{"id":39931,"date":"2006-11-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/v3\/?p="},"modified":"2006-11-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-28T00:00:00","slug":"Stringer-family-sues-Nanty-Glo-VFW","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/?p=39931","title":{"rendered":"Stringer family sues Nanty Glo VFW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. (AP) \u2014 The family of a volunteer firefighter who was killed in a barroom fight sued the bar where the fight occurred.<br \/>\nRay Stringer, 43, who was the chief of the Neptune Volunteer Fire Department in Tyrone, died of a brain injury caused by blows to the head during the August 2005 bar fight in Nanty Glo. Stringer was attending a firemen\u2019s convention.<br \/>\nGeorge T. Lightcap IV, 30, of Nanty Glo, who punched Stringer, is serving a 5 1\/2- to 20-year prison sentence for aggravated assault and involuntary manslaughter.<br \/>\nThe Veterans of Foreign Wars club in Nanty Glo should not have served alcohol to Lightcap because he was already drunk and showed signs of violence, according to the lawsuit.<br \/>\nThe commander of the post was not available for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. (AP) \u2014 The family of a volunteer firefighter who was killed in a barroom fight sued the bar where the fight occurred. Ray Stringer, 43, who was the chief of the Neptune Volunteer Fire Department in Tyrone, died of a brain injury caused by blows to the head during the August 2005 bar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-in-the-tyrone-pennsylvania-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}