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A A Qaitn Press STATE Friday, April 3, 1998 C5 Ben "He looked up Braxton describing John Giles' and said, 'My house is reaction of seeing his home gone. Giles' wife and son were killed in the tornado. MM 1 1 1 -4. i l- K'i! f. P.

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ii the tornado's shadow i 1 Man loses his home, wife if and baby to merciless storm NEWPORT NEWS (Denbigh) 1 2627 Jefferson Ave. ph 833-80S0 83 PONTMCGRAin I SS0UISCUIUSS2OR S3995J 92 FORD TEMPO 31605 93 FORD MUSTANG 8651 $5995 90 VOLVO 740 88947B $6985 95 PLYMOUTH NEON 31609A 1 I I 1 a j2.aiL IT i 1 1 TOYOTA 4RUNNER 31706 $8510 90 CADILLAC FLEETWOOD 65070A $8510 97 HYUNDAI ACCENT 31608 $8589 95 P0NTIAC GRAN0 AM 31475A 97 HYUNDAI ACCENT 31595 $8910 97 HYUNDAI ACCENT 31607 $8985 96 PLYMOUTH BREEZE 31533B $9610 96 SATURN SL 8577 A $9810 97 DODGE NEON 31 546 $9810 97 MERCURY TRACER 31701 $9810 94 MAZDA MX6 31711 $9910 96 P0NTIAC GRAND AM 31 630A $10,375 96 NISSAN SENTRA 31589 $10,975 95 EAGLE VISION 31552 A $10,985 97 FORD CONTOUR 31551 $10,998 95 CHRYSLER CIRRUS 31710 $11,275 96 P0NTIAC GRAND AM 316348 $11,375 97 FORD CONTOUR 31545 $11,885 98 SUZUKI ESTEEM 31523 $11,890 97 NISSAN SENTRA 8508A $11,893 95 DODGE INTREPID ES 8540A $11,950 94 FORD MUSTANG CV. NP1141A $11,985 97 PLYMOUTH BREEZE 31580 $11,989 97 F0R0 CONTOUR 31503 $11,990 97 MERCURY MYSTIQUE 31537 $11,990 97 FORD CONTOUR 31583 $11,990 97 PLYMOUTH BREEZE 31512 $12,100 95 DODGE CARAVAN 31364B $12,365 97 PLYMOUTH BREEZE 31597 $12,490 96 P0NTIAC GRAND AM 31692 $12,550 97 PLYMOUTH BREEZE 31663 $12,610 97 DODGE STRATUS 31554 97 HYUNDAI SONATA 31507 $12,810 96 HONDA CIVIC 625061 $12,890 95 TOYOTA CAMRY 31602 $12,890 96 FORD THUNDERBIRD 31686 $12,975 98 NISSAN SENTRA 31522 $12,989 97 DODGE STRATUS 31598 $12,990 96 PLYMOUTH VOYAGER 31502A $12,995 97 FORD TAURUS 31664 $12,995 93 LINCOLN MARK VIII 31 532 A $12,995 97 FORD TAURUS 31681 $13,510 97 FORD TAURUS 31678 $13,595 98 FORD CONTOUR 31561 $13,675 97 SATURN SC-2 31486A $13,685 96 P0NTIAC BONNEVILLE 8440A $13,990 97 DODGE INTREPID 31553 $14,375 97 DODGE INTREPID 31627 5 SPD $14,395 97 DODGE INTREPID 31617 $14,550 97 SUZUKI SIDEKICK 31635 $14,595 97 P0NTIAC GRAND AM 31557 $14,685 96 FORD WINDSTAR 31655 $14,910 95 MERCURY VILLAGER 31540 $14,990 97 PLYMOUTH VOYAGER 8611 A $14,990 93 SAAB 900 CONV 31691 96 DODGE CARAVAN 31672 $14,995 94 CHEVY CONVERSION VAN 5,975 96 HONDA ACCORD 31 61 5 A $15,275 95 FORD WINDSTAR 31670 $15,890 96 HONDA ACCORD 31615 $15,995 95 CHRYSLER LHS 31645 97 JEEP CHEROKEE 841 6 A $16,490 97 FORD WINDSTAR 31616 $16,555 97 FORD AER0STAR 31558 $16,660 97 DODGE CARAVAN 31626 $16,890 97 FORD AER0STAR 31558 $16,975 97 SEBRING CPE 31721 $16,975 98 NISSAN ALTIMA 31575 $16,975 97 FORD CROWN VICTORIA 31659 $17,390 95 JEEP CHEROKEE $17,400 96 CHRYSLER LHS 31498 $17,555 98 FORD WINDSTAR 31562 $17,585 97 VW CABRIOLET CONVERTIBLE 31559. $17,895 97 MUSTANG CONVERTIBLE 31676 $17,910 97 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE 31596 $17,910 97 CHRYSLER SEBRING CONVERTIBLE 31628 $1 7,91 0 97 CHRYSLER SEBRING CONVERTIBLE 97 FORD MUSTANG CONVERTIBLE 98 DODGE DAKOTA 31528 $18,389 97 FORD CROWN VICTORIA 31568 $18,550 97 TOYOTA RAV-4 8637A $18,550 97 NISSAN MAXIMA 31521 $18,975 97 MERCURY GRAND MARQUIS 31564 $1 8,990 96 DODGE 1500 PU 8590A $19,370 96 MAZDA MILLENIA 31650 $19,555 97 CHRYSLER LHS 31643 $1 9,585 97 CLUB VAN 31657 $19,590 95 LINCOLN TOWN CAR 31471 $19,875 97 DODGE RAM VAN 31618 $19,950 96 DODGE RAM 15 PASS. VAN 31619.

