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FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 2013
Vol. 100, Number 62
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Woman arrested for reporting false emergency
Rachel Dove-Baldwin
Staff Report
WILLIAMSON — A
trooper with the Williamson Detachment of the
West Virginia State Police (WVSP) arrested a
Matewan woman after she
allegedly provided false
information to law enforcement, claiming to have
been forced to engage in
sexual intercourse at gunpoint and also robbed of
several hundred dollars.
The statement was later
recanted, resulting in her
arrest.
Kaylann Marhae Prater,
21, of North Matewan,
was taken into custody by
WVSP Trooper D.L. Contos on charges of falsely
reporting an emergency,
providing false information to a trooper and
driving on a suspended
license. According to the
criminal complaint filed in
magistrate court, the defendant reported to Mingo
County 911 dispatchers
that on Feb. 15th of this
year, she was forced to engage in a sexual act with
a male subject who held
her at gunpoint and then
proceeded to rob her of
several hundred dollars at
the Fairview Cemetery in
West Williamson.
Upon speaking with
the defendant at a later
date, Trooper Contos,
along with Trooper D.M.
Williamson, received an
alleged admission from
Prater that she had in fact,
not been forced to have
sex or held by gunpoint,
but instead, had made
an arrangement to have
sexual intercourse with an
unidentified male in exchange for money.
After performing the
act, the defendant claims
the male refused to pay
her. Prater was also discov-
ered to be operating a motor vehicle on a suspended
license.
Prater was arraigned before Mingo County Magistrate Dee Sidebottom who
set bail at $1,100. The defendant was released after
meeting her bond requirements and will be appearing for a preliminary hearing in the near future.
Pike Grand
Jury indicts 7
Chad Abshire
Staff Writer
Submitted photos
Pictured is the Mingo County Robotics Team, the RoboRats: Jack Tilley, Joey Wellman, Jordon Mounts and Jordan
Kiser. Rick Meade is the head coach and county robotics coordinator.
RoboRats make run at robotics regionals
Chad Abshire
Staff Writer
WILLIAMSON — The Mingo
County Robotics Team, the RoboRats—Team 1249, recently
competed in the North Carolina
Regional held in Raleigh, N.C.
Comprised of students from
both Mingo Central and Tug Valley High Schools, the RoboRats
were one of three teams to be
undefeated after their qualifying
matches.
Once the smoke had cleared,
the dust had settled and the nuts
and bolts from other bots were
swept away, the RoboRats found
themselves ranked in the 9th and
10th positions out of 55 teams.
Teams from across country participated at the event, including
Alabama, New Hampshire, Tennessee and Virginia. Mingo County was the only team from West
Virginia that competed. There
was even an international team
competing, the Netherlands.
This year’s game required the
students to build a robot that
would fling Frisbees into goals
and hands on a triangle tower.
The RoboRats withstood the
might from other teams and
made a run towards victory, but
(EDITOR’S NOTE: An indictment is merely an accusation. Defendants are
presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.)
Mingo fire levy up
for vote Saturday
This year’s game required the students to build a robot that would fling Frisbees into goals and hands on a triangle tower.
Rachel Dove-Baldwin
were beaten in the championship
rounds.
During the closing award ceremonies, the RoboRats were
awarded the Industrial Design
Award sponsored by General Motors. The award celebrates form
and function in an efficiently designed machine that effectively
addressed the game’s challenge.
Team 1249 effectively played all
WILLIAMSON — A
special election will be held
tomorrow to authorize or
deny the Fire Department
Services Levy in Mingo
County. Registered voters
may visit the polls between
the hours of 6:30 a.m. and
7:30 p.m. Votes will be
tabulated by the Mingo
County Commission and
the Mingo County Clerk’s
office following the election.
The sample ballot furnished by Mingo County
Clerk, Jim Hatfield, states
the following information
about the fire levy:
“This is a Special Election to authorize a fire levy
for the 5 fiscal years ending on July 1, 2014 – July
1, 2018 and for the purpose
of necessary Fire Department Services according
to the order of the Mingo
County Commission entered on the 8th day of
January, 2013.”
“Expenditures allowed
for this levy include fire
station
construction,
improvement and maintenance to the fire department buildings and
grounds, the purchase of
maintenance of fire trucks
and other support vehicles
and expenses related thereto; workers compensation
coverage for firefighters,
necessary insurance coverage for the operation of
challenges in the game.
Student Members participating in the Raleigh event were:
Mingo Central Team Members
— Jack Tilley, Joey Wellman; Tug
Valley Team Members — Jordon Mounts, Jordan Kiser. Rick
Meade is the head coach and
county robotics coordinator.
School levy on ballot tomorrow
Julia Roberts Goad
Staff Writer
WILLIAMSON — Tomorrow, Mingo County
voters will decide the future of a school levy that
has been in place for almost 50 years.
The levy would provide $8,843,894 per year
for five years. The Mingo
Board of Education put together a steering committee which created a plan on
how best to use the funds
from the levy.
The largest single expenditure is $2,648,211
planned for support for
professional
personnel.
The money is for salary
supplements for personnel,
directors, principals and
teaching personnel, based
on the academic degrees
PIKEVILLE, Ky. — A total of seven people were recently indicted by the Pike County Grand Jury, including
a South Williamson man charged with trafficking cocaine.
Clay S. Cantu, 38, of South Williamson, was indicted
for first-degree trafficking in a a controlled substance,
when he dispensed, sold, transferred or possessed with
the intent to do so, a quantity of cocaine on May 16, 2012.
Also indicted by the grand jury were:
• Randall Marshall, 45, of Pikeville, was indicted for
fourth-degree assault when he caused physical injury to
Tiffany Justice on Feb. 27.
• Elizabeth Justice, 32, of Pikeville, was indicted for
obtaining controlled substances by fraud when she attempted to obtain a controlled substance by knowingly
withholding or misrepresenting information on Feb. 26.
• Jerry Lee Charles, 33, of Raccoon, was indicted for
third-degree assault when he caused physical injury to a
law enforcement officer, Clinton B. Daniels, on Jan. 29.
• Rodney Mosley, 31, of McDowell, was indicted for
receiving stolen property for knowingly receiving a gun
and jewelry valued more than $500 which had been stolen
from Ashley Johnson on Dec. 18, 2012.
• Angela Rena Coleman, aka Angela Ratliff, Angela
Cole and Angela Lowe, 34, of Elkhorn City, was indicted
for first-degree burglary when she knowingly and unlawfully entered the dwelling of Sierra Fleming with the intent of committing a crime while armed with a deadly
weapon. She was also indicted for theft by unlawful taking when she took clothes, shoes, jewelry, toiletries, a
DVD player, bedding, change and guns valued at more
than $500 which belonged to Sierra Fleming and/or an
ancestor on Feb. 5.
• Charles Compton, 34, of Pikeville, was indicted for
possession of matter portraying a sexual performance
when he knowingly had a visual depiction of a sexual performance by a minor in his possession with the knowledge
that it was a sexual performance by a minor on March 12.
and honors they hold.
Another large amount
of levy funds is support
for service personnel. The
steering committee decided to set aside $1,801,910
for salary supplements for
school service personnel
such as secretaries, teachers aides and bus drivers.
The committee tagged
$1,052,579 so Mingo
schools can continue to
provide free textbooks and
instructional equipment to
students.
Equipment that has been
paid by the levy includes
laptop computers, which
have been provided to all
high school students in the
county.
If passed, the levy will
provide support for athletic and extracurricular activities. Money for coaches
for sports that have not
traditionally been in Mingo County schools, such as
cross country track, tennis
and swimming. It will also
provide money for coaches
in middle schools.
The county’s two high
schools, have agreed to a
base allocation of $12,000
each, and then to split an
additional $26,000, based
on how many students participate in athletics.
Levy funds will be used
to support technical and
career programs. More
than $138,000 will help
expand the Pro-Start program, which prepares
student for a career in culinary arts and restaurant
management, the health
field such as nurses and respiratory therapists, business classes and vocational
agricultural careers.
Other items the steering committee allocated
funds to include support
for school repairs, public
and school libraries, health
services, band and choral
activities, and security and
prevention resource officers at schools.
If there funds from the
levy that are not spent during the school year, such
as money put aside for a
sport in which students
do not express an interest,
that money will carry over
into the next school year,
Keathley explained.
Although the levy would
provide a huge financial
benefit to schools, it would
not increase taxes, as it is
simply a continuation of
the levy that has been in
place since 1964.
Staff Writer
departments, emergency
and communication equipment, firefighter uniforms
and gear, office equipment
and supplies, training and
educational costs for firefighters, administrative expenses, accounting and audit expenses, departmental
utilities, and expenditures
to improve Mingo County
fire protection and to obtain Nation Fire Protection
Standards.”
“The additional levy
shall be on Class I property, 2.34 cents; Class II
property, 4.68 cents; Class
III property, 9.36 cents;
and Class IV property, 9.36
cents.”
Brian Casto, the Fire
Chief of the Matewan Volunteer Fire Department
who is also employed as
a WV State Fire Marshal,
provided information regarding the estimated cost
for property owners should
the levy pass. As previously stated in this article, the
raise is a minimal amount
of pennies on the dollar.
For instance, if your yearly
tax bill is in the range of
$401 - $500, the increase
is estimated to be in the
vicinity of $16.88 - $21.10.
This is based on an average
of $4.22 per $100.
The levy was up for election in 2011 but failed to
pass by a slim margin. A 60
percent majority of those
who vote has to be in favor
of the levy before it will go
into effect.
2 ■ FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 2013
WILLIAMSON DAILY NEWS
Obituaries/Calendar
Mary Ann Norman
Mary Ann Norman, 70
of McCarr, Ky., passed
away Wednesday, March
20, 2013 at the Pikeville
Medical Center.
Born July 26, 1942
in Pageton, she was the
daughter of the late John
T. and Jennie Sage Pettus.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in
death by a son Jeffery Allen Bailey, two brothers,
Lonnie and Bill Pettus, and
three sister,s Sylvia Cartwright, Lola Marrs, and
Asenath “Skip” Kiper.
She was a homemaker
and a member of the Toler
Freewill Baptist Church.
She is survivored by her
husband, Noah Norman of
McCarr, Ky., three sons,
Alvin (Patricia) Bailey of
Thomasville, N,C., James
Bailey of Virginia, and Joseph (Jill) Norman of Hardy, Ky., a daughter, Sonya
Norman of McCarr and
two sisters, Helen Nolly
and Florence Farley both of
Melbourne, Fla.
Also surviving is a
host of grandchildren,
great-grandchildren,
a
greatgreat-grandchild
and friends.
Funeral services will be
conducted at 2:00 p.m.
Sunday, March 24, 2013,
from the Hatfield Funeral
Chapel at Toler, Ky., with
Bro. Johnny Hatfield officiating. Visitation will be
from 6 until 9 p.m. Saturday, March 23, 2013, at
the funeral home. Online
condolences may be left
for the family by going to
www.hatfieldfc.com.
Arrangements have been
entrusted to the Hatfield
Funeral Chapel of Toler.
March 23
The 8th Annual Pond Creek Community Easter Egg Hunt will be held
at the home of Bill and Darlene Ball at
1 p.m. Everyone is invited.
The Town of Matewan, along with
the town’s volunteer fire department,
will have an Easter Egg Hunt for children 12 and under at the Heritage
Park in Hatfield Bottom. Activities
will start at 1 p.m. and end at 3 p.m.
March 25
The Mingo County Health Department will conduct a food school at 1
p.m. at Los Amigos Dos (formerly the
Brass Tree) in Williamson. For more
information or to register, call 304235-3570.
March 26 - 27
The Mingo Career Center will be
holding GED testing for candidates
who have pased the Official Practice
Test. For more information, contact
John Webb at 304-475-3347 ext. 13.
To register for Adult Basic Education
to take the Official Practice Test, contact Mary Oliver at 304-475-2022 or
email [email protected].
