Former Mingo County Doctor To Be Sentenced

{Charleston, West Virginia}...Dr. Diane Shafer, 60, a former Mingo County doctor who sold prescriptions to patients she did not examine, is set to be sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Charleston. Shafer, a former candidate for state Senate, pleaded guilty in May, admitting she had taken cash from those who came to her Williamson office for prescriptions for painkillers and that she wrote over 118,000 prescriptions between 2003 and early 2010. She also left signed, undated prescriptions at her office so her staff could hand them out for cash while she was gone. Shafer faces up to four years in federal prison.