Movies in Southwest Virginia and Grundy area productions
The article notes filming in Southwest Virginia including Grundy for a Christmas movie titled Believe. Local actor Ryan OQuinn and Grundy native Kevin Sizemore helped on set with associate producer Katy Davidson. OQuinn, a 1990 Grundy High School grad, discussed scripts and returning to his hometown setting for the project. The Glass Castle section mentions its long time on The New York Times bestseller list and author Walls later life in McDowell County.
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Ing
Mount View
Concord University
Glass Castle
New York Times
Bluefield
Walls
Prerogative Magazine
Welch High School
New York City
Msnbc.com
Virginia
Grundy
Ryan O'Quinn
Princeton
Kevin Sizemore
Katy Davidson
O’quinn
Narcos producers draw on Bluefield officer for insights
Netflix series Narcos did not film locally but drew on the real cases of former Bluefield police officer Steve Murphy who became a DEA agent. Murphy and Colombian partner Javier Pena helped dismantle the Medellin Cartel and end Pablo Escobar's era. They spoke to students at Bluefield College and later at Bluefield State College.
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Bluefield
Steve Murphy
Federal Drug Enforcement Administration
DEA
Murphy
Javier Pena
Medellin
Pablo Escobar
Netflix
Shootings Across Mercer and McDowell Counties Highlight Ongoing Violent Incidents
A wave of deadly and nonlethal shootings is outlined from Mercer and McDowell Counties including the Sept 9 intruder shooting at a Kirby Addition home in Mercer County where David Hazelwood died and Cathy Joe Vance died Oct 21 after August 21 injuries. Other incidents involve James Gibson Noble stabbed in a Mercer mobile home park, Eunice Daugherty Kennedy critically injured, and multiple officer involved shootings in Lorton Lick Road and Bluefield areas with state police investigations ongoing and suspects charged or deceased.
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Mercer County
Dennis Claude Stanley
Bluefield
West Virginia
Stanley
Sheriff’s Office
Daily Telegraph
Mercer County Sheriff's Department
Darrell Bailey
West Virginia State Police
Bailey
Sheriff's Department
Buchanan County
William Ray Hagg
Leemaster
Ray Foster
Hagy
John Victor Hagy
Darrell
D.B.” Bailey
Gibson- Noble
World Wrestling Entertainment
WWE
Mobile Home Park
Gibson-Noble
McDowell County
Coon Branch Mountain
Jaeger
Eunice Charlotte Daugherty
Daugherty
Martin West
Kennedy
Jessica Daugherty Kennedy
Goon
R W. Justus
Welch Detachment
Michael Kennedy
Eunice Daugherty
Joseph Newcomb
Hensley
Charleston
MT. Baylous
Newcomb
Michael G. Kennedy
Simon
Wyoming County
Coon Branch
B.W. Justus
Welch
J.C. Woods
M. Brooks
Coon Branch Road
Jan Care Emergency Medical Services
Pikeville Medical Center
Kentucky
Justus
Long Branch
Highland Avenue
Matt Perry
Benjamin Hodges
Hodges
Ellison
Perry
Burton Perry Jr
Jolo
Grundy
James Allen
Blankenship
Welch Community Hospital
Southern Cabaret Gentlemen's Club
Cumberland Road
K.L. Adams
Tony Greene
Adams
Charleston Area Medical Center
Greene
Bishop
Benny Wilson
Robert Louis Carruthers Jr
Princeton
Carruthers
Wilson
J.C. Wood
Falls Mills
Tazewell County
Lilly Grove
Erica
Rose
Jalen Wilfong
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Burger King
Brushfork
Bluefield Regional Medical Center
Wilfong
D.A. Furbes
Princeton Community Hospital
State Police
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