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Under cross-examination,
she said she helped Labrie
remove her shirt and pants.
And she acknowledged
exchanging breezy email
and Facebook messages
with Labrie in the hours
afterward, saying she kept
the conversation light
penetrated her, and she felt
“frozen” — incapable of
moving or reacting.
“I tried to block out the
feeling as much as I could,” she
said. “I didn’t want to believe
this was happening to me.”
ROANOKE, Va. (AP) —
The woman who survived
the on-air shooting that
killed two TV journalists
says she never saw the
gunman walk up to the
group because the camera’s
bright light blinded her.
Vicki Gardner, a
chamber of commerce
official, was answering
questions about the
community on live TV
when the gunfire erupted.
She was wounded as she
fell to the ground after
hearing the first gunshots,
her husband said Friday.
The gunman, Vester
Flanagan, ambushed WDBJ-
TV cameraman Adam
Ward and reporter Alison
Parker during the interview
Wednesday at the Smith
Mountain Lake Visitor
Center. Gardner is executive
Catfish fry fundraiser Sept. 5
Woodland Harbor Property Owners Association will
be holding a catfish fry fundraiser event from 5 p.m. to 7
p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 5. The fundraiser will feature small
plates of catfish and all the fixings for $5 and large plates
for $8 along with desserts for purchase (cash only). Dine in
or carry out will be available. All proceeds will be donated
to Woodland Harbor Property Owners Association for
improvements to the facilities. After the catfish fry, a 12-gun
safe will be raffled off. Tickets for the raffle are $10 each. For
more information contact Helen Herbold at 214-403-2580.
about having sex with the
girl amounted to the most
damning evidence against
him. He said Labrie was
convicted because he wasn’t
mature enough to tell his
friends the truth.
Gentry family reunion Sept. 6
The descendants of Lon and Gertie Gentry will have a
family reunion from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 6.
Guests will bring a covered dish and pictures to share. The
reunion will take place at Sugarhill Community Center,
in the corner of 1402 County Road and 71. For more
information contact Sandy Agan at 903-572-7542.
and body. Vicki Gardner
was shot in the back.
Flanagan shot himself to
death after a police chase.
Flanagan, a former reporter
at WDBJ, was fired from
the station in 2013 for poor
performance and conflicts
with co-workers, who said
he was always claiming to
be the victim.
Parker’s boyfriend,
WDBJ anchor Chris Hurst,
said Parker went on an
assignment with Flanagan
Habitat for Humanity Work Day Sept. 12
Mount Pleasant Habitat for Humanity will be having a work
day at 6 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 12. Volunteers will be installing
a chain link fence. Tools will be provided as well as water,
Gatorade and lunch. Volunteers will meet at 912 E. 9th Street.
trick in the book” to have
sex with her.
In graphic and sometimes
tearful testimony, the girl,
now 16, said she willingly
went with Labrie to the
rooftop of an academic
building after he invited
her to take part in Senior
Salute, a tradition she knew
about. But she said she was
prepared for kissing at most.
She said that Labrie soon
become aggressive and that
she told him, “No, no, no” as
he moved his face toward her
Agency issues child find
Persons who know of a child, ages 0-21, who shows signs of
developmental delay, on-going learning problems, behavioral
or medical problems that interfere with learning, can contact
their local school district or the Titus County Shared Service
Arrangement office. The Titus County SSA is located at 2230
N. Edwards. The phone number is 903-575-2079.
Farmer’s Academy Community Annual Reunion Oct. 10
The Farmer’s Academy Community annual reunion will
be held from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 10.
Anyone who attended school or has lived in the community
is welcome to join the event. For more information contact
Gay Roy at 903-572-6446.
Building 429 concert Aug. 30
Building 429 concert to benefit Titus County Cares begins
at 6 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 30 at the Mount Pleasant High School
auditorium.
VIP tickets, which include a pre-show meet and greet with
the band and early seating, are sold out.
General admission tickets for $20 will be sold at the door.
All of the ticket proceeds benefit Titus County Cares.
For more information, visit www.tituscountycares.org.
CONCORD, N.H.