$19,975 96 DODGE RAM 15 PASS. VAN 31620. $19,975 95 UNC0LN MX VIII 31465 $19,995 96 FORD EXPLORER 2DR NP1172 $19,995 96 FDRD EXPLORER 4X4 317Q2 $20,800 95 G20 CONV. VAN 88240 $20,810 96 FORD BRONCO 4X4 FULL SIZE 95 FORD E1 50 CONVERSION VAN 98 PLYMOUTH GRAND VOYAGER 31717 $21 ,550 97 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE 31671 $21,585 95 LINCOLN TOWN CAR SS 31515. $21,650 95 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE 25090 $21,675 95 UNC0LN TOWN CAR 97 FORD EXPLORER 31699 $22,650 96 LINCOLN CONTINENTAL 31625 $22,975 96 TOYOTA AVAL0N 31549 $23,310 96 UNC0LN MARK VIII 31709 $23,500 97 FORD EXPLORER 31555 $23,510 96 LINCOLN MARX VIII 31427 $23,575 97 FORD F150 KING CAB 4X4 31711 95 LEXUS ES 300 31496 $24,950 97 LINCOLN TOWN CAR 31585 $24,999 96 NISSAN PATHFINDER LE 31 577 A $25,900 97 LINCOLN TOWN CAR 31586 $26,550 96 LEXUS IS 400 31576 $44,975 'lit jt i rj 1 i would have put in a basement." Chambers' house lost one wall.

He and his wife, Carole, rode out the tornado in their basement. "We never saw anything. All we heard was the noise," he said. "You could hear everything ripping and tearing, everything flying. It just happened within a minute." On Thursday morning, the weather was soft and warm and the sky was blue, completely different from the night of terror that had preceded it.

Work crews wielding Students David Howison and a representative of the national office of Kappa Alpha also personally interviewed members of the fraternity. Larry Wiese, Kappa Alpha national director, was not available for comment. The 39 active members confessed to some level of involvement in the hazing, which took place between 7 p.m. on March 13 and 7 a.m. on March 14, spokesman Brian Shaw said.

The 10 students who were suspended confessed to direct involvement in serious hazing activities, he said. The action comes one year after instituted a zero-tolerance policy on hazing, which was spurred by letters and phone calls from parents concerned about previous acts of hazing. "The president (John Elrod) called all the presidents of the fraternity houses together last year and put them on notice that hazing would not be tolerated," Shaw said The university declined to identify the suspended students. Hazing at state-supported colleges is a misdemeanor, and those ,4 The Associated Press RICHMOND John and Sheila Giles had tried for seven years to have a baby, and when Jeremiah was born 13 weeks ago, it was the happiest day of their lives, her sister-in-law said. In a fleeting moment Wednesday night, a tornado obliterated the Giles home and took the joy from John Giles' life.

His wife and child lay dead. John Giles was spared because he was 80 yards away at his father-in-law's house, picking up garbage to take to the dump. Giles took shelter inside from the driving rain. When he looked out after the worst of the wind had passed, he saw that his house had disappeared. Only the foundation and the front stairs with their wrought-iron guardrails were left intact.

The brown soil inside the foundation was swept bare, and the rubble that was left of the two-story house and its contents was sprayed into what had been the back yard and the trees beyond it. He looked up and said, 'My house is said Ben Braxton Jr. of Accokeek, Mrs. Giles' brother. "That's when he started calling for Sheila and Jeremy.

He had to he restrained. What can you say to a person when one minute they've got a family and then nothing?" Mrs. Giles, 39, and her son were found about 100 feet from their home. Besides John Giles, the only member of the family who survived Accomplice ----4 was their dog Peaches. "He picked up the dog and said, 'Peaches, you're all daddy's got left said Juanita Braxton, Sheila Giles' sister-in-law, who lives just down the road.

