BECKLEY, W.Va. (AP) - A murder trial for a woman accused in the slaying of a Raleigh County minister has been postponed until December.

The Register-Herald reports that during a status hearing Monday, Raleigh County Prosecutor Kristen Keller sought the delay after receiving Camille Brown's previous medical records that revealed a history of psychological problems. Keller didn't disclose what the problems were.

Keller said that in an earlier psychiatric report, a doctor indicated Browne had no history of psychological problems.

A judge rescheduled jury selection for Dec. 1.

The 20-year-old Browne is charged in the February 2015 death of Ronald Browning, who was the pastor at Cool Ridge Church. Browne's attorney has said the slaying was the result of a "substance-induced psychotic" reaction Browne had from smoking marijuana the night before.

Putnam County officials may have found a way to give offenders with mental health issues the help they need and keep them out of jail.

Putnam Circuit Judge Phillip Stowers told the County Commission about the proposed pretrial treatment diversion program at its meeting Tuesday morning.

Stowers said that 80 percent of people in regional jails have treatable mental health issues. Most of these offenders are awaiting trial and cannot make bail to get out of jail.

The program would only consider nonviolent offenders with no prior violent or sex offense charges, most of who would already be out on bail if they had to means to make bail. "These are low level non-violent offenders that are being held in jail and most of them have mental health issues," Stowers said.

For instance, Stowers gave the example of two people who had been arrested together. The first offender was arrested for breaking and entering, and the second person, who was driving the car, was arrested for being an accessory to breaking and entering. The offender who broke into the house made bond in seven days, but Stowers said the offender driving the car had mental health problems and is still in jail six months later.

The county received a grant of $115,000 to implement this program.

Stowers said the courts experimented with this on a limited basis. Six people were deferred to mental health facilities or other programs, saving the county $30,000 before the program has officially started. Each inmate in the regional jail costs the county $48 a day.

Kevin White, who has managed the Prestera program in Putnam County for the last three years and has 25 years of community counseling experience, would lead the panel of mental health professionals.

This panel would report to the mental health court at the end of the week and recommend which offenders should be deferred out of the jail and into a mental health facility or use another plan.

"We all know mental health services are well underfunded and theres a lot of difficulty to get service for mental health," Stowers said.

Prestera received a grant that will allow it to hire a therapist, community engagement specialist and addiction coach. These three employees will work with White to ensure that any offenders with mental health issues will receive the proper assistance.

One of the main problems with receiving mental health treatment is transportation. The offender's attorney or probation officer can't take the person to a mental health treatment center, but one of the three employees can. They will also serve as pretrial advocates for the offenders, along with White.

In order to use the $115,000 from the grant in the most efficient way, Stowers requested $55,000 from the county to pay for White's salary.

In order to lead the panel, White would need to be an officer of the court, which the Supreme Court agreed to. Stowers expects the savings from keeping offenders out of jail will both pay for White's salary and save the county thousands of dollars.

Commissioners were impressed by the initiative, and passed a motion to draft a memorandum of understanding with the Supreme Court not exceeding $60,000.

"It sounds terrific. It's very proactive, which I think is something we need to be doing," Commissioner Joe Haynes said. "It sounds like a marvelous program and the amount of money saved ... maybe we might come out ahead."

Matt Boggs, executive director of Recovery Point of Huntington, said the facility has expanded to 100 beds, and Putnam County will be allotted three of those beds. The county has partnered with the facility to save money by keeping addicts out of jail. To keep the person at Recovery Point, it costs $32.50 a day instead of $48 a day in the regional jail. Boggs said the price will go down even further with the new expansion of the center.

Oliver Boston grew up in Eleanor and found himself with an addiction to alcohol and drugs by the time he graduated high school. He was arrested in January 2015 and spent seven months in regional jail - he was approved for mental health treatment but had no way of arranging it or getting there once he was out of jail.

Boston found himself at Recovery Point and reformed his life. Now, as of June 12, he's 17 months clean.

"I'm grateful I got the chance through Judge Reeder," Boston said. "I'm a different person today. Today I'm able to be a father and part of my community."

Boston currently works at the center as a peer mentor, carrying his message of recovery to other addicts and assisting them in their recovery process.

In other news:

The county commission approved a 8.3 percent rate increase in water utility usage for Putnam Public Service District.

The average customer who uses 4,000 gallons of water a month will see their bills increase from $31.23 to $33.84, according to Putnam PSD General Manager Mike McNulty.

Commissioner Andy Skidmore, who has West Virginia American Water for his residence and Putnam PSD for his business, said difference between service and bills is "night and day."

"I appreciate what Putnam PSD has been able to do in the area it covers. I wish it could cover more area but I know that's not in your realm of possibility right now," Skidmore said.

After the water crisis, Skidmore said he uses multiple filters with water provided by West Virginia American Water, but feels safer drinking from the water Putnam PSD provides.

Commissioner Steve Andes agreed and said he prefers Putnam PSD's water service.

"I'd rather drink that than bottled water to be honest with you," Andes said.

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After an eight-hour manhunt spanning three states, Pennsylvania State Police on Tuesday captured a man accused of fatally shooting three people in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle.

Erick Shute, 32, was taken into custody in Chester County, Pennsylvania, said police in Pennsville Township, New Jersey.

Shute is accused of fatally shooting three men Monday near Cacapon Resort State Park in Morgan County, The Journal in Martinsburg reported. The victims were identified as Jack Douglas of Great Cacapon, and Travis Bartley and Willie Bartley, both of Hedgesville, Morgan County Sheriff Vincent Shambaugh told The Journal.

Shambaugh said the deaths were caused by gunshots from a .223-caliber rifle in what was apparently a property dispute Monday evening.

Late Monday, Pennsville Township police had issued an alert on their Facebook page saying they were looking for Shute, who used to live there with his mother.

Pennsville Police Chief Allen Cummings said Shute was involved in the anti-government sovereign-citizen movement. Sovereign citizens are people who reject their U.S. citizenship and don't recognize laws, taxes and other types of government authority.

In 2009, Shute drew the Pennsville community's backlash when he hung an American flag upside down, calling it a message of distress about the government.

In 2011, Shute was charged with aggravated assault of a police officer, resisting arrest and obstruction of justice.

