Grave Marker Dedication Honors Black Activist Bessie Woodson Yancey
A grave marker dedication was held this month for an Appalachian activist who died decades ago.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsLarry Allen Clay Jr. of Fayetteville, 58, was the Gauley Bridge Chief of Police and a deputy with the Fayette County Sheriff’s Department when he offered to pay a financially desperate co-defendant, Kristen Naylor-Legg, to have sex with her 17-year old step-daughter in June of 2020. This week he was sentenced to a quarter of a century in prison for the crimes.
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