Parents brought their pitchforks to the first meeting of the Wise County School Board to include public comment since high school football coach Travis Turner went missing in November. Turner, the former head football coach at Union High School in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, disappeared on November 20, 2025, and days later was charged with five counts of child pornography and five counts of using a computer to solicit a minor.  One mother who spoke at the Monday, January 12, meeting expressed “deep disappointment in the silence, the closed door decisions and the lack of accountability from the pe...

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