ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Saturday, March 2, 1996 TAG: 9603040032
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C2 EDITION: METRO
AMHERST - Police have arrested a suspect in the slayings of two Lynchburg women whose bodies were found in Amherst County late last year.
James Henry Burley, 44, of Madison Heights, was arrested Wednesday and charged with two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of using a firearm in a felony and one count of possession of a firearm by a felon.
He is charged with killing Robin Jeanette Burge, 25, and Jacqueline Dorsey Carter, 32.
Burley was arraigned Thursday and was being held without bond in the Amherst County Jail. - Associated Press Bomb threat phoned from bus, police say
WARRENTON - Police say a 15-year-old Fauquier County High School student phoned in a bomb threat to the school from a cellular phone while riding the bus to school.
Fauquier Sheriff Joe Higgs said the teen-ager called a sheriff's dispatcher shortly after 7 a.m. Tuesday, saying there was a bomb at the school. More than 1,200 students and more than 150 staff members were evacuated. No bomb was found.
Investigators said a trace of the call, as well as information from other students, led them to arrest the boy and a 14-year-old friend, who is accused of making two other bomb threats. - Associated Press Top Marine's driver charged in death
FAIRFAX - The Marine Corps commandant's chauffeur was charged with felony hit-and-run in the death of a pedestrian. He's been in trouble for driving before, charged last summer with driving while intoxicated.
Fairfax County police said Marine Sgt. James F. Doolittle, 32, a driver for Gen. Charles C. Krulak, was driving his own blue-and-tan Jeep on Jan. 12 when it struck Felix J. Kowalski. Kowalski, 26, died of head injuries 12 days later.
According to court records, Doolittle was charged last July in Arlington County with driving while intoxicated after another accident. Court records show the charge was later amended to reckless driving.
Under a special program, Doolittle has been working off a sentence of 60 days in jail and 60 hours of community service on weekends.
A Marine Corps spokesman said Thursday that Doolittle has been reassigned to administrative duties at the Navy Annex in Arlington. - Associated Press R-rated film shown in class, parents say
KING GEORGE - Officials are investigating a complaint from a couple that their 13-year-old son watched an R-rated movie in school.
Michael and June Geraghty said their seventh-grader's science teacher showed the film ``Outbreak'' in class last month at King George Middle School.
Children younger than 17 are prohibited from watching R-rated films in theaters unless their parents are with them.
School Superintendent Ralph Johnson said he is investigating the matter. He said the teacher apparently showed the movie to illustrate how quickly the deadly ebola virus can be transmitted. The movie depicted a fictitious virus in Africa. - Associated Press Autopsy: Gunman died by own hand
VIRGINIA BEACH - An autopsy showed that a 26-year-old man who died in a standoff with Virginia Beach police died by his own hand.
A bullet from an officer's gun struck Jason W. Scruggs in the upper body about the same time he shot himself in the head. But the officer's bullet would not have killed him, according to an autopsy report released Thursday.from a town house with a handgun.
Scruggs had held officers at bay outside a town house with threats to kill himself. Police said he emerged from the house unexpectedly just as his mother, who police thought might have been a hostage, emerged from another door.
The officers shouted at Scruggs to drop his gun. When he instead raised it as if to shoot one of them, they fired, police said. - Associated Press
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