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SCRIPT FOR EYEWITNESS NEWS NEWSCAST
Friday, May 17, 2013.from Eyewitness News Online Note: Because breaking news happens fast, you may find typographic errors within news scripts. Odd punctuation, visual cues, anchor and producer notes may also appear with the scripts since these are the actual files that the news anchors present to you on Eyewitness News. 11 COLD OPEN
SOT verbatim DISTURBING ALLEGATIONS AGAINST A FORMER FIREFIGHTER AND A LENGTHY INVESTGATION...END IN AN ARREST 
Return to Story Index WELCOME
AND I'M ELIZABETH NOREIKA... THIS IS EYEWITNESS NEWS.
Return to Story IndexCHILD PORN ARREST
EYEWITNESS NEWS REPORTER LESLIE RUBIN HAS BEEN FOLLOWING THIS STORY ALL DAY AND JOINS US NOW LIVE WTIH THE VERY LATEST....LESLIE?
Return to Story IndexLESLIE @ KIOSK MON
"No" UNWILLING TO OFFER ANY INSIGHT INTO THE REASON HE'S IN HANDSCUFFS AND IN FRONT OF A JUDGE... "Distribution of child pornography times 2." 39-YEAR-OLD STEPHEN LATON JUNIOR IS TAKEN TO JAIL. ALLEGATIONS SO DISTURBING - WE CAN'T TELL YOU EVERY DETAIL... "You understand that you have the right to remain silent." KANAWHA COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPUTIES SAY THEY BEGAN INVESTIGATING LATON IN SEPTEMBER OF LAST YEAR AFTER TWO YOUNG GIRLS - AGES 7 AND 11 - SAID LATON SHOWED THEM PORNOGRAPHIC IMAGES ON THE COMPUTER - NATS FORCING THE GIRLS TO POSE PROVOCATIVELY IN FRONT OF A WEBCAM .... NATS AND MAKING THEM TOUCH HIM INAPPROPRIATELY AS DISTURBING AS LATON'S CHARGES ARE - THERE WAS SOMEONE ON THE OTHER END OF THAT WEBCAM - THE VICTIMS TOLD POLICE IT WAS A GIRL, BUT THE COMPLAINT DOESN'T SAY HOW OLD THAT PERSON APPEARED TO BE ... THE INVESTIGATION INTO THAT, STILL ONGOING "We're still looking into other means. Who he chatted with, anything that he shared with them, so right now that's still active." "You workin' anywhere?" "No." BUT LATON DID USE TO BE A FIREFIGHTER AT THE ALUM CREEK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT. CHIEF JIM OLDAKER SAYS LATON RESIGNED SEVERAL MONTHS AGO - AND WOULD DISAPPEAR FOR MONTHS AT A TIME. HE SAYS HE WAS A VOLUNTEER THERE FOR SEVERAL YEARS, BUT DID NOT PLAY AN ACTIVE ROLE IN THE DEPARTMENT... NATS FACING UP TO DECADE IN PRISON - LATON HAS ALREADY POSTED HIS 25-THOUSAND DOLLAR BOND - AWAITING COURT FROM HOME, BUT ORDERED TO HAVE NO CONTACT WITH CHILDREN OR ANY ELECTRONIC DEVICES... LATON WAS ARRESTED AT HIS GRANDMOTHERS HOME IN CROSS LANES - THE ALLEGED INCIDENT OCCURED AT A HOME HE SHARED WITH HIS ESTRANGED WIFE IN SOUTH CHARLESTON. REPORTING LIVE IN THE STUDIO, LRU, EYN.
Return to Story IndexLINCOLN COUNTY CHILD NEGLECT
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TROOPERS ALSO SAY THE COUPLES HAMLIN APARTMENT WAS FILTHY. THE TWO WERE ARRESTED AND CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES WAS CALLED.