Giles was at a sister's house Thursday, and his family said he would not talk to reporters. The twister cut a 10- to 12-mile path through Hanover County, about 25 miles north of Richmond, heading northeast toward Carmel Church in Caroline County, said Bill Sammler, warning coordinating meteorologist at the National Weather Service. He said the tornado touched down at about 7 p.m. and had winds of 150 mph to 200 mph. The tornado slashed a serpentine path of destruction 200 to 300 yards wide, sparing some homes and devastating others.

Mrs. Giles' father's house was barely touched. Even the plastic decorative geese in the front yard were undamaged. Most of the damage in Hanover County stretched along one road, Virginia 738, starting near St. James Baptist Church, where Mrs.

Giles had been baptized and sang in the choir, and continuing on several homes past the Gileses. Hanover County authorities estimated that 35 to 37 houses were damaged. In Caroline County, at least four homes were destroyed, and several others were damaged. Elsewhere in the state, a tornado was reported in Lunenburg County, where the mayor of Ken- in rest stop Baggett's testimony helped convict Carter and Rodriguez, who are now serving prison terms of 44 years and 18 years, respectively. Baggett's lawyer, Rossie Alston asked Hoss to impose a suspended sentence in part because of what he described as Baggett's relatively minor role in the crime and because he testified against Carter.

Baggett has said that he, Carter and Rodriguez set out to rob someone that night but hadn't planned to kill anyone. Baggett also told investigators that all three were using drugs before the shooting and that Carter later made up a rap song about how he killed Durham. Durham, 51, was in a bathroom stall when Rodriguez kicked down the door and Carter told him to hand over his wallet, prosecutors said. Baggett was in a waiting car. According to testimony from the two previous trials, Durham cooperated with the robbers, who took $150, and begged them not to harm him.

Carter shot Durham three times, Baggett and Rodriguez testified. Durham's family found his body sprawled on the bathroom floor. II Police and fire officials gather at the scene where a tornado touched down and ripped off the front porch of the Beverly Grill restaurant in Caroline County Wednesday night. bridge said five or six houses in his town were damaged. The severe weather also reached as far north as Alexandria, where the weather service said a storm packed winds up to 60 mph.

Joe Chambers, who lives about 1,000 feet away from the Giles home, went out Thursday to assess the damage. "We had been down there a couple weeks ago to give a gift for the baby," Chambers said. "She was a real sweet woman. I wish they 10 suspended for hazing killing receives 7 years chain saws cut and removed trees that had downed power lines and blocked roads. Distraught friends and relatives gathered around the ruins of the Giles home.

A twisted playpen lay in the wreckage near a small yellow, red and blue baby carrier. "It's a good thing that we bestowed love, love, love on Jeremy because we only had him for 13 weeks," said Juanita Braxton. "We only had him for a short time, but we loved him." schools are required to expel violators and report hazing incidents to the local nrosecutor. Rockbridge County Commonwealth's Attorney Gordon Saunders said those requirements do not apply at because it is a private college, and he doubts he will take further action unless the individuals involved complain. The suspensions begin April 15 so the students can finish the second of three terms during the academic year at They will be allowed to return for the third term in spring 1999.

The 20 students who live at the Kappa Alpha fraternity house will be allowed to continue sleeping there, but the fraternity will no longer be allowed to serve meals, host social activities or allow visitors, including other fraternity members. The fraternity will be eligible for consideration of reinstatement in faU 1999. The first chapter of Kappa Alpha was founded in 1865 at Virginia Military Institute, a campus right next to in Lexington. Washington Lee frat shut down after 'heU night' The Associated Press LEXINGTON Washington Lee University suspended 10 students Thursday and shut down a fraternity after investigating a complaint that about a dozen pledges were hazed during a "hell night" initiation. The Kappa Alpha pledges were forced to do pushups, situps and other exercises to the point of exhaustion, to eat beans laced with laxatives and to do acts that were personally degrading, university officials said.

The hazing allegations were brought to light by an anonymous letter left in an envelope on campus security director Michael Young's desk late Monday. "I've never investigated anything of quite this magnitude," said Young, who has been at the private university for seven years. President John Elrod, Dean of Man had 'minor role' in robbery, murder The Associated Press MANASSAS A man who helped convict two cohorts in the robbery and shooting death of a motorist at an Interstate 95 rest stop in 1996 was sentenced to seven years in prison. Prince William Circuit Judge Frank A Hoss Jr. sentenced Michael Baggett on Thursday to 10 years with three suspended.

Baggett, 20, pleaded guilty last month to conspiracy to commit robbery. Prosecutors dropped a murder charge and two firearms charges and reduced the severity of the robbery charge. Baggett apologized to the family of his victim, Bobby Lee Durham Sr. of Dover, Pa. I say I'm sorry beyond words, I mean it from the deepest part of my heart and soul," he said.

Baggett was arrested along with Andre V. Carter and Khalif A. Rodriguez for the December 1996 slaying at the Dal City rest stop..