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Correction: Patriot Bankruptcy story
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — In a story March 27 about the United Mine Workers planning a protest outside the West Virginia offices of Patriot Coal Corp., The Associated Press incorrectly attributed a comment to Peabody Energy. Patriot Coal said it is the victim of “unforeseen events” including the global financial crisis, new environmental regulations and a reduction in metallurgical coal prices.
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Partisan squabble breaks out in House on vaccines
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A partisan squabble broke out Wednesday in the West Virginia House Health Committee over whether state permission should be required to get an exemption from mandatory vaccinations. On the committee’s agenda had been a fairly mundane bill concerning which government agencies grant medical exemptions. However, the committee spent more than two hours discussing whether a private physician alone, with no input from s...
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W.Va. Senate advances 2 pro-gambling bills
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced two pro-gambling bills Wednesday, reducing fees on existing casinos and allowing the creation of a sixth casino in the state. One bill would reduce the fee that the four existing racetrack casinos pay to be able to offer table games like blackjack and roulette. The second bill would allow for the creation of a new casino near the Highlands Golf Club in Franklin, W.Va., on the ...
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W.Va. police officers get meth lab training
INSTITUTE, W.Va. (AP) — More than 30 police officers from across West Virginia are learning how to detect and dismantle methamphetamine labs. Media outlets report that Network Environmental Systems, Inc. of California is conducting a training session on meth this week at the West Virginia State Police Academy in Institute. Officers will take a certification examination to become meth lab technicians. State police spokesman Sgt. Michael ...
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Drug dogs visit Chapmanville Regional High School
CHAPMANVILLE — Law enforcement, including three members of the canine unit, made a visit to Chapmanville Regional High School to check the school and parking lots for the presence of illegal drugs. The search was coordinated by school administration, the Chapmanville Police Department and the Logan County Sheriff’s Department. Drug abuse among high school students is a serious concern and they believe unscheduled visits to schools may be a ...
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WVSP, CRHS student join to educate youth
CHAPMANVILLE — Topics such as bullying and drug and alcohol abuse will be the main focus of a series of speakers coming to Chapmanville Regional High School in the coming weeks. Matthew Dingess, a sophomore at CRHS and a West Virginia State Police Junior Trooper Academy graduate, recently contacted the Logan Detachment of the West Virginia State Police about concerns that he had for his school and classmates. Dingess said he wanted to hel...
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Anti-discrimination push falters in W.Va. House
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — As the U.S. Supreme Court heard historic arguments over same-sex marriage, a lead supporter signaled defeat Wednesday for the latest House of Delegates bid to add sexual orientation to West Virginia’s anti-discrimination laws. Delegate Stephen Skinner told colleagues that he asked the chairman of a committee assigned to the bill not to take it up ahead of a Friday procedural deadline. The Jefferson County Democrat c...
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UMWA plans huge Patriot rally in W.Va. on Monday
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The United Mine Workers of America is planning to bring at least 50 buses and some 5,000 people to West Virginia’s capital next week to protest outside the state offices of bankrupt Patriot Coal Corp. The union has staged multiple protests in St. Louis, resulting in a few dozen arrests, and is running an ad campaign aimed at pressuring Patriot to abandon plans for shedding a $1.6 billion liability for pensions and h...
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W.Va. Senate plan would give every kid free lunch
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia would be the first state in the nation to give free school breakfast and lunch to every elementary school student under the provisions of an ambitious bill advanced by the state Senate on Wednesday. The bill, titled the West Virginia Feed to Achieve Act, would pay for the expanded lunch programs through additional federal funding and private donations and grants. The Department of Education and every c...
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W.Va. House passes bill spurred by missing teen
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The case of a West Virginia teen who disappeared and was later found dead prompted the House of Delegates to vote unanimously to tweak the state’s Amber Alert process Wednesday. Dubbed “Skylar’s Law,” the measure heading to the state Senate requires law enforcement to relay initial reports of a missing child to the State Police, which must then contact the Amber Alert System. State law now limits Amber Alerts to a...
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Parent arrested for child’s truancy violations
DELBARTON — Parents and guardians of children who attend school in Mingo County are now realizing that truancy violations are no longer just a matter of receiving verbal or written warnings or having an occasional visit from school administrators, it is a criminal offense that can result in an arrest, court hearings, a fine and possible jail time. According to the criminal complaint obtained from Mingo County Magistrate Court, Sabrina Penne...
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Buffalo Creek Watershed holds conference about stream restoration progress
Each of the five board members of the Buffalo Creek Watershed Association were affected by the 1972 Buffalo Creek Disaster when Pittston Coal Company’s coal slurry impoundment dam #3 burst sending a black wave of 132,000,000 gallons of waste water through 16 coal mining communities on Buffalo Creek. There were 5,000 people living in the communities, where 125 were killed, 1,121 were injured, and over 4,000 left homeless. The destruction inc...
