Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, February 4, 1995 TAG: 9502060071
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: METRO
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CHARLOTTESVILLE - University of Virginia admission officials say an increase in applications means the school will be more selective in choosing this fall's entering class.
The university received about 15,425 applications by the Jan. 2 regular admissions deadline - an increase of about 500 over last year.
Admission officials expect transfer applications to bring the total to more than 17,500 candidates for 3,330 first-year and undergraduate transfer spaces.
Two hundred more students than last year applied by the Nov. 1 early decision deadline.
``Since the applicant pool was stronger and greater in number than last year's, we were able to offer admission to approximately 700 early decision students, compared to 591 last year,'' said John A. Blackburn, dean of admission.
- Associated Press
Ex-beauty queen appeals sentence
LEWISBURG, W.Va. - A former Virginia beauty queen appealed her two-year sentence for attacking the family of a romantic rival at their Greenbrier County home in February 1994.
Paul Detch, lawyer for Tracy Lippard, filed an appeal Thursday in Circuit Court, saying the sentence was too harsh.
Lippard, 23, of Newport News, Va., was convicted of two counts of second-degree attempted murder and five other misdemeanors.
She remains free on bond pending her appeal.
Detch said Judge Charles Lobban did not consider whether Lippard was a good candidate for alternate sentencing, did not consider a psychiatrist's testimony about Lippard, and allowed Carlynn Weikle to testify during sentencing, a privilege usually reserved for victims of felonies.
Prosecutors said Lippard attacked Rodney and Carlynn Weikle and their daughter, Melissa Scott, because of Scott's involvement with a man Lippard previously dated.
Lippard was Miss Williamsburg, Va., in 1993.
- Associated Press
Police: Man killed wife, then himself
STUARTS DRAFT - Police say a man, apparently upset about his impending divorce, fatally shot his wife before taking his own life.
Augusta County Sheriff Glenn Lloyd said an officer was sent to the couple's home Wednesday morning after a relative became concerned.
The bodies of John C. Alberti, 42, and Elizabeth E. Alberti, 29, were found in the family home.
Investigators said it appeared both had been shot with a handgun.
Lloyd said the couple's 18-month-old child was at a baby sitter's when the shooting occurred.
- Associated Press
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