Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, August 13, 1994 TAG: 9408150054
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C5 EDITION: METRO
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RICHMOND - Alcoholic Beverage Control Board Secretary Robert N. Swinson has been fired after 41 years with the board.
Swinson was promoted to board secretary, a political post, in 1987. Since changes made in ABC laws during the Robb administration, secretaries have served at the pleasure of board members.
``I think they just wanted to get my body out and get somebody else's body in there,'' Swinson said.
The board has had four secretaries since it was created in 1934. Swinson was the first to be fired.
The elimination of the middle-level manager's job is the latest in a series of layoffs in the department and the rest of state government.
- Associated Press
Va. to pay legal fees of expelled student
CHARLOTTESVILLE - The state's self-insurance fund will be used to pay nearly $40,000 in legal fees for a former student who threatened to sue unless the University of Virginia's honor court granted him a retrial.
The university previously had declined to confirm the agreement to pay the legal fees, but the school issued a statement this week that said it had made the deal.
The attorney general's office said the payment must be approved by the governor.
Christopher Leggett, expelled after he was convicted of cheating on a 1992 computer science exam, was acquitted in a retrial last month.
- Associated Press
Graffiti suspects may face jail time
HAMPTON - Three teen-agers charged with painting racist graffiti on a predominantly black church will be prosecuted under a new law that requires jail time for hate crimes, a prosecutor says.
``Whatever we can do to discourage this type of behavior we are going to do,'' Commonwealth's Attorney Christopher W. Hutton said Thursday.
The law provides a mandatory six-month jail sentence, and the judge cannot suspend more than five months.
Hampton police charged Ryan N. Maziarka, 18; Ricky E. Hunt, 19; and an unidentified 16-year-old with destroying private property and trespassing with the intent to damage property.
- Associated Press
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