Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, September 11, 1993 TAG: 9309110170
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B5 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
WACHAPREAGUE - Three people were killed in a head-on boat collision about six miles north of this Eastern Shore community, the Coast Guard and the Virginia Game Department said Friday.
The collision occurred about 9 p.m. Thursday. Petty Officer Eric Eggen of the Coast Guard's Fifth District headquarters in Portsmouth said both vessels were 19-foot motorboats.
Sgt. Mike Caison of the Game Department said one boat was carrying eight people and the other had only its operator and a dog aboard. Neither boat had navigation lights, Eggen and Caison said.
"It was dark and neither boat had any running lights at all, making them almost invisible to each other until they collided," Caison said. "They are required by law after sunset."
All three of the dead were in the same boat. Caison identified them as Flora Skye Johnson, 16; her mother, Avis Johnson, 40; and Lee Walsh, 10. All three were Virginia Beach residents.
Avis Johnson and Walsh were dead at the scene. The girl died shortly after noon Friday at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital.
State to build prison in Sussex County
WAVERLY - The state Department of Corrections has announced plans to build at least one maximum-security prison on 545 acres in Sussex County.
The department also has requested funding for a second maximum-security prison to be built at the same site. If the General Assembly approves the funding, the two prisons would share a power plant and other facilities.
The first prison, scheduled to open in 1997, will cost about $55 million. It will house about 700 inmates and employ 300 people with an estimated payroll of $10 million.
Sussex County officials say the new facility will benefit the rural area, where unemployment has been a major concern.
"It will have a significant impact on the local economy," County Administrator George Walker said, "especially during the construction period."
Construction is scheduled to begin in 1995. Walker said he believes local businesses will be heavily involved.
Single-engine plane crashes, killing 2
MARSHALL - A single-engine plane crashed Friday afternoon while attempting an emergency landing at a Fauquier County farm, killing two people, state police said.
The Piper Cherokee clipped treetops before crashing about 3:30 p.m. when it tried to land at Rokeby Farm, the home of horse breeder and philanthropist Paul Mellon, said Lucy Caldwell, a Virginia State Police spokeswoman.
The pilot reported a fire aboard the aircraft shortly before the crash, said Bob Fulton, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman.
"The wing hit a clump of trees and bounced three times across a field, then struck a power pole and burst into flames," Caldwell said. Debris from the crash was spread about 1,500 feet across a field and onto Virginia 710.
Police had no immediate information on the identity of the two victims.
The plane had taken off from Dulles International Airport in Chantilly shortly before the crash, coming down just 12 miles west of the airport, Fulton said. It was headed for St. Louis.
Baby born to woman from frozen egg
FAIRFAX - A Northern Virginia woman has given birth to her third child using eggs that were removed, fertilized and frozen at the same time several years ago.
"It was a great experience," said Linda Cheplick of Falls Church, whose first son, David Samuel, was born Wednesday.
"It was the easiest delivery of all three," she said Friday from her hospital room. "Everyone's doing fine."
Maria Bustillo, a physician at Genetics and IVF Institute, said it's the first time three pregnancies have resulted from three eggs that were removed and fertilized at the same time through the in-vitro fertilization process.
by CNB