Stories from Thursday, September 29, 2011

HARRISON -- Two Green Forest men, the first in the nation to be convicted under the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, were sentenced this week to prison terms. Frankie Maybee, 20, was sentenced to 135 months on Wednesday, one day after the four-year sentence that was handed down to Sean Popejoy, 19, who assisted prosecutors by testifying against Maybee...

CARROLL COUNTY -- A television documentary featuring convicted murderer Belynda Goff is set to air this Saturday evening at 9 p.m. on the TLC network, Cox cable channel 53 (or TV 14), as part of the Prison Diaries series. Goff is the Green Forest woman who was sentenced to life in prison for the 1994 bludgeoning death of her husband, Stephen Goff...

This little houseboat, about to pass under the Beaver Bridge, chugged along downstream on the White River toward Holiday Island at about 5 mph on a drizzly morning.