Shute went into the Pennsville Police Department in 2011 to ask if they could sign a peace treaty letting him drive his car without registration, said Bill Brennan, first assistant prosecutor in Salem County, New Jersey. They said he left when they wouldn't agree to it.

Cummings said Shute was then pulled over for having fake license plates he made of cardboard. Shute also had a fake driver's license he made himself. Cummings said during a traffic stop, Shute then rolled up his car window on an officer's arm.

Brennan said Shute was convicted in 2012 of fourth-degree resisting arrest, but the jury could not reach a verdict on aggravated assault.

Shute received a fine with no jail time, but spent a week in jail before that because he didn't show up to two court hearings in the case, Cummings said.

During the manhunt, Pennsville police also moved two judges, including the judge who oversaw the police assault case, into hotels because Shute had previously threatened them, Cummings said. He said some officers had their wives stay with relatives during the manhunt, since Shute knew where many of them lived in the small town.

Shute once filed a lawsuit that went nowhere against Pennsville Township and the police department, and personally delivered a subpoena to Cummings' home, Cummings said.

"We were concerned, that's for sure," he said. "I had bad feelings. I was very concerned about where he was going to go, what he was going to do. After committing a murder ... sometimes people make decisions that they have nothing else to live for, and you kind of wonder if he's going to come back and take people with him."

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FRANKFORT, Ky. - When a Social Security Administration employee blew the whistle on a federal judge and a lawyer bilking the system for more than $600 million in fraudulent disability payments, another judge hired a private investigator to spy on the employee in an attempt to gather enough evidence to have the worker fired.

That's the story federal prosecutors in Kentucky laid out in court documents this week after Charlie Paul Andrus, former chief administrative law judge for the Huntington, West Virginia, office of the Social Security Administration, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to retaliate against a witness. He is scheduled to be sentenced this fall, and could face up to 10 years in prison, a fine or both.

Andrus' guilty plea is the latest development in the case against Eric Conn, a colorful eastern Kentucky attorney who made millions of dollars in Social Security disability cases that earned him the nickname "Mr. Social Security" and attracted thousands of poor clients to his rural Kentucky offices that featured small-scale replicas of the Lincoln and Washington memorials.

In April, federal prosecutors indicted Conn and Administrative Law Judge David Black Daughtery for conspiracy, fraud, obstruction, false statement and money laundering as part of a scheme they say wrongly obtained more than $600 million in federal disability benefits for thousands of people based on unreliable medical evidence supplied by Conn. The Social Security Administration is reviewing the disability benefits of more than 1,500 of Conn's clients.

Andrus is not charged in that case. But as the chief administrative law judge in Huntington, Andrus was Daughtery's boss. In 2011, The Wall Street Journal published an article questioning Daughtery's relationship with Conn and the high number of disability claims he approved. The Social Security Administration demoted Andrus after the article was published, which also coincided with a criminal investigation.

Prosecutors say Andrus was embarrassed by the article, and he knew who was the primary source for the article and the investigation that led to his demotion. The source, who was not identified in court documents, was a Social Security Administration employee who would occasionally work from home. Prosecutors say Andrus met with Conn in Prestonsburg, Kentucky, and the twodevised a scheme to hire a private investigator to spy on the worker, hoping to catch the employee on video not working when he or she was supposed to be working.

In August 2011, Conn told Andrus he had evidence of the worker abusing the work-from-home program. The video was mailed to the Huntington Hearing Office addressed to the acting chief judge.

Court documents say Andrus "knew it was wrong" to spy on the worker and interfere with the worker's employment and livelihood and "wanted to retaliate" against the worker for "providing truthful information to law enforcement officers and The Wall Street Journal."

Solomon Wisenberg, Andrus' attorney, did not immediately return a request for comment. A woman who answered the phone in his office said Wisenberg was in court Tuesday. Jim Deckard, one of Conn's attorneys, also did not respond to a request for comment.

One person was wounded Tuesday in a shooting in Charleston, dispatchers say.

It happened at about 6:40 p.m. in the 600 block of Monroe Street, near Westmoreland Drive. Kanawha Metro 911 dispatchers said one person was shot, but the extent of their injuries was not known.

The person was taken to a local hospital.

Charleston police issued a be-on-the-lookout advisory for a dark green Jeep Cherokee involved in the incident.

St. Albans police and the U.S. Marshals Service arrested Tuesday evening an alleged fugitive from North Carolina.

William Lee Bayliss, 32, was charged in Carolina Beach, North Carolina, with first-degree sexual exploitation of a minor and second-degree sexual offense for an offense he allegedly committed in 2007, St. Albans Capt. James Agee wrote in a news release. Agee said Bayliss had been on the run since a warrant was issued for his arrest in November 2013.

Agee wrote that local U.S. Marshals and North Carolina authorities tracked Bayliss to a relative's home on the 1500 block of Kanawha Terrace, where he was arrested without incident shortly after 6 p.m. Tuesday. He was arraigned in Kanawha Magistrate Court and placed in South Central Regional Jail pending extradition proceedings.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A now-80-year-old man who disappeared from an Ohio prison camp in 1959 while serving time for manslaughter and was captured last year in Florida walked away from an Ohio prison facility Wednesday, this time with permission.

Frank Freshwaters was released on parole from a Nelsonville facility to a relative in West Virginia, according to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, which wouldn't disclose details. The conditions of his parole include five years of supervision.

Freshwaters' attorney, Gordon Beggs, said the parolee is glad to be out.

"He's looking forward to re-entering his retirement years," Beggs said. "Because it's not easy to serve time, when you're 79 and 80 years old, in state prison."

Freshwaters was caught not once, but twice, in the decades he was considered a fugitive. He first was found in West Virginia in 1975, but then-Gov. Arch A. Moore Jr. concluded that Freshwaters had a "flawless 16-year residency" there and refused to extradite him.

Investigators tracked him down again last year and found the widower living off Social Security benefits under the name William Harold Cox at a trailer in rural Brevard County, Florida. Freshwaters had used the Cox name since the 1970s, and why he wasn't located for so long is a mystery.

