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From Staff and Wire Reports
Virginia was the site of 94 spills last year from trucks and train cars carrying hazardous materials, according to federal officials.
Ninety-one trucks leaked substances that include gasoline, fiiel oils, sulfuric acid, hydrogen gas, metallic mercury and corrosive solids, said Eric Bolton, spokesman for the Federal Highway Administration.
Seven trains carrying dangerous substances were in accidents in 1984, and three of them spilled hazardous materials, according to the Federal Railroad Administration.
Lt. Bemie Chisholm, assistant division commander in safety for the Virginia State Police, said the agency’s 21 safety officers conducted in-depth inspections of 3,021 trucks last year. Eighteen percent of those were hauling hazardous substances, he said.
Nobody knows the volume of hazardous materials that moves through Virginia each year. But the figure for liquid petroleum gas alone last year was 129 million gallons, the highway administration said.
Kids often have guns
RICHMOND — A 12-year-old shooting a schoolmate on a city school bus is just one example of a larger problem — the increasing number of youngsters carrying guns, a lawyer and a city prosecutor said Wednesday.
“We take guns off kids all the time,” said Patrick Bell, a prosecutor with the city commonwealth attorney’s juvenile division.
“It really is a problem. That’s why we’re getting so many dead people in Richmond,” she said referring to
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