The Roanoke Times from Roanoke, Virginia • 16

ASSOCIATED PRESS 84 re Roanoke Times riday Agjsa 8 1997 i if I it i lL I JHw: i Je wgf Ariw Ikv VX lbs 2T tiw $1 1l il Twin sisters Bobbie Mohr (left) and Brenda Dillard delivered their babies Wednesday five hours apart at Columbia Hennco Hospital The doctor who delivered the babies termed the coincidence Joke about having babies the same day was on them Twins have a double delivery ROM Bl Paint situations railed the coaunis skater of revenue's office the next day The eornmi office called the state Board u( Contrac tors to check on the company'sitatus Custom Paint did not have a state license city Commissioner of Revenue Marsha Compton ielder said Roupe said the nty toid the company to stop working several days later However Williams Painting and Remodeling provided docu mentation earlier this week that the employees of Al's Custom Paint had been placed on payroll Since Custom Paint was technically not a sulxontractor anymore the city allowed it to return to the civic center job The union decided to picket is not a level playing field" Toney said The chic center situation is just one of many examples of con tractors cutting comers to secure a bid on a project at the expense of other companies that adhere to all requirements the union leader said He scoffed at deci sion to change its payroll just shuffled some Toney said George Williams Jr the pres ident of Williams Painting and Remodeling on Ridgefield Street Northeast said his company aware of the problem until the Painters Union made it an issue the start of the project we had a subcontractor that not in bompliance with all state regu Williams said we discovered this situation proper action was taken and today the company) is in compliance" did not elaborate Albert Moore Jr who runs Custom Paint also located in Brenda water broke the day her twin sister was scheduled to induce labor ASSOCIATED PRESS RICHMOND Twin sisters Bobbie Mohr and Brenda Dillard did almost everything together growing up so it was only natural that they would joke about the possibility of giving birth on the same day But they never thought it would really happen of a Dillard said Wednesday after she and her sis ter bom five minutes apart gave birth at Columbia Henrico Doc Hospital Mohr was due to deliver her third child today Because of dis comfort with her second delivery she opted to have labor induced two days early Dillard wasn't due until Aug 27 but her water broke as her sister prepared to have her child Taylor Sierra Mohr entered the world at 1 1 :59 am ive hours later Kennedy Cerise Dil lard followed Dr Max Mazicls said it was the first time he delivered babies to twins on the same day been joking with Bob bie that her sister would be jeal ous that she would have her baby first" he said "It was bizarre" Dillard said she expected her new daughter and niece like their mothers to do most everything together more half sisters" Mohr said "I hope they look 'Obviously a 16 year old should not have been behind the wheel' Scout crash may prompt stricter policy spokesman said Wednesday as Roanoke could not be reached for comment Thursday 1 Roupe said he and several other city department heads planned to meet Thursday evening to) try to decide the next step the city should take Todd Jackson can be reached at 981 3253 or toddjroanokecom i i defense lawyer asks for a new prosecutor CIA slayings case brings bias charges The remarks were a slur against State police said another Boy Scout let Robert Combes drive when Combes said he deserved a chance That chance turned out to be fatal ASSOCIATED PRESS ORT AP HILL The death of a 16 year old Boy Scout who overturned an Army Humvee he was driving at the Scout National Jamboree has prompted calls for a stricter vehicle policy at the gatherings obviously a topic of discussion for the next jamboree" Lt Col Pete Pearse an Army the 30000 Scouts who attended this event at ort AP Hill returned home "Obviously a 16 year old should not have been behind the State police said another Boy Scout had allowed Robert Combes to drive the Humvee after Combes said he deserved a chance behind the wheel for spending a week distributing ice from the back of the vehicle Nathaniel Searls 18 of Sioux City Iowa told police he decided to grant Combes his wish Monday night because they were traveling on a remote dirt road where they were unlikely to encounter pedes trians or other vehicles said state police 1st Sgt Anthony Lippa Shortly afterward Combes lost control of the Humvee and was killed when it Hipped on top of him Searls and another Scout 18 year old David Lipson of Moon Township Pa were injured Combes was not licensed to drive the Humvee because he was younger than 1 8 and had not taken an Army training class The vehicle was one of 16 Humvees that the Army allowed the Boy Scouts to use for delivery of supplies at the jamboree No charges are expected to be filed Lippa said Newscast made debut in September Channel 7 cancels WEC 10 pm news 7 Primetime which aired on WEC got a ratings report recently By MUM BEMKB JR THE TIMES Channel 7s news division has pulled the plug on its 10 pm newscast WDBJ TV had been produc ing "News 7 on WEC (Channel 38) a low power station that provides mostly Christian programming since Septemlier Channel 7 decided to cancel the program after a recent disappointing Nielsen ratings report programs did not show up in the most recent Nielsen book because the station does not pull the minimum num ber of viewers to be included in the survey "We were not getting the viewer base needed to sustain the weekly cumulative viewership for WECJ but not enough to continue the WDBJ was buying airtime on WEC from 10 to 10:30 pan' each weeknight Channel 7 was also selling the com mercial spots but the lack of viewership for WEC prompted WDBJ to invoke its option of ter minating the 2 year agreement Shaver said Channel 7 will be looking into other "special projects" in news and sports including live telecasts of local sporting events and additional news programming WSLS (Channel 10) has had more success with the "10 O'clock it produces with WJPRWXR (Channels 2127) That newscast which airs on WJPRAVXR has steadily climbed in the ratings since it first aired last fall It received a 3 rating and 6 share in the latest Ralph Banter Jr can ba reached et 981 3338 or ralphbroanokecom programming" said Jiin Shaver Nielsen survey vice president for pro gramming "We saw growth in the 2 students arrested Hackers delete projects done by GMU students University officials said they believe other students could be responsible for some computer hacking ASSOCIATED PRESS AIRAX Computer hack ers have invaded the databanks at George Mason University destroying student and faculty files and sending derogatory mes