Freshwaters was speeding when he fatally struck 24-year-old Eugene Flynt in 1957. The Akron man was imprisoned at the Ohio State Reformatory after violating his probation in the manslaughter case, and he disappeared from a Sandusky prison camp months later, in 1959.

Prosecutors, who argued against parole, acknowledged that Freshwaters has suffered health problems but also said he had changed his name, avoided accountability and never paid the restitution ordered for his victim's family.

Flynt's son, Richard, took a softer tone, telling parole board members that he didn't believe Freshwaters had paid for what happened but that holding him more accountable was up to them.

Beggs said Freshwaters had worried about being sent back to the Ohio reformatory and subsequently lived a clean life, adopting a new name as a fresh start.

By Wednesday afternoon, Beggs said, Freshwaters was back in West Virginia, where people just know him as Bill.

And Bill was taking a nap.

A Kanawha judge granted a motion Wednesday to sever the trial of a woman allegedly involved in a string of robberies at CVS stores from the trials of others involved.

Kristy Albright, 38, of Logan County, was indicted on second-degree robbery and conspiracy charges in April.

Kanawha Circuit Judge Charles King granted a motion to separate Albright's case from others involved in the conspiracy, according to Kanawha Prosecutor Chuck Miller.

Albright allegedly drove the getaway car when her boyfriend, Charles "Eddie" Jacobs, robbed CVS stores for prescription pills.

Jacobs, 31, was charged in December with four counts of second-degree robbery. Police say he robbed CVS stores on Oakwood Road, in Charleston's East End, in Dunbar and in Teays Valley. He allegedly robbed the Oakwood Road store twice.

Jacobs reportedly told police that Albright drove him during the robberies.

Kellie Cook, the store manager of the Oakwood Road CVS, was arrested and charged in December with two counts of second-degree robbery.

Cook, 41, of Dunbar, told Jacobs about the amount of prescription pills in the store on Oakwood Road and the dates the pills were delivered to the pharmacy, according to a criminal complaint against Cook filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court.

He told police that after Cook gave him information about the Oakwood Road store that he paid her $5,000 both times he robbed that store, according to the complaint.

On Sept. 18 and Oct. 16, the CVS on Oakwood Road was robbed. The CVS at Plaza East in Charleston was robbed on Nov. 5. The store in Teays Valley was robbed Dec. 8 and, on Dec. 12, the store in Dunbar was robbed.

A man acquitted of murder Monday was arrested Tuesday and charged in federal court with possessing a firearm as a felon.

Miguel Quinones, 37, was acquitted Monday of the murder of Kareem Hunter, 28, who was beaten in a Marmet apartment in 2013. Hunter was reported missing in September 2013 and was found buried in a shallow grave in Raleigh County two months later.

Jason Berty, of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and Social Security Agency, filed the criminal complaint and U.S. Magistrate Judge Dwane Tinsley signed the complaint Tuesday.

Quinones was convicted of second-degree murder 16 years ago in Fayette County Circuit Court. A Fayette County jury convicted him in the 1995 killing of Christopher Reardon, a Beckley bar owner.

Police found Reardon dead inside a van near Oak Hill. It was later discovered that he had been shot in an Oak Hill home and moved to the van.

Quinones was released in 2011, but remained on probation.

In December 2013, Quinones was arrested at his girlfriend's Charleston townhouse for allegedly violating his probation and was soon after charged for Hunter's death. According to the complaint, a loaded and functional Sig Sauer M400 rifle was "in plain view" in a bedroom at the home during his arrest.

Raleigh County attorneys Robert Dunlap and Amy Osgood were representing Quinones when he was acquitted this week. His case was delayed multiple times because of his requests for new attorneys.

The six-day trial introduced to jurors more than 100 exhibits of evidence and four days of testimony.

Kanawha County prosecutors argued that cellphone records tied Quinones to the scene of the beating. According to the prosecutors, Quinones' cellphone was in Marmet when Hunter was beaten. It was then tracked to Beckley and Old Turnpike Road, where Hunter's body was discovered, they said, on the day of his death.

Quinones' attorneys raised doubts about the records as well as the testimonies of Deveron Patterson and Kelsey Legg, who alleged that Quinones was involved in the apartment killing. Both Patterson and Legg made plea agreements with prosecutors that included testimony against Quinones. Patterson pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole. Legg pleaded guilty to accessory to murder and was sentenced to six to eight years in prison.

Quinones had spent the last 2 1/2 years behind bars, awaiting trial for Hunter's murder.

He is being held at South Central Regional Jail.

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A St. Albans man was sentenced today to five years in federal prison after being caught with fentanyl, marijuana, multiple pistols and three assault rifles said Carol Casto, acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia.

Police seized eight firearms - including three "AR"-style assault rifles with high-capacity magazines - from O'Neil Anthony Peart, 37, according to a statement from Casto's office. All but two of the firearms were loaded. About 21 grams of fentanyl, 7.5 pounds of marijuana and more than $5,300 in cash were also seized.

Peart previously pleaded guilty to possession of firearms as well as offenses in furtherance of drug trafficking.

The case was investigated by the Metro Drug Unit, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and St. Albans police.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Joshua Hanks is in charge of the prosecution and U.S. District Judge Thomas Johnston imposed Peart's sentence.

Casto's office said they are "committed to aggressively pursing and shutting down pill trafficking, eliminating open air drug markets and curtailing the spread of illegal drugs in communities across the Southern District."

A convict is at large after escaping from a transport van Wednesday at the North Beckley toll plaza near the intersection of Interstate 64 and Interstate 77.

Paul Ira Hopkins, 37, escaped at about 1 p.m. Wednesday afternoon when the vehicle reduced speed to pass through the North Beckley toll plaza to enter onto Interstate I-64/I-77, according to a news release from the Fayette Sheriff's Office. Fayette Sheriff Steve Kessler said in the statement that Hopkins freed himself from a handcuff and reached through the window of the van to unlock the door from the outside. He then jumped from the van, leapt over a guardrail and fled on foot.

Nobody was able to immediately pursue Hopkins, said Kessler.

"The Prisoner Transport Officer was unable to pursue this individual," he said, "because of his duty to continue securing the other four inmates in the transport van."

West Virginia State Police and deputies from Raleigh and Fayette counties responded to the scene.

