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	Cabell County Sheriff's Race Poll Who should be the democratic nominee for sheriff in Cabell County? C.A. Adams Scott Bias Herman Beckett Tommy McComas Jim Lawson Poll posted 04/07/2008. Poll ends 11/30/2008. See results - 114 votes. WSAZ WEST VIRGINIA HEADLINE LINKS WSAZ - HomePage - Headlines RSS Feed for WSAZ - HomePage - Headlines Cover Story: Obama In WV posted on May 09, 2008 07:19:56 pm He's preparing for the general election. But Senator Barack Obama's next contest is here in West Virginia. Cooking With Katie Lee Joel posted on May 09, 2008 07:19:56 pm Spend sometime in the kitchen with Katie and her new cookbook. Johnson County Woman Missing For More Than Two Weeks posted on May 09, 2008 07:19:56 pm Friends and family are on the search for a Johnson County woman who has been missing since April 20. Sexual Abuse Suspect Sentenced to 5 years posted on May 09, 2008 07:19:56 pm A man from Putnam County who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a young girl learned his fate Friday. Obama To Visit WV Monday posted on May 09, 2008 07:19:56 pm Senator may visit Huntington High School. HEADLINE LINKS FROM YAHOO NEWS Yahoo! News: U.S. News U.S. News A crash course in true political science (AP) posted on May 09, 2008 06:11:22 pm AP - Daniel Suson has a doctorate in astrophysics and has worked on the superconducting super collider and a forthcoming NASA probe. Now he's heading back to school to take on an even trickier task � getting elected to public office. Records show Sharpton owes overdue taxes, other penalties (AP) posted on May 09, 2008 06:50:56 pm AP - Big corporations give him money. Presidential candidates seek his endorsement. He has influential friends in Congress and the governor's mansion. The Rev. Al Sharpton has emerged over the past decade as perhaps the nation's most prominent civil rights leader, a status that was demonstrated again this week when he led protests against police brutality that briefly shut down six of Manhattan's major bridges and tunnels. Happy Mother's Day: Woman pregnant with 18th child (AP) posted on May 09, 2008 05:25:57 pm AP - It's a happy Mother's Day for an Arkansas woman � she's pregnant with her 18th child. Michelle Duggar, 41, is due on New Year's Day, and the latest addition will join seven sisters and 10 brothers. There are two sets of twins. Nevada judge accused of demanding royal treatment (AP) posted on May 09, 2008 05:52:09 pm AP - Elizabeth Halverson is a judge. But the way courthouse staffers see it, she expects to be treated like a queen. Man who lost homes in Katrina claims $97M Powerball prize (AP) posted on May 09, 2008 07:00:08 am AP - A construction company owner who lost two homes in Hurricane Katrina claimed a $97 million Powerball prize, a jackpot won off a ticket he bought at a convenience store where he stopped to buy his wife a gallon of milk. LOCAL SECTION Huntington West Virginia Blogs Huntington West Virginia Blog The WV blog of Stephanie Heck, a WV web site designer, computer programmer, blogger in Huntington West Virginia, Huntington is the home of Marshall University and production site of the movie We Are Marshall. She is a commercial webmaster who blogs on political topics of Huntington WV politics and local news, West Virginia News and the War in Iraq from a liberal democrat perspective. Her blog is an anomaly here in Huntington West Virginia. She blogs about West Virginia Politics from a Cabell County 25701 perspective. Political commentary and opinions from an alternative source. Cabell County Sheriff Candidates posted on April 08, 2008 03:06:43 pm Here is a online poll of the Cabell County Sheriff Candidates who are running in the May election. Cabell County Sheriff Candidates I just put the poll up so it works but the page is not yet pretty. I programmed the poll software so that it only allows one vote per IP address. No IP outside of the USA is allowed to vote. There are a number of controls to prevent results tampering by foreign bot networks. The results are instantly available as they are calculated by the machine. Overt attempts at cheating by using contiguous IP's will be deleted. Nobody claims this poll is in the least bit scientific. But the small number of safeguards against digital ballot box stuffing A.K.A. cheating make it more reliable than a poll of the candidates friends, conducted by a candidate. AFNI Consumer Alert posted on April 05, 2008 12:55:11 pm There is a company called AFNI (Anderson Financial Network Inc.) that has been sending out bogus Verizon bills to West Virginia residents, and especially those in the Huntington West Virginia area. It does not matter to these people if the bills are legitimate or not, it is basically a matter of paying these scam artists to get them to leave you alone. AFNI is well known for frequent computer generated phone calls that are designed to annoy and harass. In many instances the alleged bills that AFNI is trying to collect�are older than the statute of limitations. In many instances the alleged bills are not owed at all, and or the product of identity theft.