March 28
The Williamson City Council will
John B. Vincen
hold its second monthly meeting at 6
John B. Vincen, of Gil- p.m. in the council chambers of city
bert, died Tuesday, March hall. The public is invited to attend.
19, 2013.
John was born on July
April 4
25, 1933 at Man and was
Pianafiddle, consisting of Adam Dethe son of the late Johnny graff and Randy Morris, will perform
and Laura White Vincen.
at 7 p.m. at the Mingo Central High
The family will receive School Theater as part of the Tug Valfriends at the Gilbert Pres- ley Arts Council 2012-2013 program
byterian Church on Sat- series. The duo’s performance will
urday, March 23, at noon range from bluegrass to Bach. For
until the time of the funeral more information, call 606-237-9800
service a 1 p.m. A mili- or 304-235-3000.
tary service of interment
will follow at Highland
April 4 - 5
Memory Gardens at Godby
The Belfry United Methodist
Heights, West Virginia.
Church Women’s Society will have
Mounts Funeral Home a hot dog and rummage sle in the
of Gilbert is in charge of ar- church’s basement from 9 a.m. until 3
rangements.
p.m. The church is located beside R.E.
Rogers Funeral Home, in Belfry, Ky.
April 11
hold its first monthly meeting at 6
p.m. in the council chambers of city
hall. The public is invited to attend.
April 19 - 20
Metro Valley Gabriel Project and
Williamson Church of God will sponsor a crib drive from 1 p.m. until 4
p.m. Contributions can be made locally at Williamson Church of God, with
pickup service available. For more
information, call 304-414-4MOM or
304-235-2026.
April 20
The Disabled American Veterans
Chapter No. 141, Belfry, Ky., and its
auxiliary, will have its regular monthly
meeting at 2 p.m. at the Belfry, Ky.,
Courthouse. All members and Honorable Discharged Veterans and their
are invited to attend.
April 23 - 24
John Webb at 304-475-3347 ext. 13.
email [email protected].
April 25
hold its second monthly meeting at 6
p.m. in the council chambers of city
hall. The public is invited to attend.
May 28 - 29
John Webb at 304-475-3347 ext. 13.
email [email protected]
Ongoing
Williamson Public Library preschool story hour is held every
Wednesday at 11 a.m. For more information call the library at 304 2356029.
Starters Sports Restaurant and Lyrick Promotions, LTD., presents The
Acoustic Guitar Revue, featuring live
music each monday from 7:30 p.m. to
11 p.m. at Starters.
A Circle of Parents meeting will be
held on the third Thursday of each
month at 1 p.m. at Logan Street First
Baptist Church. Meetings offer anyone in a parenting role to participate
in a group meeting to exchange ideas,
share information, develop and practice new skills and more. Contact David Bell for more information at 304443-3041.
Mingo Extended Learning Center
is accepting applications for our Practical Nursing Program for the Class
of 2013-2014. Applicants must take
and pass a pre-entrance exam to be
considered for the program. Testing
dates are March 5, April 9, and May
7. There is a $35 testing fee. For additional informaiton call 304 475-3347
ext. 16 or 29.
Mingo Extended Learning Center
is accepting applicaitons for the Medical Office/Accounting Program for the
fall program. For additional information contact Alichia Marsico at 304
475-3347, ext. 25.
The Pike County Health Department
is offering free diabetes management
classes. There are various dates and
times available including one Saturday
during January 2013 at the Pike County
Health Department. For more information, call Paula Compton at 606-5095503. Free diabetes self management
classes are also offered to business and
worksite wellness programs.
Southside Elementary School will
conduct a preschool story hour program for children between 2 and
4-years-old and not currently enrolled
in school. For more information, call
the school at 606-353-1284.
Nation
Drivers endure high gas prices despite US oil boom
Jonathan Fahey
AP Energy Writer
NEW YORK — The U.S. is increasing its oil production faster
than ever, and American drivers
are guzzling less gas. But you’d
never know it from the price at
the pump.
The national average price of
gasoline is $3.69 per gallon and
forecast to creep higher, possibly
approaching $4 by May.
“I just don’t get it,” says Steve
Laffoon, a part-time mental
health worker, who recently paid
$3.59 per gallon to fill up in St.
Louis.
U.S. oil output rose 14 percent
to 6.5 million barrels per day
last year — a record increase.
By 2020, the nation is forecast
to overtake Saudi Arabia as the
world’s largest crude oil producer. At the same time, U.S. gasoline demand has fallen to 8.7 million barrels a day, its lowest level
since 2001, as people switch to
more fuel-efficient cars.
So is the high price of gasoline
a signal that markets aren’t working properly?
Not at all, experts say. The
laws of supply and demand are
working, just not in the way U.S.
drivers want them to.
U.S. drivers are competing
with drivers worldwide for every gallon of gasoline. As the
developing economies of Asia
and Latin America expand, their
energy consumption is rising,
which puts pressure on fuel supplies and prices everywhere else.
The U.S. still consumes more
oil than any other country, but
demand is weak and imports are
falling. That leaves China, which
overtook the U.S. late last year as
the world’s largest oil importer,
as the single biggest influence on
global demand for fuels. China’s
consumption has risen 28 percent in five years, to 10.2 million
barrels per day last year.
“There’s an 800-pound gorilla in the picture now — the
Chinese economy,” says Patrick
DeHaan, chief petroleum analyst
at the price-tracking service GasBuddy.com.
U.S. refiners are free to sell
gasoline and diesel to the highest bidder around the world. In
2011, the U.S. became a net exporter of fuels for the first time
in 60 years. Mexico and Canada
are the two biggest destinations
for U.S. fuels, followed by Brazil
and the Netherlands.
Two other factors are making
gasoline expensive:
— High oil prices. Brent
crude, a benchmark used to set
the price of oil for many U.S.
refiners, is $108 per barrel. It
hasn’t been below $100 per barrel since July. On average, the
price of crude is responsible for
two-thirds of the price of gasoline, according to the Energy
Department.
— Refinery shutdowns. Refineries temporarily close in the
winter, when driving declines,
to perform annual maintenance.
That lowers gasoline inventories
and sends prices higher nearly
every year in the late winter and
spring.
Rising gasoline prices act as
a drag on the economy because
they leave less money in drivers’
wallets to spend on other things.
But because average prices have
remained in a consistent range
— between $3 and $4 per gallon
since the end of 2010 — economists say their effect on growth
has been minimal.
Drivers in Connecticut, New
York and Washington, D.C., are
paying $3.92 or more per gallon
on average, according to the Oil
Price Information Service. Drivers in Rocky Mountain states,
where refineries can tap lowpriced crude from the U.S. and
Canada, are paying far less. Gas
costs $3.42 or less in Wyoming,
Utah and Montana.
For the year, prices are forecast to average $3.55 per gallon,
slightly lower than last year’s
record average of $3.63. The
peak for 2013, likely to come this
spring, is expected to fall slightly
short of last year’s peak of $3.94.
A major reason cited for high
gasoline prices over the last two
years — fighting and political
tensions in the Middle East and
North Africa — doesn’t apply
this year. Libyan production has
returned after collapsing during the country’s revolution two
years ago. And higher production from the U.S. and Saudi Arabia has made up for Iran’s declining output in the face of Western
sanctions.
David Haeussermann, a police
dispatcher in Tampa who recently paid $3.56 per gallon to fill his
Kia Rondo, hasn’t had a raise in
six years. He says higher prices
for gasoline and food in recent
years have prompted him to cut
back on dinners out and to settle
for less fancy food at home. He
doesn’t understand why gasoline
costs so much, but by now he’s
used to it.
“Three-dollar gas seems to be
a dream right now,” he says.
The good news is that the national average price is 15 cents
lower than last year at this time,
because of slightly lower oil
prices and less concern over the
situation in the Middle East. But
disruptions at refineries or pipelines, or threats to oil supplies
around the world, could send
gasoline prices sharply higher at
any moment, analysts say.
Lafoon, the St. Louis man,
consolidates trips and drives as
little as possible to blunt the effect of high prices. And he never
fills all the way up. It is an exercise in what he calls “magical
thinking” — that prices aren’t
really what they are.
Hey, it’s worth a try.
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charges will be filed against
a man who opened fire on
two heavily armed Oklahoma teenagers during an
attempted home invasion on
his ranch.
Kenneth Chaffin, 17, and
Dillian King, 18 — both of
Bethel Acres, Okla. — died
Wednesday afternoon in
Maypearl, Texas, authorities said. Their bodies have
been sent for autopsies.
Ellis County Sheriff Johnny Brown said that officials
think both teens died of selfinflicted gunshot wounds,
but said that the homeowner fired two deer rifles and
struck one of the teens.
“I’m thoroughly convinced that had they not had
a way to defend themselves,
it would have turned out a
different direction,” Brown
said.
Early Wednesday, Oklahoma sheriff’s officials is-
sued an alert for national
law enforcement to be on
the lookout for Chaffin, who
they said ran away Monday
from his home, which is
about 35 miles southeast of
Oklahoma City. The alert
said he had stolen his parents’ red 1991 Ford Ranger
pickup truck, a stash of
prescription medication, 17
guns and 2,000 rounds of
ammunition.
Pottawatomie
County,
Okla., Undersheriff J.T.
Palmer said Thursday that
Chaffin had a history of running away.
“We were taking a calculated risk of violating state
law in putting (Chaffin’s)
name out,” Palmer said.
“We had to get mom and
dad’s written permission to
even release his picture yesterday and we did that in a
time frame as quick as we
thought we could.
FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 2013 ■ 3
Nation
Police: Girl, 7, was asked to pepper spray workers
UPPER DARBY, Pa.
(AP) — Police say a
Philadelphia-area woman
returned to a dollar store
where she’d been banned
and pepper-sprayed em-
ployees who tried to escort her out before giving
the can to her 7-year-old
daughter and asking her to
continue the fight.
Upper Darby police say
27-year-old Delaina Garling went to the Family
Dollar Store on Monday,
a place she’d been banned
from for alleged theft.
When employees tried
to escort her out, police
say she doused them with
pepper spray.
Police Superintendent
Michael Chitwood says after employees tackled Gar-
ling, she handed the can
to her daughter and said:
“You know what to do,
baby. Spray it!” Chitwood
says the girl never used the
spray.
Garling is charged with
simple assault and other
counts.
A telephone message
left for her was not immediately returned.
NKorea suspected in cyberattack despite China link
Sam Kim
SEOUL, South Korea — Investigators have traced a coordinated cyberattack that paralyzed
tens of thousands of computers
at six South Korean banks and
media companies to a Chinese
Internet Protocol address, but
it was still unclear who orchestrated the attack, authorities in
Seoul said Thursday.
The discovery did not erase
suspicions that North Korea was
to blame. An IP address can provide an important clue as to the
location of an Internet-connected computer but can easily be
manipulated by hackers operating anywhere in the world. The
investigation into Wednesday’s
attack could take weeks.
By Thursday, only one of the
six targets, Shinhan Bank, was
back online and operating regularly. It could be next week before the other companies have
fully recovered.
North Korea has threatened
Seoul and Washington in recent
days over U.N. sanctions im-
posed for its Feb. 12 nuclear test,
and over ongoing U.S.-South
Korean military drills. It also
threatened revenge after blaming
Seoul and Washington for an Internet shutdown that disrupted
its own network last week.
North Korea “will never remain a passive onlooker to the
enemies’ cyberattacks,” state
media said last week in a commentary. “The U.S. and its allies
should be held wholly accountable for the ensuing consequences.”
Wednesday’s cyberattack did
not affect South Korea’s government, military or infrastructure,
and there were no initial reports
that customers’ bank records
were compromised. But it disabled scores of cash machines
across the country, disrupting
commerce in this tech-savvy,
Internet-dependent country, and
renewed questions about South
Korea’s Internet security and
vulnerability to hackers.