A K-9 unit tracked Hopkins to a nearby garage where he allegedly stole a black Toyota Scion tC. He has since fled the scene and is currently at large.

Described as a white man standing 5-foot 2-inches, Hopkins is believed to weigh about 160 pounds and has short brown hair and green eyes. He was last seen wearing a bright orange jumpsuit, flip-flops and leg shackles. Deputies said he's likely driving the stolen vehicle, with West Virginia license plate that read: 1KP163.

Hopkins is not believed to be armed, but Fayette deputies consider him dangerous.

Hopkins was charged with the misdemeanor crime of petty larceny and a prior charge of fleeing an officer. Raleigh emergency dispatchers said Hopkins was returning from a sentencing hearing, where he had just received two consecutive sentences of six months and one year to be served at Southern Regional Jail and Fayette County Community Corrections Program, respectively.

He will now face charges of grand larceny and escaping from custody.

State Police and Fayette and Raleigh County sheriff's departments still are investigating the incident. Anyone with information regarding Hopkins' location is asked to call 911.

Reach Jared Casto at jared.casto@wvgazettemail.com, 304-348-4832 or follow @JaredCasto on Twitter.

Charleston police are investigating after Long John Silvers restaurant in Kanawha City was robbed, dispatchers say.

Two people wearing masks entered the store on the 4100 block of MacCorkle Avenue just after 9 p.m. Wednesday, Kanawha Metro 911 dispatchers said. They robbed the restaurant at knifepoint and left with an undisclosed amount of cash.

Dispatchers didn't have any further information. Police still were at the scene late Wednesday.

Anyone with information on the robbery can contact Charleston detectives at 304-348-6480.

India Harper shows her drug court graduation certificate to her children, Ethan Payne, 7, and McKinley Payne, 5. Harper and four others - Tia Bennett, Allen Burgess, Jacob Mason and Christa Moore - graduated Thursday from the Kanawha County Drug Court Program. So far, 98 people have graduated from the program.

A lawsuit is ongoing against a now-closed Kanawha County Christian boys boarding school and its leaders over allegations that a student was starved and physically abused and - because of alleged lax supervision - sexually abused by another student, and the minor's lawyer expects the litigation to expand.

"We certainly have had other people reach out to us who are victims of that organization, and we would anticipate filing suit on their behalf," said Charleston-based attorney Troy Giatras, the lawyer representing the minor and his guardian ad litem in the case against Blue Creek Academy, which Giatras said was in the Clendenin area, near the border of Clay and Kanawha counties.

The lawsuit also names Bible Baptist, a Belva church sponsoring the school, as a defendant, along with James Waldeck and J.R. Thompson, Blue Creek Academy's former director who, according to The Daily Beast, has started a new religious school in Montana. In answers to the lawsuit, the defendants have denied the allegations.

In an extensive article published online Sunday - titled "Rapes, Daily Beatings, and No Escape: Christian School Was Hell For These Boys" - The Daily Beast reported on the allegations of child abuse and educational neglect at Blue Creek Academy, fitting it into a larger trend of problems at Christian schools that have less oversight, or nearly no oversight, compared to public schools.

"Like thousands of other religious private schools around the country - many of which become havens for abuse - Blue Creek Academy operated unlicensed, unregulated, and wholly unmonitored by the state," reported The Daily Beast, a national media organization. The news organization also wrote that the U.S. Government Accountability Office "found thousands of allegations of abuse at teen reform homes and camps from 1990 to 2007, some of which involved the death of a young person."

After the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources removed Blue Creek Academy's students, state Schools Superintendent Michael Martirano sent Waldeck a letter in September 2014, saying that he was revoking the school's Exemption (k) status. Betty Jo Jordan, Martirano's executive assistant, told the Gazette-Mail that the exemption allowed students to attend the school.

"Due to the egregious nature of the non-compliance [with state law], children's health, safety and welfare, any future attempts by the school to seek reinstatement of the exemption status will be denied by this office," Martirano wrote.

According to DHHR documents, a child allegedly ran away from Blue Creek Academy in June 2014 and was taken into custody by Clay County Child Protective Services. The documents state the soles were worn off his shoes, and he was hungry, dirty and had a "foul odor." The child reported being molested by another student in 2012.

"An investigation was completed at the time and was unsubstantiated," the documents state.

The child said he was whipped with a paddle if he failed a test or failed to memorize scripture, and that punishment also included a diet of beans and water. The documents state there were seven more boys at the school at the time.

"All children present at Blue Creek Academy have disclosed abuse/neglect," the documents state. "The academy is infested with rats."

Kanawha County Assistant Prosecutor Rocky Holmes advised removing the children.

Jordan said the state Department of Education's records dating back to 2008 show only three Exemption (k) schools had their exemptions revoked. Another was Miracle Meadows, a Salem boarding school whose director, Susan Gayle Clark, pleaded guilty to misdemeanors, including child neglect creating a substantial risk of injury, and was sentenced in April to six months in jail and five years probation, according to The Exponent Telegram.

The school allegedly used handcuffs and isolation rooms and covered up sexual assaults by moving students to other schools, according to the newspaper, which reported that Clark isn't allowed to leave the state during the five years of probation, something the Harrison County prosecutor had argued was important to keep her from opening a similar school in another state.

Jordan estimated that there are about 130 Exemption (k) schools in West Virginia, representing all of the state's non-Catholic religious schools.

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A doctor specializing in women's medicine alleges she was forced to shut down her medical practice at Charleston Area Medical Center last year because of harassment and discrimination she received from another doctor there.

Dr. Leila E. Sakhai claims in a lawsuit filed Thursday against CAMC and West Virginia University that Dr. Byron Calhoun, a physician at WVU's Charleston Division, refused to treat her special-needs patients, even though he was one of only two doctors in the region certified in maternal fetal medicine.

Because Calhoun allegedly refused to see Sakhai's referrals - sometimes because they had chosen to have an abortion - Sakhai says she was unable to offer a full-service OB/GYN practice in the Teays Valley/Charleston area and was forced to close.

Calhoun, who has been criticized for his anti-abortion efforts, isn't being sued.

