Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, March 3, 1995 TAG: 9503030110
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-3 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
CHARLOTTESVILLE - Sixteen high school students were taken to area hospitals with minor injuries after a school bus and a tractor-trailer collided on Interstate 64 in Albemarle County, police said.
The school bus was rear-ended by the truck at around 8:15 a.m. Thursday, said State Police Trooper J.T. Holley.
The bus was carrying 18 Albemarle High School students, Holley said. The impact shattered the window of the emergency exit at the back of the bus, he said.
The driver of the truck, Mark Anthony Fogerty, 38, of Jonesboro, Tenn., has been charged with reckless driving, Holley said. Fogerty was not injured.
- Associated Press
Police arrest 23 in drug sweep
SOUTH BOSTON - Police say 23 people, including five juveniles, have been indicted on a total of 70 drug charges in a roundup of suspects that began a week ago.
Several of the suspects have out-of-state connections, and South Boston Police Chief James E. Hall said he hoped the arrests would lead police to drug suppliers.
South Boston, neighboring Halifax County and other rural Southside communities have become targets for big-city dealers who have been driven out of urban areas or who are looking for new markets.
The South Boston raid was conducted by the Southside Regional Drug Task Force, which includes officers from the Virginia State Police, South Boston, the sheriff's departments of Halifax and Mecklenburg counties and the neighboring town police departments.
- Associated Press
Teen convicted of capital murder
STANARDSVILLE - After deliberating less than three hours, a Greene County Circuit Court jury found 18-year-old Steve Roach guilty Thursday of capital murder in the shotgun slaying of an elderly neighbor.
The jury will return today to determine whether to recommend the death penalty or life in prison.
The jury also found Roach, who was 17 at the time of the slaying, guilty of robbery and a firearm charge.
Prosecutors argued that Roach shot Mary Ann Hughes, 70, when she answered the door of her house the night of Dec. 2, 1993.
According to authorities, Roach walked into the house after killing the woman and took $150 and her credit cards. He also took the woman's car, which he later abandoned in South Carolina. Roach then hitchhiked home and turned himself in to the county sheriff.
- Associated Press
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