The attack disabled some
32,000 computers at broadcasters YTN, MBC and KBS, as well
as three banks. Many of the com-
puters were still down Thursday,
but the broadcasters said their
programming was never affected,
and all ATMs were back online
except for those at 16 branches
belonging to Nonghyup Bank.
The attack may also have extended to the United States.
The website of the U.S.-based
Committee for Human Rights
in North Korea also was hacked,
with reports on satellite imagery
of North Korean prison camps
and policy recommendations
to the U.S. government deleted
from the site, according to executive director Greg Scarlatoiu.
The initial findings from South
Korean investigators were based
on results from an investigation
into one target, Nonghyup Bank.
The investigation is continuing
into the shutdown at the five
other firms.
A malicious code that spread
through the Nonghyup server
was traced to an IP address in
China, said Cho Kyeong-sik, a
spokesman for the state-run Korea Communications Commission.
Regulators said all six attacks
appeared to come from “a single
organization.”
The Chinese IP address identified by the South Korean communications regulator belongs to
an Internet services company,
Beijing Teletron Telecom Engineering Co., according to the
website tracking and verification
service Whois.
A woman who answered the
telephone number listed on Beijing Teletron’s website denied
the company was involved in
Wednesday’s cyber-hack. She
refused to identify herself or provide further information.
Beijing Teletron operates fiber-optic networks and provides
Internet services. It is the seventh-largest host of IP addresses
in China. A subsidiary of the
Shanghai-listed Dr. Peng Telecom and Media Group, Beijing
Teletron’s clients include government agencies and state media:
the Foreign Ministry, the State
Council Information Office and
People’s Daily, the Communist
Party’s flagship newspaper.
Wednesday’s cyberattack does
not fit the mold of previous at-
tacks blamed on China. Chinese
hacking, either from Beijing’s
cyber-warfare command or freelance hackers, tends to be aimed
at collecting intelligence and intellectual property — not simply
at disrupting commerce.
China is home to a sizable
North Korean community, both
North Koreans working in the
neighboring nation and Chinese citizens of ethnic ancestry
who consider North Korea their
motherland.
If the attack was in fact carried out by North Korea, it may
be a warning to South Korea that
Pyongyang is capable of breaching its computer networks with
relative ease.
Seoul’s National Intelligence
Services believes Pyongyang was
behind six cyberattacks between
2009 and 2012.
South Korean investigators say
they have no proof that North
Korea was behind the attack.
However, the outage took place
as Pyongyang warned Seoul
against holding joint military
drills with the U.S. that it considers rehearsals for an invasion.
Special judge to handle Ohio rape investigation
Andrew Welsh-Huggins
AP Legal Affairs Writer
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A large following
of “nameless bloggers” alleging a cover-up
of a rape investigation spurred an eastern
Ohio judge to ask that someone from outside the community oversee a grand jury
looking into new charges related to the
assault.
Jefferson County Judge Joseph Bruzzese Jr. also asked that outside judges be
appointed to prosecute any individuals
the grand jury might charge.
In response, Chief Justice Maureen
O’Connor of the State Supreme Court
on Thursday appointed a retired Summit
County judge to handle the grand jury,
which meets in April.
Bruzzese noted in his March 14 request
“a substantial controversy surrounding
this case provoked primarily by nameless
bloggers making allegations of cover-up.”
“These nameless bloggers, while having
produced no evidence of a cover-up have
managed to assemble quite a following locally, nationally and internationally,” the
judge said.
As a result, no local officials should
have anything to do with the grand jury
proposed by Ohio Attorney General Mike
DeWine, Bruzzese said.
Two high school football players were
convicted Sunday of raping a 16-year-old
West Virginia girl in Steubenville last summer after an alcohol-fueled party. One was
sentenced to a minimum of one year in
juvenile detention, the other to two years.
A special judge, Thomas Lipps of Cincinnati, handled that case, including the
five-day trial last week. Immediately afterward, DeWine announced that a grand
jury would investigate whether others
should faces charges, including anyone
who failed to speak up following reports
of the rape.
School officials and Steubenville’s 27
football coaches could possibly face charges if they knew about the rape but didn’t
report it because they are among those
required by state law to report possible
child abuse.
O’Connor appointed retired Judge Patricia Ann Cosgrove to oversee the grand
jury.
Cosgrove is no stranger to high-profile
cases. In 2011, she handled the trial of
Kelley Williams-Bolar, an Akron woman
convicted of falsifying documents to enroll her daughters in the Copley-Fairlawn
schools from 2006 to 2008. Gov. John Kasich later reduced the felony convictions
to misdemeanors.
In 2005, Cosgrove convicted a prominent Akron restaurant owner’s wife of
aiding in the drive-by shooting death of
a former lover by the third member of a
love triangle. Cosgrove sentenced Cynthia George to 20 years to life following
the nonjury trial.
Two years later, George was released
from prison after the 9th Ohio District
Court of Appeals in Akron overturned
Cosgrove’s decision, ruling the judge
lacked sufficient evidence to convict
George.
Ga. lawmakers OK crackdown on so-called pill mills
ATLANTA — As Southern states cracked down on
so-called pill mills, Georgia’s lax regulation made it
a magnet for clinics known
for prescribing powerful
painkillers to drug dealers
and addicts for an illicit
high.
The dozens of pain clinics across Georgia that
authorities believe are illegally prescribing or dispensing the drugs often
have parking lots full of
out-of-state license plates,
evidence that people are
coming from hundreds of
miles to seize on an unregulated industry, authorities say. The rapid spread
of the clinics led state
senators to pass legislation
Thursday to try to get rid
of illegitimate businesses.
“We’re one of the few
states in the Southeast that
hasn’t touched it, so we’re
the place that all these outof-towners come,” said Attorney General Sam Olens.
“It’s a huge problem that’s
killing our kids, and we
need to be going after the
bad actors and protecting
the professionals.”
The bill would license
and regulate pain management clinics, and require
the owner to be a doctor.
The law would stop short
of requiring doctors or
pharmacists to use a state
registry to track how much
of a painkiller a person
is receiving, which some
neighboring states have
done. The bill, which already passed the House,
now goes to Republican
Gov. Nathan Deal. A
spokesman declined to
say whether the governor
would sign it.
Because some pain clinics are legitimate, prosecuting those that aren’t
can be difficult, said Barbara Heath, the head of
the Drug Enforcement
Administration’s diversion
program in Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina
and South Carolina. If the
prescriber is a doctor —
and not someone forging
prescriptions — prosecu-
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tors must prove the pills
aren’t for a medical need.
Red flags include clinics
with a large percentage of
out-of-state patients, patients receiving the same
large amount of the same
drug and clinics with a
bouncer at the door.
Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, West Virginia, Texas,
Louisiana, Florida and
Mississippi have all recently passed laws targeting
such pain clinics, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
The DEA is prosecuting pain clinic operators
who used to do business in
Florida and picked up and
moved to Georgia immediately after Florida passed
tougher restrictions in
2011. But it’s hard to tell
exactly how many pill mills
exist in Georgia.
According to estimates
from the Georgia Drugs
and Narcotics Agency,
there were fewer than 10
pill mills in the state in
2010, while the number
has exploded since then,
fluctuating between 90
and 140 over the last year.
The most common pills
dealers and addicts want
are oxycodone and hydrocodone, which are highly
addictive. Some shop
around the state, gathering
prescriptions from numerous clinics before returning home to sell the drugs.
Georgia passed legislation in 2011 to create a
program to track prescription drugs dispensed here,
but it isn’t expected to
start operating until May,
in part because of a delay
in funding.
“If someone were to
ask me what would be the
best first step to really
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of the patient population is
being treated for chronic
pain. Affected businesses
would have to get a state
license beginning in July.
Licenses would have to be
renewed every two years.
The proposal would also
require new pain clinics to
be owned by physicians
licensed in Georgia. Existing clinics where nonphysicians have ownership
with doctors would be allowed to remain open.
Green, of the National
Alliance for Model State
Drug Laws, said requiring
owners to be doctors is an
important step because
their livelihood is at stake.
“So the thought is you’ve
got to have somebody with
that level of accountability
with a pain clinic because
you’re giving out substances that are the most potentially addictive substances
we have,” she said.
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WEEKLY DEVOTION
Is there real hope for our youth?
Ed Lockard
Minister, Hardy Church of Christ
Each Lord’s day, we gather in
our buildings and we start our
day with prayer. We sing songs
of praise to the Lord and at some
point most of us go to our Sunday school classes.
Sometimes my hearts aches
as we dismiss and the number of
people here is a small portion of
all those that attend or are members. If my heart aches I can’t
imagine how God must hurt
to see the apathy in our minds
and hearts as we deem biblical
education of lesser importance
than our sleep or our schedule or
whatever it is that keeps us away.
I find it most disturbing to
think that someone might be
staying home because they think
that anything is more important
than studying God’s word in fellowship with the church. I think
it’s most immature if someone
says they don’t come because of
who is teaching.
It doesn’t make any sense to
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say I can’t come because I have
company when my whole premise as a Christian is to be an example of that Christianity. Do I
have the right to say I just don’t
feel like coming when we gather
around the Lord’s table to celebrate the sacrifice of Jesus for
us? To say I have somewhere
else to go as get we visualize His
blood falling from the cross for
my sins ?
Can I away get with that popular statement: “We don’t have
any youth group, when my attendance is so low some folks don’t
even know when I’m here?”
The fact is, there is real hope
for our youth!
But the only way we’re going
to recognize it is to offer some
help in their growth! I am definitely old school when it comes
to raising children in the admonition of the Lord. I believe the
old, old story is just fine for our
youth and it will always remain
sufficient for them!
Some would say they want better for their children than they
had. Not me! I would be very
proud to have my children or my
grandchildren to have my childhood in fact i believe my childhood was better than either one
of theirs. I was thrilled for my
grandson to ask me for a bag of
marbles for his Easter gift.
I am elated when my granddaughter wants to sit with me
and play with a caterpillar instead of playing some computer
game. I love the fact that they
actually enjoy coming to church.
They don’t care who the teacher
is. If they have company they
will try their best to get them to
come with them. They never say
they don’t feel like coming.
The plain truth is that when
kids don’t come to church it’s
because their parents are usually
too lazy to bring them.
I pray when people read this
article it will go beyond the immature facet of getting their feelings hurt directly to their heart
and make them realize that we
are usually responsible for our
kid’s absence. There is no excuse
for our laziness and we need to
accept the challenge and stop
playing church.
It’s about time we give them a
reason to have hope and encourage them to be our hope!
Join Us For Services...
America United Baptist Church of Delbarton, W.Va., holds on Wednesdays
Bible Study at 7 p.m., and singing practice at 8 p.m. Sunday services include
Sunday school at 10 a.m. and church
service at 11 a.m.
Apostolic Lighthouse at Lando W.Va.,
meets Wednesdays at 7 p.m. for church
and on Sunday from 1 to 2 p.m. for
Sunday school, which church services
following. The pastor is Jimmy Copley.
Bethel Temple Assembly of God conducts the following services: Sunday
Morning Worship at 11 a.m.; Sunday
Night Service at 6 p.m.; Wednesday
Night Church at 7 p.m.
Christian Fellowship Church of God
in Delbarton conducts the following
services: Sunday school and morning
worship service at 10:30 a.m., Sunday
evening service at 6 p.m., Wednesday
evening service and YPE at 7 p.m., and
Saturday evening service at 7 p.m. The
pastor is the Rev. Glen Meritt.
Elk Creek Freewill Baptist Church announces services each Sunday evening
at 6 p.m. The Rev. Gary Hunt, senior
pastor, invites everyone to attend.
Fifth Avenue Church of Christ has the
following services: Sunday School 9:45 a.m.; Morning Worship - 11 a.m.;
Evening Worship - 6 p.m.; and Wednesday night Bible Study - 7 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church on 29 West
6th Ave. in Williamson meets on Sunday at 10 a.m., children and adult
Sunday school, at 11 a.m. for worship
service, at 12 p.m. for coffee hour,
and at 12:45 p.m. for choir practice.
On Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. there is
prayer service and Bible study at 7 p.m.
On second Thursday of each month at
1 p.m. Circle 2 meets, 5:30 p.m., Circles
3 and 4 meet.
First United Methodist Church, corner of Second Avenue and Dickinson
Street, has Sunday school at 10 a.m.,
Sunday morning worship service at 11
a.m. The first Tuesday of each month
at 3 p.m. is Communion and worship
services at Goodman Manor on 4th Avenue. On Wednesdays, Bible study is at
6:45 p.m., alternating each month with
Memorial United Methodist Church.
The United Methodist men’s dinner
meeting is the first Thursday each
month and the women’s is the second
Tuesday each month.
Full Gospel Assembly of God, at Hatfield Bottom, Matewan, has Wednesday
services at 7 p.m., Sunday school services at 10:30 a.m. and Sunday evening
services at 7 p.m. Pastor Ron Pruitt and
Debbie Pruitt invites everyone.
God’s Lighthouse Freewill Baptist
Church of Sidney, Ky. (beside Williamson’s Grocery) conducts the following
services: Sunday School, 10:15 a.m.,
Worship services, Sunday 11 a.m. and
6 p.m. and Thursday at 6 p.m. Pastor
Gary Hackney invites everyone.
Grace and Truth Bible Centers, located
in Boy Scout Hollow at Ragland, has
worshipping services Sunday evening
at 6 p.m. Bible study and C.T.S. is at 7
p.m. on Tuesdays, while a prayer meeting is held on Wednesdays at 7 p.m.
Freedom Church, at Lee Dempsey
Jr. Lane in Delbarton, has services
Sundays at 11 a.m. and Wednesdays
at 7 p.m. Pastor Brent Belcher invites
everyone. For more information, call
(304) 235-2533.
The Hardy Church of Christ conducts
the following services: Sunday school
at 10 a.m., Sunday worship at 11 a.m.,
Sunday evening service at 6 p.m., and
Bible study Wednesdays at 7 p.m.
House of Prayer at Puritan Mines holds
worship services on Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m.. Call Joe Dempsey at 4754838 or Jimmy Meade at 426-4030 for
more information.
Jesus Name Church, located at 152 E.
2nd Avenue in Williamson is announcing they will be conducting services on
Tues., Fri., and Sat. evenings at 7:30
p.m.
Kermit Freewill Baptist Church conducts the following services: Sunday
school at 10 a.m. and morning worship
at 11:15 a.m.; and prayer service at 7
p.m. Thursdays.
Kermit Methodist Church announces
the following schedule of services:
Sunday school at 10 a.m., morning
worship at 11 a.m.; Wednesday Bible
study at 7 p.m.; and youth service on
Saturday from 2-4 p.m.
Kermit United Baptist Church conducts the following services: Sunday
school at 10 a.m. and morning service
at 11 a.m.; and Wednesday Prayer service at 7 p.m.
Kingdom Harvest Church, Lenore, announces the following services: Sunday school at 10:30 a.m. and evening
service at 6 p.m.; youth meeting at
6:30 p.m. on Tuesdays; and mid week
service at 7 p.m. on Thursdays.
Laurel Creek Freewill Baptist Church
announces the following services:
Sunday school at 10 a.m. and worship
service at 11:30 a.m.; and Wednesday
prayer meeting at 7 p.m.
Leckieville Freewill Baptist Church,
Goody, Ky., announces the following
services: Sunday school, 9:50 a.m.;
Sunday morning worship, 11 a.m.;
Sunday evening worship, 6 p.m.; fourth
Sunday, Mingo Manor Nursing Home,
3:30 p.m.; Monday evening, Goodman
Manor, 6:30 p.m.; Wednesday morning Bible study, 11 a.m.; Wednesday
evening Bible study and youth group,
7 p.m. Ladies Circle, second Thursday
each month.
Little Dove Church of Christ, Williamson, announces Bible school is on
Sunday for all ages at 9:30 a.m., and
morning worship is at 10:30 a.m. Bible
study is on Wednesdays at 7 p.m., and
children’s youth choir practice is 7 p.m.
on Wednesdays.
Living Stone Church of God services
are Sunday school at 10 a.m., morning
worship at 11 a.m., and evening worship at 6 p.m. and Wednesday evening
services are at 7 p.m., with pastor Ken
Toler.
Logan Street First Baptist Church,
Williamson, announces the following
services: Sunday School, 9:45 a.m.,
Sunday Morning Worship, 11 a.m.
Prayer meeting and Bible Study each
Wednesday at 7 p.m.
Lynn Freewill Baptist Church, Lynn, announces the following services: Church
on Saturdays at 7 p.m.; Sunday school
at 10 a.m.; Sunday morning worship at
11 a.m. No Sunday evening services.
Marrowbone Freewill Baptist Church
announces the following services: Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Sunday morning
worship, 11:30 a.m.; Tuesday evening
prayer meeting, 7 p.m..
Matewan Church of God, Hatfield Bottom, announces services: Sunday
school at 10:30 a.m.; Sunday family
night at 7 p.m.; Wednesday service at
7 p.m.
Matewan Missionary Baptist Church
conducts the following services: Sunday school at 10 a.m., morning worship at 11 a.m. and evening worship at
7 p.m.; and Wednesday Bible Study at
7 p.m.
Matewan United Methodist Church
conducts the following services: Sunday school at 9:50 a.m., morning
worship at 11 a.m. and evening worship at 7 p.m.; church altar prayer at
7 p.m. Tuesdays; Bible study at 6 p.m.
Wednesdays; Sunday evening youth
fellowship at 5 p.m.
McAndrews Church of Christ conducts
morning worship services at 11 a.m.
and evening worship services at 6 p.m.
on Sundays. Bible studies are held at
10 a.m. Sunday and at 7 p.m. Wednesday night.
McAndrews Wesleyan Church conducts the following services: Sunday
school at 10 a.m., morning worship at
11 a.m. and evening worship at 6 p.m.;
and Wednesdays at 7 p.m.
McVeigh United Pentecostal Church
announces services: Sunday school
at 10:30 a.m., morning worship at 11
a.m. and evening worship at 6 p.m.;
Wednesday prayer meeting at 7 p.m.;
and young peoples at 7 p.m. on Fridays.
Memorial Church of Christ at Alley’s
Branch, Borderland, announces services: Sunday school 10 a.m., morning worship 11 a.m., evening worship 6
p.m.; and Wednesday night Bible study
at 6 p.m.
Memorial United Methodist Church,
504 Gum St., West Williamson announces services: Sunday school
9 a.m., Sunday worship, 10 a.m.;
Wednesday Bible study, 7 p.m. rotating
with First United Methodist Church every other month.
Monahill Memorial Freewill Baptist
Church, Wilkinson, announces the
following services: Sunday school at
10:30 a.m. and evening worship at 6
p.m.; and Wednesday Bible study at 6
p.m.
Mt. Hope Freewill Baptist Church
of Dingess announces services on
Wednesday at 7 p.m. Sunday School
is at 10:30 a.m. and worship service is
at noon.
Mt. Zion Freewill Baptist Church, Rockhouse Road, Hatfield, Ky., announces
at 10 a.m., Sunday worship service
11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday Bible
Study and Prayer Service, 6 p.m. Youth
Group meets Wednesdays at 7 p.m.
Mountain Springs Freewill Baptist
Church announces its services: Sunday school at 10:30 a.m.; Sunday
church services at noon and Wednesday prayer meeting at 7 p.m.
Muncy Valley Baptist Church has services according to the following schedule: every Sunday morning service at
11 a.m.
Naugatuck Church of God, located
beside the water plant, holds worship
and youth services every Sunday at 1
p.m. and Wednesday at 7 p.m. Pastor
Etsel Rose invites everyone to come
and worship.
New Beginning Church of God located
at Roadfork, Ky. conducts their Sunday
Worship service at 12:00 p.m., following Sunday School at 11. Wednesday
night services start at 7 p.m., and
includes prayer meeting and youth
group for the kids. Pastor John McCoy
welcomes everyone to come and join
them in service. For more information,
call 606-353-7409.
North Matewan Church of Christ meets
for the following services: Sunday
school at 10 a.m.; Sunday worship service at 11 a.m. Sunday evening service
6 p.m.; and Wednesday Bible study at
6 p.m.
New Beginnings Church conducts
services at the Williamson Community
Center at West End: Children’s Church
at 10 a.m., on Sunday, and Adult Services at 11 a.m., on Sunday.
Octavia Freewill Baptist Church,
McAndrews, Ky., conducts the following services: Sunday school at 10
a.m., morning worship at 11 a.m. and
evening service at 6 p.m. (except 2nd
Sunday); every second Saturday at 7
p.m. and a month with five Saturdays
services at 7 p.m. on the fifth Saturday.
Wednesday services: Adult Bible study
at 6:30 p.m.; youth group at 6:30 p.m.
and special youth group services every
other Friday at 6 p.m. (ages 10 and up).
Old Pond Primitive Baptist Church announces the following services each
month: second Saturday at 10:30 a.m.
and Sunday at 10 a.m.; first Wednesday
at 6:30 p.m.; and fourth Sunday at
6:30 p.m
Open Bible Free Will Baptist Church,
Slaters Branch, Ky., Service hours are:
Bible Study 7 p.m. Thursday and Worship 6 p.m. Sunday.
Omar Community Church, Omar, conducts the following services: Sunday
school at 10 a.m. and evening worship
at 11 a.m.; and Wednesday worship at
6 p.m.
Omar First Baptist Church, Omar, conducts service at 11 a.m. the second and
forth Sunday of every month.
Oneness Pentecostal Lighthouse, Red
Jacket, conducts the following services: Sunday School at 11:30 a.m.,
Sunday service at 12:15 p.m., Tuesday
Bible Study at 7 p.m. and Tuesday
Youth Service at 7 p.m.
Open Bible Free Will Baptist Church,
Slaters Branch, Ky., Service hours are:
Bible Study 7 p.m. Thursday and Worship 6 p.m. Sunday.
Parsley Bottom Free Will Baptist
Church, Lenore, announces its schedule of services: Sunday school at 10
a.m., morning service at 11:15 a.m. and
evening service at 7 p.m.; Youth night
at 6 p.m. on Mondays; and Wednesday
prayer service at 7 p.m.
Phelps Church of Christ announces
at 10 a.m. and morning worship at 11
a.m.; Wednesday night Bible study at
7 p.m.
Phelps First Baptist Church announces
at 10 a.m. and morning worship at
11 a.m.; and Wednesday youth Bible
study at 6:30 p.m. and adult Bible
study at 7 p.m.
Philadelphia United Baptist Church
has Sunday school at 10 a.m., and
regular services at 11 a.m. Prayer night
is on Tuesdays at 7 p.m.
The Pie Church of God has Sunday
school beginning at 10 a.m. with
morning worship beginning at 11 a.m.;
Sunday evening services begin at 6:30
p.m., and Wednesday night family
training hour begins at 6:30 p.m.
Ragland Free Will Baptist Church Sunday school meets at 11 a.m., with services at 2 p.m. on Sunday and prayer
meeting and services at 7 p.m. on
Wednesday.
Rawl Freewill Baptist Church meets
every Sunday at 10 a.m. for Sunday
School, 11 a.m. for Sunday morning
services and 6 p.m. for Sunday night
services. Every Wednesday night there
will be a meeting at 7 p.m.
Rockhouse Free Will Baptist Church,
Ragland, Sunday School Services
10:30 a.m. classes for all ages; Sunday
Night Service, 7:00 p.m.; Wednesday
Night Church Service and C.T.S. 7:00
p.m., classes for all ages. Pastor, Rev.
Scott Erwin invites everyone to attend.