Sakhai alleges that "CAMC and WVU tolerated and condoned all the discriminatory practices of Dr. Calhoun." Her lawsuit does not name Calhoun as an individual defendant.

Calhoun is the co-chairman of the medical advisory council for the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates, an anti-abortion group, according to the group's website.

Sakhai's lawsuit, filed in Kanawha Circuit Court, claims Calhoun also refused to treat Sakhai's patients because of bias against her, and that he mocked her because she is Iranian and a woman.

The alleged treatment began while Calhoun served as Sakhai's supervisor during her residency at CAMC, according to the lawsuit. CAMC and WVU partner to allow doctoral residents at the school to work at the hospital under the supervision of professors.

During her residency, Sakhai claims, Calhoun repeatedly singled her out and mocked her race and gender. Specifically, the lawsuit states, Calhoun would mispronounce Sakhai's name in front of other students and hospital staff and ask "what name she was going by in a given week."

Calhoun also allegedly prohibited her from performing obstetric procedures during her residency, instead giving those opportunities to male students; and he taught in an alleged unprofessional manner that Sakhai says was discriminatory and humiliating based on her gender and national origin.

Upon completion of her residency, when Sakhai opened her own medical practice with CAMC in Teays Valley, Calhoun became her only available maternal fetal medicine specialist in the area, according to the lawsuit. If Calhoun wouldn't see her patients, she said, she would have to send them to Huntington or Morgantown, which wasn't feasible for patients with special needs.

"Despite her best efforts in marketing her business, her practice in the area did not succeed as a result of the refusal of Dr. Calhoun to treat plaintiff's patients. Plaintiff had to close her practice at the end of May 2015," the lawsuit states.

Calhoun also allegedly refused to see her patients based on their insurance status and "whether or not these patients had previously sought legal elective abortion," the complaint states.

Calhoun has been criticized over his many anti-abortion advocacy efforts. He is the national medical adviser for the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates, which trains and provides legal counsel to "life-affirming pregnancy resources centers," according to the group's website. He also is vice chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at WVU Hospitals Charleston Division.

As part of a 2013 lawsuit filed by the Family Policy Council of West Virginia on behalf of Itai Gravely, Calhoun asserted he had found the head of a 13-week-old fetus inside Gravely's uterus after treating her for post-abortion complications. Despite this, Calhoun did not contact Gravely about his alleged discovery until a year after treating her, and a follow-up procedure at CAMC found no fetal remains. Calhoun also encouraged Gravely to contact an attorney with the West Virginia Family Policy Council, a conservative and anti-abortion group.

In her dismissal, Kanawha Circuit Judge Joanna Tabit concluded that Gravely didn't tell health care providers at the clinic she was addicted to heroin, "which may have caused later complications when pain-relieving measures were employed during the procedure."

Also in 2013, Calhoun wrote a letter outlining his concerns about West Virginia's abortion clinics to state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, claiming he saw patients "weekly with complications from abortions.

Statistics from CAMC's Women and Children's Hospital indicated that, in 2012, the hospital saw only five women with legally induced abortions in its emergency department and just two who actually had complications - data within range or lower than statistics reported on the national level.

Sakhai, who now works at a medical practice in Florida, is being represented by Charleston lawyers Elizabeth G. Kavitz and P. Rodney Jackson.

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WELCH, W.Va. (AP) - A McDowell County man has been found guilty in the shooting deaths of two men found inside their burned vehicle.

News agencies report 43-year-old Donald S. Bailey of Crumpler was convicted Wednesday of murder, arson and felony conspiracy in the October 2014 deaths of 21-year-old Brandon Church and 46-year-old Clinton Mullins.

Authorities found their burned bodies in the vehicle while responding to a report of a wreck and vehicle fire in McDowell County.

Bailey's attorney said last week that her client shot the men in self-defense and then burned their bodies because he was panicking and had been drinking.

Bailey's wife and another man are accused of helping Bailey burn the bodies. Their trials haven't yet started.

Bailey faces the possibility of life in prison without parole when sentenced.

SPRING MILLS, W.Va. (AP) - Police say one person was killed and at least a dozen were injured in a multiple-vehicle accident on Interstate 81 in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle.

Media outlets report the cause of Thursday's crash in the southbound lanes between Spring Mills and Martinsburg remains under investigation. Berkeley County Sheriff Kenneth Lemaster said a severe storm had hit the area around the time of the accident.

The highway remained closed for several hours afterward. The name of the person killed wasn't immediately released.

Berkeley County Medical Center trauma coordinator Donnie Grubb says 14 people arrived at the hospital from the accident, including the victim who died. He says 12 were treated and released and one remained hospitalized Friday.

Police on Saturday captured an inmate who freed himself from handcuffs and escaped out of a transport van three days earlier, according to a news release from the Fayette County Sheriffs Office.

Huntington police took Paul Ira Hopkins, 37, into custody "without incident" at about 3:45 p.m. Someone had spotted him at a gas station and called the police.

Hopkins was able to escape while the transport vehicle slowed down at a toll plaza in North Beckley to enter Interstate 64/I-77. He was able to reach out the window near his seat, open the door and jump out. Police said he hopped over the guard rail and ran away.

Fayette County Sheriff Steve Kessler said Hopkins would be taken back to the Southern Regional jail to start his sentence. He also faces charges in Raleigh County, for allegedly fleeing from police and theft of a "Toyota sports car."

Police dogs previously had tracked Hopkins to a nearby garage, where he allegedly stole a black Toyota Scion tC.

Marriages

The following people applied for marriage licenses in Kanawha County between June 9 and 16:

Edwin Dante Walker, 25, and Kelly Renee Jozefyk, 30, both of Dunbar.

Tyler Devin Sovine, 23, of Charleston and Chelsea Rena Holcomb, 24, of Clendenin.

Angela Dawn Carpenter, 43, and Celstine Elizabeth Ribeiro, 30, both of St. Albans.

Sharief Acquil Allen, 22, and Shatesha Shanta Rice, 24, both of Charleston.

Kenneth Lester Chadwell Jr., 35, of Cannelton and Sharon Elaine McMillion, 34, of Belle.

Philip Dale Campbell 23, and Rachel Lynn Carey, 24, both of Cross Lanes.

