Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, October 29, 1993 TAG: 9310290135
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
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DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
RICHMOND - No one picked all six numbers to win a $1 million Lotto jackpot, the Virginia Lottery said Thursday.
The numbers drawn Wednesday night were 1, 7, 8, 14, 24 and 27.
The estimated jackpot for Saturday's drawing is $1.5 million, said Cherie Phaup, a lottery spokeswoman.
Fifty-three people won $810 each for getting five of the six numbers, and 2,929 people won $31 apiece for choosing four of the winning numbers.
- Associated Press
\ Ex-priest admits fondling boy in 1966
CHARLOTTESVILLE - A former priest accused of fondling an altar boy after hearing his confession pleaded guilty Thursday and wept several times while explaining a 27-year-old crime that still troubles the victim.
Paul Rodriguez, 60, pleaded guilty to taking indecent liberties with a minor and was sentenced to four months in jail, with one year of supervised probation after his release.
Rodriguez admitted fondling Thomas Carter Tanton Jr., then a 12-year-old student at Holy Comforter School in Charlottesville, in the priests' rectory in 1966.
At a preliminary hearing in August, Tanton testified, "As I have gotten older, had children of my own, I thought about what he did and I realized that he got away with something, at least with me. I didn't think it was right."
Rodriguez was dismissed from the Roman Catholic priesthood in 1966 by the late Bishop John J. Russell after complaints of sexual misconduct, according to a statement from the Diocese of Richmond.
- Associated Press
\ Firefighters use 'dozers on 2-week-old fire
SOUTH BOSTON - About eight firefighters bulldozed embers Thursday to try to extinguish a fire in a 1-acre wood chip pile that has been burning since Oct. 12.
"The blaze is under control. We're just trying to put it out," said Halifax County Administrator Dan Sleeper.
Bulldozers spread out the burning embers, which firefighters then doused with water. The fire is running out of fuel, and Sleeper said he hoped it would be out by the weekend.
The cause of the fire is unknown. Quick-Way Salvage Inc. of South Boston owns the pile, which covers more than an acre. Sleeper said Quick-Way sells the wood chips to several Southside industries which burn them with coal and other supplements for fuel.
- Associated Press
\ Jury compensates man police suspected
RICHMOND - A Circuit Court jury awarded $300,000 to a Richmond man who argued he lost his job after a city police officer wrote his employer to say the man was involved in drug dealing while on the job.
Richmond police stopped an ARA Services Inc. van driven by Andre L. Smith after spotting the van halted at a street corner to make an alleged drug buy in August 1992. No cocaine was found, and no one was charged.
Officer Mark Schnupp said he called ARA Services later that day to say that a company van had been involved in a drug transaction. He said he called because he suspected the van might be stolen.
Smith, who had worked for ARA for four years except for the time he spent on National Guard duty in the Middle East during the Gulf War, was fired.
- Associated Press
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