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More deadly violence in Kosovo and this time a warning from world leaders.
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And a sentence is handed down in the Grayson County burning and beheading case.
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News 7 at noon is next.
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[Cressell]
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A Grayson County judge this morning upheld the jury's sentence in Emmett Cressell Junior's murder trial.
The 38-year old was given the maximum sentence for his role in burning and beheading G-P-Johnson.
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Teresa Hamilton joins us live from outside the Grayson County courthouse where Cressell's family members made a last ditch effort to keep him from spending life behind bars.
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(QUESTION: Will Cressell be eligible for parole?)
[BOMBING-ANNIVERSARY]
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Today marks the first anniversary of the nation's first deadly bombing of an abortion clinic.
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[11:30-UPDATE WINDOW]
In Birmingham, Alabama, this morning a memorial was held for the off-duty police officer killed in the blast.
Also today, Nurse Emily Lyons, who was critically injured in the explosion, will publish online the first part of a book she has written on the blast."
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Meanwhile, the alleged mastermind behind the bombing is still on the run.
Investigators continue to search the hills of western North Carolina for Eric Rudolph and have place him on the Ten Most Wanted list.
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[IMPEACHMENT]
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There's a lull in the impeachment storm for now, with the next action to take place behind closed doors on monday.
President Clinton, meanwhile, goes on with business as usual, as his impeachment jurors prepare for next week's depositions.
Lee Cowan reports from Washington.
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[KOSOVO]
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President Clinton today called for immediate action in Kosovo.
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This comes as the U-S and five other nations push for both sides to attend a peace coference next week in France.
The accord was reached today in London.
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Meantime in Kosovo today there was more violence.
Reports say some 20 rebels were killed in a shootout.
This follows the massacre of 45 ethnic Albanians in the Kosovo village of Racak (RAH'-chak).
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Albanian separatists charge ethnic cleansing by Serbs.
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[ANCHOR=Melanie]
A big obstacle in the path of Volvo's expansion has been removed.
That story is next on News-7 at Noon.
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[VO-NAT ]
And a little later on in the newscast-- we'll take a trip to the big top.
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[Volvo]
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A major hurdle in front of Volvo's proposed expansion in the New River Valley.
By a two to one margin, unionized workers at the Dublin plant accepted a new contract.
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Union leadership says a better pension plan and better health care for new workers were the keys to this vote.
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((JOHN SAYERS/UAW PRESIDENT: OUR MEMBERSHIP FOCUSED ON THE ISSUES IN THIS SET OF NEGOTIATIONS. AND, WE COMMEND THEM FOR THEIR CONCERN OF THE NEW EMPLOYEES HIRING CONDITIONS AND ESPECIALLY FOR THEIR CONCERN FOR HEALTH CARE.))
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Union leadership says members were not influenced by Volvo's threat to dump the 148-million dollar expansion project.
That expansion could bring 13-hundred new jobs.
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[E-Halifax-Burlington]
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Some Burlington Industries plants are actually benefitting from the company's plan to close seven facilities and layoff nearly three-thousand employees.
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The Burlington Industries plant in Halifax County is going to absorb some weaving work from a plant in North Carolina that's laying-off.
It means the Halifax plant will be able to operate at full capacity, and even hire a few dozen new people to handle the increased load.
But the plant manager says his employees know they have to keep performing to keep their jobs.
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((I THINK I'VE SEEN A REDEDICATION IN MAKING SURE WE WE SATISFY OUR CUSTOMERS AND THAT'S THE KEY TO ALL OF IT.))
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The Burlington Industries plant in the Town of Hurt is also acquiring more work in the company's reorganization.
Plant officials say a handful of new jobs will be created.
160 jobs will be lost when the company closes its plant in Hillsville.
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They've closed the books on Princess Diana's fatal car crash.
French officials made the announcement today, just hours after the judge interviewed photographers implicated in the case.
Meantime, one London newspaper today carried the headline "Meet the Mistress."
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Last night Prince Charles posed for a picture with his longtime love Camilla Parker Bowles.
The two were caught on camera leaving a party in London.
Princess Diana blamed Parker Bowles for the breakup of her marriage to Prince Charles.
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[ANCHOR=Melanie]
The circus comes to town next on News-7 at noon.
