Ex-trooper faces parole violation review in Huntington
Gary Messenger II of Bluefield is slated for a hearing after a probation officer recommended 90 days in a halfway house for violating release terms by contacting felons and allegedly sending secret letters to Mount Olive inmates. Messenger, convicted in 2000 of civil rights violations, was released from federal prison in 2001.
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Huntington
Gary Messenger II
Bluefield
U.S
David Faber
Messenger
Neal Rose
Welch
Mount Olive
Brett Taylor
Taylor
Lebanon Community Corrections
West Virginia
Rose
Staats new workers camp point man at crisis division
Charleston AP Ed Staats Gov Bob Wise's operations director now leads the nearly bankrupt Workers' Compensation Division after last week's resignation of Executive Director Dale Newell. Staats says he will go where crises are and bring his prior experience as former CFO under Caperton to bear.
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Charleston
Ed Staats
Bob Wise
Staats
Dale Newell
Gaston Caperton
Cecil Underwood
Bond denied in Mercer homicide case
William David Belcher, 55, of Kimball had bond denied in Mercer County Circuit Court on a first degree murder charge for the February 27 shooting death of Bernadette McCoy, 46, of Princeton. McCoy had a restraining order against Belcher. The hearing included testimony from Belcher’s ex-wife and McCoy’s daughter. Belcher remains held at the Southern Regional Jail.
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Princeton
Kimball
Mercer County
Derek C. Swope
William David Belcher
Bond
Belcher
Bernadette McCoy
McCoy
Pisgah Road
Swope
Legato
Lydia Belcher
William Belcher
Courtney McCoy
Sitler
Mark Blevins
Mblevins
Bottonline.com
West Virginia Soldier Missing After Iraq Ambush
Pfc. Jessica Lynch 19 of Palestine Wirt County is among a dozen soldiers reported missing after a supply convoy was ambushed in southern Iraq. Army officials said the 507th Maintenance Co. unit, deployed with the 11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, was not a combat unit. Lynch’s family, neighbors, and the town of Palestine react with worry as details remain scarce.
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Alestine
West Virginia
U.S. Army
Wirt County
Iraq
Pfc
Jessica Lynch
Palestine
Army
507Th Maintenance Co
Greg Ch
White House
Jean Offutt
Fort Bliss
Texas
507Th
11Th Air Defense Artillery Brigade
Lynch
Deadra
Jessica
Brandi Renee
Lorene Cambridge
Lynches
Jesse
Cambridge
Gregory Lynch Jr
Princeton man charged with animal cruelty
A Bland County grand jury indicted Harry Thompson, 73, of Princeton, on 63 counts of cruelty to animals related to 64 cows found dead on his Bastian farm. The county seized 160 remaining animals. A necropsy linked death to malnutrition. vets noted hay quality.
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Bastian
Princeton
Bland County
Ronny Hall
Harry Thompson
Bland County Sheriff's Department
Thompson
Lorin Hanshew
Bland County Sheriff’s Department
Hanshew
Sheriff's Department
J. Colin Campell
Hall
Mark Blevins
Bdtonline
Governor vetoes estate tax repeal in Virginia
Governor Mark R. Warner vetoed bills repealing Virginia's estate tax, a move the GOP says would spark jobs moves and deprive the treasury of about 140 million dollars annually. He called the measure fiscally irresponsible, warning the state would lose roughly 211 million in revenue amid a struggling economy. The veto sets up a fight with a Republican majority eager to overturn it.
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Richmond
Mark R. Warner
House of Delegates
Senate
Warner
Virginia
GOP
Doctor Pagano Faces Board After Threats and Exorcism
At a ten hour hearing the medical board found that Dr. Pagano boasted of a spell and referenced an exorcism after a nurse failed to back him. He threatened a nurse's job and urged a doctor to watch The Godfather. He admitted no intent to threaten, citing family Mafia myths. Pagano has acute bipolar mania and alcohol abuse. An emergency petition in Maryland cited threatening behavior and poor judgment.
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Pagano
Goodwin
Maryland
War veteran recalls 14 months in German captivity
Meadows, an 80 year old Willowton resident and former POW, describes being captured August 18, 1944 and held in Italy and Germany for 14 months. He weighed 140 pounds at capture and 80 pounds upon release, surviving on cabbage soup and enduring brutal nights of questioning and confinement. He warns of harsh treatment for current POWs and recalls a false replacement story that delayed discovery by family.
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Tured
Italy
Germany
Meadows
Willowton
U.S
Harold
Toby’ Meadows
Oakvale
Red Cross
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