Sean Henry Scott Sr., 47, of Bluefield and Bonita Louise Hightower, 50, of Charleston.

Matthew Lee Andruzis, 26, and Brittany Nicole Leach, 26, both of Charleston.

Kenneth Robert Hedrick, 29, of Peterstown and Brittany Rae Steele, 32, of Charleston.

Ashley Nicole Bishop, 25, and Kasee Shey Bennett, 26, both of South Charleston.

Cameron Geoffrey Igo, 21, and Nadia Chanel Jones, 22, both of Charleston.

Andrea Lee Edens, 37, and Kinzy Lee Coffman, 25, both of South Charleston.

Jennifer Ann Witt, 35, of Sissonville and Susan Elaine Shell, 37, of Charleston.

Jace John Hochlinksi, 54, and Holly Lynn Devins, 39, both of Belle.

Barry Tyrone Sanders, 24, and Ceressah Fay Rice, 20, both of Charleston.

Michael Allen Ferrari, 61, and Cheryl Norman Powell, 61, both of Nitro.

Raymond Estil Melton II, 29, of Nitro and Krista Michelle Duncan, 28, of Ravenswood.

Bryan Austin Marcy, 21, and Sarabeth Nicole Yarbrough, 26, both of Elkview.

Hector Lee Lizarraga, 46, of Ashland, Kentucky and Elizabeth Caitlin Ashley, 31, of Charleston.

Treyce Eric Vance, 22, and Shannon Leigh Wagner, 20, both of Cross Lanes.

Asad Naqvi, 30, and Fatima Raza Naqvi, 30, both of Charleston.

Roddrick Earl Woods, 42, of Charleston and Margaret Andrea Anderson, 31, of Glen Ferris.

Garrett Marshall Kiser, 26, of St. Albans and Annamaria Shieree King, 28, of Nitro.

James Matthew Balser 30, and Heather Elizabeth Taylor, 23, both of Cedar Grove.

Jaime Lynn Young, 36, and Christiana Michelle Bradshaw, 34, both of Dunbar.

Travis Allen Haynes, 37, and Sarah Nichole Shuman, 30, both of South Charleston.

Brian Keith Thompson, 34, of Charleston and Tara Wynne Smith, 44, of South Charleston.

Daniel Glen Hosey, 34, and Megan Jo Richards, 30, both of St. Albans.

Bryan Christofer Green,20, and Rebecca Cathern Lambert-Malcolm, 18, both of Charleston.

Divorces

The following people filed for divorce in Kanawha County between June 9 and 16:

Stephanie Hughes from Eric Hughes

Lena Michelle Browning-Mudd from Chet Mudd

Erica Michelle Pates from Aaron Matthew Pates

Michael Meadows from Tamela Meadows

Madison Michelle Jennings from Christopher Dean Jennings

Timothy Allen Holmes from Tanya Lynn Holmes

Heather Lynn Jones from Christopher M. Bays

Amanda McCallister from Robert C. Elswick Jr.

Danny D. Phillips from Amanda K. Phillips

Daniel Alan Blevins from Cindi Ann Blevins

SamanthaAnn Baber-Rose from Kristina Marie Baber-Rose

Annette Deann Cummings from Roy Lee Cummings

Jeffery Ryan Boling from Shannon Danielle Boling

Andrea Morgan Patton from Michael Thomas Patton

Property Transfers

The following property transfers of $50,000 or more were recorded in Kanawha County between June 9 and 16:

William W. Carrier to Thomas Hilbert. Tracts, Jefferson District, $80,000.

Linda Johnson Matheny to Lewis G. and Kathryn A. Brewer. Lot, Charleston, $155,000.

Lewis G. and Kathryn A. Brewer to Melanie D. Ward and David A. Hayes. Lot, Charleston, $263,000.

Mary Elizabeth Simmons to James K. Thaxton. Lots, Charleston, $150,000.

Salser & Sons LLC to ME MO Group LLC. Lot, Union District, $1,200,000.

Golden & Amos PLLC to Fifth Third Mortgage Company. Lot, Charleston, $78,850.

Walton S. Shepherd III to Jo Ellen Dean-Wagoner. Parcel, Elk District, $55,500.

Denver J. and Shirley G. McMillion to Randy Lee and Christina Renea Whittington. Tracts, Poca District, $50,000.

Seneca Trustees Inc. to Bank of America, N.A. Lot, Elk District, $52,527.44.

Chad and Melinda Himstedt to Savannah Arlene Hudson. Parcels, Union District, $101,000.

Scott H. and Cathi L. Bradley to Christopher J. and Mary E. Cantrell. Lot, Elk District, $310,000.

Mark A. Imbrogno and Felicia I. Phipps to Flour Amiratael and Rahim Rahin. Lot, Charleston, $325,000.

Pine Resources LLC to Mark E. and Michelle L. Holmes. Lot, Clendenin, $122,500.

Gary A. Parsons to Carmen T. Didiano and Dwayne A. Smith. Lot, Nitro, $99,800.

Troy H. and Stephanie K. Thornton to Caleb R. and Tiffany L. Korth. Lot, Charleston, $220,000.

Amber J. Conard to John Fitzgerald Rice. Lot, Dunbar, $160,500.

James Edward and Jean Ann Holley to Richard C. and Carin S. Edwards. Lot, Jefferson District, $126,000.

John A. and Pamela L. Miller to Robert L. Morris. Lot, Jefferson District, $137,000.

Lowell E. and Rebecca H. Johnson to Martha Whitlock and Charles Kelley Endres. Lot, Charleston, $58,900.

Pamela Thompson Knuckles to Garland Dale and Kelley D. Thaxton. Lots, Poca District, $75,000.

Calvin W. II and Alicia Danae Elswick to Kevin M. Holt. Lot, Charleston, $145,000.

Pearl Sue Kagen to Bradley Steven Kagen. Lot, Union District, $91,082.

James D. and Karen Sue Pauley to Natalie M. Harris and Samuel Pauley. Lot, South Charleston, $56,000.

Elaine S. Max to Horus Properties LLC. Lot, Charleston, $135,000.

McJEFF LLC to United Bank Inc. Lot, Charleston $400,000.

