Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, August 22, 1995 TAG: 9508220097
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-2 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
RICHMOND - State environmental officials this week will introduce their ideas for extending the Chesapeake Bay cleanup to its Shenandoah and Potomac river tributaries.
The plan will be based on the Allen administration's philosophy of environmental progress through economic growth.
``If you're a command-and-control-type thinker, you might not like this document,'' said Deputy Secretary of Natural Resources Tom Hopkins. ``But if you want to clean up the bay, you're going to like it.''
Hopkins said the proposal will encourage cities and towns to remove harmful nitrogen from waste water and continue efforts to control polluted runoff.
``This is not going to be a prescriptive document,'' he said. ``It's not going to recommend massive regulations, I can assure you that.''
The 120-page document proposes giving cities and towns the option of forgoing expensive sewage system upgrades by devoting money to help control agricultural pollution instead.
- Associated Press
Teen-age swimmer drowns in reservoir
MANASSAS - A 15-year-old Lake Ridge boy drowned while swimming across the Occoquan Reservoir in Prince William County, police said.
Patrick Sanders and two friends were swimming Sunday from the Fairfax County side of the reservoir to a landing when Sanders experienced difficulty staying above water, police spokeswoman Kim Chinn said.
Sanders' friends tried to help him, but he went under and couldn't be saved, she said.
- Associated Press
16-year-old held on murder charges
WOODBRIDGE - A 16-year-old Dumfries boy faces murder and firearms charges in connection with the shooting death of a Prince William County man.
Stafford County sheriff's deputies captured the teen-ager about 9 a.m. Sunday.
Prince William County Police 1st Sgt. Ray Colgan said the teen-ager gunned down 37-year-old Samuel Tyrone Brooks about 12:30 a.m. Friday during a ``street robbery.''
Police would not release the youth's name because he is a juvenile. He was found with family in Stafford County early Sunday. Colgan said the boy has no fixed address.
Detectives identified the teen-ager as the suspect with the help of people who live near where the shooting happened, Colgan said.
- Associated Press
Police: Drag race killed 2 teen-agers
BOWLING GREEN - State police said two teen-agers killed in a weekend crash on U.S. 1 in Stafford County were in a car that was drag racing.
Jamie Stanley, 16, of Spotsylvania County, and Michael Bundy, 19, of Montross, were killed late Friday when the car they were riding in veered off the road, struck a tree and overturned. The driver, Chester Berryman Jr., 18, of Colonial Beach, was listed in good condition Monday morning at Fairfax Hospital.
Trooper Meredith Womble said Berryman was driving south on U.S. 1 when his car veered off the right side of the road. None of the three teens was wearing a seat belt.
Preliminary accounts indicate that alcohol might have been involved, a state police spokesman said. The accident is still under investigation.
- Associated Press
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