WDBJ 7 morning news for 05/23/99

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Coming up on News 7 Sunday Morning,
Investigators hope to learn more today about an apparent murder-suicide.
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And it's the end of a line for a historic home.
We will have more on those stories in just a few minutes.
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Two people have died following a suspected murder suicide in Wythe County.
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Authorities responded to a call about a person shot in a car at the corner of Route 100 and Route 618 around 7:45 yesterday evening.
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They also responded to a home in the Lone Ash community about two to four miles away and found another victim of a shooting. Both people died from their wounds.
Police are witholding their names until they notify their families.

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A Roanoke home was destroyed by fire.
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It happened at a home along Flick Drive earlier yesterday afternoon.
It took firefighters about 20 minutes to get the fire under control.
No one was injured.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
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A 19th century log cabin in Roanoke has been torn down.
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The Howbert (HOW-bert) House was demolished yesterday despite attempts by local businessmen, city officials and historians to try and save it.
The House has been around for 200 years and currently sits at the corner of Peter's Creek Road and Salem Turnpike.

The problem was finding a buyer to purchase the cabin plus nine acres for a quarter million dollars.
But, a contract now pending on the land required that the old cabin first be removed before the deal could proceed.
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Still to come on News 7 Sunday Morning,

VMI made headlines over 30 years ago when diganataries came out to dedicate the George C. Marshall Research Library....we'll tell you more about it in this week's Virginia Newsreel.

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AND..This is not baseball practice. This lady is taking action against speeders in her town. We'll tell you what she's doing in a little bit.
but first here are the lottery numbers.....
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The latest in drug therapy for heart patients is coming to Southwest Virginia and relief is on the way for chronic pain sufferers. Tonya Flory has the details in this week's medical review.
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Patients in Southwest Virginia are getting access to the latest innovations and treatments for cardiovascular disease. The University of Virginia and the Roanoke based cardiac clinic are bringing experimental mediciation testing to people living in the area. Doctor Michael Fenster says clinical trials in Roanoke will make it easier for local residents to get new drugs to treat heart disease.
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Southwest Virginia is a great place to spend outdoors in the summer -- but it's also the second highest risk group in the nation for lyme disease. The health department is now giving a new vaccine to prevent the deer tick spread disease.
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The shots cost about 70-dollars each and are 80 - 100-percent effective. [Fibromyalgia field tape!] And a Lewis Gale Clinic Rheumatologist will try to help explain a commonly misunderstood problem. Fibromyalgia syndrome causes muscle pain and fatique. Doctor Henshaw will discuss diagnosis and treatment of fibromyalgia Monday night at 6:30 in the Lewis-Gale Pavilion. Tonya Flory, News 7, Health Check.))
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Reservations are required for the educational dinner program on Fibromyalgia. News 7 Sunday Morning will be right back.

