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Local week in review
Local week in review
Date published: 10/22/2006 Missing couple found dead The man accused of murdering a King George County couple was denied bond last week. Cleave Williams Jr., 29, was arrested Oct. 13 in Spotsylvania County and charged with the first-degree murders of Maggie Skinner, 63, and Phil Hamilton, 75. Spotsylvania sheriff's deputies found the badly burned bodies of an adult male and female in a field off Tidewater Trail on Oct. 13. The bodies were presumed to be those of Skinner and Hamilton. Officials believe Skinner and Hamilton were killed when they went to collect overdue rent and evict Williams from the house he rented from Skinner at 10612 Opal Lane off Tidewater Trail. Two pilots die over weekendThe pilot of a stunt plane that crashed during an air show at Culpeper Regional Airport on Oct. 14 died the following day, and a man piloting an experimental plane died Oct. 15. Nancy Lynn, 50, of Annapolis, Md., was burned over much of her body after her plane crashed when it failed to complete a snap-roll maneuver at the Culpeper air show. William Mitchell Strother III, 43, was alone in a single-seat plane when it crashed into a field on the southwest side of Spotsylvania County's Shannon Airport. He was killed on impact. Should treatment be covered?Last week, a legislative commission heard arguments over whether insurance companies should be forced to cover a particular radiation therapy for cancer patients, but won't make a recommendation until next month. The therapy--known as intensity modulated radiation therapy--is offered at the Mid-Rivers Cancer Center in Montross, a clinic established by Dr. Christopher Walsh. IMRT delivers radiation to a tumor in a way that's more concentrated and affects less of the surrounding healthy tissue. This past spring, health insurance companies--such as Anthem--stopped covering IMRT for breast and lung cancers, saying it wasn't proven to be more beneficial to patients than conventional radiation treatment for those cancers. Grant promotes school safetyStudents who kill others at school are often victims themselves--victims of bullying, some experts say. That's why Stafford school officials need to proactively address the problem, a consultant told 27 county officials last week. In the wake of several deadly school shootings, Stafford obtained a $226,000 federal grant to achieve such goals.
Date published: 10/22/2006
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