| WV TORTURE CASE MAKES INTERNATIONAL NEWS - Logan County Prosecutor Brian Abraham says he will file additional charges against five of the six residents accused of kidnapping and torturing 20-year-old Megan Williams of Charleston.
The woman was tortured for days, using demeaning methods from stabbing to eating feces.
"It's our intent that all of the defendants would be charged with the kidnapping and there would be some sexual assault offenses added to some of the other defendants," Abraham said Monday.
Four of the six charged Logan County residents - 24-year-old Bobby Brewster, 23-year-old Alisha Burton, 46-year-old Karen Burton, and 27-year-old George Messer - were scheduled to appear in front of a Logan County magistrate. The other suspects - 49-year-old Frankie Brewster and 20-year-old Danny Combs - are scheduled to appear in magistrate court yesterday.
The six are charged for allegedly kidnapping and assaulting Williams. Police say the Charleston woman was held against her will for more than a week at a trailer in Big Creek.
Police say she was tortured and sexually assaulted and forced to eat animal droppings. An anonymous tip led police to the Big Creek home.
The case has gained national attention because police believe the kidnapping and assault may have been racially motivated.
All suspects are being held on $100,000 cash bail.
HUNTINGTON POLICE SURROUND GREYHOUND STATION - Huntington police swarmed a Greyhound station Tuesday after James Starr called and told them an acquaintance, Thomas Farris, just approached him with a gun.
"He got off the bus walked up to me shook my hand started talking to me and said I got a gun for sale. I said, 'Where'd you get it?' He said, 'I stole it off somebody,'" said James Starr of Huntington.
Starr said he told Farris to get lost. In turn, Farris went inside the bus station and dumped the gun in the men's room trash can.
Greyhound passengers were alarmed.
"How do we know he wasn't going to kill someone," passenger Elaine Burns said.
Burns said this was her first time riding on Greyhound and after Farris transported a gun on board, it might be her last.
Police recovered the fully loaded 38-caliber pistol from the men's room trash can, and then found Farris just across the street.
The arresting officer said because of Farris's criminal history, he was charged with being a convicted felon with a firearm.
STABBING AT RAFTING COMPANY -
Duane Edward Rakes, II is charged in the Monday night stabbing of a man in Lansing. Fayette County 911 received the call of an altercation in the parking lot near Class VI River Runners.
When authorities arrived, they found 34-year-old Carlos David Duarte Soto of Costa Rica with stab wounds to the chest and back plus a cut to the face.
Soto was transported by HealthNet to Charleston Area Medical Center. He was listed in critical but stable condition.
Authorities obtained an arrest warrant for Duane Edward Rakes, II of Fayetteville. Rakes is charged with the felony offense of malicious wounding. He was arraigned in Magistrate Court Tuesday morning and released on bond.
The motive is not clear.
WEBSTER CO. ARMED ROBBERY - Webster County sheriff's deputies and State Police were searching Tuesday for two suspects in an armed robbery and shooting.
Deputies say James Dowdell, 40, was getting ready to leave for work when two men in their mid to late 30s confronted him and took his wallet and other valuables.
Authorities said Dowdell was trying to comply when they hit him in the head and shot him in the arm.
He was hospitalized and later released.
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