Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, September 23, 1993 TAG: 9309230227
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
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VIRGINIA BEACH - The Rev. Jerry Falwell said Wednesday he was organizing a boycott of companies advertising on the ABC television program "NYPD Blue" because of the program's depiction of sex and violence.
"We are right now collecting names of all advertisers and we're going to declare war on them," Falwell said in a speech at Regent University, a school founded by religious broadcaster Pat Robertson.
Falwell predicted that the boycott would embarrass advertisers and cost ABC about $50 million in advertising revenue.
The show has more sex, violence and off-color language than the usual prime-time drama, Falwell said.
"We're going to stop that stuff," Falwell said.
- Associated Press
\ Murder trial of girl, 16, postponed a 2nd time
FARMVILLE - The trial of a girl charged in the slayings of her father and stepmother has been postponed a second time to allow testimony from a key defense witness.
Jennaleigh Mullens, 16, of Prospect, was scheduled to go on trial Tuesday on first-degree murder charges in the shooting deaths of Marvin D. Mullens and Carolyn Mullens.
Prince Edward County Circuit Judge J.R. Snoddy said the teen will be tried Oct. 20, with or without the expert witness, Dr. Henry Gwaltney. The Central State Hospital psychiatrist was testifying at another court case Tuesday. The first postponement, granted July 28, was requested for the same reason.
The teen's stepsister, Barbara Mullens, 16, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder charges in July and received two life sentences. - Associated Press
\ Used-up nuclear fuel cleared for Idaho trip
NEWPORT NEWS - A federal judge in Idaho has cleared the way for the shipment of five casks of nuclear fuel from Newport News Shipbuilding to a storage site in Idaho.
Two months ago, U.S. District Judge Harold Ryan blocked the shipments at the request of that state.
Ryan gave permission Tuesday for the shipment of the spent fuel from the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise. The shipment is part of a compromise worked out last month among Idaho, the Navy and the U.S. Department of Energy.
- Associated Press
\ Mother accuses driver of kicking pupil off bus
YORKTOWN - A York County school bus driver has been reassigned to an office job after a 6-year-old boy was let off the driver's bus about two miles from his home.
Diane Teel, charged Tuesday with contributing to the neglect of a child, will remain off the road until the misdemeanor case has been resolved, said school spokesman James Smith.
The charge was based on a warrant sworn out by Marcella Golas, who contends that Teel ordered her son, Tommy, to get off the bus on Sept. 16 to punish him.
The bus drove off, leaving the crying child running after it, according to the youngster and other children riding on the bus. Parents of other pupils who were on the bus went looking for the York Elementary School second-grader after being told of the incident by their children.
Tommy was found unharmed but apparently lost and headed in a direction away from his home.
The boy and other students said the driver ordered him off the bus after reprimanding him for tossing a piece of paper out the window. - Associated Press
\ Mutilated husband's rape trial is postponed
MANASSAS - The trial of a Prince William man whose wife says she cut off his penis because he raped her has been postponed until November to allow testimony from a key prosecution witness.
John Wayne Bobbitt, 26, was scheduled to go on trial Monday, but Prince William Commonwealth's Attorney Paul B. Ebert asked Circuit Judge Leroy Millette Jr. to delay the trial because a forensic scientist who examined evidence in the case had to testify in an unrelated trial.
The scientist, Mike Scholberg, is being called to substantiate Lorena Bobbitt's claim that she was raped by her husband June 23, the morning she cut off his penis with a knife.
Bobbitt's trial is now scheduled for Nov. 8.
Lorena Bobbitt's trial on a charge of malicious wounding is scheduled to begin Nov. 27. - Associated Press
Memo: shorter version ran in the Metro edition.