� AFNI refuses to provide documentation from the original creditor. AFNI can and will report you to the credit reporting�agencies to gain money that they are not entitled to in violation of the fair credit reporting act. If you are contacted by AFNI do not talk to them by phone but call your attorney or the police immediately. A police report filed at the onset of harassment can help your lawyer preserve your rights at a later date. Under no circumstances give AFNI any personal or banking information. The West Virginia Attorney Generals office has an excellent track record for shutting down abusive bill collectors and scam artists. Pick up the phone and call the consumer protection division of the West Virginia Attorney Generals office. 1-800-368-8808. The best way to deal with AFNI is to give them what they deserve...lawyers. Capital Punishment posted on March 09, 2008 10:22:46 am Some have suggested that West Virginia revive Capital Punishment. I am no fan of criminals and I have no sympathy for those who murder for the fun of it. I am opposed to the death penalty in West Virginia and in the United States to boot. Why am I opposed? If we stop the executions of killers in the U.S. Then we wont look like hypocrites when we ask that other countries stop executing people for things that are perfectly legal to do here. In short if we stop executing people for major capitol offences. Then we are not going to look like hypocrites when we ask Saudi Arabia to stop executing women for adultery. Then we are not going to look like hypocrites when we ask Iran to stop hanging gay people. In Kuwait a woman can be executed for driving a car. In many nations, one can be executed for converting from Islam to Christianity. If we stop executing people, we wont look like hypocrites when we demand that other nations refrain from doing so also. In short if the criminals in this country are given life without parole as an alternative to the death penalty. Then it greatly increases the bargaining position of our diplomats who try to get other countries to stop executing political and religious offenders in other parts of the world. In short I am willing to let some of the wicked animals on death row do life without parole if it enhances our ability to put pressure on third world countries to stop killing innocent people for petty reasons. The French, Belgian, British, and Dutch diplomatic corps have intervened many times in the Moslem world where women are more likely to face capital punishment than men. In northern Europe capital punishment has been abolished. I wish American diplomats were leading the efforts. In some parts of Africa people (Mostly women) are still being brutally executed by stoning on occasion. It is a brutal world that we live in. Americans have traditionally been people of great kindness and compassion and that is why we were once respected around the world. Remember the Kindness that President Truman displayed to our former German enemies during the Berlin Airlift. It was at that time the largest humanitarian campaign the world had ever seen and the world respected our kindness. The current president of the United States has signed more death warrants and built more prisons than any other leader in American history and it does not work. Around the world Americans are no longer seen as kind humanitarian people who lead by example. I want my country back. I oppose capital punishment in the USA because its sets an example for developing countries to follow. No country can claim to be totally free as long as the government of that country has the capacity to (rightly or wrongly) kill its own citizens. Freedom for good people is what it is all about. Public Service Consumer Alert posted on February 13, 2008 06:48:25 pm There is a group of telephone scammers working the Huntington West Virginia area known as NCO. NCO claims to be bill collectors, but in reality NCO tries to collect on old accounts that are far outside the statute of limitation by using telephone harassment to wear the victim down, and to sometimes get them to pay a bill that they don't even owe at all. NCO has been known to go after people who merely have the same phone number that was once held by someone else, or to try to collect an alleged debt that was owed by a previous resident where the victim currently lives. NCO was fined over 1.5 M by the Federal Trade Commission several years ago for shady collection practices so they are no strangers to federal law enforcement. Here is a link to the FTC website to verify this. http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2004/05/ncogroup.shtm If you are contacted by NCO you will most likely encounter an obnoxious NCO telephone solicitor demanding that you give them checking account or credit card information to pay a bill that you allegedly owe that is most likely more than ten years old. Do not give them any banking information whatsoever, or you will be setting yourself up for identity theft. Do not confirm or deny your social security number to the NCO caller. They will start abusively calling you on a daily basis and they use automated computer equipment to call and hang up in many instances. Pick up the phone and call the consumer protection division of the West Virginia Attorney Generals office. 