Monroe Center's Hansbarger Named State Health Director
Dr. Luther Hansbarger, medical director at Monroe County Health Center, was named state Health Department director by Gov. Jay Rockefeller. The appointment takes effect February 2, filling the statewide post vacancy.
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Hansbarger
Charleston
W.va
Luther Hansbarger
Monroe County Health Center
State Health Department
Jay Rockefeller
Mercer Circuit Court set sentences in Princeton session
Judge William C. Bivens imposed two prison terms Wednesday in Mercer County Circuit Court Princeton. James D. Aker received a sentence of one to ten years after pleading to a lesser offense on a burglary indictment. Christopher Lee Umbarger, earlier found guilty of grand larceny, drew one year in Mercer County jail. His case followed Dr. George Pickett’s resignation to join a University of Alabama teaching post. Hansbarger, a 50 year old Welch native from Gap Mills in Monroe County, held multiple health and academic posts including medical director of the county health center since 1977 and former director of ambulatory pediatrics at Metropolitan General Hospital. He also taught at Case Western Reserve University and served in the Navy as a pediatric division head and newborn service director. Rockefeller praised Hansbarger’s appointment as advancing rural health care accessibility.
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Mercer County
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Aker
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George Pickett
University of Alabama
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Welch
Gap Mills
Monroe County
County Health
National Health Service Corps
Metropolitan General Hospital
Cleveland
Case Western Reserve University
U. S. Navy
Portsmouth, N.H., Naval Hospital
National Naval Medical Center
Bethesda
Duke University
Medical College of Virginia
Rockefeller
Grand Jury clears officer in Clarksburg shooting
A Harrison County grand jury ruled Patrolman Garry Lowther did nothing improper when he shot and killed Charles R. Pritchard during a call at an apartment. Prosecutor Edmund Matko said the evidence supports self defense and that Lowther acted in proper duties as a police officer.
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W.va
Harrison County
Edmund Matko
Matko
Charles R. Pritchard
Garry Lowther
Lowther
Pritchard
Probation Office Reopens After Courthouse Basement Move
Probation and Parole Officer Dennis A Nash opens an office in the Mercer County Courthouse basement after the Memorial Building blaze gutted his previous Memorial Building office. He will keep the courthouse site until repairs at the Memorial Building are completed and duplicate records are available in Welch.
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Dennis A. Nash
Mercer County
Nash
Memorial Building
Welch
Two Princeton men bound over in Jet Oil armed robbery case
Patrick Robinson and Charles Sexton were bound over to the Mercer County Circuit Court Grand Jury after preliminary hearings before Chief Magistrate Ernest R. Six in Princeton. Robinson faces armed robbery charges with a $10,000 bond. Sexton is charged with aiding and abetting and has a $500 bond.
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Green Valley
Mercer County
Ernest R. Six
Patrick Robinson
Charles Sexton
Robinson
John P. Anderson
Sexton
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