Return to Story IndexCHARLESTON METH BUST
EYEWITNESS NEWS ANCHOR KALLIE CART HAS BEEN FOLLOWING THIS STORY AND KALLIE WHAT MAKES THIS STORY EVEN WORSE IS THAT IT INVOLVES A SMALL CHILD. POLICE SAY THEY FOUND METH MAKING MATERIALS IN THEIR APARTMENT... EVEN IN THEIR TODDLER'S PLAY ROOM.
Return to Story IndexKALLIE WALKS TO BAM
Return to Story IndexG CHAS APT METH BUST
THIS IS EXCLUSIVE VIDEO RIGHT AFTER CHARLESTON POLICE MADE THE BUST.. YOU CAN SEE ALL OF THOSE ITEMS POLICE FOUND, INCLUDING LYE, ACID, ACETONE AND MIXED CHEMICALS.... POLICE SAY THE ITEMS WERE FOUND IN THE PLAYROOM AND ALSO IN THE KITCHEN... INVESTIGATORS ALSO SAY THEY FOUND TWO DETAILED, HANDWRITTEN LETTERS DESCRIBING THE ITEMS NEEDED TO MAKE METH AND STEP-BY-STEP DIRECTIONS ON HOW TO MAKE THE DRUG. POLICE SAY THEY GOT A TIP ABOUT THE LAB AT THEIR APARTMENT ON HILLCREST DRIVE... AND WENT TO CHECK IT OUT EARLY THIS MORNING... NEIGHBORS WE TALKED TO DIDN'T WANT TO BE IDENTIFIED ON CAMERA BUT SAY THEY'RE SHOCKED ABOUT THE ARRESTS. AS IN MANY METH BUSTS, IT DOESN'T JUST AFFECT THEIR APARTMENT... THE CITY ALSO PUT A NOTICE ON THE APARTMENT NEXT DOOR. THE WOMAN THAT LIVES THERE WITH HER YOUNG DAUGHTER WAS REALLY UPSET, AS YOU CAN IMAGINE. CITY OFFICIALS SAY AN AGENCY WILL NOW HAVE TO COME IN AND TEST BOTH APARTMENTS FOR METH. CROWDER AND KNIGHT ARE BEING HELD IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL REGIONAL JAIL. IN THE STUDIO KALLIE CART EYEWITNESS NEWS
Return to Story IndexPUTNAM METH
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Return to Story IndexG CLAY METH ARREST
U-S ATTORNEY BOOTH GOODWIN SAYS THIS WAS THE LAST INVESTIGATION ON WHICH LATE TROOPER ERIC WORMAN AND CORPORAL MARSHALL BAILEY WORKED. HERSMAN WILL BE SENTENCED ON AUGUST 21ST.
Return to Story IndexWYOMING DRUGS AND MONEY
Return to Story IndexSOT WYOMING DRUGS AND MONEY
Return to Story IndexWAYNE HIGH VANDALISM
TWENTY SENIORS FROM WAYNE HIGH SCHOOL COULD FACE FELONY CHARGES FOR A SCHOOL PRANK
Return to Story IndexDAVE @ HUNTINGTON
Return to Story IndexI WAYNE HIGH VANDALISM
TERESA CARICO-1:10-I TELL THEM TO CALL ME MOTHER TERESA BECAUSE I LOVE THESE KIDS. I LOVE THEM. THAT'S WHY IT HURTS SO BAD THAT THEY'D DO THIS. WHEN TERESA CARICO CAME TO WORK FRIDAY MORNING AT WAYNE HIGH SCHOOL TO CLEAN... SHE NEVER THOUGHT IT WOULD BE THE REMAINS OF A DEAD ANIMAL. ACCORDING TO THE PRINCIPAL AND STATE POLICE... 