Death row inmate files lawsuit claiming denial of mental health treatment
Published: April 21, 2013
Macon Telegraph
By AMY LEIGH WOMACK
A man sentenced to die for fatally shooting a Laurens County deputy in 1998 has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that because he is on death row he is not receiving the mental health treatment he needs.
Deputy Kyle Dinkheller clocked Andrew Howard Brannan driving 98 mph on Interstate 16 on Jan. 12, 1998. The traffic stop ended with a gunfight between the 22-year-old deputy and Brannan, who was shooting a high-powered military-style rifle. Brannan was shot once in the abdomen. Dinkheller was shot multiple times, including in the chest, twice in the back and twice in the head.
Jurors convicted Brannan of murder in 2000 and sentenced him to die. Brannan had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
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Monday, April 22, 2013
West Virginia student arrested for wearing NRA T-shirt?
A lot of people find the heads of the NRA repulsive, especially when they are acting like idiots instead of trying to do something to stop what is going on. The majority of NRA members believe something has to be done and the measures they support are the ones the heads of the NRA fight against. That said, this story is also repulsive. Unless there is a lot more to this story that is not in this article, an 8th grade student was suspended and then arrested for wearing a T-shirt.
Instead of just sending the kid home to get changed if he broke some kind of school dress code, he was arrested!
Instead of just sending the kid home to get changed if he broke some kind of school dress code, he was arrested!
W. Va. Student Suspended for Wearing NRA T-shirt
Apr 22, 2013
UPI
A 14-year-old West Virginia student was suspended from school, arrested and faces charges for wearing a T-shirt to school supporting the NRA, his family said.
Jared Marcum, an eighth-grader at Logan Middle School in Logan, W. Va., said school officials asked him to remove his shirt, and when he didn't, suspended him from school.
"What they're doing is trying to take away my rights, my freedom of speech and my Second Amendment," Jared told WOWK-TV, Charleston, W. Va., Friday.
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Air Force General, Wife Die in Private Plane Crash
General, Wife Die in Private Plane Crash
Apr 21, 2013
Air Force News
WASHINGTON -- Maj. Gen. Joseph D. Brown IV and his wife, Sue S. Brown, were killed April 19, when the Cessna 210 he was piloting crashed in Williamsburg, Va. General Brown has been the commandant of The Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy in Washington D.C. since October 2010.
"We are deeply saddened by the loss of Joe Brown and his wife, Sue. Our thoughts and prayers are with their family, friends, and the members of the National Defense University as they come to terms with the tragedy. Joe and Sue dedicated their lives in service to our nation and their loss will be felt across our Air Force and joint team." - Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen Mark A. Welsh III.
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Apr 21, 2013
Air Force News
WASHINGTON -- Maj. Gen. Joseph D. Brown IV and his wife, Sue S. Brown, were killed April 19, when the Cessna 210 he was piloting crashed in Williamsburg, Va. General Brown has been the commandant of The Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy in Washington D.C. since October 2010.
"We are deeply saddened by the loss of Joe Brown and his wife, Sue. Our thoughts and prayers are with their family, friends, and the members of the National Defense University as they come to terms with the tragedy. Joe and Sue dedicated their lives in service to our nation and their loss will be felt across our Air Force and joint team." - Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen Mark A. Welsh III.
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Slain Army veteran was trying to keep peace
Slain Army veteran was trying to keep peace
Wilson tried to defuse situation, protect others
Ebone Monet
April 22, 2013
RTV6 News
INDIANAPOLIS - Friends and family are speaking out about the slain Army veteran who was trying to keep a situation from elevating into trouble at a Denny’s on the city’s north side.
Mario Wilson, 46, arrived at the restaurant with his fiancé Karen Dunbar and friends Carl and Annette Smith on Saturday morning around 5 a.m.
Trouble broke out before the couples had a chance to eat. They said there was an angry disruption right after they ordered.
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Wilson tried to defuse situation, protect others
Ebone Monet
April 22, 2013
RTV6 News
INDIANAPOLIS - Friends and family are speaking out about the slain Army veteran who was trying to keep a situation from elevating into trouble at a Denny’s on the city’s north side.
Mario Wilson, 46, arrived at the restaurant with his fiancé Karen Dunbar and friends Carl and Annette Smith on Saturday morning around 5 a.m.
Trouble broke out before the couples had a chance to eat. They said there was an angry disruption right after they ordered.
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VA mental health patients among evacuated after bomb threat
Can't imagine what these veterans went through or how much more damage was done to their healing process.
"All Clear" given at Salisbury VA after bomb threat, evacuation
WBTV News
Posted: Apr 17, 2013
By David Whisenant
Building Four is Inpatient Mental Health Care and Building 11 is Outpatient Mental Health.SALISBURY, NC (WBTV) - Officials in Salisbury gave the "All Clear" at the Salisbury VA at shortly before 11 a.m. Wednesday.
They were investigating a bomb threat that was called in at the William G. "Bill" Hefner Veterans Administration Medical Center in Salisbury.
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