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The following names were omitted from a list of General Assembly
candidates from South Hampton Roads who signed a pledge to support
more funding for state-supported colleges and universities:
State Senate: Sen. Richard J. Holland, D, 15th district.
State House: Del. Frank W. Wagner, R, and Robert J. Avery, D,
21st district; Del. J. Paul Councill Jr., D, 75th district; and Del.
Lionell Spruill Sr., D, 77th district.
The list ran Saturday with a MetroNews story about the Virginia
Business Higher Education Council and again Wednesday with an
editorial on Assembly candidates for higher education.
Smithfield Foods Inc. is in Smithfield, not Suffolk, as stated in
a headline Wednesday. The article was about $100,000 in political
contributions given by the meatpacking company to Gov. George F.
Allen's political action committee.
The sentencing of Kelly Dara is scheduled for Nov. 29. A Metro
Brief Wednesday had a wrong date. Dara and her co-defendant, Joshua
Johnson, were convicted in June of first-degree murder in the
stabbing death of Joseph D. Garcia III.
Carolyn Cussins, mother of one of four victims in the Witchduck
Inn slayings, favors the death penalty. A MetroNews story Tuesday
said she opposes it.
Cussins said she only opposes the death penalty in the case of
Michael Clagett, who shot her son, ``because I think that would have
been more punishment for him to have to live with what he did.''
The Navy's newest submarine, the SSN-23, will be built at
Electric Boat, in Groton, Conn., and not at Newport News
Shipbuilding. There was an error in Wednesday's BusinessNews story
about the Navy's relationship with federal contractors.
Sparkle Wash of Virginia Beach is cleaning Scope in downtown
Norfolk. A caption on Wednesday's MetroNews front had the company's
name wrong.
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