20 SENIORS BROKE INTO THE SCHOOL... AND THREW ROTTING DEER GUTS IN SEVERAL ROOMS. THEN POURED DEER URINE IN THE HALLWAYS, CLASSROOMS, DESK TOPS AND INSIDE THE VICE PRINCIPALS OFFICE. R.D. PERRY-48:40-IT'S GONE FROM A PRANK INTO CRIMINAL ACTIVITY. STUDENTS COULD BE CHARGED WITH FELONY BREAKING AND ENTERING AND FELONY DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY. SINCE BLOOD AND URINE SEEPED UNDER THE FLOOR TILES... IT COULD COST TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS TO REPLACE THROUGHOUT THE SCHOOL. STAPLETON SAYS THE 20 KIDS WHO ALLEGEDLY PARTICIPATED IN THE PRANK WERE GOOD KIDS... MANY OF THEM STRAIGHT "A" STUDENTS. CARICO-26-SHOULD THEY GRADUATE? NO. THEY SHOULD NOT, THEY LOSE THEIR PRIVILEDGE TO WALK ACROSS THE STAGE. THE WAYNE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION WILL HOLD A SPECIAL CALL MEETING ON MONDAY... TO DISCUSS IF THEY WILL PRESS CHARGES AGAINST THE STUDENTS... AND IF THEY'LL BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN GRADUATION. REPORTING LIVE IN HUNTINGTON, DAVE BENTON EYEWITNESS NEWS.
Return to Story IndexFIRE CHIEF INDICTED
TIMOTHY WHITTINGTON WAS INDICTED ON ONE COUNT OF EMBEZZLEMENT AND PATRICIA WHITTINGTON WAS INDICTED ON ONE COUNT OF FRAUDULENT SCHEMES. TIMOTHY ADMITTED TO USING FOUR-THOUSAND DOLLARS FROM THE FIRE DEPARTMENT TO PAY FOR HIS PERSONAL BILLS.
Return to Story IndexALTIZER FIRE
NEIGHBORS CALLED TO REPORT A FIRE AT A HOME IN THE 5000 BLOCK OF ALTIZER AVENUE SHORTLY BEFORE 11 A.M. THIS MORNING. FIREFIGHTERS FROM TWO DEPARTMENTS RESPONDED. NO ONE WAS HOME AT THE TIME OF THE FIRE, BUT THE FAMILY DID LOSE SOME PETS IN THE BLAZE. FIREFIGHTERS BELIEVE THE CAUSE WAS ELECTRICAL.
Return to Story IndexPET CEMETERY
PEOPLE ARE OUTRAGED WITH THE THE CURRENT CONDITION OF THE J-L BOWLING CEMETERY IN WINFIELD. THE ORIGINAL OWNER DIED SEVERAL YEARS AGO ... AND HOWARD HUNTER INHERITED THE LAND. THE OWNER TELLS EYEWITNESS NEWS THAT HE WANTS TO HELP ... BUT THE STATE WILL FINE HIM IF HE DOES ANY WORK. THAT'S BECAUSE HE OWES THE STATE 60 THOUSAND DOLLARS IN TAXES AND 90 THOUSAND TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ... A DEBT HE SAYS HE INHERITED. THOSE WITH LOVED ONES AND PETS BURIED HERE SAY THEY JUST WANT SOMETHING DONE AND ARE EVEN WILLING TO CLEAN IT UP THEMSELVES. RIGHT NOW THE PROPERTY IS UP FOR SALE AND HAS BEEN FOR THE LAST YEAR AND A HALF...
Return to Story IndexLOTTERY JACKPOT
THE LATEST ESTIMATE FOR THE TOMORROW NIGHT'S TOP PRIZE IS MORE THAN 600 MILLION DOLLARS. AND EVERYONE IS WANTING A PIECE OF THE 600 MILLION DOLLAR PRIZE.. NO ONE WON THE WEDNESDAY NIGHT DRAWING... MAKING THE POT GROW.. OFFICIALS EXPECT THE JACKPOT TO KEEP GROWING BEFORE SATURDAY'S DRAWING THAT COULD BREAK POWERBALL'S NOVEMBER 2012 RECORD OF 587 POINT 5 MILLION DOLLAR PRIZE.
