{"id":130439,"date":"2011-10-03T16:36:11","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T21:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=130439"},"modified":"2011-10-04T15:55:20","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T20:55:20","slug":"two-charges-dismissed-against-upshur-county-gop-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=130439","title":{"rendered":"Two Charges Dismissed against Upshur County GOP Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=130440\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-130440\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/10\/ken_ambrose.gif-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"ken_ambrose.gif\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-130440\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nGILMER \u2014 A judge on Monday morning dismissed two charges against Upshur County\u2019s Republican Party chairman. Judge Diane DeVasto dismissed charges of theft and misappropriation that District Attorney Billy Byrd brought against Republican Chairman Ken Ambrose. According to KETK and the Longview News-Journal, Ambrose must repay $6,000. The charges arose after Ambrose used party Primary funds to pay for an attorney. Byrd and Ambrose\u2019s attorney, Scrappy Holmes, agreed to dismiss the charges if Ambrose repaid the money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GILMER \u2014 A judge on Monday morning dismissed two charges against Upshur County\u2019s Republican Party chairman. Judge Diane DeVasto dismissed charges of theft and misappropriation that District Attorney Billy Byrd brought against Republican Chairman Ken Ambrose. According to KETK and the Longview News-Journal, Ambrose must repay $6,000. The charges arose after Ambrose used party Primary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=130439\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two Charges Dismissed against Upshur County GOP Chairman<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-28 20:08:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130439"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130719,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130439\/revisions\/130719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}