{"id":10243,"date":"2014-09-08T14:16:35","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T18:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=10243"},"modified":"2014-09-08T14:24:42","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T18:24:42","slug":"goodbye-earl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/09\/08\/goodbye-earl\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye, Earl!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Technically, it&#8217;s &#8220;Welcome back, Earl!&#8221;, but the courts will say &#8220;Goodbye, Earl!&#8221; in a few months. So what really happened? By the way, WE CALLED IT!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sovanow.com\/index.php?\/news\/article\/former_supervisor_earl_womack_indicted_for_embezzlement\/\" target=\"_blank\">Former supervisor Earl Womack indicted for embezzlement, theft<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>(See how easy it is to give credit, Tom McLaughlin?)\u00a0 <a title=\"We Couldn\u2019t Even Get a Top 10?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/22\/we-couldnt-even-get-a-top-10\/\" target=\"_blank\">For reference, here&#8217;s where we predicted this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s have a Big Board of Earl Womack&#8217;s Halifax Hijinks&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Earl had access to the school system&#8217;s gas pumps and was having fun at taxpayers&#8217; expense with that. Unfortunately for Earl, those gas pumps have security cameras monitoring them. Smile, Earl!<\/li>\n<li>Earl wasn&#8217;t satisfied with his gas pump discount program. Earl also lined his pockets in some kind of scheme involving transportation system employees&#8217; timesheets.<\/li>\n<li>While all of this was going on, Earl ran for the county Board of Supervisors. Yep, he was having a good time while making voters think he was just a fine model citizen. He fooled those voters enough to get elected.<\/li>\n<li>Oopsie. Earl realized that he had been caught so he &#8220;resigned&#8221; his school system transportation director position for &#8220;health and family concerns&#8221;. Riiiight. Earl had been caught with his hand <del>in the cookie jar<\/del> on the gas pumps.<\/li>\n<li>Earl then resigned his elected Board of Supervisors seat but didn&#8217;t have the guts to make the statement himself. He got Bryant Claiborne to do it for him. Earl then played a nice race card by saying that a black person should get the seat. <a title=\"The man who\u2019s not resigning has resigned.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/08\/the-man-whos-not-resigning-has-resigned\/\" target=\"_blank\">We jumped on Earl for that here at SouthsideCentral<\/a>. Earl was ignored and the 2nd place finisher (Ray Owen) got the seat.<\/li>\n<li>Earl took off to Florida and the case slowly, slowly, slowly made its way through the justice system and the indictments came back today.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Earl will be coming back to Halifax County from Florida very soon. We&#8217;ll see what happens once he makes his first court appearance.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.imgur.com\/hl0XsvD.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technically, it&#8217;s &#8220;Welcome back, Earl!&#8221;, but the courts will say &#8220;Goodbye, Earl!&#8221; in a few months. So what really happened? 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(5\/31\/16)","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"May 31, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Let's wrap up the month with a special Tuesday edition of QuickHits. We'll take a look at stories around the region that have caught my eye over the past week. If the QuickHits are coming, we've got to have a Big Board! Goodbye, Earl! Hello, Earl! 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Womack originally said he\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Halifax County&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Halifax County","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/locations\/halifax-county\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4757,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/22\/halifax-county-sheriffs-department-reports-larcenies\/","url_meta":{"origin":10243,"position":2},"title":"Halifax County Sheriff&#8217;s Department reports larcenies.","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"July 22, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Two reports of Halifax County larcenies to report... Earl Martin, (2130 Leda Grove Rd. in Nathalie), reported that someone entered a shed behind his house by breaking out a window. Items stolen include 2 chainsaws, 2 string trimmers, an air compressor, a leaf blower and an electric drill. 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