Return to Story IndexSHARE THE JACKPOT
AND WE WANT TO SHARE THE CASH WITH YOU! JUST STOP BY OUR FACEBOOK PAGE - CLICK THE EYEWITNESS INSIDER TAB AND FIND THE SHARE THE JACKPOT GRAPHIC TO ENTER! IF WE WIN ... WE'LL RANDOMLY SELECT EIGHT ADULTS TO SPLIT THE CASH WITH US! HURRY - YOU'VE GOT UNTI L TOMORROW EVENING AT TEN. FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF RULES ... LOG ON TO OUR WEBSITE ... WCHS TV dot COM.
Return to Story IndexBLUES FESTIVAL
Blues music THE 6TH ANNUAL 'CHARLIE WEST BLUES FEST' GOT UNDERWAY THIS EVENING DOWN AT THE AMPHITHEATRE ON THE BOULEVARD. THE EVENT...WHICH BROUGHT IN MORE THAN 30,000 PEOPLE LAST YEAR, IS EXPECTED TO BE A BIG DRAW AGAIN THIS YEAR WITH SEVERAL BIG NAMES. NOT ONLY DOES THIS EVENT FEATURE GREAT BLUES MUSIC...BUT SOME DELICIOUS FOOD TOO! THE EVENT BENEFITS THE WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT TO HONOR OUR TROOPS. THE CHARLIE WEST BLUES FEST CONTINUES TOMORROW FROM NOON TO 11 PM...
Return to Story IndexLARRY THE CABLE GUY
"GET 'ER DONE.. THAT'S RIGHT WHAT ARE THE ODDS I'D SAY THAT." LARRY THE CABLE GUY AND BILL ENGVALL TOOK THE STAGE AT THE BIG SANDY SUPER STORE ARENA. LARRY'S SIGNATURE "GIT R DONE" AND BILL'S SIGNATURE "HERE'S YOUR SIGN" WERE HEARD MANY TIMES AT TONIGHT'S PERFORMANCE. LARRY'S LAST STOP IN HUNTINGTON WAS BACK IN 2009...TO A NEARLY SOLDOUT AUDIENCE... THIS IS BILL ENGVALL'S FIRST VISIT TO THE RIVER CITY.
Return to Story IndexBOYD RELAY FOR LIFE
CANCER SURVIVORS AND OTHERS WHO HAVE HAD TO DEAL WITH THE DISEASE ARE STAYING UP AND WALKING TONIGHT AT FAIRVIEW FOOTBALL FIELD FOR THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY RELAY FOR LIFE. TEAMS STARTED THE RELAY AT SIX THIS EVENING AND ARE COMPETING TO STAY ON THE TRACK UNTIL SIX TOMORROW MORNING. MONEY RAISED SUPPORTS THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY'S EFFORTS TO SAVE LIVES BY HELPING PEOPLE GET WELL AND STAY WELL AND BY FINDING CURES AND FIGHTING BACK AGAINST CANCER.
Return to Story IndexJIM WEATHER BUMP
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A BANK GETS A NEW DRIVE-THRU IN VIRGINIA... AND THE MALT BALLS WERE FLYING IN INDIANA ON THIS USA UPDATE
Return to Story IndexVA WOMEN'S CLINIC
A DEDICATION WAS HELD THIS AFTER NOON . RETIRED ARMY COLONEL MARIA WORLEY WAS THE KEYNOTE SPEAKER AND LANDAU EUGENE MURPHY JUNIOR SUNG THE NATIONAL ANTHEM. THE NEW FACILITY IS THREE STORIES TALL AND WILL SERVE THE HEALTH CARE NEEDS OF 1,200 FEMALE PATIENTS.
