Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: MONDAY, October 30, 1995 TAG: 9510300111
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
VIRGINIA BEACH - An extradition hearing was scheduled for today to decide whether a teen-ager charged with killing a counselor at a home for troubled children can be returned to Maryland to face criminal charges.
Police arrested Benjamin Garris, 16, Friday in Virginia Beach after a convenience store clerk said he was caught shoplifting candy and cigarettes.
The Frederick, Md., boy has been the subject of a nationwide police search since the Oct. 8 killing of Sharon Edwards, 28, who was working her first overnight shift at Sheppard-Pratt Hospital in Towson, Md., when she was stabbed to death.
A Virginia Beach police spokesman said the boy, who was in a maximum security facility for juveniles, could be returned as early as today or Tuesday to Maryland.
- Associated Press
Couple weds where they met: at the mall
HAMPTON - About 20 friends and a few dozen surprised shoppers watched Shanon Vaughn and Alexander Garland tie the knot at Coliseum Mall.
Security guard and mall chaplain Herber R. Bowman conducted the ceremony Saturday night.
``I've done church weddings, home weddings, back yard weddings, but this is the first mall wedding,'' said Bowman, a minister for 30 years who now is pastor of the New Harvest Church in Zuni.
The couple, engaged for four months, met Bowman at the mall's Piccadilly Cafeteria three weeks ago. Intrigued that mall security had a chaplain, the couple got the idea of having him officiate at their wedding.
Vaughn marched up to the altar on the arm of mall security guard Kenneth Sullivan as fellow guard Gary Phillpott Sr. softly played the ``Wedding March'' on an organ borrowed from a music store.
- Associated Press
Sulfuric acid spill closes I-95
STAFFORD - Interstate 95 south near Fredericksburg was closed for much of Saturday after a tractor-trailer spilled about 25 gallons of sulfuric acid, authorities said.
Two of the three southbound lanes were reopened late Saturday and state police said they hoped to have the third open by midnight.
The Virginia Department of Emergency Services said hazardous materials workers built a dike to contain the acid until it could be removed, and the acid did not run into any waterways.
The truck driver, Thomas Billings, 36, of Hopewell, fell asleep at the wheel, state police said. The truck veered off the right shoulder and struck the guard rail. Billings was charged with reckless driving.
- Associated Press
Daughter, 52, held in extortion plot
WILLIAMSBURG - A daughter of Williamsburg Pottery Factory founder James E. Maloney has been charged with extorting $6 million from her 83-year-old father, police said. Joan Maloney-Schultz was arrested Friday at a Crestar Bank near Williamsburg when she arrived, allegedly to pick up the money, said James City County police Capt. Ken Middlebrook. Middlebrook wouldn't say what the alleged blackmail was about. Maloney-Schultz, 52, of Williamsburg, was released on $5,000 bail.
- Associated Press
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