Sprigg Freewill Baptist Church has
Sunday School at 10:30 a.m., and Sunday morning worship is at 11:30 a.m.
Wednesday services are at 7 p.m.
Tabernacle of Praise at Ragland has
services on Thursday and Sunday at 7
p.m. For more information, call Pastor
Nathaniel Gibson at 426-4681.
Turkey Creek Freewill Baptist Church
has Bible Study and youth services
on Wednesdays at 7 p.m., and Sunday
school at 10 a.m. and worshiping services at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. on Sundays.
Pastor Mike Smith invites all to attend.
Williamson Area Church of Christ, at
Turkey Creek, Ky., meets Sunday at 10
a.m. for Bible study and 11 a.m. for worshipping services, and on Wednesdays
at 7 p.m. for services.
Williamson Church of God meets
Sunday at 10 a.m. for Sunday school,
Sunday at 11 a.m. for worship services,
Wednesday at 7 p.m. for Bible study,
and Saturday at 7 p.m. for an hour of
prayer.
The Youth Works Kids Club for ages
5 to 10-years-old, will meet Monday
through Thursday from 12 p.m. to 3
p.m beginning June 14 and ending Aug.
5 at the Memorial United Methodist
Church.
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service of the Williamson Daily News
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FRIDAY,
MARCH 22, 2013
Austin Banks named Class AA All-State
Chris Johnson
Clarksburg Exponent Telegram
CLARKSBURG — Throughout his high school basketball
career, Brett Morris was often referred to as the “best kept secret”
in the state as Webster County
High School is tucked away in an
isolated part of West Virginia, an
area stuck outside of most media’s primary markets.
Some secrets are impossible
to keep hidden though and on
Thursday, Morris was selected
as the first-team captain for the
Class AA boys’ basketball allstate team by the West Virginia
Sports Writers Association.
Morris, who was the top
vote-getter in his class, led the
Highlanders to within a game of
a second consecutive state tournament appearance but Webster
was ousted by North Marion is a
thrilling double overtime Region
I co-final. He finished his senior
season leading the Highlanders in five statistical categories
with averages of 25.9 points, 9.4
rebounds, 4.8 assists, 2.5 steals
and 4.6 blocks.
He’s joined on the first team by
a pair of Bluefield players, junior
guards Lykel Collier and Anthony Eades, who helped the Beavers capture their first Class AA
state championship since 1996.
Eades, who averaged roughly
20 points per contest, joins Morris as the only repeat selection to
the Class AA first team. Collier,
was last year’s second-team captain, averaged 15 points, eight
assists and five rebounds.
A trio of Big 10 Conference
schools that moved down from
Class AAA to Class AA this
season and advanced to the
semifinal round of the state
tournament. Fairmont Senior,
Bridgeport and Robert C. Byrd
Kyle Lovern | Daily News
Mingo Central’s Austin Banks (4) is shown driving to the basket against
Scott earlier this season. The senior point guard becomes the first MCHS
Miner basketball player to make an All-State team. His teammates senior
Marqus Cunningham and junior Alex Lee were named on the honorable
mention list.
are represented on the first team
by one player apiece.
For the Polar Bears, senior
Travon Horton, who averaged
18.5 points and seven rebounds,
was picked after leading his team
up against Bluefield in last Sat-
urday’s title game. Bridgeport’s
Tyler Sprouse, who averaged
14.7 points, three assists and 2.5
steals, was the Indians top scorer
and helped his team advance to
the state semifinals.
Sophomore Devonti Birch has
emerged as one of the state’s
most versatile players and was
the leading scorer at 13.2 points,
along with averages of 6.1 rebounds and 3.1 steals.
The first team is rounded out
by Chapmanville’s Mackenzie
Martin and Liberty Raleigh’s
Levi Cook. Martin averaged a
double-double with 20.5 points
and 11 rebounds per contest as
did the sophomore Cook, who
averaged 23.5 points, 13.2 rebounds, 4.1 blocks and 3.1 steals
per game.
Fairmont Senior junior point
guard Jarin Hilson is the captain
of the second team. He averaged
16.8 points and six assists per
contest. Hilson is joined by Summers County’s Taron Ayers (27.5
ppg, 3 apg), Westside’s Corey
Bowles (19 ppg, 4 apg, 3 steals
per game), North Marion’s Matt
Cain (12 ppg, 5 rpg), Ritchie
County’s Andrew Davis (18.8
ppg), Scott’s Matt Dolan (17.0
ppg), Sissonville’s Zach Null
(17.8 ppg, 4.5 apg) and Tolsia’s
Morgan Stacy (17.0ppg).
The captain of the third team
is Bluefield’ s Michael Yost (15
ppg). He is joined by Mingo Central’s Austin Banks (15.3 ppg, 8.5
apg, 6.1 rpg), Wyoming East’s
Brett Bowling (16.9 ppg), Westside’s Justin Cogar (17.0 ppg,
8.5rpg), Poca’s Noah Frampton
(14.3 ppg), Bridgeport’s Jordan
Haywood (13.8 ppg, 5.7 rpg,
2.8 apg), Robert C. Byrd’s Iziah
Hill (10.3 ppg, 5.7 rpg, 2.8 apg)
and Fairmont Senior’s Shaquille
Washington (11.5 ppg, 9.8 rpg).
Class AA
First Team
Devonti Birch, Robert C. Byrd, so., 13.2 ppg, 6 rebounds per game, 3.1 steals
Lykel Collier, Bluefield, jr.
Levi Cook, Liberty (Raleigh), so. 23.5 ppg, 13.2
rpg, 4.1 bpg, 5.6 apg
Anthony Eades, Bluefield, jr.
Travon Horton, Fairmont Senior, sr., 18.5 ppg, 7
rpg
Mackenzie Martin, Chapmanville, sr. 20.5 ppg, 11
rpg
Brett Morris, Webster County, sr. (Captain), 26
ppg, 9 rpg, 5 apg
Tyler Sprouse, Bridgeport, sr. 14.7 ppg, 3 apg, 2.5
steals
Second Team
Taron Ayers, Summers County, jr., 27.5 ppg, 3 apg
Corey Bowles, Westside, jr., 19 ppg, 4 apg, 3 steals
per game
Matt Cain, North Marion, sr., 12 ppg, 5 rpg
Andrew Davis, Ritchie County, sr., 18.8 ppg
Matt Dolan, Scott, sr., 17.0 ppg
Jarin Hilson, Fairmont Senior, jr. (Captain), 16.8
ppg, 6 apg
Zach Null, Sissonville, sr., 17.8 ppg, 4.5 apg
Morgan Stacy, Tolsia, sr., 17 ppg
Third Team
Austin Banks, Mingo Central, sr., 15.3 ppg, 8.5
apg, 6.1 rpg
Brett Bowling, Wyoming East, sr., 16.9 ppg
Justin Cogar, Westside, so., 17 ppg, 8.5 rpg
Noah Frampton, Poca, so., 14.3 ppg
Jordan Haywood, Bridgeport, sr., 13.8 ppg, 3 apg,
4 spg
Iziah Hill, Robert C. Byrd, sr. 10.3 ppg, 5.7 rpg, 2.8
apg,
Shaquille Washington, Fairmont Senior, sr., 11.5
ppg, 9.8 rpg
Michael Yost, Bluefield, jr. (Captain) 15.0 ppg
Honorable Mention:
Kyle Appel, Berkeley Springs; Chase Banker,
North Marion; Tyree Baker, RiverView; John
Bowman, East Fairmont; Austin Brewer, Tolsia;
Maurice Brown, Mount View; D.J. Burgess, Ritchie
County; Antonie Calloway, Mount View; Austin
Canada, Wyoming East; Stephen Cole, Clay County; Corey Coppola, Bluefield; Cam Cottrill, Poca;
Marqus Cunningham, Mingo Central; Terry
Davis, Tolsia; Nick Dyer, Robert C. Byrd; D.J. Edwards, Bluefield; Josh Groves, Weir; Tyler Harper,
Roane County; Cody Howell, Oak Glen; Myles
Johnson, East Fairmont; Brett Justice, Wayne;
Levi Lambert, Westside; Alex Lee, Mingo Central; Austin Lyons, Liberty Raleigh; Jake Martin,
Ravenswood; Jacob McKlarney, James Monroe;
Cody Morris, Herbert Hoover; Jason Morris, Liberty Harrison; Quentin Mouser, Philip Barbour;
Jacob Neal, Roane County; Cody Opron, East
Fairmont; Eric Peyatt, Nicholas County; Kenny
Plumley, Chapmanville; Chance Price, Philip
Barbour; Austin Rhodes, Braxton County; Chris
Smith, Grafton; T.J. Smith, Summers County;
Trent Stowers, Sissonville; Jared Tharp, Nicholas
County; Josh Tunstall, Wyoming East; Devante
Waites, Fairmont Senior; Jason Weitzel, Pike View;
John Wilfong, Bridgeport; Cameron Wilson, North
Marion; Zach Wise, Berkeley Springs;
Mingo Central splits in opening tennis match
Tug Valley head coach Garland “Rabbit” Thompson will be one of the
coaches for the Twin Rivers Classic senior all-star game sponsored by
Pepsi being held Saturday night at the Harless Center in Gilbert.
Twin Rivers Classic
scheduled for Saturday
Kyle Lovern
Sports Editor
GILBERT — The annual
Pepsi Twin Rivers Classic basketball game featuring seniors
from southern West Virginia will
be held at the Harless Center in
Gilbert on Saturday.
The girl’s game is scheduled
to start at 6 p.m.; while the boy’s
game will tipoff around 8 p.m.
Several of the area’s top players are scheduled to suit up for
both squads. High school seniors
from several counties will be participating. They include Mingo,
Logan, Wayne, McDowell, Wyoming, Mercer and Raleigh.
Garland “Rabbit” Thompson,
coach of the Tug Valley Panthers
and Brad Napier, coach of Mingo
Central, are coaching the squad
from
Mingo-Logan-Wayne.
Thompson just won his second
straight state title at Tug Valley
this past weekend in Charleston.
Napier just completed his first
year as head coach for the Miners.
Tug Valley girl’s coach Okey
Smith and Mingo Central girl’s
coach David Hanshaw are expected to coach the girl’s squad
featuring local players. Smith’s
Lady Panthers won the Class A
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sectional, while Hanshaw took
over as head coach of the Lady
Miners this past season.
The coaches of the other
squads featuring players from
Wyoming, McDowell, Mercer
and possibly Raleigh Counties
had not been announced at press
time. Players from schools as far
away as Spring Valley down to
Bluefield have been invited to
play.
Harvey Stacy and Walt Hatfield of the Twin Rivers Officials
Board are the chairmen for this
year’s all-star game.
“We are still in the process of
getting our rosters together,”
Stacy said Thursday.
Several players have committed to the Twin Rivers Classic.
Some student athletes are
playing baseball or softball, or
some have committed to playing
in other all-star games. There are
certain NCAA rules that only allow players to play in a couple of
these types of exhibition all-star
games.
“We expect several small college coaches to attend,” Stacy
said.
A packed house for the all-star
game is expected at the Gilbert
recreational facility, according to
Stacy.
MADISON — The Mingo
Central tennis team split their
first match of the season with
Scott High School. The boys
team lost 5 and 2 including one
forfeit. Kyle Surber had the only
single match win (8-5) and Brennon Slone and Caleb Crum winning in doubles 8-8 (7-1).
The girls team won 4 and 3.
Taylor Blevins (9-7) and Megan Taylor (8-1) with singles
wins. In doubles, Emily Hatfield
and Marie Ramey won 8-6, and
Blevins and Taylor winning 8-3.
This was our first match of the
season with most of our practics
being indoors, hitting with the
tennis machine. The boys played
very well with matches close and
could have pulled it out with
the last two matches. I am very
proud of the girls, all but two of
them are first year players, and
freshmen Ariel Ritchie and Kaityln Johnson almost pulled out
a match win 8-4. Mingo Central
tennis, coached by Julius Hatcher, in its second season, is off to
another great season.