Return to Story IndexINTRO MAKE A WISH
SHE'S IN DISNEYWORLD, RIGHT NOW! ALEXIS RUSSELL FLEW OUT OF TRI-STATE AIRPORT THIS AFTERNOON... DISNEY BOUND! THE MAKE-A -WISH FOUNDATION GRANTED ALEXIS' WISH. SHE TOLD US SHE CAN'T WAIT TO MEET ALL THE DISNEY PRINCESSES... INCLUDING HER FAVORITE- ARIEL. SHE AND HER FAMILY SAY THEY HAVE BEEN COUNTING DOWN THE DAYS TILL THEIR TRIP... AND ALEXIS SAID IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO EVEN SLEEP LAST NIGHT!
Return to Story IndexB MAKE A WISH
"Just to see her smile is great because she went throughher surgeries were really tough and there was two weeks where she didn't laugh or nothing so just to see just for them to give us that is amazing." ALEXIS AND HER MOM SAY THEY ARE FOREVER GRATEFUL TO MAKE A WISH FOR HELPING HER WISH COME TRUE!
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ON EYEWITNESS NEWS.
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-BOYS AAA 200 METER TIME TRIALS...JEFFESON'S DONTE PRICE COASTING TO THE WIN AND INTO TOMORROW'S CHAMPIONSHIP...PRICE IS BOUND FOR VA. TECH NEXT SEASON. -GIRLS CLASS A 3200 METERS...FEMALE TRACK ATHLETE OF THE YEAR, MAGGIE DRAZBA OF SM, WINS EASILY...SHE IS HEADING TO WVU... -CLASS AA 3200 METERS...FRANKFORT'S KATIE JAN...AN APPOINTMENT TO THE NAVAL ACADEMY TO CONTINUE HER RUNNING CAREER... -CLASS A BOYS 3200 METERS...BUFFALO'S DYLAN RICH, WHO HAS PLENTY OF OPPORTUNITIES AT THE NEXT LEVEL...TAKES THE WIN... -NOW ON TO THE BOYS CLASS AAA 3200 METERS...JACOB BURCHAM OF CABELL MIDLAND, WHO IS OFF TO OKLAHOMA, BATTLING MATT BRAFFORD OF GW...THE JUNIOR GIVING THE GREAT CHAMP ALL HE WANTS...BUT IN THE END...IT'S BURCHAM WITH ANOTHER STATE TITLE...9:08.03 SECONDS... BRAFFORD A RESPECTABLE SECOND...
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Return to Story IndexSA-HURRICANE
--HURRICANE WITH SOME DEFENSE... TOP OF 2ND THE WHITNELL JONES TRIES TO LAY DOWN THE BUNT... POPS IT UP... LOOK AT THE GRAB BY CATCHER LINZIE REYNOLDS!!! SCORELESS THRU 1 1/2 INNINGS... --BOTTOM OF THE 2ND... RED DRAGONS TURN FOR SOME "D"... RUNNERS ON 1ST AND 2ND... MADDIE HEBB WITH THE HOT SHOT... ALLYSA BONHAM AT 3RD WITH THE SNAG... ENDS THE INNING... STILL SCORELESS... --BOTTOM OF THE 3RD... HURRICANE WITH THE BASES LOADED... BONHAM WITH SOME MORE DEFENSE... TAKES AN OPPORTUNITY AWAY FROM REYNOLDS... STILL NO SCORE... SHORTLY AFTER THAT LIGHTNING WOULD DELAY THIS GAME FOR MORE THAN 2 1/2 HOURS... HURRICANE WOULD END UP GETTING THE WIN 2-0... ADVANCING TO THE STATE TOURNAMENT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN SCHOOL HISTORY...
Return to Story IndexBRUCE IRVIN
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Return to Story IndexFINAL WEATHER
Return to Story IndexBLUES FESTIVAL CLOSER
WE LEAVE YOU TONIGHT WITH WITH MORE SIGHTS AND SOUNDS FROM THE SIXTH ANNUAL 'CHARLIE WEST BLUES FEST.' HAVE A GREAT NIGHT.
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