A pretrial conference hearing was held Tuesday in Fulton County Superior Court in Rochester for a woman accused of striking four children while they crossed the road to get on a school bus in Fulton County.
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Roy Bell, the man convicted of murdering former Knox resident, Wilma Upsall, was sentenced in Fulton County Superior Court to Life in Prison without the Possibility of Parole on a charge of Murder.
Bell was additionally sentenced to 10 years with the enhancement of 10 years on a charge of Burglary and four years with the enhancement of four years on a charge of Robbery. Those sentences will run consecutively for a total sentence of Life in Prison without the Possibility of Parole plus 28 years.
Bell and two others allegedly forcibly entered the home of Upsall’s daughter and son-in-law on Nov. 23, 2011 in Rochester. Upsall was reportedly tied to a chair and shot to death. Items were also stolen from the home.
James “Jim” Carr, former Pulaski County Journal reporter, has been found guilty of Murder after a four day trial in Fulton Superior Court. A jury found him guilty in the death of Roy A. Shaffer in November 2006.
Shaffer was renting a home from Carr in Monterey when Carr shot Shaffer in the face with a shotgun. He then told a woman about the incident when she drove him home from a tavern.
