WEST VIRGINIA KNIFE AND GUN CLUB

(09/23/2004)
STABBED IN PARKING LOT - An altercation outside a Dunbar bar yesterday sent one man to the hospital and another to jail.

Robert David Withrow, 23, of Dunbar was arrested after police allege he stabbed Justin Berger in the parking lot of "Tank," a local bar.

Berger was "sitting in a chair, holding a blood-soaked towel against his stomach," when police arrived.

NO KNIFE OR GUN HERE, BUT - A St. Albans man Michael Glenn, 22, has pleaded guilty to biting off part of another man's ear during an August 2002 fight over a woman.

Evan Hall, also 22, was the object of the bite. He also had broken bones.

Police say the fight occurred after Hall and Glenn's girlfriend went out for the evening.

MAN SHOT IN HIS TRUCK - Martinsburg police are investigating the death of a man found shot to death in his pickup truck. Sixty-year-old Bart Gilbert Banner, Jr. of Martinsburg slumped over in the driver's seat of a Toyota pickup after being shot several times.

The murder is being investigated by officers from the Martinsburg Police Department and the Eastern Panhandle Drug and Violent Crime Task Force.

GREYHOUND BUS MAYHEM - Police say a Greyhound bus driver stabbed and wounded a teenage passenger who had attacked him during a trip from Tampa to Detroit.

Huntington police say the 17-year-old passenger had begun threatening driver Theodore Johnson, 58 as he pulled his bus with its 40 passengers into Huntington's downtown Greyhound station.

Bus driver Johnson says he was punched and placed in a choke-hold, but managed to pull out a pocket knife and stab the teen.

Police said the teen lived in nearby Kenova.

WOMAN CLAIMS SELF DEFENSE - A Cabell County woman has admitted to shooting and killing her husband, saying it was in self-defense. Cabell Sheriff's deputies say 28-year-old Tanya Harden is in custody after 34-year-old Danuel Harden died of a single gunshot wound.

Investigators say it appears there had been a domestic fight before the shooting and Tanya Harden had several injuries.

Police said the couple's two children, ages 9 and 10, and several friends were at the house at the time of the shooting.