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Photo submitted by Pam Surber
Emily Hatfield is shown in action for Mingo Central earlier this week.
NCAA Tournament Capsules
Marquette rallies to defeat Davidson
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) —
Vander Blue’s layup with one
second left capped Marquette’s
rally from a nine-point deficit
and gave the third-seeded Golden Eagles a 59-58 victory over
Davidson Thursday in the NCAA
tournament.
BUTLER 68,
BUCKNELL 56
Andrew Smith had a doubledouble including a career-high 16
rebounds, Roosevelt Jones added
14 points and Butler made its
free throws down the stretch to
hold off upset-minded Bucknell.
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MIDWEST REGIONAL
MICHIGAN STATE 65,
VALPARAISO 54
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP)
— Derrick Nix had 23 points and
a career-high 15 rebounds to help
power third-seeded Michigan
State past the 14th-seeded Crusaders in the Midwest Regional.
The Spartans went on a 26-5
run in the first half to take control, and cruised to an easy win.
MEMPHIS 54,
ST. MARY’S 52
AUBURN
HILLS,
Mich.
(AP) — Matthew Dellavedova’s
3-pointer from the right wing
missed everything as time expired, allowing sixth-seeded
Memphis to hold on for a win
over 11th-seeded Saint Mary’s.
___
SAINT LOUIS 64,
NEW MEXICO STATE 44
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) —
Dwayne Evans scored 24 points,
Cody Ellis added 12 points and
fourth-seeded Saint Louis overwhelmed New Mexico State in
the Midwest Regional.
OREGON 68,
OKLAHOMA STATE 55
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Damyean Dotson scored 17 points
and Arsalan Kazemi added 11
points and 17 rebounds to help
12th-seeded Oregon extend a
run that began in the Pac-12
tournament by beating fifthseeded Oklahoma.
___
WEST REGIONAL
GONZAGA 64,
SOUTHERN 58
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A
March Madness warm-up turned
into a great escape for Gonzaga.
The Zags got pushed to the
limit by Southern, pulling out a
victory in the closing minutes to
avoid becoming the first No. 1
seed to lose to a 16 in the NCAA
tournament.
WICHITA STATE 73,
PITTSBURGH 55
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) —
Malcolm Armstead scored 22
points, Cleanthony Early added
21 and ninth-seeded Wichita
State ousted Pittsburgh.
Class AA Girls All-State List
Class AA all-state team
First team · Miki Glenn, Bridgeport, Sr.
(Capt.)
· Alicia Noble, Robert C. Byrd, Sr.
· Krista Maynard, Tolsia, Jr.
· Tristin Toman, Ritchie County, Sr.
· Shealyn Shafer, Nicholas County, Sr.
· McKinzee Barker, Clay County, So.
· Hope Nester, Pikeview, Jr.
· Hope Lester, Westside, So.
Second team · Anna Marie Moscufo,
North Marion, Jr.
· Hunter Sodaro, Braxton County, Sr.
· Heather Hickman, Liberty (H), Sr.
· Emily Knight, Lincoln, Jr.
· Emily Stoller, Fairmont Senior. So.
· Madison Jones, Sissonville, Fr.
· Danielle Brown, Westside, Jr. (Capt.)
· Savannah Winnett, Tolsia, Jr.
Third team · Sarah Barksdale, Robert C.
Byrd, Sr. (Capt.)
· Brittany Gould, Clay County, Jr.
· Jaimee Dotson, Scott, Sr.
· Tyra Wynes, Summers County, Sr.
· Sarah Haynes, Berkeley Springs, Jr.
· Audia Bartlett, North Marion, Sr.
· Lyndsey Hatfield, PikeView, So.
· Hayley Hanning, Lincoln, Jr.
Honorable mention:
Brittany Bible, Petersburg; Jenny Bundy,
Fairmont Senior; Shelva Burns, Weir;
Melonna Carmichael, Ravenswood;
Ashley Curry, Mingo Central; Amanda
Davis, Ritchie County; Faith Davis, Westside; Kristen Desrocher, Chapmanville;
Chelsey Dobbs, River View; Chelsea
Duncan, Wyoming East; Megan Endicott,
Westside; Kari Fawcett, Grafton; Emily Feduckovich, Independence; Hannah Fetty, Bridgeport; Chrissy Farmer,
Mingo Central; Anne Golinsky, Braxton
County; Carley Grady, Keyser; Hannah
Griffith, Grafton; Megan Haller, North
Marion; Vanessa Hissam, Oak Glen;
Kelsie Mann, James Monroe; Mykenzie Martin, Nicholas County; Makayla
McElwayne, Lincoln; Hailey Miller, Ravenswood; Brandy Morrison, Summers
County; Kelsey Morrone, Fairmont
Senior; Hannah Murray, Ravenswood;
Breanna Pertee, Wyoming East; Karli
Pinkerton, Sissonville; Avery Pivont,
Summers County; Jordan Presley,
Tolsia; Mikayla Prunty, Lincoln; Lind-
say Riley, Philip Barbour; Casey Soloman, Berkeley Springs; Shelby Smith,
Summers County; Morgan Spolarich,
Westside; Raegan Stead, Weir; Jessica
Stivason, Oak Glen; Corin Todd, Robert
C. Byrd; Brooklyn Weaver, East Fairmont;
Kaden Whaley, Fairmont Senior; Alison
Whitman, Scott; Taylor Youell, Ravenswood; Lauren Young, Nicholas County;
Raina Young, Bridgeport; Raven Young,
Weir; Jordan Younger, Mount View
Nation
Classifieds
LEGALS
‘Peace is possible,’ Obama insists in Middle East
Julie Pace
AP White House Correspondent
JERUSALEM — Insisting “peace
is possible,” President Barack Obama
on Thursday prodded both Israelis
and Palestinians to return to longstalled negotiations with few, if any,
pre-conditions, softening his earlier
demands that Israel stop building
settlements in disputed territory.
The president made his appeal
just hours after rockets fired from
Hamas-controlled Gaza landed in a
southern Israeli border town, a fresh
reminder of the severe security risks
and tensions that have stymied peace
efforts for decades.
Obama, on his second day in the
Middle East, shuttled between Jerusalem and Ramallah, reaching out to
the public as well as political leaders.
He offered no new policies or plans
for reopening peace talks but urged
both sides to “think anew” about the
intractable conflict and break out of
the “formulas and habits that have
blocked progress for so long.”
“Peace is possible,” Obama declared during an impassioned speech
to young people in Jerusalem. “I’m
not saying it’s guaranteed. I can’t
even say that it is more likely than
not. But it is possible.”
The deep disputes dividing the Israelis and Palestinians have remained
much the same over the years, and
include deciding the status of Jerusalem, defining borders and resolving refugee issues. Palestinians
have been particularly incensed over
Israeli settlements in disputed territories, and the Israelis’ continued
construction has also drawn the condemnation of the United States and
other nations.
Further settlement activity is
“counterproductive to the cause of
peace,” Obama said. But in a notable
shift, he did not repeat his administration’s previous demands that
Israel halt construction. Instead he
urged the Palestinians to stop using
the disagreement as an “excuse” to
avoid talks.
“If the expectation is that we can
only have direct negotiations when
everything is settled ahead of time,
then there is no point for negotiations,” Obama said during a joint
news conference with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas
in Ramallah. “I think it is important
to work through this process even if
there are irritants on both sides.”
Abbas said Palestinians remain
committed to seeking peace with Israelis, but he made clear that settle-
ment construction had made his people distrustful of Israel’s intentions.
“This is very dangerous that people and the new generation reaches
the conviction that it’s no more possible to believe in the two-state solution,” he said.
Obama has sided with the Palestinians on the settlement issue during his first four years in office. However, when Israel reluctantly declared
a 10-month moratorium on construction, the Palestinians balked at returning to negotiations until shortly
before the suspension expired and
talks foundered shortly thereafter.
The Palestinians want a state in
the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem — territories Israel captured
in the 1967 war — but indicate they
are ready for minor adjustments to
accommodate some settlements closest to Israel.
Since 1967, Israel has built dozens
of settlements in the West Bank and
East Jerusalem that are now home
to 560,000 Israelis — an increase of
60,000 since Obama became president four years ago.
Upon his return to Israel, the president told Israelis that in the search
for peace they have “true partners”
in Abbas and Salam Fayyad, the Palestinian prime minister.
Senate gun bill will expand background checks
Alan Fram
WASHINGTON — Gun control
legislation the Senate debates next
month will include an expansion of
federal background checks for firearms buyers, Majority Leader Harry
Reid said Thursday in a victory for
advocates of gun restrictions.
The announcement underscores
that Democrats intend to take an
aggressive approach in the effort to
broaden the checks, currently required only for transactions involving federally licensed firearms dealers.
President Barack Obama and
many supporters of curbing guns
in and out of Congress consider an
expansion of the system to private
gun sales to be the most effective
response lawmakers could take in
the wake of December’s elementary
school massacre in Newtown, Conn.
The system is designed to keep guns
from criminals, people with serious
mental problems and others considered potentially dangerous.
The overall gun measure the Senate debates will also include legislation boosting penalties for illegal
gun trafficking and modestly expand
a grant program for school security,
said Reid, D-Nev.
Reid said that during Congress’
upcoming two-week break, he hopes
senators will strike a bipartisan compromise on broadening background
checks.
But without a deal, he indicated
the gun bill would include a stricter
version approved this month by the
Senate Judiciary Committee expand-
ing the system to virtually all private
gun transactions with few exceptions.
“I want to be clear: In order to
be effective, any bill that passes the
Senate must include background
checks,” Reid said in a written statement.
Opponents including the National
Rifle Association say background
checks are easily sidestepped by
criminals and threaten creation of a
government file on gun owners —
which is illegal under federal law.
If not included in the overall gun
bill, an expansion of background
checks could have been offered as
an amendment. But that would have
likely meant it would have needed
support from 60 of the 100 senators
to prevail — a difficult hurdle for
Democrats.
LEGALS
IN THE FAMILY COURT OF
MINGO COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA,
DEBORAH K. STANLEY, Petitioner.
Case no.: 13-D-106
ORDER
On this day came Petitoner
Deborah K. Stanley, otherwise
known as Deborah, pro, se,
and moved the court to allow
her to file her Petition for Name
Change pursuant to West Virginia Code 48-25-101, et seq.,
It appearing proper to do so
the Court GRANTS
Petitioner's petition and ORDERS said petition to be filed
with the Circuit Clerk of Mingo
County, West Virignia.
Further, it is ORDERED that a
hearing on the matter and
things set forth in said Petition
shall be heard in open Court
on the 1th day of April, 2013 at
1:30 p.m. before the Honorable Miki Thompson, Judge of
the Circuit Court of Mingo
County, West Virginia.
Entered this 4th day of March,
2013.
The Honorable Miki
Thompson, Judge.
3:15,22
Notice to Creditors and Beneficiaries
Notice is hereby given that
settlement of the estate of the
following named decedents will
proceed without reference to a
fiduciary commissioner unless
within ninety days from the first
publication of this notice such
reference is requested by a
party in interest or an unpaid
creditor files a claim and good
cause is shown to support reference to a fiduciary commissioner.
Douglas M. Perkins
Dated this 11th day of March.,
2013
Jim Hatfield
Clerk of County
Commission of Mingo County
3:15,22
See our new
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF
MINGO COUNTY, WEST
VRIGNIA
IN RE: PETITION OF GERALDINE WILLS FOR THE ADOPTION OF ONE MALE
CHILD UNDER THE AGE OF
21 YEARS, NOW NAMED
JACOB ALEXANDER DARBY.
ADXOPTION NO.: 13-A-7
ORDER OF PUBLICATION
The object to the above titled
proceedings is an adoption of
Jacob Alexander Darby by
Geraldine Willis.
