Today's News

onvicted of rape in connection with charges that date back to 2005. He will have to serve more than 17 years of a 57 year, seven month sentence.

    Michael Wayne Porterfield, 38, pleaded no contest May 3 to the rape charge, which stems from him having sexual intercourse with a 12-year-old girl in the Goodview area in 2005. He was arrested on the charges last July after the girl, now a teenager, shared what had happened with a friend.

    As Melissa Tomlin stood by her two girls, Mazie, 7, and Abby, 5, she was clear about the reason she wears her seatbelt.

    “What if I hadn’t had my seatbelt on. What if it had killed me; what would my kids do?” she said of a recent accident.
    That discipline, however, kept her from being seriously hurt or even killed during an accident last month in Bedford.

    Extreme athlete Tom Jones has suffered first-hand the atrocities of child predators.

    As a child of 10, he was removed from his home because of abuse and placed in a group home. While at that group home, Jones said he was sexually molested for four years by the staff.
    “It caused a litany of problems in my life,” Jones states of the abuse.
    That’s why he has made an effort to reach out to help youth and support causes that seek to protect them from predators.

    Liberty High School teacher Jeff Steele had the opportunity in graduate school to learn the virtues of education while serving as a teaching assistant.