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Murder charge in stabbing death going to grand jury
By K.A. WAGONER - Staff Writer
"I just killed my mother-in-law...with a knife," James Cleveland Miller told a 911 dispatcher on April 11.
"I am tired of the bickerin', tired of the belittlement," he added when the dispatcher asked why he did it.
A recording of the call was aired during Miller's preliminary hearing in Franklin County Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court this week.
The 41-year-old Figsboro man is charged with first-degree murder in connection with the stabbing death of his paraplegic mother-in-law, Pamela Camille Hall, 59.
Miller is also charged with using a knife in the commission of a felony.
The charges were certified to a grand jury, scheduled to meet Monday, July 6.
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Official: Deceased woman tests negative for flu
Additional tests reveal that a Union Hall woman, who died Monday, did not have swine flu, according to a Franklin County public safety official.
"From the reports we have received, the woman tested negative for influenza," said Billy Ferguson, chief of operations for the Franklin County Department of Public Safety.
The Virginia Department of Health has no new confirmed cases of swine flu, said Robert Parker, public information officer with VDH.
A 45-year-old woman, who had flu-like symptoms, was transported by ambulance to Carilion Franklin Memorial Hospital and airlifted to Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital Saturday afternoon, Ferguson said earlier this week. She died at Roanoke Memorial early Monday morning.
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