Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, November 18, 1995 TAG: 9511200041
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: METRO
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FALLS CHURCH - The Fairfax County School board has voted to ban a sex education video that critics said painted minorities in a poor light and presented questionable medical information.
By a 9-2 vote Thursday night, the board reversed an earlier decision to give teachers a choice whether or not to use ``Sex, Lies and the Truth.''
The video was produced by a Christian organization to promote abstinence from sex, but critics said it was racially offensive and inaccurate.
Critics objected to a black teen-age mother being shown giggling while telling an interviewer that her boyfriend is in prison, and a Hispanic youth displaying a cavalier attitude about sexual health.
- Associated Press
NS train derails; no one injured
HOPEWELL - A Norfolk Southern Railway freight train derailed, spilling fuel and motor oil and causing about $11,000 in damage to company equipment.
No one was injured when one train engine and one of two hopper cars carrying ammonium sulfate, a nonhazardous material, toppled onto their left side about 7 p.m. Thursday, Fire Marshal James R. Kuhns said Friday. None of the ammonium sulfate was spilled.
One of the hopper cars left the track after striking a piece of rail, taking one of the two engines with it, Kuhns said.
Norfolk Southern spokesman Bob Auman blamed the accident on weakened or deteriorated cross ties at the company's rail yard in Hopewell.
- Associated Press
Men arrested after being on "Wanted"
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A man wanted on child sexual abuse charges in Winchester, Va., was arrested Friday after viewers of a television program tipped New Mexico officials to his whereabouts.
Darrell Otto Trabue, 35, was arrested at a homeless shelter Friday morning by New Mexico's Violent Fugitive Task Force.
The arrest is the second in two days involving a fugitive from Virginia who had recently been profiled by ``America's Most Wanted.''
On Thursday in Miami, a man sought by Henrico County police since 1990 turned himself in to FBI agents after seeing himself profiled Tuesday night.
Haywood Cook, 41, is accused of aggravated malicious wounding after allegedly stabbing his former girlfriend and pushing her through a plate glass window of the motel where she worked as a housekeeper.
- Associated Press
Males-only policy at VMI challenged
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down Virginia Military Institute's exclusion of women as unconstitutional.
The males-only policy at Virginia's state-supported military college was based initially on ``archaic assumptions about men's fitness and women's incapacity for military-style leadership training,'' the department said in a brief filed Thursday with the court.
- Associated Press
High school junior gets 1,600 on SATs
GLOUCESTER - A Gloucester High School junior who helped build a prize-winning battery-powered car has scored a rare 1,600 points, the maximum possible score, on the Scholastic Assessment Test used for college admission.
``I thought it was in my grasp,'' Chris Clements said of the score, which happens for about seven of every 10,000 students who take the two-part exam.
- Associated Press
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