(AP) — A graduate of an
exclusive New England
prep school was cleared of
rape but convicted Friday of
lesser sex offenses against a
15-year-old freshman girl
in a case that exposed a
tradition in which seniors
competed to see how many
younger students they could
have sex with.
A jury of nine men and
three women took eight
hours to reach its verdict
in the case against Owen
Labrie, who was accused of
forcing himself on the girl in
a dark and noisy mechanical
room at St. Paul’s School in
Concord two days before he
graduated last year.
Labrie, who was bound
for Harvard and planned to
take divinity classes before
his arrest put everything
on hold, could get as much
as 11 years in prison at
sentencing Oct. 29. The
19-year-old from Tunbridge,
Vermont, will also have to
Bake show Oct. 3
The Titus County Fair Bake Show is set from 7:45 a.m. to 8:30
a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 3. Entries will be checked during that
time and will need to be labeled and covered in a disposable
container and have the recipe attached. No refrigerated items
will be allowed. Entries will be classified into age divisions:
youth, junior and adult. Cash prizes for the top two entries will
be awarded with of $100 and $50 in each age division. Forms
and rules are in the Titus County Fair handbook. The show
room and board.
Prosecutors said the rape
was part of Senior Salute,
which Labrie described to
detectives as a competition
in which graduating seniors
tried to have sex with
underclassmen and kept
score on a wall behind a set
of washing machines.
The young man was
acquitted of the most serious
charges against him — three
counts of felony rape, each
punishable by 10 to 20 years
in prison. But he was found
guilty of three counts of
misdemeanor sexual assault,
using a computer to lure
a minor for sex, and child
endangerment.
Essentially, the jury
by its verdicts signaled
it didn’t believe Labrie’s
assertion that there was no
intercourse, but it also didn’t
believe the girl’s contention
that it was against her will.
In the end, it found Labrie
guilty of having sex with an
underage girl.
The girl is “leaving with
her head held high,” said
Laura Dunn, a spokeswoman
MPHS class of 1965 reunion Oct. 2-3
MPHS class of 1965 will celebrate their 50th reunion on
Friday, Oct. 2 and Saturday, Oct. 3.
The reunion will start on Friday evening with a meet and
greet at the home of Ray and Claudia Rocha. The reunion
will continue on to Saturday at 9 a.m. with a tour of the old
gym, a memorial service and class photo. Evening activities
will be a catered BBQ supper at the Denman Ranch.
The class is still searching for contact information on two
classmates, Pam Moore and Lynn Adkins. If anyone can help
locate them, please contact Kathy Cobb at 903-572-2181.
For more information
contact 903-204-3475 or
visit their website at www.
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Email: mrodriguez@tribnow.net
Titus County Fair Stew Challenge Oct. 3
The Titus County Fair Association will be hosting the
2015 Stew Challenge on Saturday, Oct. 3.
Pilgrim’s will be donating chickens for the contest. Teams
have the option to cook either beef or chicken stew. Entry
fee is $25 per team and deadline for entry is at 6 p.m. on
Thursday, Oct. 1. Teams will have a meeting at 6 p.m. on
Friday, Sept. 25 at Herschel’s.
Entry is open to everyone except the 2014 first-place
winner. For more information or to complete a registration
form visit www.tituscountyfair.com or contact Titus County
Fair via Facebook.
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He acknowledged
bragging to friends that he
had intercourse with the
girl, but he said that was a
lie told to impress them.
He also admitted deleting
119 Facebook messages,
including one in which he
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and wherever that growth
takes us, the future is
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director of the resort area’s
chamber of commerce.
The first four shots
were aimed at Parker, and
two more were aimed at
Ward, Gardner’s husband
Tim said in a telephone
interview from the hospital
where she is recovering.
Then he fired at Gardner,
though his first couple of
shots missed her.
“And then when she
dove down and got shot,
he stopped shooting and
took off,” he said. “But
she wasn’t sure he was
gone so she just laid there
playing possum until first
responders showed up.”
