Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, November 2, 1994 TAG: 9411020084
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-4 EDITION: METRO
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JARRATT - A state trooper shot and critically wounded a man who was stopped at a traffic checkpoint, state police said Tuesday.
A spokeswoman said three troopers found a handgun on one of three men stopped at the Greensville County checkpoint. Another of the men began running but then turned around and made a sweeping motion with an automatic firearm.
One of the troopers then shot him twice in the upper body, she said. The unidentified man was taken to Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C.
- Associated Press
Saltville cavern to store natural gas
SALTVILLE - The geology that brought this town its name is about to bring it a $55 million fuel storage operation.
An abandoned salt cavern will be used as a natural gas storage site and new storage caverns will be carved from the salt, which acts as a natural, impenetrable container, said a spokesman for Houston-based Tenneco Gas, which is developing the project with Virginia Gas Co.
Construction is expected to begin in November 1995. The abandoned salt cavern is about 200 feet deep and 150 feet wide. It can hold 250 million to 400 million cubic feet of natural gas and will provide 25 million cubic feet of gas daily.
- Associated Press
Robertson group fires attorney
VIRGINIA BEACH - The head of a legal rights group founded by Pat Robertson said Tuesday that one of its attorneys was fired for offering to use a justifiable homicide defense for Paul Hill, the man accused of killing a Florida abortion doctor.
Michael Hirsh was the attorney fired by the American Center for Law and Justice.
``Intentional killing in the name of the pro-life cause is neither justifiable homicide - and therefore not legally defensible - nor morally right,'' said Keith Fournier, the group's executive director.
- Associated Press
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