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And we'll have the story of a real-life gentle giant-- a seven-foot seven inch teenager.
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[7-FOOTER]
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In 19-89 Igor Ladan and his mother moved from the Ukraine to Minnesota, hoping doctors at the Mayo Clinic could fig
ure out why Igor was growing so fast.
When Igor was just three and a half he was five foot two.
By the time he turned six, he was six feet tall.
Doctors say a brain tumor caused his growth hormones to race out of
control.
They removed the tumor 9 years ago.
But as Randi Kaye reports Igor is now 16, seven foot seven and still growing!
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(( THIS SEVEN FOOT SEVEN CENTER FROM JOHN MARSHALL HIGH SCHOOL IS THE
CENTER> OF ATTENTION.
Igor Ladan`, `7-FOOT-7 16-YEAR-OLD`?
I CAN'T WALK FIVE STEPS WITHOUT SOMEONE COMING AND ASKING WHAT MY
HEIGHT IS.
I CAN'T WALK FIVE STEPS WITHOUT SOMEONE COMING AND ASKING WHAT MY HEIGHT IS.
HIS GIANT-LIKE PRESENCE ON THE BASKETBALL COURT HAS EVEN INCREASED
GAME ATTENDANCE.
?CG: Mark Glaeser/Igor's Basketball
Coach?
DEFINITELY, PEOPLE COME OUT 'A' OUT OF CURIOUSITY, AND 'B' TO SEE
IGOR PLAY.
IGOR CAN PASS, DUNK EFFORTLESSLY, AND PALM THE BALL - IN HIS HUGE
HANDS.
RK: HOW BIG ARE THEY?
IL: I DON'T KNOW.
IGOR'S SIZE-23 FEET ARE MORE THAN THREE TIMES THE SIZE OF
MINE...
RK: I COULD PROBABLY PUT MY WHOLE SHOE IN YOURS -
IL: BOTH!
RK: BOTH SHOES!
?CG:Randi Kaye`, `Rochester, MN
HE OUTGROWS THOSE SHOES IN ABOUT SIX MONTHS.
PARENTS KNOW THAT CAN BE EXPENSIVE - ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU'RE SHOPPING FOR A SIZE 23.
SO IGOR'S MOTHER CONTACTED BIG-NAME SHOE MANUFACTURERS - AND WHEN
THEY DIDN'T RESPOND, LOCAL ROCHESTER BUSINESSES KICKED IN TWO THOUSAND
BUCKS.
WHILE ALL OF THIS SOUNDS 'COOL' TO OTHER KIDS HIS AGE -
IL: ALOT OF KIDS LOOK UP TO ME.
RK: LITERALLY!
IL: YEAH! YEAH!
IGOR'S SIZE IS A 'BIG' INCONVENIENCE. NOT ONLY IS IT
HARD FOR HIM TO MAKE FRIENDS - BUT IT'S HARD FOR HIM TO GET ANYWHERE- ESPECIALLY WHEN HIS HEAD ALREADY TOUCHES THE CEILING OF THE FAMILY CAR.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO DO. I'M GONNA BE DRIVING A BIKE, I
GUESS!
IGOR STILL GROWS NEARLY AN INCH EVERY SIX MONTHS - BUT HE'S
LEARNED TO PUT THAT HEIGHT TO USE - AND TEACH OTHERS TO DO THE SAME!
- RANDI/IGOR PLAYING BASKETBALL
ALRIGHT - HERE WE GO! WHEW!!!
EVEN THOUGH HIS SIZE IS A BIT INTIMIDATING - ESPECIALLY FOR
SOMEONE FIVE FOOT THREE LIKE MYSELF - IT'S EASY TO GET PAST IGOR'S SIZE
AND SEE THAT HE'S JUST A TYPICAL TEENAGER- IN A VERY BIG MAN'S BODY.))
[Circus]
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Kids have lots of ways to pass the time...TV...video games...sports.
But many of them still seem to like a good old-fashioned circus.
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Dozens of youngsters provided the audience at the dress rehearsal for the Kazim Temple Shrine Circus this morning, at the Roanoke Civic Center.
They watched lions jumping through hoops of fire.
And they saw some pretty nifty tricks by bareback horse riders.
