed respite from what has been a brutally dry summer.
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((EDDIE SHELTON/CATTLE FARMER: IT'S MADE IT REALLY TOUGH BECAUSE OUR CORN CROP IS GOING TO BE ABOUT THREE FOURTHS OF WHAT IT NORMALLY IS.)) [RUNS06]
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The rain fell so hard it got into our news camera and made our pictures look blurry.
Equipment doesn't need days like this.
But farms do.
More rain means greener grass, better crops and more food for cattle.
So even though a lot of us wanted the rain to go away.
Farmers wouldn't mind if it came back for another day.
Scott Goldberg, News-7.))
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[WX1]

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[ANCHOR=Eric]
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Up next--Bell Atlantic workers prepare for a strike.
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[VO-NAT]

And, Michael Meyers returns to the silver screen with a vegeance in the latest Halloween sequel.
We'll tell you what at least one movie critic has to say about the movie when the news continues.
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[Summit]

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Residents of a Roanoke apartment complex got quite a shock today from a bolt of lightning.
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It happened this afternoon at the Summit apartments.
One building was evacuated after residents heard a loud pop, saw an orange flash, and then smelled smoke.
Nobody was hurt.
And the building suffered little damage.
But the apparent lightning strike startled residents across the entire apartment complex.
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((ED HAMILTON/APARTMENT RESIDENT: I NOTICED A REALLY INTENSE BRIGHT LIGHT AND THEN A HUGELY INTENSE CRACK OF THUNDER. AND THAT'S WHAT SET OFF THE ALARM.))
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[VO-NAT]

Investigators said the whole thing was sort of puzzling.
With no visible damage, authorities are not sure what caused some apartments to fill with smoke.
They're guessing it was a burned-out element in one of the building's water heaters.
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[Belk]

[ANCHOR=Eric]
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[WRITER=sta]
[TAPE#=98-55; 25:21]
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A power outage and suspicious smell forced a local department store to close early tonight.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Roanoke;]

It happened at the Belk department store at Valley View Mall around 9 p-m.
Authorities believe the problems were triggered by repairs being made to the store's escalators.
Store shoppers and workers were forced to evacuate.
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[ANCHOR=Eric]

No injuries were reported.

[Newberry]

[ANCHOR=Eric]
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[WRITER=sgo]
[TAPE#=98-63; 15:19]
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The Botetourt Correctional Unit still plans to send inmates out on work details.
This despite, one inmates recent escape.
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[from tape 98-56]
Last night Robert Bentley Newberry led police on a seven-hour manhunt.
The 31-year-old broke loose from a group of inmates who were clearing brush in the woods.
The Superintendent of the Botetourt Correctional Unit said he will review work-detail procedures next week to determine how Newberry was able to get away.
Newberry is serving 19-years for robbery.
If he is convicted on escape charges, he could face another five years in the penitentiary.
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[Willow-River]

[ANCHOR=Eric]
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Salem police say there's no need for residents of the Willow River apartment complex to worry.
The 10-year old boy who allegedly set a string of fires there, is in custody.
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[VO-NAT]
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Three of those fires happened yesterday, sending residents into a panic.
A total of six fires have broken out at the complex in the last two weeks.
Police are not saying much about the 10-year-old they arrested.
But if he is found guilty, he will NOT be the youngest arson suspect in the area.
[SUPER=03-Roanoke/July 1982]
[video here from tape 94-109]
In 19-82, police believe a seven-year-old set fire to a house on Patton Avenue.
That blaze killed a 66-year-old woman.
No one was hurt in the Willow River fires in Salem.
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[Congress-Votes]

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This week Congress took a hard look at campaign finance reform.
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[take pinnacle board # 1000]

The House approved a bill that would ban what's known as "soft money"...big, unregulated donations to national political parties.
[take pinnacle board # 1001]

The measure passed by a 237 to 186 vote.
All of Virginia's Republican congressmen voted yes, including Roanoke's Bob Goodlatte.
[take pinnnacle board # 1002]

Democrat Virgil Goode also supported the bill.
But Democrat Rick Boucher voted against it.
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[ANCHOR=Eric]
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The campaign finance bill now heads to the Senate, where a similar measure has already been voted down.

[Tease2]

[ANCHOR=Eric]
[NEWSCAST=11p]
[SS=None]

Roy Stanley is on his way with highlights from the Redskins' preseason game against the Miami Dolphins.
And, what's in store for the weather tomorrow?
Andrew Freiden will fill you in with his extended report when the news continues.