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Eight cadets from Virginia Women's Institute for Leadership at Mary Baldwin College are now commisioned military officers.
Joy Sutton has more on yesterday's ceremony.
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((It was just four year ago that Virginia Women's Institute for Leadership was inaugurated at Mary Baldwin College...as the state's alternative to co-education at Virginia Military Institute.
But when V-M-I was forced by the U.S Supreme Court to allow women to attend...the necessity for VWIL was questioned.
The first eight cadets to graduate from VWIL were commissioned into the military as 2nd lieutenants this weekend.
And the former cadets say the education they received was one of a kind.
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And the VWIL cadets did have the opportunity to get some of the same training as their V-M-I counterparts during ROTC training.
2nd Lieutenant Greg McDearmon just graduated fromV-M-I and attended the commissioning ceremony...he says he prefers single-sex education.
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The number of women enrolling at VWIL has steadily increased each year...giving young women the option of single-sex education.
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But some women are choosing to go to V-M-I. Melissa Graham and Chih-Yuan Ho survived the "rat line" and made history.
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Last weekend, the 2 women graduated from Virginia Military Institute. The event received national attention.
Both transferred from other schools after the Supreme Court ordered VMI to admit women in 1996.
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In this week's Virginia Newsreel, we look back more than 30 years at another event at V-M-I that made headlines.......The dedication of the George C. Marshall Library. Keith Humphry has more.
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One by one the dignitaries arrived at VMI on May 23-rd, 1964 to dedicate the George C. Marshall research library.
Former President Dwight Eisenhower, President Lyndon Johnson, and General Omar Bradley were among those in attendance to honor Marshall.
Marshall was a 1901 graduate of VMI. He was commissioned an Army officer and became a 5- star general. He won the Nobel Peace Prize for devising the Marshall Plan... a massive undertaking to rebuild Western Europe after World War II.
In 1952, Harry Truman suggested to V-M-I that there needed to be a place to store Marshall's papers. It took more than 10 years for that idea to became a reality. The dignitaries toured the new library and took their places on the platform. Eisenhower spoke.
He gave the crowd a taste of what it was like to serve under Marshall during the War.
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Though it was certainly a solemn occasion, President Johnson livened things up at the beginning of his speech with a surprise announcement.
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Of course the Commander in Chief had his way; the Institute pardoned the cadets.
10-thousand people were on hand as General Marshall's widow accepted V-M-I's highest award for her late husband... the New Market Medal.
Mrs. Marshall was a 1902 graduate of Hollins College.
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Oscar De La Hoya remained unbeaten with a TKO Oba Carr in the 11th round.
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Former P O W Andrew Ramirez was in Vegas for the bout.
And DeLa Hoya gets started early with a left hook to drop Carr in the first round.
De La Hoya is 31-and-0, including 25 knockouts.
He was a ten-to-one favorite, and floored the challenger with a left, 55 seconds into the eleventh round.
Referee Richard Steele then stopped the fight.
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The Los Angeles Dodgers survived two home runs by Mark McGwire to beat the St. Louis Cardinals 10-7 last night.
McGwire hit this solo homer in the first inning.
Then in the eighth a monster two-run shot. That one cleared the pavilion in left-center field, making him only the third player to hit a ball completely out of Dodger Stadium in the ballpark's 38-year history. The others were Willie Stargell
(twice) and Mike Piazza.
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They don't have speed bumps, stoplights or cops. So how do you handle speeders?
Bill Wood shows us how one woman takes the law into her own hands.