The circus has a show tonight, three on Saturday, and two on Sunday...for kids of all ages, as they say.
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[Stocks]
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The U-S economy grew at record speed last quarter.
The commerce department says the economy grew at an annual rate of five point six percent during the last three months of 19-98.
Wall Street seems to be please with the news.
At noon the Dow was UP 59 points.[tease3]
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[ANCHOR=Melanie]
Still ahead in sports, remarks turn ugly as players prepare for the Super Bowl in Miami.
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And if you look closely, you might recongnize these two guys.
We'll tell you how the quarterbacks are keeping their minds off the big game, when News 7 at Noon continues.
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[Girls]
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A high school doubleheader on the hardwood featured the Patrick Henry Patriots and the Colonels of William Fleming.
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Of course, it was ladies first. Here, the Fleming girls convert the turnover and go all the way downcourt for the easy two and the 43-24 lead.
The Lady Colonels again-- Shaunary Walker hooks up with Alycia Garrison, who sinks the long jumper from just inside the three point line.
Fleming then passes it around the horn. This time Walker pulls up and takes it herself.
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Patrick Henry's Tanisha Durham gets the bucket for the Patriots but it wasn't enough, as the Lady Colonels beat Patrick Henry 57- 28.
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The Colonels were looking to make it two in a row as the boys took the court.
And Fleming's Michael Fleshman would do his part. He drives the lane and puts up the one- hander for the score.
But the Patriots didn't make it easy. Marcus Robertson pulls up, sinks the short jumper and draws the foul. P-H had the two point lead.
Then, Jermaine Hardy grabs the board for Fleming and lays it back in for two.
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Patrick Henry's Tyrone Ferrell drives the baseline at the other end and sinks the bucket, but Fleming was too powerful.
The Patriots get their second win of the season over P-H 55-to-46.
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[Roanoke]
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On to the college ranks, where the lady Maroons avenged their first conference loss of the season by crushing Guilford 72- 54.
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With Roanoke up early in the second half, Guilford tried to stage a comeback. Kerrie Campbell fights for the rebound and gets the score.
But the Lady Maroons come right back. Former Cave Spring standout Cheryl Rhodes gets two of her 13 points on this jumper.
From then on it was all Roanoke. Carrie McConnell banks this shot off the glass. She would have thirteen on the night.
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And the lady Maroons win this one easily, 72-to-54, upping their O-DAC record to 11 and 1.
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[Tennis]
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A big upset at the Australian Open, where the world's top female fell to an unseeded player.
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Lindsay Davenport-- the number one seed-- lost her match yesterday.
Lindsay Davenport won the first set, but Amelie Mauresmo rallied to win the next two, 7-5, 7-5.
Mauresmo won the Wimbledon and French Open junior titles in 19-96, but has never advanced beyond the third round in a major event.
She will face Martina Hingis in the final.
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[Randall]
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Two years ago Minnesota's Randall Cunningham was out of football completely.
But today his comeback is complete.
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Cunningham was named the N-F-L's player of the year. He helped the Minnesota Vikings set an N-F-L scoring record and
come to within one victory of the Superbowl.
It was the closest vote in the 10 year history of the award.
He received 37 percent of the vote-- two percent more than Denver running back Terrell Davis.
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Cunningham finished the season and the league's top rated passer he threw for over 37-hundred yards and 34-touchdowns.
[Bowl]
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Just days before the Superbowl, Denver's Shannon Sharpe and Atlanta's Ray Buchanan are exchanging harsh insults.
Buchanan says Sharpe is ``an ugly dude'' and looks "like Mister Ed."
Sharpe says the Falcons' cornerback is ugly and should put away his eyeliner, lipstick and
high heels.
And while these two are battling it out away from the field, the outcome of this year's game could up to these two men on the field.
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[Milk-Ads]
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The Broncos are still favored to beat the Falcons.
And if you happened to catch a glimpse of today's edition of USA Today, you may have noticed the two quarterbacks spashed across the sports page in a "Got Milk?" ad.
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The popular campaign began in 19-93, and this year John Elway and Chris Chandler were only too happy to take part with Super Bowl milk moustaches. The ad was shot last week.
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You can look for the ads throughout the weekend, and make up your own mind.
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