1-800-368-8808. West Virginia has very stern laws against telephone harassment and abusive debt collection practices, and the attorney generals office will not hesitate to enforce those laws and prosecute violators. The best way to deal with obnoxious bill collectors in my experience is to bypass the collection agency and contact the original creditor and pay what you legitimately owe, and or remind the original creditor that they can be held liable for the misconduct of their agent if the statute of limitations has expired. It worked for me. Talk to a lawyer to get better advice than I can give. To the best of my knowledge NCO is not licensed to do business in West Virginia and this poses a severe danger when NCO harasses vulnerable people in their homes by telephone demanding banking information from our citizens. If you are getting debt collection notices by U.S. Mail from NCO for bills that you do not owe. Contact the U.S. Postal inspectors. They are very interested in mail fraud. Charleston WV Postal Inspector James R. Hoke Telephone (304) 357-4140 Email JRHoke@uspis.gov Abusive phone calls are not only contrary to law but phone company regulations as well. Call the business office of the phone company in West Virginia (304)-954-6200 and ask for help with phone harassment issues. They will try to help you block the calls as much as possible. The citizens of this state should never live in fear of the abusive phone calls of predatory tele-scammers like NCO. I have given you some phone numbers to make NCO live in fear of honest people. The only way to drive abusive predatory business entities out of this state is to bury them in complaints to make the cost of harassing our citizens exceed the potential for return. Stephanie Heck Huntington West Virginia Don Blankenship and the West Virginia Supreme Court. posted on January 20, 2008 03:56:18 pm West Virginia's Chief Supreme Court justice Elliott E. 'Spike' Maynard agreed Friday, Jan. 18, 2008 to recuse himself from a pending case involving Massey Energy Co and Massey's President, CEO and Chairman Don Blankenship. The recusal happened�after pictures of�Don Blankenship and Spike Maynard became public. The pictures taken and made public�were joint poses of Spike Maynard and Don Blankenship�while vacationing in Monaco in July 2006. IN light of the role that Don Blankenship played in the election of Justice Benjamin in the last supreme court election in the state of West Virginia. Many in West Virginia are wondering when Justice Benjamin is going to follow Maynard's example and recuse himself as well. It is a well known matter of common knowledge in the State of West Virginia that Don Blankenship is one of the most controversial and politically vindictive coal barons in the history of this state. Don Blankenship has promoted an extreme right wing agenda that makes most Conservatives republicans look liberal in contrast to Don Blankenship. The relationship between Don Blankenship and the West Virginia Democratic Party is one of extreme animosity. As the CEO of Massey Energy, Don Blankenship is a serious economic player. It was an extreme lapse of judgement for Chief Justice Maynard to have pictures made with Don Blankenship that cause the citizens of West Virginia to question the integrity of the West Virginia Supreme Court. It was not illegal to have ones picture taken with Don Blankenship, however it was poorly thought out. Chief Justice Maynard should have known well that Don Hatfield would exploit any and all political angles. What the citizens of West Virginia are afraid of, is a supreme court judiciary with extremely poor judgement. Milton West Virginia Blog Milton West Virginia Message Board and Cabell County Blog This is a Mlton West Virginia message board forum for Milton West Virginia. All things about Milton in Cabell County are welcome here. You are invited to participate in our Cabell County Blog RE: Geschichswissenschlopff posted on May 09, 2008 06:40:43 pm Bill Clinton made an unexpected stop at Blenko awhile ago. He must have been reading our spoofs about Monica Lewinsky and the blue dress. Maybe he was stopping by to see where Boss gets her pants suits, so he can get one for Hill for Mother's Day. Wonder if Boss and council made it over in time to welcome him to our sweet town? I can't stand it. Katie Lee Joel and Bill Clinton all in one day. RE: BASEBALL posted on May 09, 2008 06:05:15 pm I like this idea so that no one sport runs into another. Thanks for the change. Like I said, CHANGE IS GOOD! Cabell County Killings! posted on May 09, 2008 06:04:41 pm I was thinking about the Cabell County murders that have gone unsolved, and my memory was jogged about a very strange death of a Milton man, Clemmie Curtis, who was a Huntington policeman. I knew him when he and his family lived in Malcolm Springs. Then he was found dead in a cul-de-sac in Huntington with a single bullet wound to the chest. The death was originally