Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, November 18, 1993 TAG: 9311180151
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: METRO
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LORTON - An inmate was fatally stabbed Tuesday at the District of Columbia's prison complex at Lorton.
The incident followed on the heels of a drug raid at the Lorton complex and area homes Tuesday morning that netted 14 current and former corrections employees and four inmates on drug-smuggling and bribery charges.
Corrections officials said Gregory Smith, 24, was stabbed several times about 6:20 p.m.
A spokesman said there was no apparent connection with the drug arrests.
Also Tuesday, The Washington Post reported that a federal judge had explained his refusal to return a prisoner with a drug problem to Lorton because drugs are so accessible there.
- Associated Press
Appeals court to hear arguments in abduction
FAIRFAX - The Virginia Court of Appeals will hear arguments next month on the overturned conviction of Caleb Hughes, who was found guilty of abducting 5-year-old Melissa Lee Brannen.
The state attorney general's office requested the Dec. 9 review in hopes the court would disagree with a three-judge panel's decision.
Hughes, 27, was convicted in 1991 of abduction with intent to defile. Melissa has been missing since Christmas 1989.
The conviction was overturned after Hughes' attorney argued there was insufficient evidence to prove he intended to kidnap the child.
If the full court upholds the panel's decision, Hughes will face a retrial in Fairfax Circuit Court.
- Associated Press
Greenpeace activists to serve Navy charities
NORFOLK - Two Greenpeace activists pleaded guilty Wednesday to misdemeanor charges of trespassing at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth.
Dana M. Sellers, 25, of Silver Spring, Md., and Craig Engelking, 23, of Washington, D.C., each were fined $500, placed on probation for one year and ordered to perform 100 hours of community service for Navy-related charities.
"I prefer to do community service with a peace-oriented group instead of a group associated with war," Sellers said.
Sellers and Engelking were arrested July 14 after they climbed onto a decommissioned submarine as part of a protest against the Navy's use of nuclear fuel.
The two activists hung a banner - "Nuclear Park: Open for 24,000 Years" - and painted a radiation symbol on the vessel.
- Associated Press
Allen won't fill posts from General Assembly
RICHMOND - Republican legislators looking for a spot on Gov.-elect George Allen's Cabinet may be disappointed.
Allen told reporters Wednesday that he probably will not name any General Assembly members to Cabinet posts.
"We need every vote that we can get in the legislature," he said.
Democrats will control the Senate 22-18 and the House of Delegates 52-47 with one independent when the assembly convenes in January.
If GOP lawmakers were named to the Cabinet, their seats would be vacant during the 1994 session unless special elections were held quickly.
- Associated Press
UVa provost named Rochester president
ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Thomas H. Jackson, provost of the University of Virginia, was named Wednesday as the next president of the University of Rochester.
Jackson, who also serves as a vice president at the university in Charlottesville, Va., will replace retiring President G. Dennis O'Brien on July 1.
Jackson, 43, will take the helm at a private university that underwent major administrative changes in February.
O'Brien timed his retirement to coincide with the retirements of three other senior officials, including Provost Brian Thompson. He said he wanted to allow his successor to take part in filling those posts.
- Associated Press
Dismissal urged for suit against Busch Gardens
NEWPORT NEWS - A federal magistrate has recommended dismissal of an $8 million lawsuit that blamed Busch Entertainment Inc. for the death of a Busch Gardens theme park worker who was struck in May by a roller coaster.
U.S. Magistrate James E. Bradberry said he sympathized with the family of George H. Brown, 63, who was killed while working on the Big Bad Wolf machine.
But whether Busch was negligent or not, Bradberry said, Virginia's Workman's Compensation Act does not allow an employee to recover civil damages against an employer for job-related injuries.
Busch has denied any negligence. - Associated Press
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