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WISE SIGNS FEMA DECLARATION - Governor Wise signed the official FEMA declaration yesterday.
A Coordinating Officer for FEMA Lewis Botta says they'll continue to tour the state and possibly add more counties to the
list of those that have already qualified for assistance. Calhoun's OES Director Bill Stemple is requesting local residents
continue to contact FEMA on the toll-free line.
Botta says right now the FEMA number is the most important thing residents can have. He says if anyone feels they deserve
federal assistance they should call 1-800-621-FEMA for information.
KANAWHA HAS FOURTH MURDER - Kanawha County has had a fourth murder during the past several days. A man,
shot at least two times, staggered into a Kroger supermarket last night, collapsing in a pool of blood.
The white male appeared to be in his early 20s. He died later at CAMC General Hospital, said Andy Wessels, hospital
spokesman. A woman sitting in the parking lot was barely missed by gunfire. Police have a suspect.
MAN SENTENCED FOR SEWING KIDS HANDS - A Fayette County man, who was accused of sewing his
stepchildren's hands together, along with his wife, were sentenced yesterday to 30 days in jail.
Chesley Dale Hull and Tanya Lee Hull of Mount Hope had been charged with felony child abuse and neglect. Those charges
were reduced to misdemeanors. Tanya Hull, the mother of the four children, was charged for not attempting to stop her
husband's alleged actions.
MAN DIES AFTER SPITTING TOBACCO FROM CAR - Wood County Sheriff's deputies are investigating an accident
in which a man was killed while trying to spit out a mouthful of tobacco. Howard Johnson, 44, of Ravenswood was a
passenger in his girlfriend's car. The car was exiting Interstate 77 at Mineral Wells when Johnson opened the door to spit and
fell out. He died the next day from head injuries.
CLENDENIN RESIDENTS FILE SUIT OVER FIRE - Clendenin business owners and residents have taken the state and
the city to court over a fire that destroyed several structures in the center of town.The group says state welfare officials and
city police officers did nothing to stop a mentally and emotionally handicapped woman from starting open fires in her house.
A fire that started in her house on Oct. 3 spread through downtown Clendenin.
The lawsuit says the city, the state Department of Health and Human Resources could have prevented the fire by taking
better care of the emotionally disturbed woman.
She was living in "virtual squalor" in the days before the fire, lacking basic utilities, she started open fires inside her house to
keep warm, they reported. They claim officials were unresponsive.
A GOOD FUNGUS -A fungus is keeping Eastern hardwood forests healthy in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and other area
states.
About 130 years after gypsy moths first came to American forests, a fungus that kills the moth larvae is helping keep moth
populations in check. Gypsy moths defoliated some 238,000 acres of Pennsylvania hardwood forest in 2001. Officials in
Maryland and West Virginia reported improvements.
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