Topics http://wvgazette.com http://wvgazette.com/feeds/logo.jpg http://wvgazette.com 144 31 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200301120006 Jessica Adams couldn’t wait to be a teen-ager. Her mother can still hear her running around the house telling everybody, “I’m going to be 13. I’m going to be 13.” Two weeks after her birthday, she died. ...]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200301120006 Sun, 12 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0500 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200301120007 Jamie Carpenter was 12, a seventh-grade student at Brooks-ville Elementary School in Calhoun County. She was a cheerleader, played flute in the band, sang in the choir, played softball. She was petite, had shoulder-length ...]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200301120007 Sun, 12 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0500 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200301110003 On May 1, 1998, Amanda Hunt turned 17. “We were going to do something that weekend to celebrate,” said her mother, Becky King. They never got the chance. On May 6, the Roane County teen-ager went for a ...]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200301110003 Sat, 11 Jan 2003 01:00:00 -0500 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200301100003 Ben Francis wanted to be a deckhand like his dad. If he could cook for the crew, all the better. “I taught him how to cook, and he loved it, especially omelets,” said his mother, Teresa Sampson of Pinch.“He went to night sc...]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200301100003 Fri, 10 Jan 2003 01:00:00 -0500 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200301090003 Brian Browder would have graduated from Van High School in 2001, probably as a football and basketball star, most likely as an honor student. Van’s football team made the playoffs that year, said his father, Charlie Browder...]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200301090003 Thu, 09 Jan 2003 01:00:00 -0500 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200301080003 Thirteen-year-old Tyler Butcher was looking forward to going squirrel hunting the next day with his dad. They were already packed up. “That’s one reason I bought the ATV, because we like to hunt,” Scott Butcher said. But th...]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200301080003 Wed, 08 Jan 2003 01:00:00 -0500 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200301070003 He considered going into the military. He thought about studying culinary arts. Many thought he would end up in his father’s construction business. But Robert Hunter III didn’t do any of that. He drove an ATV over a 4-foot-...]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200301070003 Tue, 07 Jan 2003 01:00:00 -0500 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200301060003 Two days before she died, a picture fell off the wall. “It was hanging right by my door, the picture with the teddy bear with the big red ribbon around it,” Ronda Thompson said. “The picture has ‘I love you,’ on it. I found it in the middle of...]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200301060003 Mon, 06 Jan 2003 01:00:00 -0500 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200301050009 Many of the stories begin the same way: “A 6-year-old girl was killed in an accident while she was riding on an all-terrain vehicle,” reads one 1997 account. “A 15-year-old from Mingo County has died fro...]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200301050009 Sun, 05 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0500 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200301050010 Everyone remembers the weather that day. Hot. Sunny. A picture-perfect afternoon. How could anything so awful happen on such a magnificent day.“It was August 14, 1993. The sun was shining and the sky was the bluest color y...]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200301050010 Sun, 05 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0500 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200301050011 Selling all-terrain vehicles is his job, but John Myers has walked away from people sorely interested in the four-wheeled machines.As sales manager at Dohm Cycles in Charleston, Myers knows the first question for prospectiv...]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200301050011 Sun, 05 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0500