Stephen W. and Vicki T. Janney to The University of Charleston Inc. Lot, Charleston, $183,000.

William and Carolyn Sue Hevener to Alec T. Smith. Lot, Charleston, $80,000.

Dennis II and Tiffany Stanton to Charles Patrick Jr. and Patricia Nichole Guthrie. Lot, South Charleston, $183,000.

Charles Patrick Guthrie to James Sibold IV. Lot, South Charleston, $124,900.

Robert B. Dawson to Kelly L. Shinn. Parcels, Union District, $106,260.

Forest W. and Shelby J. Talbert to Carl J. and Sheryl A. Williams. Lot, Washington District, $52,500.

William W. and Frances W. Fortune to Kyle K. and Susan D. Puterbaugh. Lot, Union District, $255,000.

Ishmal B. Summers Jr. and Judy Ann Carper to Forest E. and Judy Ann Carper. Lot, Elk District, $65,000.

Doran H. Frame III to Charles Cameron Frame. Lot, Charleston, $473,333.33.

Erica Dawn Barker to Melanie B. Takubo. Lot, Charleston, $262,000.

Marcella F. and Samuel Ray Smith to Elisha and Branden Green. Lots, Cabin Creek District, $70,000.

Steve and Lynn Payne to Cary N. and Pierre J. Charbonniez. Lot, Charleston, $400,000.

Hereford & Riccardi PLLC to Milestone LLC. Tracts, Big Sandy District, $105,922.

Mary Lou Welch to William A. and Patricia A. Youse. Lot, Charleston, $159,500.

Bankruptcies

The bankruptcies listed below are limited to those filed by residents or companies in the Gazette-Mail's circulation area. Chapter 7 designates the liquidation of non-exempt property; Chapter 11 calls for business reorganization; Chapter 13 establishes a schedule of payments to creditors. The following bankruptcies were filed between June 10 and 17:

David Lee and Ramona Gail Randolph, Hamlin, Chapter 7. Assets: $33,695, Liabilities: $34,452.

Scottie Lee and Melissa Dawn Elswick, Gordon, Chapter 7. Assets: $93,415, Liabilities: $67,826.

Karen Louise Moore, Elkview, Chapter 7. Assets: $13,075, Liabilities: $125,201.

James Darren Oskey, Elkview, Chapter 7. Assets: $3,670, Liabilities: $21,895.

Donna Kay Price, Williamson, Chapter 7. Assets: $203,820, Liabilities: $214,487.

James Lawson and Teresa Ann Ogle, Chapmanville, Chapter 7. Assets: $199,300, Liabilities: $183,585.

Robert Paul Creamer, St. Albans, Chapter 7. Assets: $20,762, Liabilities: $26,982.

Drug Testing Centers of America Corporate Office LLC, Charleston, Chapter 7. Assets: $40,769, Liabilities: $1,602,403.

Sandra Gail Dingus, Charleston, Chapter 7. Assets: $41,430, Liabilities: $1,948,705.

Nathan Roger and Bridget Michele Fountaine, Chapter 7. $217,170, Liabilities: $203,651.

Harold Eugene II and Kathy Lynn Gandee, Charleston, Chapter 7. Assets: $82,409, Liabilities: $57,480.

Johnlee Davis Goode, Pineville, Chapter 7. Assets: $30,561, Liabilities: $103,950.

Cody Keith Burgess, Matheny, Chapter 7. Assets: $7,390, Liabilities: $25,615.

Richard Gene and Sheilah Gail Large, Itmann, Chapter 7. Assets: $116,708, Liabilities: $125,712.

Ellen Gail Tilley, Glen Fork, Chapter 7. Assets: $18,829, Liabilities: $70,249.

Mark Edward and Tina Ann Smallwood, Glen Daniel, Chapter 7. Assets: $46,300, Liabilities: $115,881.

Thelma Arlene Massie, Frankford, Chapter 7. Assets: $7,873, Liabilities: $76,562.

James Estil Scarbrough, Shady Spring, Chapter 7. Assets: $154,783, Liabilities: $188,104.

Kenneth David and Stacey Lynn Tolliver, Coal City, Chapter 7. Assets: $6,338, Liabilities: $95,413.

John Edward and Lula Faye Willmeth, Prosperity, Chapter 7. Assets: $107,100, Liabilities: $165,188.

Chris Franklin and Melissa Dawn Greer, Ravencliff, Chapter 7. Assets: $87,704, Liabilities: $101,259.

Peter Michael and Debra Sue Minor, Beckley, Chapter 7. Assets: $86,559, Liabilities: $99,593.

Travis Leon Cline, Brenton, Chapter 13. Assets: Unknown, Liabilities: Unknown.

Ryan Lee and Josie Ann Lockhart, White Sulphur Springs, Chapter 13. Assets: $107,388, Liabilities: $357,344.

Kevin Lee Endicott, Mallory, Chapter 13. Assets: $40,676, Liabilities: $66,940.

The following crimes were reported to the Charleston Police Department between June 9 and 15:

East District:

McClung Street 1600 block, petit larceny, June 9, 12:35 a.m.

Charleston Town Center, petit larceny, June 9, 4:03 p.m.

Lee Street East 200 block, shoplifting, June 9, 6:45 p.m.

Farnsworth Drive 1400 block, robbery, June 9, 9:50 p.m.

Quarrier Street East 1500 block, petit larceny, June 10, 2 a.m.

Lee Street East 400 block, shoplifting, June 10, 2:04 p.m.

Greenbrier Street 1500 block, grand larceny, June 10, 4:15 p.m.

Capitol Street 100 block, malicious wounding, June 11, 2:20 a.m.

Washington Street East 1000 block, breaking and entering auto, June 11, 4 a.m.

Charleston Town Center, grand larceny, June 11, 8:20 p.m.

Charleston Town Center, petit larceny, June 11, 8:35 p.m.

Virginia Street East 1300 block, shoplifting, June 11, 10 p.m.

Bona Vista Drive 1900 block, petit larceny, June 12, noon.

Lee Street East 200 block, shoplifting, June 12, 2:25 p.m.

Charleston Town Center, shoplifting, June 12, 4:30 p.m.

Morris Street first block, petit larceny, June 12, 8:30 p.m.

