THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1997, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, January 4, 1997 TAG: 9701040343
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B5 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Briefs
LENGTH: 54 lines
FREDERICKSBURG - A member of the Virginia Military Institute Board of Visitors has resigned in protest of the school's decision to admit women.
Thomas M. Moncure Jr., a 1973 VMI graduate, said he cannot support admitting women when the school argued against doing so for six years when sued by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Opening the state-support military college to women ``flies in the face of our own evidence and the documented experience of every other military school that has gone this route,'' Moncure said his letter of resignation to Gov. George Allen.
Moncure was one of eight board members who voted against admitting women after the U.S. Supreme Court said the school could not exclude women and still get state funding. Killer, 16, gets 24 years
FAIRFAX - A 16-year-old Springfield boy was sentenced Friday to 24 years in prison for helping kill 13-year-old Jonathan Hall with a screwdriver last year.
Jason Garrison pleaded guilty to first-degree murder on the morning his trial was to begin.
Garrison and James Murray, an ex-convict convicted of first-degree murder in August for his role in the slaying, had blamed each other for Hall's death. Murray, 44, was sentenced to life in prison. Trolleys back in business
RICHMOND - Trolleys are back on city streets after an absence of 2 1/2 years. The service was inaugurated Thursday. The trolleys will operate from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday through Saturday on two routes in downtown Richmond.
The rubber-wheeled trolleys started running in downtown in 1985, but were canceled in 1994 for lack of money. This time the service is paid for by federal grants, corporate and government sponsors and fares of 25 cents per ride. Clerk guilty of forgery
FAIRFAX - A former Department of Motor Vehicles clerk pleaded guilty to making and selling fake driver's licenses.
John Wesley Leake Jr. admitted Monday that he used the names and Social Security numbers of legitimate license holders to make license cards with the pictures of drug dealers and business contacts who paid him.
He was sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay $355 in restitution. Leake will be jailed in Fairfax for the remaining month of his sentence.