[Movie-Review]

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Hollywood is getting a head start on Halloween with the release of the movie Halloween H-2-0.
It stars Jamie Lee Curtis.
Dennis Cunningham has this review of the movie.
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ONCAM=DENNIS

THIS IS THE SEVENTH HALLOWEEN MOVIE, BUT ITS CALLED "HALLOWEEN H20", AS IN HALLOWEEN 20". AS IN JAMIE LEE CURTIS RETURNING TO THE ROLE, SHE FIRST DID "20 YEARS AGO", IN THE ORIGINAL MOVIE. IT RETURNS MOSTLY, THOUGH BECAUSE OF THE RECENT LARGE SUCCESS OF SEVERAL MOVIES ABOUT SLAUGHTER AMONG TEENAGERS. OH, AND THIS ONE IS SET IN A PREP SCHOOL.
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ACTUALLY THERE'S NO TRUE CHARACTER IN THIS FILM EXCEPT JAMIE LEE CURTIS. SHE'S AN ALCOHOLIC, AND PILL-POPPER. HER SON, ALERTS HER, IN THE KITCHEN AT BREAKFAST, "MOM, WE'RE ALL OUT OF PERCODAN". ANYWAY, SHE HAS A CHARACTER, THERE IS ASTRENGTH TO HER CHARACTER, THE MOVIE'S ONLY REAL STRENGTH. WHOSE FINAL NUMBER IS HIDDEN IN THE TITLE "H20"; NO, NOT AN O OR AN H. IT IS A FINAL TWO AND RUNS ONLY ABOUT AN HOUR AND 20 MINUTES. AT LEAST IT KNOWS WHEN TO LEAVE. I'M DENNIS CUNNINGHAM FOR CBS NEWS.))
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[SUPER=X5001;][S-Wrath]

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[WRITER=rst]
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It's now up to the league whether or not the Roanoke Wrath will have a home game in the Playoffs.
Last night, The Wrath beat the South Carolina Shamrocks 2 to nothing to hold on to fourth place in the Atlantic Division.
Lang Wedemeyer and Dave McGowan scored the Wrath goals.

[S-Cubs]

[ANCHOR=Roy]
[NEWSCAST=11pm]
[WRITER=rst]
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Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa both homered yesterday but it was an R-B-I single by Ray Lankford gave the Cardinals a 9 to 8 win in 13 innings.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-St. Louis, MO/FOX SPORTS; :]

McGwire and Sosa went head to head as the Cubs were in St. Louis.
Chicago would jump out to the early lead in the top of the fourth Jose Hernandez takes this pitch deep over the left centerfield wall for a two run homer giving the Cubs a 3 to nothing lead.
Then in the bottom of the fourth, McGwire would send this inside fastball into the left field bleachers for his 46-th homer and the Cardinals trailed the Cubs 3 to 1.
St. Louis would take the lead in the bottom of the seventh Brian Jordan sends this line drive to the wall in left field scoring a run to make it 4 to 3 Cardinals.
Sosa would tie the game in the top of the ninth
[SUPER=35-St. Louis/9/Chicago/8/;]
when he sends this pitch over the centerfield wall for a two run homer, his 44-th, but the Cardinals win it in 13 innings 9 to 8.
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[S-MLB]

[ANCHOR=Roy]
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Detroit, MI/FOX SPORTS; :]

Ken Griffey Junior failed to homer in Detroit.
The Tigers led 2 to nothing until the third when Rob Ducey sends this pitch in the upper deck of right field for a solo homer and the Mariners trailed 2 to 1.
Seattle would take the lead in the top of the fifth Griffey hits the fly ball that drops in centerfield scoring a run and Seattle led 3 to 2.
Martinez hit a two run homer in the fifth and Davis
[SUPER=35-Seattle/9/Detroit/3/;]
sends this line drive shot over the right field wall for his second homer and Seattle wins it 9 to 3.
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[S-Braves]

[ANCHOR=Roy]
[NEWSCAST=11pm]
[WRITER=rst]
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The Atlanta Braves hit 5 home runs in San Francisco yesterday pushing their National League leading total to 161 in a 14 to 6 win over Giants.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-San Francisco, CA/FOX SPORTS; :]

Bobby Cox checking the action on the field.
In the top of the first, Andres Galaragga hits this R-B-I double scoring Ozzie Guillen and the Braves took the one to nothing lead in the inning.
Still in the first, Javier Lopez gets all of this
[SUPER=35-Atlanta/14/San Francisco/6/;]
pitch for a two run homer scoring Ryan Klesko and the Braves hold on for the 14 to 6 win to go 39 games above 500.
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[ANCHOR=Roy]

The Washington Redskins opened their preseason schedule last night. More on that when we return.

