DNA test frees man after 7 years in prison
William Gregory, a McDowell County native from Kyle West Virginia, is freed in Louisville when DNA evidence disproves his 1992 rape and attempted rape conviction. A kind owner gave him a furnished apartment to start anew, with furniture arriving soon and plans to save for a car to help him reenter society.
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Louisville, Ky
William Gregory
Gregory
McDowell County
Kyle
W.va
Louisville
Art Geissler
Jefferson County
Recognition Planned for Hattie Holley Heath Day
In Tazewell Virginia 98 year old former teacher Hattie Holley Heath will receive a state resolution honoring her lifelong commitment to education. Virginia Senator Phillip F Puckett and local delegates will present the document at Heaths home on Thompson Street. Heath, born July 25 1901 to enslaved parents, taught in local schools and at a Carline area elementary school for over 30 years.
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Tazewell
Hattie Holley Heath
Virginia
Phillip F Puckett
D-Russell
Heath
Thompson St
Senate
Senate Earlier This Year,” Puckett
John Tate
Smyth
Jackie Stump
Buchanan
House
Southwest
Leander C
Malvina Smith Holley
Whitten’s Valley
Tazewell County
Bramwell
Hattie
Storer College
Harpers Ferry
Cass
Evangelist Revives Elkhorn High School conversion into center
Evangelist Shelia Smith of Keystone leads volunteers to renovate the old Elkhorn High School along U S Route 52 into the Lord's Family Worship and Recreation Center. Mustard Ministries from Ohio sent a youth group to assist as Labor Day opening aims loom. The building housed the area high school until 1966 and later a junior high before closing in the late 1970s.
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David Smith
McDowell County
Elkhorn High School
U.S. Route 52
Evangelist Shelia Smith
Keystone
Northfork
Smith
Mustard Ministries
Ohio
Mount View High School
Welch
Shelia Smith
Mercer weighs new uses for old schools
Mercer County schools close Thorn Knob and Wade Ramsey amid plans to repurpose buildings. Cumberland Heights and Silver Springs become early learning centers for pre school children. Mercer Straley and elementary schools host grades 3-5 while Princeton Primary serves kindergarten to second grade. In Bluefield Memorial and Whitethorn will become K-2.
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Cumberland Heights
Bluefield
Silver Springs
Princeton
Mercer and Straley
Memorial
Whitethorn
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