Roanoke Times
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DATE: SUNDAY, August 14, 1994 TAG: 9408190018
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FREDERICKSBURG - The Virginia Fraternal Order of Police on Saturday endorsed Republican nominee Oliver North in his bid for the U.S. Senate.
``These people are like all other people,'' North said. ``They're law enforcement people, but they're also concerned about health care and taxes. ... They believe that I can go to Washington and do something.''
Only North and independent Marshall Coleman accepted invitations to debate at the group's state convention Saturday. The debate was closed to the public and the media.
Democratic incumbent Charles Robb and independent Douglas Wilder both declined to attend.
Wilder, a former Democratic governor, said he did not participate in the debate because it was closed to the public.
``I've been locked out of too many things in my life to go along with people being locked out of this,'' said Wilder, the nation's first elected black governor. ``The people need to know and need to participate.''
Coleman said he chose to attend even though it was expected that the FOP would endorse North.
``I'm not going to write off any group in Virginia,'' he said.
- Associated Press
Ex-senator called back to court
RICHMOND - A former state senator convicted of embezzlement will be asked to tell a judge why his suspended sentence and probation should not be revoked.
Former Sen. Robert Russell will appear before retired Circuit Judge Lewis Griffith Aug. 22.
Russell, a Chesterfield County Republican who became the first state senator in modern Virginia history to be convicted of a felony, resigned his seat immediately before his Jan. 25 sentencing.
Special Prosecutor Paul B. Ebert said Russell violated the terms of his sentence and probation. While Ebert said Friday that he had learned Russell had paid $5,000 in restitution to a Richmond area cycling group, the prosecutor still contends Russell has violated his sentence and probation.
Russell told the Richmond Times-Dispatch he paid $5,000 last Friday by cashier's check. He said he expects to pay the $1,750 balance next week.
``The restitution account is now paid up through January 1995,'' he said.
A Chesterfield Circuit Court jury found him guilty in November of embezzling funds from Richmond Velo Sports Inc., a nonprofit cycling club of which his son, Thomas, was a member.
- Associated Press
Letters to students filed with court
MANASSAS - A Prince William County teacher and football coach allegedly wrote suggestive letters to female students, including two girls with whom he is accused of taking indecent liberties.
Charles L. White III, 38, of Dale City allegedly expressed to the girls how much he enjoyed seeing them and that he missed them when they were not around, according to the letters filed Friday in Circuit Court. In one letter, White allegedly wrote about his desire to be sexually intimate with one of the girls.
White is free on bond. The school system placed him on leave April 19, and school officials have recommended firing him.
- Associated Press
Va. slasher gets 45 years in prison
WEBSTER SPRINGS, W.Va. - A Virginia woman convicted of slashing the throats of a Braxton County motel clerk and the clerk's daughter was sentenced to 45 years in prison Friday.
Jennifer Blake, 24, of Richmond, Va., was sentenced in Webster County Circuit Court. The trial was moved because of pre-trial publicity.
Blake was convicted in June of attempted murder, robbery, malicious wounding and assault.
She and Elizabeth Pope Armour, 22, also of Richmond, were accused of robbing a Burnsville motel Nov. 10, tying up clerk Barbara Anson, 53, and her daughter, September Anson, 12, and slashing their throats.
Armour is free on bond pending trial. No trial date has been set.
- Associated Press
Rescuers reject local ambulance
WINDSOR - A divided Windsor Volunteer Rescue Squad has voted to stick to its decision to buy a new ambulance from an out-of-state company, upsetting many residents of the town who want the vehicle bought locally.
``I've always supported the rescue squad in my 20 years on Town Council,'' Vice Mayor Wesley Garris said after a highly acrimonious meeting at the squad's headquarters. ``But my support is through.''
``I hope you don't get sick,'' said squad member Alan Rose.
Squad members refused to say why they decided on the 1994 Ford ambulance an Indiana company offered to build for $59,993.
Robinson Ambulance, Virginia's only ambulance builder, located just a few doors down U.S. 460 from the rescue squad, bid $58,875 for a 1995 Ford ambulance.
- Associated Press
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