TO: Joseph F. Blackburn
It appearing that Joseph F.
Blackburn whereabouts are
presently unknown and he was
last known to reside at 667
Freebis Ave. Columbus Ohio
43206. It is hereby Ordered
that Joseph F. Blackburn be
and hereby is notified and advised by this Publication to appear in the Circuit Court of
Mingo County, in Williamson,
West Virginia, on May 6, 2013
at the hour of 11:30 a.m. for a
full and final hearing on matters raided in the above referenced Case Number, which
could result in the termination
of his parental/custodial rights
in and to the above mentioned
child. Any answer, including
any related count claim or defense, to the Petition for Adoption should be served upon the
attorney for the Petitioner, on
or before thirty (30) days from
the first date of publication
hereof, at his address of:
Joshua S. Ferrell, Ferrell Law
Office, PLLC, 208 Logan St.
P.O. Box 401, Williamson, WV
25661, Telephone Number 304
-235-5674. Should Joseph F.
Blackburn fail to appear on
May 6, 2013, upon proper
hearing and trail, he is hereby
notified and advised that his
parental/custodial rights may
be terminated and judgment
may be taken against him for
the relief demanded in the said
Petition. Copy of the petition
giving rise to this action may
be obtained form the Office of
the Clerk of the Circuit Court of
Mingo County.
Continued on next page
Entered by the Clerk of said
Court Grant Preece, Clerk of
Court
By: Brandy Haney, Deputy
3:22,29
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There WILL be a Fire Board composed of 3 Fire
Chief’s, one Commissioner, and 3 citizens at large.
The Fire Levy has been endorsed by the Mingo
County Commission, Mingo County School Board,
Tug Valley Chamber of Commerce, Mayor/Councils
of Delbarton, Gilbert, Kermit, Matewan,
and Williamson.
Approval of this levy means better equipment for
every fire department, better fire protection for
you and your family, and lower insurance rates for
property owners.
After 5 years if you don’t think we’ve been good
stewards of your money we encourage you to vote it
down next time. But please give us a chance first.
If you have any questions please call
one of the following fire chief’s:
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23rd
“Unknown Father”,
Respondents,
IN THE INTEREST OF THIS
MINOR CHILDREN:
Jackie Ray Gearles DOB: 0110-13
The object of the above entitled action is to terminate the
parental and custodial rights of
the parents or other custodians of the above named child
and to place permanent custody of said child with the West
Virginia Department of Health
and Human Services.
To: Unknown Father
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CLASSIFIEDS
illiamson
DA I LY N E W S
It appearing that an Unknown
Father may or may not be a
resident of Mingo County,
West Virginia, and it is hereby
Ordered that the said Unknown Father is hereby notified and advised by this Publication to appear in the Circuit
Court of Mingo County, in Williamson, West Virginia, on April
23, 2013, at 2:15 oʼclock p.m.,
for a
preliminary/adjudicatory/dispositional hearing on matters
which could result in the termination of his parental/custodial rights in and to the
above mentioned child.
Ashley Cochran, Attorney at
Law, whose address is P.O.
Box 221, Williamson, WV,
25661, Telephone Number
(304) 235-3509, has been appointed to represent the Unknown Father
and may be conLEGALS
tacted at the address or telephone number listed.
Should the said Unknown
Father fail to appear on April
23, 2013, upon proper hearing
and trial they are hereby notified and advised that his parental/custodial rights may be
terminated.
A copy of the petition giving
rise to the aforesaid court proceedings can be obtained from
the undersigned Clerk at his
office.
Court on this the 13th day of
March, 2013.
GRANT PREECE,
CLERK OF CIRCUIT COURT
SELL • BUY • RENT • HIRE • FIND
For any questions call Kim Chapman @ 304-235-4242
BY:
________________________
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CHERYL DANIELS, DEPUTY
CLERK
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It appearing that Joseph F.
line Upgrade Project. ProfesBlackburn whereabouts are
presently unknown and he was sional services will include the
following items: proper preparlast known to reside at 667
ation of plan, design facility,
Freebis Ave. Columbus Ohio
preparation of bidding and conIt is hereby
Ordered
843206.
■
FRIDAY,
MARCH
22,
2013
tract documents; participation
that Joseph F. Blackburn be
in the solicitation and evaluand hereby is notified and adation of bids; assistance in obvised by this Publication to aptaining easements and other
pear in the Circuit Court of
property if necessary; surveyMingo County, in Williamson,
ing and mapping; preparation
West Virginia, on May 6, 2013
of all necessary permit applicaat the hour of 11:30 a.m. for a
tions; construction administrafull and final hearing on mattion and construction inspecters raided in the above refertion. Procurement of said serenced Case Number, which
vices shall be made in accordcould result in the termination
ance with 24 CFR Part 85.34
of his parental/custodial rights
(d)(3) and section 5G of the
in and to the above mentioned
West Virginia State Code.
child. Any answer, including
Contracts are to be awarded
any related count claim or deon a lump sum/fixed fee basis.
fense, to the Petition for Adoption should be served upon the All engineering firms interested in being considered for
attorney for the Petitioner, on
this project must submit five
or before thirty (30) days from
copies of their proposal detailthe first date of publication
ing technical expertise, qualihereof, at his address of:
fications, and related prior exJoshua S. Ferrell, Ferrell Law
perience. Proposals must be
Office, PLLC, 208 Logan St.
submitted by 4:00 p.m. on
P.O. Box 401, Williamson, WV
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his
• Include
a phone
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address
posal must be enclosed in anparental/custodial
rights may
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other envelope with the project
be terminated and judgment
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name and Engineering Sermay
be taken against him for
thePhone
relief demanded
in the said vices Proposal highlighted on
#
the outside of the outer envelPetition. Copy of the petition
ope and must allow for suffigiving rise to this action may
cient time forLEGALS
mailing to reach
Continued
from previous
be obtained
formpage
the Office of
the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the above referenced address
prior to the scheduled closing
Mingo County.
LEGALS
time for the receipt of proposals. Should there be any questions, please contact J.B.
Heflin (Telephone number (304
Court Grant Preece, Clerk of
-235-2244). Interviews will be
Court
held during the month of, April
2013.
By: Brandy Haney, Deputy
3:22,29 The objective of the competitive process is to objectively select the firm which will provide
the highest quality of service at
MINGO COUNTY, WEST VIR- a realistic fee. Accordingly,
technical qualifications and exGINIA
perience will be weighed heavily. The board members of the
State of West Virginia,
Mingo County Public Service
District shall evaluate the
Petitioner,
statements of qualification and
performance data and other
Vs. Juvenile Case No. 13JAmaterial submitted by inter17, 18, 19
ested firms and select a minimum of three firms which, in
Linda Gail Copley
their opinion, are best qualiOdell Isaac Hall,
fied to perform the desired service. Interviews with each firm
Respondents,
selected shall be conducted
and the board shall conduct
discussions to evaluate
MINOR CHILDREN:
presented information. The
board shall then rank in order
of preference no less than
Nathaniel Hall DOB: 10-24-12
three professional firms
James Hall DOB: 03-24-11
deemed to be the most highly
Mary Hall DOB: 05-10-10
qualified to provide the services required, and shall commence scope of services and
The object of the above enprice negotiations with the
titled action is to terminate the
parental and custodial rights of highest qualified professional
firm for said services. Should
the parents or other custodithe Mingo County Public Serans of the above named chilvice District be unable to negodren and to place permanent
tiate a satisfactory contract
custody of said children with
with the professional firm conthe West Virginia Department
of Health and Human Services. sidered to be the most qualified, at a fee determined to be
fair and reasonable, price neTo: Odell Isaac Hall
gotiations with the firm of
Yawkey, West Virginia
second choice shall commence. Failing accord with the
It appearing that Odell Isaac
second most qualified profesHall may or may not be a ressional firm, the board shall unident of Mingo County, West
dertake, negotiations with the
Virginia, and it is hereby
third most qualified professionOrdered that the said Odell
al firm. Should the Mingo
Isaac Hall is hereby notified
County Public Service District
and advised by this Publicabe unable to negotiate a satistion to appear in the Circuit
Court of Mingo County, in Willi- factory contract with any of the
professional firms in order of
amson, West Virginia, on April
their competence and qualific8, 2013, at 1:15 oʼclock p.m.,
ations, the Mingo County Pubfor a preliminary/adjudicatory
hearing on matters which could lic Service District shall continue negotiations in accordance
result in the termination of his
parental/custodial rights in and with these procedures until an
agreement is reached.
to the above mentioned chilAttention is directed to the fact
dren.
that the proposed project will
be undertaken using various
Marsha Webb Rumora, Attorfunding sources, examples of
ney at Law, whose address is
which are AML, USDA-RUS,
P.O. Box 2118, Williamson,
Infrastructure Council, and locWV, 25661, Telephone Numal funds. All work shall be perber (304) 235-2290, has been
formed in accordance with the
appointed to represent Odell
regulations issued by the fedIsaac Hall and may be contaceral funding source and the
ted at the address or teleState of West Virginia pertainphone number listed.
ing thereto. The selected firm
will be required to comply with
Should the said Odell Isaac
Title VI of Civil Rights Act of
Hall fail to appear on April 8,
2013, upon proper hearing and 1964, Executive Order 11245,
Section 109 of the Housing
trial they are hereby notified
and Urban Development Act of
and advised that his
1968, conflict of Interest Stateparental/custodial rights may
ment, Access to Records, probe terminated.
visions, and the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real
A copy of the petition giving
Property Acquisitions Policies
rise to the aforesaid court proceedings can be obtained from Act of 1970.
The Mingo County Public Serthe undersigned Clerk at his
vice District will afford full opoffice.
portunity for minority business
enterprise to respond to this inEntered by the Clerk of said
vitation and will not discriminCourt on this the 12th day of
ate against any firm or indiMarch, 2013.
vidual on the grounds of race,
creed, color, sex, age, handiGRANT PREECE,
cap, or national origin in the
CLERK OF CIRCUIT COURT
awarding of a contract.
Mingo County Public Service
BY:
District reserves the right to acCHERYL DANIELS, DEPUTY
cept
or reject any and all proCLERK
posals.
3:15,22 Robert Adams, Chairman
Mingo County PSD
Request for Proposals for Engineering Services
The Mingo County Public SerMINGO COUNTY, WEST VIRvice District, Mingo County,
GINIA
West Virginia, is in the proState of West Virginia,
cess of selecting a Project EnPetitioner,
gineer to provide engineering
services for construction of the Vs. Juvenile Case No. 13JA-10
Stella Gearles
Justice Water System Water“Unknown Father”,
line Upgrade Project. ProfesRespondents,
sional services will include the
following items: proper preparMINOR CHILDREN:
ation of plan, design facility,
preparation of bidding and con- Jackie Ray Gearles DOB: 0110-13
tract documents; participation
The object of the above enin the solicitation and evalutitled action is to terminate the
ation of bids; assistance in obparental and custodial rights of
taining easements and other
the parents or other custodiproperty if necessary; surveyans of the above named child
ing and mapping; preparation
of all necessary permit applica- and to place permanent custody of said child with the West
tions; construction administraVirginia Department of Health
tion and construction inspecand Human Services.
tion. Procurement of said serTo: Unknown Father
vices shall be made in accordance with 24 CFR Part 85.34
It appearing that an Unknown
(d)(3) and section 5G of the
Father may or may not be a
West Virginia State Code.
resident of Mingo County,
Contracts are to be awarded
West Virginia, and it is hereby
on a lump sum/fixed fee basis.