[S-Scores]

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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Bronx, NY/WPIX; :]

In New York, It was family day at Yankee Stadium.
Jorge Posada drove in six runs and Chuck Knoblauch hit his 11-th homer since July 10-th and his 15-th of the season as the Yankees beat the Royals 14 to 1.
Now, Here's the rest of the scores.
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[Sports Tease]

[ANCHOR=Roy]
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[WRITER=rst]
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And coming up, The Redskins opened the preseason on the road Joe Nemechek leads second round qualifying at Watkins Glen.
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[VO-NAT]

And Stacy Compton started on the pole but crashed near the end of the race opening the door for first time winner Terry Cook.
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[S-Skins]

[ANCHOR=Roy]
[NEWSCAST=11pm]
[WRITER=rst]
[TAPE#=SP-19]
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The Washington Redskins scored 16 points in the second half but came up short losing to Miami 19 to 16 in a preseason game.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Raljon, MD/WTVJ; :]

Jimmy Johnson and his Dolphins in town for the preseason game.
Miami kicker Olindo Mare booted three field goals in the first half including this 50 yarder just before the half and the Dolphins led 9 to nothing.
The Redskin special teams even struggled last night on this play Miami's Charlie Jordan breaks a couple of tackles and returns this punt 52 yards all the way to the Washington 15 yard line.
Several plays later back up running back Ray Nealy
[SUPER=30-Miami/19/Washington/16/;]
breaks tackles and scores over the right side to make it 17 to nothing and Miami wins it 19 to 16.
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[S-UVA]

[ANCHOR=Roy]
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[WRITER=dal]
[TAPE#=SP-13 tc 1:33:32]
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The University of Virginia is ranked second in the ACC and in the top 15 in the nation by several publications.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Charlottesville; :]

UVA has 14 returning starters.
Senior safety Anthony Poindexter has been named to a number of pre-season all AMerica teams, as well as the preseason all ACC team.
In fact 10 of the other returnees have received all ACC mention too.
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[VO-NAT]

Quarterback Aaron Brooks is back.
"The Sporting News" has ranked him the seventh all purpose Q-B in the nation.
Brooks will be joined in the backfield by a host of running backs.
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[ANCHOR=Roy]
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The Cavs open their season at Auburn, September third.

[S-Salem]

[ANCHOR=Roy]
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[WRITER=rst]
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The Salem Spartans will have a new look when they open the high school football season this year.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Salem; :]

The new look is not uniforms. Salem Head coach Willis White says this is the biggest team he's had in his career as the Spartans coach.
And to go with the size, The Spartans are also a little faster.
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[VO-NAT]

White says the players also returned to practice in better shape than any team before.
But while the Spartans are bigger and Faster bringing them together as a team is the only obstacle facing White and his assistant coaches.
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[S-Trucks]

[ANCHOR=Roy]
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[WRITER=rst]
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Stacy Compton covered the field until near the end of the Genuine Car Parts 200 truck race in New Jersey yesterday afternoon.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Flemington, NJ/TNN SPORTS; :]

Compton started on the pole and would lead 167 laps until he tangled with Terry Cooke and hit the wall ending his chances at winning the race. He finished 28-th.
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[VO-NAT]

Cooke would hold on and win the race his first victory in the Truck Series. Jimmy Hensley finished fifth.
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[S-Qualify]

[ANCHOR=Roy]
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[WRITER=rst]
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[GRAPHIC=Watkins Glenn]

Joe Nemechek led second round qualifying at Watkins Glen yesterday afternoon. He turned in a speed of 119 Point 252 miles per hour.
He will start 26-th and here is the rest of the 43 car field.
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[SUPER=0107-36. Brett Bodine//37. Bobby Labonte//38. Chad Little//39. Dick Trickle//40. Steve Grissom//;]
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[SUPER=0107-41. Morgan Shepherd//42. Derrike Cope//43. Darrell Waltrip//;]
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[OUT Q=....last score."]
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[ANCHOR=Roy]

That's it for sports. Have a great day everybody.

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Caeser Salad lovers got their fill yesterday in San Francisco.
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Organizers were trying to break a world record by making the largest caesar salad ever. Ingredients included 4,000 pounds of lettuce, oversized croutons and even 500 eggs.
Mayor Willie Brown was among those on hand for the event.
The finished salad weighed two tons--just enough to set a new world record.
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[ANCHOR=Eric]
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