sages about a school official Since April police and the university have investigated 11 incidents of computer hacking which mostly affected projects at the School of Information Tech nology and Engineering Last month airfax County police arrested two George Mason students in several hacking inci dents Police said Robert Shvem of Alexandria installed a virus into the computer and Ryan Whelan of Centreville allegedly erased messages to hinder the investigation Shvern was charged with computer trespassing forgery and theft of services Whelan was charged with being an accessory after the fact according to court filings University officials said they believe other students could be responsible for some of the hacking as though someone is playing an intellectual power game and wants to see how they can beat the system" said Donald Desrosiers who manages the computer system "It's like someone breaking into my office taking out my files and throwing them all said Jeff Offutt a professor who teaches software engineering The hackings have caused students and professors to lose working files and the university was forced to repair damaged hardware School officials did not have a dollar estimate of losses and dam ages But last month alone 400 user accounts were deleted 25 of them for summer school students Most of the files the summer projects and only three of the files were recov ered Offutt said George Umberger the assistant dean for admin istration and outreach said the school plans to seek outside help on securing its computer files against hacking Pakistanis a lawyer says i i i ASSOCIATED PRESS AIRAX Defense lawyers fir a Pakistani man charged with gjmning down two CIA employees said Thursday the prosecutor in trie case may be racially biased against their client i Mir Aimal defense lawyers asked for an outside pros ejcutor to replace airfax 'Commonwealth's Attorney Robert Horan Jr i comments raisethe possibility and certainly the appearance that the manner of his 'prosecution and decision to seek lite death penalty is based on bias" public defender Richard Goemann wrote I Kansi 33 is charged withcapital murder in the Jan 25 11993 killings of two men outside spy agency's suburban Vir Jginia headquarters The BI snatched Kansi froma Pakistani hotel in June and 'returned him to Virginia for trial been a criminal prose 'cutor for 30 years and neverbeen accused of racial bias Horan said i Goemann cited a June televi sion interview in which Horan referred to the $2 million bounty the United States placed on Kansi I In a tape of the interviewHoran says: not a high 'income area or anything like that sure there are people over jthere who would turn in their 'mother for $20000 let alone This week Horan said thecomment referred only to the out jaws who hid Kansi from capture 'for more than four years Her appearance on talk show opens new doors Professor is an unlikely celebrity turn helped Sheri Reynolds get in touch with old friends and earn a fatter advance for her latest book By AUSON REEHUNG DAILY PRESS NOROLK (AP) Sheri Rey nolds gotten used to the attention Such as when she signed a check in a shoe store and the store clerk recognized her name Or when a person sitting in the waiting room of a Richmond hospital where Reynolds was vis iting a friend stared at her before blurting out I saw you on Libraries across the country have called Reynolds wanting autographed copies of her novel Rapture of which was chosen as a selection for Oprah national book club Old friends from kindergar ten on have resurfaced after her May 12 appearance on the talk show Reynolds an English profes sor at Old Dominion University tried to return all calls except during her recent move from a rented home in Richmond to her newly purchased three story brick home in Norfolk She calls that her "down exciting and mostly fun but the demands on me have ASSOCIATED PRESS Sheri Reynolds author of Rapture of Canaan" is still enjoying her 15 minutes of fame after appearing on Oprah Winfrey's show been Reynolds 29 said recently before flying to New York to promote Gracious her newest book really going to need a vacation next And officially ends with a 20 city book tour this fall for her third novel due out in bookstores Sept 1 Gracious is the story of a cemetery curator who mediates between the living and dead feel like somebody needs something all the Reynolds said want to give everyone everything but I just can't The funny thing is still me still the same person I was not much richer either Reynolds see any royalties from sales until November as laid out in her pub lishing contract not even sure how much money get funny that everyone thinks I have so much she said never gotten a roy alty check before I have a Craig Burke spokesman for New York based Berkeley Pub lishing would say only that there are 13 million copies of in print as opposed to the 40000 out before Oprah came calling Reynolds formerly a visiting professor at the College of Will iam and Mary had enough money from an advance paid for Gra cious increased to an undisclosed amount by Oprah publicity to qualify for a loan to buy her 1917 house The best part of the post Oprah days Reynolds said is get ting back in touch with old friends The worst part is not hav ing time to start another book and trying to avoid tapes of her appearance on Oprah Reynolds is barred by the talk show from talking about her on air experi ence family watches it over and over but I disappear I just look too Reynolds said Cities on her book tour include Chicago Seattle Denver San rancisco New York Balti more Atlanta and Nashville Those trips will come between her duties teaching three classes at ODU When or if life slows down Reynolds wants to travel and start work on more books After all she said have to do some more books before I get a deck and hot 5 children survived crash Neglect DUI guilt admitted ASSOCIATED PRESS LYNCHBURG A woman who lost control of her car while driving drunk with five children as passengers has pleaded guilty id driving under the influence of alcohol and five counts of child abuse and neglect 1 Kathleen Theresa Hunt 40 of Lynchburg will face more than fiQ years in prison at her sentencing Oct 10 Circuit Judge Richard MiHet found Hunt guilty on Thursday (if the misdemeanor DUI charge Miller also ruled sufficient dence existed for a guilty findiiig on the felony abuse charges but withheld a conviction until a pre sentence report is completed Li Hunt who had taken the chil dren to a movie and a fast food restaurant struck a guardrail arid rammed another car April 19 on the Lynchburg Expressway Her car overturned but none of the youngsters was injured Two of the children who wefe in the car are Hunt's The other three live in her neighborhood according to defense attorney Sharon Eimer.