ruled a suicide, which prevented his widow from collecting a large life insurance settlement. Then alleged serial killer Henry Lee Lucas confessed to the murder (along with 600 others between 1975-1983), but later recanted many of his confessions. I thought Curtis' murder was among them because of false statements coerced by Curtis' fellow officer, but now I understand his wife has been able to collect the insurance money, and Curtis is one of the fallen officers commemorated on a memorial erected by Culture and History. Does anyone remember/know what happened in this case? RE: Milton Youth Football posted on May 09, 2008 04:09:27 pm I set up different boards for baseball basketball and football. This will to some degree keep viperous arguments down to minimum level. I intend to appoint league officers from each league as moderators to assure to public gets accurate information. I intend to see too it that the forums are a nice place. Additional resources have been alloted to each youth sport section to support multiple topics. That means that the parents of each team can have their own thread in the fabric of the overall forum. I like children too but I am too dum and too fat to be a coach so I will stick to being a silly computer programmer. RE: Youth Basketball posted on May 09, 2008 04:08:47 pm I set up different boards for baseball basketball and football. This will to some degree keep viperous arguments down to minimum level. I intend to appoint league officers from each league as moderators to assure to public gets accurate information. I intend to see too it that the forums are a nice place. Additional resources have been alloted to each youth sport section to support multiple topics. That means that the parents of each team can have their own thread in the fabric of the overall forum. I like children too but I am too dum and too fat to be a coach so I will stick to being a silly computer programmer. STATEWIDE WEST VIRGINIA NEWS West Virginia Public Broadcasting West Virginia Public Broadcasting Your source for in-depth West Virginia news Go to wvpubcast.org for latest news from West Virginia Public Broadcasting posted on May 09, 2008 12:01:52 am We� started this blog more than a year ago to supplement our station’s web site, wvpubcast.org. At the time, we couldn’t provide RSS feeds, and we couldn’t archive our stories. This WordPress blog allowed us to�improve our web content. I’m happy to say it’s no longer necessary to post new content on this blog. We’ve made [...] Supreme Court race turns negative posted on May 08, 2008 07:00:06 pm By Scott Finn We?re just days away from the primary in West Virginia, and the political ads are starting to get nasty ? especially in the Supreme Court race. Huntington lawyer Menis Ketchum has become the first candidate to release a negative T.V. ad, attacking Chief Justice Elliott ?Spike? Maynard. But the other candidates are under attack [...] Eastern Panhandle employees of bankrupt company search for work posted on May 07, 2008 08:48:40 am By Cecelia Mason When an Eastern Panhandle company called AB&C Group closed it?s doors in mid March, it forced about 400 employees into a job market where finding a job has become more difficult. Some of the workers have found jobs, but others are competing in a slow economy with people who have been laid off [...] WVEA has new president posted on May 07, 2008 08:47:15 am By Beth Vorhees Princeton High School teacher Dale Lee won the election for president of the state?s largest teachers union over incumbent Charles DeLauder. Listen to story Irene McKinney essay: On Motherhood posted on May 07, 2008 08:00:42 am As we prepare to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Mother?s Day, West Virginia?s Poet Laureate Irene McKinney is thinking about her own mother, and the reality of motherhood. Listen to story West Virginia Legislature West Virginia Legislature The official Web site of the West Virginia Legislature Interim Legislative Agenda Announced posted on April 09, 2008 01:36:00 pm Proposed 2008 Interim Committee Study Assignments. 2008 Interim Committee Dates Announced posted on April 09, 2008 01:35:00 pm Legislature to meet in Bridgeport Sept. 7-9. House Receives Senate Messages, Completes Work of Special Session posted on March 16, 2008 11:08:00 pm The House received Senate messages regarding the passage of five supplemental bills. The House has adjourned Sine Die. Senate Passes Five Supplementals, Amends Teacher Pension Merger Bill posted on March 16, 2008 11:05:00 pm In the first extraordinary session of 2008 the Senate received House messages regarding the passage of four House Bills. The Senate has adjourned Sine Die. House Meets in Extraordinary Session, Passes Teachers' Pension Merger posted on March 16, 2008 05:57:00 pm The House of Delegates quickly got to work in the First Special Session of 2008, passing 4 bills including the Teachers' Pension merger bill. West Virginia Supreme Court News Error! Error! No data was found for RSS feed http://feeds.feedburner.com/RecentWVCourtOpinions or no items available for this feed /div> 856 visitors so far.