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Coming up in the second half hour of News 7 Sunday Morning......
As NATO raids knock out the lights in Belgrade, there are growing signs of dissension within Yugoslavia's government and military.
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And a birthday party turns into a scary surprise, when the pilot is thrown from a hot air balloon. We will have more on those stories in just a few minutes.
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Victims of a hot air balloon crash are still recovering this morning.
At least 15 were injured when the balloon crashed yesterday about 50 miles north of San Francisco.
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Officials say the pilot was thrown from the balloon when it hit the ground while trying to land during high winds.
The balloon rose again briefly before crashing, dumping all the passengers and the other member of the crew.
The pilot was not hurt.
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the cause of the crash.
The balloon tour was part of a surprise birthday party.
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This is day 60 of the NATO bombing campaign.
Overnight blasts appeared to have turned off the lights in Belgrade again .. after reportedly hitting a power plant and distribution network supplying much of Serbia.
CBS News correspondent Dave Browde reports.
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SUPER: SATURDAY NARR: The continued attacks come as intelligence indicates severe strains on the Milosovic regime.
CBS GRAPHIC/ADD-ONS NARR: CBS News has obtained an internal Clinton Administration document saying Slobodon Milosevic has ordered the arrest of more than 100 fellow Serbs whose loyalty he questions. The intelligence indicates "growing friction" between Milosevic and his army commander in Kosovo, and that Milosevic is trying to hide his losses from the citizens of Belgrade by calling up replacements from cities outside the capital.
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NARR: The rebel commander says despite the mistake the attacks should continue. And he called for NATO ground forces to invade Yugoslavia .. something the Clinton Administration says will NOT happen.
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25-hundred people lined the streets of Huntsville, Texas, to honor Army Specialist Steven Gonzales.
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The former P O W road through town with his parents in fine fashion.
Gonzaled stopped at the Walker County Courthouse Square to cut down a yellow ribbon that had been tied around a tree by his parents when he was first captured by Serbian forces.
He also received a birthday cake since he spent his 22nd birthday in captivity.
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About one-hundred people gathered for the "March for Jesus."
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The event started at 11 yesterday morning along Day Avenue in downtown Roanoke and ended near Martin Avenue.
Marchers sang songs in honor of the Lord.
The first March for Jesus was held in the Pacific Islands several years ago.
It has since become an annual event that's held on this day in several cities around the world.
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More than four hundred Columbine high school seniors graduated in a tearful, traditional ceremony yesterday.
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Seniors marched in a graduation ceremony that mixed celebration and sorrow for classmates slain in last month's massacre.
Several students who were wounded in the April 20th attack drew applause as they walked or were taken in wheelchairs across the stage to collect their diplomas.
The siblings of one slain senior picked up her diploma, while the family of another did not attend.
The names of the two gunmen, who were also both seniors, were not mentioned.
Fifteen people, including the gunmen died in the attack.
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Students of Georgia's Heritage High School returned to school Saturday to pick up their belongings.
Six students were wounded, none of them critically, when 15-year-old sophomore Thomas Solomon Junior allegedly opened fire on Thursday. The attack was the sixth mass shooting at an American high school or middle school since October 1997.
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Africa's slave trade is a growing industry.
And, some people have tried to put an end to it by buying the freedom of individual slaves.
But, according to a local scholar that often just makes the traders wealthier.
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American school children have been touched by the plight of African children kidnapped or sold into slavery- -in the Sudan.
For example, pupils at Troutville Elementary School raised 210 dollars to buy African slaves their freedom.
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Professor Joshua Rubongoya (RU-BIN-GOY-A) says as well-intentioned as the effort may be... it could be fueling the problem.
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Rubongoya did say media attention may help achieve a long- term political solution. He points out: trouble in the Sudan has deep ethnic and religious roots.
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Among the voices of Roanoke radio, few can claim a career more enduring than that of Gary E. Cooper.
The announcer on AM- radio station WRIS retired on Friday, after more than forty years as a broadcaster.
Joe Dashiell has his story in this week's Virginia Profile.

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Gary E. Cooper caught the radio bug as a youngster. but he got his start at WROV in 1958 when an overnight announcer came down with the flu...
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By the early 60s, Cooper was entertaining the listeners of WRIS-AM. And he was a fixture on sister station WJLM-FM from the time it signed on in March 1969, until J-93 was sold a couple of years ago. [NAT SOUND OF COOPER ANNOUNCING 01:10:32]
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Cooper says is proud of his place in Roanoke's radio history, pleased to have known many of Roanoke's radio personalities.... names such as Herm Reavis.
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Cooper says the interaction with listeners, the two- way communication, makes local radio so satisfying, and that's the part he will miss the most.
He will continue to produce a public affairs program and fill in on other temporary assignments. So even as health problems force him to give up his daily air-shift, Cooper isn't disappearing from Roanoke's radio dial. [NAT SOUND OF COOPER ANNOUNCING]

Joe Dashiell News 7 Roanoke))[Sports-Extra]

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A new diamond is shinning in Lexington. Alumni, fans and former players dedicated the Cap'n Dick Smith Field.
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Smith's son threw out the first pitch to start yesterday's festivities.
His father was a player, coach and ended his career at Washington and Lee as Athletic Director.
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The monument to Dick Smith cost one-point-eight million dollars and 15 months to build.
It includes indoor batting tunnels and new press box and concession stand.
The park caps off a redcord setting baseball season for the Generals.
The 21 victories is the most in 87 years.
Senior Patrick Hall's family was instrumental in turning a clump of pine trees into a diamond.
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