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...battered woman knows." The Boone County prosecutor's office insists--and a jury agreed--that the shooting was premeditated. But the West Virginia Coalition Against Domestic Violence, spurred by Dr. Kimberly Martin, a pediatrician and shelter volunteer who once took in Kay and her children, is urging Governor Gaston Caperton to pardon Weekley. The Governor declined to speak with TIME, but a spokesperson says Caperton intends to announce a decision before he leaves office...
That would explain the vehemence with which tobacco is fighting back--in some cases pre-emptively. Industry lawyers have already filed suits trying to block the possible Maryland and Texas cases. In West Virginia, Governor W. Gaston Caperton, with the support of several of his own judicial appointees, has for now effectively scuttled that action by suing his own attorney general, Darrell McGraw, on the grounds that he did not have the authority to file a Medicaid suit. A few weeks ago, Mississippi Governor Kirk Fordice, following Caperton's example, filed a similar suit against attorney general Moore. Fordice, though...
...steamy romance novel, these slightly titillating words would cause scarcely a ripple. But in West Virginia last week, they and other passages in a newly published book created a political tsunami. For "Gaston" is Democratic Governor Gaston Caperton; and the object of his beneficence was his wife Rachael Worby, conductor of the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra, leader of Carnegie Hall's young people's concerts and, beyond any doubt, the most controversial first lady in the state's history...
Married to Caperton in 1990, Worby seemed ill-fitted to the role from the start. An outsider from New York in a rural state, distressed that her new role was hobbling her career in music, she pined for the cultural environment of Manhattan, where she maintains an apartment. She sought a conducting job in Little Rock, Arkansas, but lost out when some board members attributed her success with the Wheeling Symphony to her marriage to the Governor. Walsh recounts how Worby "insisted to me for nearly a year that she felt loved and embraced as the first lady of West...
DIED. MARY CAPERTON BINGHAM, 90, philanthropist; in Louisville, Kentucky. Moments after acknowledging a Rotary dinner toast by saying, "The best thing would be for a big pink cloud to come down and take me away," Bingham collapsed from a heart attack. She was the widow of media baron Barry Bingham; his death in 1988 was preceded by a family-rending money spat among their children...