Ordered that the said UnAll engineering firms interknown Father is hereby notiested in being considered for
fied and advised by this Publicthis project must submit five
ation to appear in the Circuit
copies of their proposal detailCourt of Mingo County, in Williing technical expertise, qualiamson, West Virginia, on April
fications, and related prior ex23, 2013, at 2:15 oʼclock p.m.,
perience. Proposals must be
for a
submitted by 4:00 p.m. on
preliminary/adjudicatory/disMarch 29, 2013 to the followpositional hearing on matters
ing address: Mingo County
Public Service District, PO Box which could result in the termination of his parental/cus98, Naugatuck, WV 25685. If
todial rights in and to the
forwarded by mail, the sealed
envelope containing the proabove mentioned child.
posal must be enclosed in anAshley Cochran, Attorney at
other envelope with the project Law, whose address is P.O.
name and Engineering SerBox 221, Williamson, WV,
vices Proposal highlighted on
25661, Telephone Number
the outside of the outer envel(304) 235-3509, has been apope and must allow for suffipointed to represent the Uncient time for mailing to reach
known Father and may be conthe above referenced address
tacted at the address or teleprior to the scheduled closing
phone number listed.
time for the receipt of proposShould the said Unknown
als. Should there be any ques- Father fail to appear on April
tions, please contact J.B.
23, 2013, upon proper hearing
Heflin (Telephone number (304 and trial they are hereby noti-
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CONCEPTIS SUDOKU
by Dave Green
HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Friday,
March 22, 2013:
This year you will kick back and
enjoy yourself more. Lately, you have
been too focused on your many different responsibilities. Nearly any
project can be fun, as long as you
keep an open mind and maintain a
sense of humor. If you are single,
romance builds, which adds to
your overall happiness. If you are
attached, you will make a point to
focus on each other much more. Plan
on taking that special, long-desired
trip together. LEO can be quite
demanding.
The Stars Show the Kind of Day
You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive;
3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
HHHHH You can’t possibly be
more enthusiastic than you already
are. Your fiery personality mixes well
with the present moment, and your
creativity reaches a new level. Your
interest in a situation adds an element of curiosity and possibly some
mischief. Tonight: Only what you
want.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
HHH Friends have an unpredictable edge that keeps you alert. You
simply don’t know what’s going to
happen next. Cheer up an overserious partner who cares a lot about
you. You might find that you are at
the beginning of a project once again.
Tonight: Close to home.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20)
HHHH Use your excellent skills
as a communicator. You will find that
an element of surprise runs through
your dealings, particularly those
with authority figures. You might not
want to discuss an issue in the same
way with the same person. Tonight:
Where the action is.
CANCER (June 21-July 22)
HHHH Recognize the importance
of indulging a loved one. Your positive attitude, coupled with the fact
that it is Friday, helps you create
the optimism and cheerful attitude
you like to exude and also receive.
Choose the right invitation for you.
Tonight: In the whirlwind of life.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
HHHHH As you probably already
know, there is no other sign like Leo
when it comes to living the good life.
The Moon in your sign brightens up
your Friday and gives you plenty of
possible plans to consider. The unexpected lurks, and it promises some
wild moments. Tonight: Just let it be.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
HHH Take your time making decisions right now. There is an element
of the unexpected on the loose, so
make sure to buckle your seat belt. A
partner enjoys surprising you. Even
if it doesn’t feel like a surprise, show
this person your appreciation with a
smile. Tonight: To the wee hours.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
HHHH Go where your friends are.
You will have a good time, even if
you must do some work. You can’t
suppress your playful energy, but you
can justify it because of the impending weekend. Schedule a late lunch,
and factor in a celebration. Tonight:
Follow the crowds.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
HHHH You might want to check in
with a parent or an older friend before
making weekend plans. Catch up on
news with this person over munchies. Cut out early in the afternoon if
possible. Know that you will be the
leader of the gang, no matter where
you are. Tonight: In the limelight.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
HHHH Distant drumming beckons you, and you will want to follow.
Make calls early, clear your desk and
head out the door as soon as possible. You are on the path of adventure. Be an explorer, and try out a
new, offbeat spot. Confirm meeting
times and places. Tonight: Play out
a dream.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
HHHHH Listen to your instincts
when following through with a partner. An investment might fall in your
lap. Know that you don’t need to
answer immediately, as you might
want to weigh the pros and cons.
Bring in an expert if need be. Tonight:
Count your change.
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HHHH Your unpredictability
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You might want to figure out how
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If you really do feel lucky, buy a lottery ticket. Tonight: Out and about.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
HHHH Often when people come
toward you, they find you to be rather
spontaneous. In fact, they never
seem to know what to expect when
they are with you. You could be
experiencing a roller-coaster ride of
emotions. Reach out to a close friend
for his or her advice or feedback.
Tonight: Where there is music.
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Syria: Bombing kills top pro-Assad Sunni preacher
Zeina Karam
BEIRUT — A suicide bomb
ripped through a mosque in the
heart of the Syrian capital Thursday, killing a top Sunni Muslim
preacher and outspoken supporter of President Bashar Assad in
one of the most stunning assassinations of Syria’s 2-year-old
civil war. At least 41 others were
killed and more than 84 wounded.
The slaying of Sheikh Mohammad Said Ramadan al-Buti
removes one of the few remaining pillars of support for Assad
among the majority Sunni sect
that has risen up against him.
It also marks a new low in the
Syrian civil war: While suicide
bombings blamed on Islamic extremists fighting with the rebels
have become common, Thursday’s attack was the first time
a suicide bomber detonated his
explosives inside a mosque.
A prolific writer whose sermons were regularly broadcast
on TV, the 84-year-old al-Buti
was killed while giving a religious lesson to students at the
Eman Mosque in the central
Mazraa district of Damascus.
The most senior religious figure to be killed in Syria’s civil
war, his assassination was a
major blow to Syria’s embattled
leader, who is fighting mainly
Sunni rebels seeking his ouster.
Al-Buti has been a vocal supporter of the regime since the early
days of Assad’s father and predecessor, the late President Hafez
Assad, providing Sunni cover
and legitimacy to their rule. Sunnis are the majority sect in Syria
while Assad is from the minority
Alawite sect — an offshoot of
Shiite Islam.
“The blood of Sheik al-Buti
will be a fire that ignites all the
world,” said Grand Mufti Ahmad Badreddine Hassoun, the
country’s top state-appointed
Sunni Muslim cleric and an
Assad loyalist. Syrian TV showed
footage of wounded people
and bodies with severed limbs
on the mosque’s blood-stained
floor, and later, corpses covered
in white body bags lined up in
rows. Sirens wailed through the
capital as ambulances rushed to
the scene of the explosion, which
was sealed off by the military.
Among those killed was al-Buti’s grandson, the TV said.
The bombing was among the
most serious security breaches
in the capital. An attack in July
that targeted a high-level government crisis meeting killed four
top regime officials, including
Assad’s brother-in-law and the
defense minister.
Last month, a car bomb that
struck in the same area, which
houses the headquarters of Syria’s ruling Baath party, killed at
least 53 people and wounded
more than 200 others in one of
the deadliest Damascus bomb-
ings of the civil war.
A small, frail man, al-Buti was
well known in the Arab world
as a religious scholar and longtime imam at the eighth-century
Omayyad Mosque, a Damascus
landmark. State TV said he has
written 60 books and religious
publications.
In recent months, Syrian TV
has carried al-Buti’s sermons
from mosques in Damascus live
every week. He also has a regular
religious TV program.
There was no immediate claim
of responsibility for Thursday’s
attack.
Among the opposition, there
was a mixture of suspicion and
shock that an elderly religious
figure such as al-Bouti would be
targeted by a suicide bomber inside a mosque.
“I don’t know of a single opposition group that could do
something like this,” said Walid
al-Bunni, a spokesman for the
Syrian National Coalition op-
position group, speaking on AlArabiya TV.
Syrian TV began its evening
newscast with an announcement
from the religious endowments
minister, Mohammad Abdelsattar al-Sayyed, declaring al-Buti’s
“martyrdom” as his voice choked
up. It then showed parts of alButi’s sermon from last Friday, in
which he praised the military for
battling the “mercenaries sent by
America and the West” and said
Syria was being subjected to a
“universal conspiracy.”
Assad’s regime refers to the
rebels fighting against it as “terrorists” and “mercenaries” who
are backed by foreign powers
trying to destabilize the country.
The war, which the U.N. says has
killed more than 70,000 people,
has become increasingly chaotic
as rebels press closer to Assad’s
seat of power in Damascus after
seizing large swaths of territory
in the northern and eastern parts
of the country.
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WASHINGTON — Moving on two fronts, the Republican-controlled House
on Thursday voted to keep
the government running
for the next six months
while pushing through a
tea-party flavored budget
for next year that would
shrink the government by
another $4.6 trillion over
the next decade.
The spending authorization on its way to the
White House for President
Barack Obama’s signature
leaves in place $85 billion
in spending cuts to the
Pentagon and domestic
agencies. The result will
be temporary furloughs for
hundreds of thousands of
federal workers and contractors over the next six
months and interrupted,
slower or halted services
and aid for many Americans.
The nonbinding GOP
budget plan for 2014 and
beyond calls for a balanced
budget in 10 years’ time
and sharp cuts in safetynet programs for the poor
and other domestic programs.
Thursday’s
developments demonstrated the
split nature of this year’s
budget debate. Competing
nonbinding budget measures by each party provide
platforms for political principles; at the same time
Capitol Hill leaders forged
a bipartisan deal on carrying out the government’s
core responsibilities, in
this case providing money
for agencies to operate and
preventing a government
shutdown.
The GOP budget proposal, similar to previous
plans offered by Budget
Committee
Chairman
Paul Ryan, R-Wis., demonstrates that it’s possible,
at least mathematically, to
balance the budget within
a decade without raising
taxes. But to do so Ryan,
his party’s vice presidential
nominee last year, assumes
deep cuts that would force
millions from programs for
the poor like food stamps
and Medicaid and cut almost 20 percent from domestic agency budget levels assumed less than two
years ago.
Ryan’s plan passed the
House on a mostly partyline 221-207 vote, with 10
Republicans joining Democrats against it.
Meanwhile, the Democrat-controlled Senate debated for a second day its
first budget since the 2009
plan that helped Obama
pass his health care law.
A vote on the Senate measure is expected late Friday
or early Saturday.
The dueling House and
Senate budget plans are
anchored on opposite ends
of the ideological spectrum
in Washington, appealing
to core partisans in warring GOP and Democratic
tribes long gridlocked over
how to attack budget deficits. The GOP plan caters
to tea party forces while
Senate Budget Committee
Chairman Patty Murray,
D-Wash., crafted a measure
designed to nail down support from liberal senators
like Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.,
and Tom Harkin, D-Iowa,
who vehemently oppose
cuts to safety net programs, like Medicare and
Social Security.
What the Ryan and
Murray budgets both
fail to do is reach out
to the political middle,
where
any
possible
bargain would have to
be forged.
“At least we’re moving
closer to an opportunity
for agreement,” said Sen.
Dick Durbin, D-Ill. “I know
we’re worlds apart when it
comes to philosophy and
how we go forward.”
The sharp contrast over
the 2014 budget and beyond came as the House
cleared away last year’s unfinished fiscal business —
a sweeping, governmentwide bill to keep Cabinet
agencies running through
the 2013 budget year,
which ends Sept. 30.
The House passed the
bipartisan 2013 measure
by a sweeping 318-109
vote. The Senate had approved the measure on
Wednesday.
The measure would authorize money for the day-today operations of every Cabinet agency through Sept. 30,
provide another $87 billion
to fund overseas military
operations in Afghanistan
and Iraq and maintain a pay
freeze for federal workers.
Automatic spending cuts of
5 percent to domestic programs and 8 percent to the
Pentagon are left in place,
leaving hundreds of thousands of federal workers facing job furloughs.
But the bill eases the effect of the trims on food
inspections and college
assistance for active duty
military and relieves the
Pentagon from a cash
crunch in accounts for
training and readiness.
Veteran health programs
will get their scheduled
increases and there are big
boosts to modernize the
Pentagon’s nuclear arsenal.
It also ensures full funding for a food program for
pregnant women and their
babies.
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