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The 1976 Mason County jail bombing was a suicide bombing that took place at the Mason County Courthouse in Point Pleasant, West Virginia on March 2, 1976. Five people, including two perpetrators and three law enforcement officers, were killed in the attack, and a further 11 people were injured.
West Virginia History. West Virginia Historical Society. ISSN 0043-325X. Delf Norona (1958). West Virginia Imprints, 1790-1863: A Checklist of Books, Newspapers, Periodicals and Broadsides. Moundsville: West Virginia Library Association. OCLC 863601 – via Internet Archive. G. Thomas Tanselle (1971). "General Studies: West Virginia".
Wooton was a law clerk for Judge John A. Field Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 1971 to 1972; an assistant West Virginia Attorney General from 1972 to 1974; and an assistant Raleigh County prosecutor from 1974 to 1977. He practiced law in Beckley with the firm Wooton, Wooton & Fragile from 1977 until 1994 ...
The U.S. state of West Virginia has 55 counties. Fifty of them existed at the time of the Wheeling Convention in 1861, during the American Civil War, when those counties seceded from the Commonwealth of Virginia to form the new state of West Virginia. [1] West Virginia was admitted as a separate state of the United States on June 20, 1863. [2]
Name Party Tenure Residence county Elected Predecessor Successor Composition 5: Charles P.T. Moore: Democratic: Jan. 1, 1873 – Jun. 1, 1881° Mason: 1872: seat ...
Volocopter GmbH (formerly called E-Volo GmbH) is a German aircraft manufacturer based in Bruchsal (near Karlsruhe) and founded by Alexander Zosel and Stephan Wolf. The company specializes in the design of electric multirotor helicopters in the form of personal air vehicles , designed for air taxi use.
No court proceedings convened in Hampshire County between 1861 and 1864 [5] [6] and the county's courthouse was used as a stable by Union soldiers stationed in Romney during the war. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Upon learning of this, White was again concerned for the safety of the county's records and proceeded to load land registration records ledger books ...
Mercer County Airport covers 511 acres (207 ha) at an elevation of 2,857 feet (871 m).Its one runway, 5/23, is 4,743 by 100 feet (1,446 x 30 m) asphalt. [1]In the year ending July 11, 2023, the airport had 16,400 aircraft operations, average 45 per day: 88% general aviation, 11% air taxi, and <1% military. 21 aircraft were then based at this airport: 15 single-engine, 5 helicopter, and 1 ...