Flanagan fired 17 shots
from a Glock pistol, the
Franklin County Sheriff’s
Office said in a statement
Friday. The writings and
evidence seized from
Flanagan’s apartment
showed the man “closely
identified” with people
who have committed mass
murders, including the
said he and Alison Parker’s
dad, Adam, would fight for
tougher gun laws.
“There are too many
guns in America and
there are clearly too many
guns in the wrong hands,”
the governor said. But
McAuliffe, himself a gun
owner, also conceded that
Flanagan had passed a
innocently remarked that
her friend lived on “Cotton
Hill Road.” Flanagan
accused her of making a
racist remark, something
he apparently did often.
“She did not really know
what he was upset about,
specifically. She just knew
that she felt uncomfortable
being around him, as did
register as a sex offender for
the rest of his life.
He wept upon hearing
the verdict, and then, as
his lawyers conferred with
the judge, sat alone at the
defense table, shaking his
head slightly and looking
up at the ceiling. His
mother sobbed. His accuser
appeared stoic and huddled
with members of her family
in the courtroom.
“Owen’s future is forever
changed,” defense attorney
J. W. Carney said, adding that
the sex convictions will be
like “a brand, a tattoo” that
he will bear for life.
The scandal cast a harsh
light on the 159-year-old
boarding school that has
long been a training ground
for America’s elite. Its
alumni include Secretary of
State John Kerry, former FBI
Director Robert Mueller,
“Doonesbury” creator Garry
Trudeau, at least 13 U.S.
ambassadors, three Pulitzer
Prize winners, and sons
of the Astor and Kennedy
families. Students pay
$53,810 a year in tuition,
find out whether he had
worn a condom.
After Labrie’s arrest, St.
Paul’s announced it would
expel anyone participating
“in any game, ‘tradition,’
or practice of sexual
solicitation or sexual
conquest under any name.”
The school, which first
admitted girls in 1971 and
has about 530 students, also
brought in experts to discuss
such topics as harassment
and relationships.
Carney, Labrie’s lawyer,
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for the teenager and her
family. “It was a step in the
right direction.
But the girl’s family lashed
out at the prep school,
saying in a statement: “We
still feel betrayed that St.
Paul’s School allowed and
fostered a toxic culture that
left our daughter and other
students at risk to sexual
violence. We trusted the
school to protect her and it
failed us.”
St. Paul’s rector Michael G.
Hirschfeld commended “the
remarkable moral courage
and strength demonstrated
by the young woman who
has suffered through this
nightmare,” and said the
prep school is committed to
teaching its students to act
honorably.
Labrie was allowed to
remain free on $15,000 bail
while he awaits sentencing.
The aspiring minister and
captain of the school soccer
team testified that he and the
girl made out, but he said he
stopped short of intercourse
because he suddenly decided
“it wouldn’t have been a
employees to share his
condolences. The 50 or
so workers have been
described as a close-knit
group, and they have
continued reporting on
their slain colleagues in the
face of the tragedy.
“The courage and
determination they
showed is truly, truly
extraordinary,” McAuliffe
said outside the station.
The governor talked about
his support for universal
“It’s not glamorous but
it’s a good honest living,”
she said. “It’s not a luxury
service. Everybody needs
their trash picked up. Our
service, call us. Our technician will show up with a smile
on his face, regardless of where he's been, or how many
calls he still needs to run. But don't feel sorry for him.
He loves his job. And though he won't be spending his
summer at the beach, he probably won't turn down a cold
glass of water.
Summer Salute To The Service Techs
Air conditioning service and installation technicians are a special breed. Their
calling is not to be comfortable, but to provide comfort. They spend endless hours
training on an ever-increasing assortment of high-tech equipment and invest
thousands of dollars in tools. They work from dusk until dawn (and beyond)
when the temperature soars in the summertime, or plunges in the winter. While
progressive air conditioning companies like ours try to even out our workload ,
throughout the year by performing preventive maintenance during our off-season,
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their business, Petree is Petree said, though trash
gradually purchasing some collection is not a clean
of the Tri-County Disposal job, it’s an honest living,
cans that were bought out and the couple is making
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Parker and Ward died of Gov. Terry McAuliffe
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