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Cliff’s Lower War Eagle mine earns safety award
MAN – A local underground mine has been honored for their commitment to safety. Cliffs Natural Resources Inc.’s Logan County Coal Lower War Eagle underground mine received the Mountaineer Guardian Safety Award from the West Virginia Office of Miner’s Health, Safety and Training (WVHMST) and the West Virginia Coal Association. The award was presented to employees of the mine at the 40th annual West Virginia Mining Symposium recently held in ...
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Funds being raised for LHS athlete
A Logan High School athlete has been diagnosed with AML leukemia and fundraisers have been established to help with his medical expenses. Freshman Sklyer Miller was a starter on the LHS freshman football team and a member of the weight lifting team. He is a also member of the Logan High School Prayer Club and Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) and was selected as student of the month last fall. “Skyler is an outstanding moral and ethi...
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Logan Mingo Mental Health names new CEO/Director
A Logan County native has been named CEO/Director by the Board of Directors at Logan Mingo Area Mental Health. Donna J. Cooke is a 1976 graduate of Logan High School. She is a licensed psychologist with over 20 years of experience as a clinician and nearly 20 years’ experience as an administrator. Cooke has more than ten years of experience in a community mental health setting and currently provides evaluation back-up coverage for Mingo C...
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Heart repair breakthroughs replace surgeon’s knife
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Have a heart problem? If it’s fixable, there’s a good chance it can be done without surgery, using tiny tools and devices that are pushed through tubes into blood vessels. Heart care is in the midst of a transformation. Many problems that once required sawing through the breastbone and opening up the chest for open heart surgery now can be treated with a nip, twist or patch through a tube. These minimal procedures use...
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President of local business facing wire fraud charges
The president of a local mine equipment company is facing wire fraud charges along with three mine sourcing agents in connection with an alleged scheme to embezzle money from Alpha Natural Resources. Donald Steele is president of M & S Hydraulics located near Switzer in Logan County. According to the information filed by U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin, Steele provided mine supplies and equipment repair services to mines along Route 3 through B...
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Senate bill makes administrators substitute teach
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The West Virginia Senate will vote on a bill Wednesday that would require certain school administrators to serve as substitute teachers for three days each year. The bill would exempt county superintendents but would require anyone with a teaching or administrative certificate who is classified as a “supervisor” or a “central office administrator” to serve as a substitute teacher. In most districts this would includ...
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Pretrial release program passes W.Va. Senate
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — After unanimously passing Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin’s wide ranging prison reform bill last week, the West Virginia Senate has passed another bill with similar aims. The bill passed unanimously Tuesday would authorize counties to create supervised release programs for inmates awaiting trial, with the goal of reducing prison overcrowding. All pretrial releases would be at the discretion of the court. The court would rel...
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W.Va. Senate: Take tax debts from lottery prizes
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The West Virginia Senate has passed a bill that would allow the state tax department to confiscate the prizes of lottery winners who are delinquent on their taxes. The bill passed unanimously Tuesday would allow the lottery director to take any winnings that are owed in back taxes and forward them directly to the state tax department. If a prize is larger than the amount owed, the tax department would only take a po...
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W.Va. House moves testing bill for drugged drivers
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A bill passed by the West Virginia House Judiciary Committee would take the licenses of drivers who refuse a blood test after an arrest. Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin proposed the change to try to crack down on drugged driving in the state. Currently drivers can lose their licenses for refusing a breath test after being arrested, but breath tests are useless for detecting drugs. State police say they need to use blood tests...
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Logan hosts 20th-anniversary turkey banquet
The Logan Area Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF) just reached a major milestone. Some 250 folks joined in to celebrate the occasion of its 20th Anniversary Superfund Banquet. The event was held at the Chief Logan State Park Conference Center along Corridor G. In a nifty coincidence, it’s also the 40th Anniversary of the parent organization, one of the nation’s leading non-profits in promoting conservation of the wild turke...
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Ferrell arrested twice
An outstanding arrest warrant led West Virginia State Police to arrest a Gilbert woman and take her to jail and arrest her again. The arrest warrant was issued after and incident on January 7, 2013, when officers were dispatched to investigate an automobile theft in the community of Mount Gay. The victim told the officers the defendant, Candace Ferrell, 26, of Gilbert, along with another person, had stolen her vehicle the night before. ...
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Caldwell charged with DUI
A Logan County Deputy Sheriff responded to a motor vehicle collision on Route 10 near the gas station at Huff Creek and arrested one of the drivers involved in the accident. When the officer spoke with one of the drivers, Jeremy Ray Caldwell, 26, of Accoville, the criminal complaint says he detected the odor of alcohol and noticed Caldwell’s eyes looked glassy. Caldwell failed the three sobriety tests the officer administered. Additiona...
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W.Va. gets F for inadequate tobacco prevention efforts
Tim Creighton started smoking when he was in the second grade after seeing his classmates light up; he felt it would help him fit in. Now a 22-year-old student at West Virginia University, Creighton acknowledges that he is addicted to cigarettes. “When everyone around you smoked and used dip, it’s just something you did. It’s something everyone did,” he said. Creighton isn’t alone. More than 20 percent of West Virginia’s high school stude...
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