Jackson Street 1100 block, petit larceny, June 13, 2 p.m.

Quarrier Street 1000 block, domestic assault, June 13, 9:30 p.m.

Hotel Circle 100 block, grand larceny, June 14, midnight.

Charleston Town Center, petit larceny, June 14, 6:30 p.m.

Renaissance Circle 1300 block, robbery, June 14, 10:45 p.m.

Ida May Way 100 block, petit larceny, June 15, 3:30 p.m.

Quarrier Street 1300 block, petit larceny, June 15, 4:08 p.m.

South District:

MacCorkle Avenue 5700 block, shoplifting, June 9, 12:35 p.m.

Kanawha Avenue 4800 block, breaking and entering auto, June 9, 5 p.m.

MacCorkle Avenue 5700 block, shoplifting, June 9, 9:40 p.m.

MacCorkle Avenue 6300 block, breaking and entering, June 10, 9:30 a.m.

MacCorkle Avenue 3800 block, shoplifting, June 10, 12:44 p.m.

Walnut Road 900 block, shoplifting, June 10, 1:57 p.m.

South Ruffner Road 600 block, June 11, 8:30 a.m.

67th Street 200 block, breaking and entering, June 11, 9:29 a.m.

MacCorkle Avenue 6400 block, petit larceny, June 11, 1 p.m.

Hampton Road 1500 block, burglary, June 11, 5 p.m.

Hampton Road 1500 block, grand larceny, June 11, 5 p.m.

Green Road and U.S. 119 South, petit larceny, June 11, 7:40 p.m.

Leslie Road 900 block, brandishing, June 11, 7:55 p.m.

MacCorkle Avenue Southeast 6300 block, breaking and entering, June 11, 9 p.m.

MacCorkle Avenue 6400 block, breaking and entering, June 12, 1:48 a.m.

Brawley Road first block, petit larceny, June 12, 2:49 p.m.

Presidential Drive 2000 block, breaking and entering, June 12, 8 p.m.

Alex Lane 100 block, breaking and entering, June 13, 6:20 a.m.

MacCorkle Avenue Southeast 6400 block, breaking and entering, June 13, 11 a.m.

MacCorkle Avenue Southeast 6400 block, petit larceny, June 13, 11 a.m.

Mountaineer Boulevard 2800 block, petit larceny, June 13, 12:44 p.m.

MacCorkle Avenue 6500 block, shoplifting, June 13, 3:21 p.m.

Westminster Way 800 block, domestic assault, June 14, 12:29 a.m.

MacCorkle Avenue 3800 block, shoplifting, June 14, 11:16 a.m.

MacCorkle Avenue Southeast 5700 block, petit larceny, June 14, 12:20 p.m.

Mountaineer Boulevard 2800 block, shoplifting, June 14, 1:30 p.m.

Mountaineer Boulevard 2800 block, breaking and entering, June 14, 6 p.m.

Mountaineer Boulevard 2900 block, breaking and entering auto, June 14, 7:15 p.m.

South Ruffner Road, grand larceny auto, June 15, 5 a.m.

MacCorkle Avenue 4100 block, robbery, June 15, 9 p.m.

West District:

Tennessee Avenue 300 block, petit larceny, June 9, midnight.

Tennessee Avenue 500 block, grand larceny auto, June 9, 11 a.m.

Rayhill Drive 1700 block, petit larceny, June 9, noon.

Sugar Creek Drive 1700 block, child neglect, June 9, 2:59 p.m.

Charleston Town Center, shoplifting, June 9, 4 p.m.

Washington Street West 800 block, petit larceny, June 9, 8:40 p.m.

6th Street 1200 block, petit larceny, June 9, 10:30 p.m.

6th Street 1200 block, wanton endangerment, June 9, 11:07 p.m.

Washington Street West 2300 block, petit larceny, June 10, 1:30 p.m.

Washington Street West 1700 block, shoplifting, June 10, 2 p.m.

Greendale Drive 800 block, petit larceny, June 10, 2 p.m.

Delaware Avenue 100 block, petit larceny, June 10, 4:01 p.m.

Garrison Avenue 50 block, breaking and entering auto, June 10, 10 p.m.

Chester Road 900 block, breaking and entering, June 10, 10 p.m.

Hutchinson Street 2000 block, wanton endangerment, June 11, 1:28 a.m.

Washington Street West 1700 block, petit larceny, June 11, noon.

Spring Street 10 block, shoplifting, June 11, 1 p.m.

Frame Street 1300 block, assault of an officer, June 11, 11:27 p.m.

Libby Lane 200 block, grand larceny auto, June 12, 11:21 a.m.

Hall Street 600 block, petit larceny, June 12, 1:12 p.m.

Highland Road 1200 block, petit larceny, June 12, 5 p.m.

Indiana Avenue 700 block, petit larceny, June 13, midnight.

Washington Street West 600 block, shoplifting, June 13, 11:47 a.m.

Washington Street West 600 block, shoplifting, June 13, 11:49 a.m.

Patrick Street Plaza, grand larceny, June 13, 12:30 p.m.

Virginia Street West 700 block, shoplifting, June 13, 7:15 p.m.

Bigley Avenue 1600 block, burglary, June 14, 10 a.m.

6th Avenue 2600 block, burglary, June 14, 11 a.m.

Kanawha Boulevard West 1500 block, petit larceny, June 14, 1 p.m.

Preston Street and Monroe Street, malicious wounding, June 14, 6:40 p.m.

Lippert Street 2000 block, wanton endangerment, June 14, 7:23 p.m.

Randolph Street 700 block, breaking and entering auto, June 15, midnight.

Stuart Street 1300 block, petit larceny, June 15, 12:15 a.m.

Kanawha Boulevard West 700 block, breaking and entering, June 15, 8 a.m.

Pennsylvania Avenue 300 block, shoplifting, June 15, 1 p.m.

4th Avenue 1700 block, shoplifting, June 15, 4 p.m.

5th Avenue 1400 block, brandishing, June 15, 4:39 p.m.

Bigley Avenue 1400 block, grand larceny auto, June 15, 5 p.m.

Woodward Court first block, grand larceny auto, June 15, 11:30 p.m.