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A federal judge last week sentenced the former Rockbridge Regional Jail superintendent to more than four years in prison for taking bribes in exchange for special treatment for one inmate, and for failing to provide adequate care for two others who were in custody. Judge Norman Moon had previously convicted John Marshall Higgins on charges that he denied medical treatment to inmates who had been beaten and tortured in his custody, and that he gave preferential treatment to a Washington and Lee University student serving time for vehicular manslaughter and maiming. Moon, ruling via remote audi...

A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced the former Rockbridge Regional Jail superintendent to more than four years in prison for taking bribes in exchange for special treatment for one inmate, and for failing to provide adequate care for two others who were in custody. Judge Norman Moon had previously convicted John Marshall Higgins on charges that he denied medical treatment to inmates who had been beaten and tortured in his custody, and that he gave preferential treatment to a Washington and Lee University student serving time for vehicular manslaughter and maiming. Moon, ruling via remote aud...

The former superintendent of the Rockbridge Regional Jail has been found guilty in federal court of taking bribes in exchange for special treatment for one inmate, and for failing to provide adequate care for two others who were in custody. Those guilty verdicts, on five felony charges and one misdemeanor, followed John Marshall Higgins’ bench trial in August and were detailed in an opinion issued Sunday by U.S. District Court Judge Norman Moon. His convictions were on three counts of deprivation of civil rights, after he denied medical care to an injured inmate and failed to protect him...

underground explosion. we also understand maybe roughly about 15 minutes after the hour, president obama will deliver the eulogy. we understand it might be about ten minutes long. of course, he'll talk about the collective grief that people are feeling as a result of this explosion and the lives lost, and he will also try to offer some assurances that some measures of safety will be put into place for future coal miners and other communities that have such great investments in the coal mining industry. there you saw the governor, joe manchin. the first lady, gail manchin is also ther...

kenneth a. chapman, sr.. [ applause ] kenny davis. [ applause ] ennie r. willingham. [ applause ] are gregory steven brock. [ applause ] >> cory thomas davis. [ applause ] steven gay smallly. [ applause ] nicholas nicrosy. [ applause ] president of the united states and long with the vice president at beckley, west virginia for the mine there's died on april 5th, wendall is standing by live. tell us what is happening there. >> gregg, moving pictures of the family members placing the helmets atop those 29 crosses in front of the stage. we're told the president and vice president met...