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New OMB director has local ties
WASHINGTON - A woman with roots in Mingo County has been appointed to be Director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Sylvia Mathews Burwell, a native of Hinton, was confirmed in the Senate by unanimous vote this on Wednesday. Burwell has close ties to the Tug Valley. Her uncles are local businessmen, Charlie and Nick Maroudas and her first cousin is Nicole McNamee, owner of Hurley Drug. Her mother, Cleo Mathews is a graduate...
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One arrested in weekend drug bust
Chapmanville Police Department Cpl. N. Tucker contacted the Logan County Sheriff’s Department about possible drug activity in the Best Western at Chapmanville. Sheriff’s Department Deputies Sutherland and Brumfield responded, bringing along K-9 Kimbo, a dog specially trained to detect the presence of drugs. Sutherland and Brumfield, arrived at Best Western with K-9 Kimbo. Kimbo indicated at room 201. Cpl. N. Tucker knocked on the door a...
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2013 Drug Take Back Day a success
April 27 was National Drug Take Back Day and citizens around the country had the opportunity to dispose of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs. The service was free and anonymous, no questions asked. Medicines kept in various locations in homes are highly susceptible to diversion, misuse, and abuse and the usual methods for disposing of unused medicines—flushing them down the toilet or throwing them in the...
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Manchin visit Logan Thursday
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) will travel around southern West Virginia this week to discuss an array of issues, including ways to fix our nation’s fiscal challenges, how to grow West Virginia’s industrial and manufacturing sectors and the importance of keeping guns out of the hands of criminals and the dangerously mentally ill. He will also talk to West Virginians about ways to improve our education system, the need t...
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Hearing begins on Patriot’s bid to cut benefits
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A long-awaited bankruptcy hearing began Monday in which a St. Louis-based coal company insists it must significantly cut thousands of retirees’ health care and pension benefits or risk liquidation — a claim that its miners union strongly rejects. Patriot Coal Corp.’s proposed benefits cuts have been the most contentious aspect of its bankruptcy case since it filed for Chapter 11 protection last summer, when it estimated it ...
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Manchin: Gun bill to be reintroduced
WASHINGTON (AP) — One of the architects of failed gun control legislation says he’s bringing it back. Sen. Joe Manchin on Sunday said he would re-introduce a measure that would require criminal and mental health background checks for gun buyers at shows and online. The West Virginia Democrat says that if lawmakers read the bill, they will support it. Manchin sponsored a previous version of the measure with Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of Pe...
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Logan Middle School sixth graders visit surface mine
Blue skies and bright sunshine provided the perfect backdrop for an Earth Day celebration. Alpha and its Brooks Run West office hosted a field trip complete with cookout for Logan Middle School’s six grade students. Alpha provided each student with an Earth Day t-shirt and a backpack with some items tucked inside to take home . The students were taken on a tour of the North Surface mine, with someone on the bus to explain everything they ...
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Recent charges filed in Magistrate’s Court
The following is a listing of recently criminal filings in the Magistrates Court. • Michael Edward Stollings, 33, was booked on March 31 with assault, destruction of property and battery. His bail was set at $1,200. • Kelly Johnson, 36, was booked on April 3 by the West Virginia State Police for driving on revoked license non DUI, pre-trial misdemeanor, DUI causing personal injury, left of center and improper registration. His bail was se...
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Scaggs facing multiple charges
West Virginia State Police officers were called to a fight in progress in the road at 1113 Mill Creek Road, where they were told by witnesses the defendant involved in the fight had fled. Officers clocked the vehicle being driven by the defendant traveling 73 miles per hour in a 45 mile per hour speed zone on Route 10, near Phico. The officers came up on the vehicle sitting by the road with the door open and nobody inside and were able to...
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Patriot Coal bankruptcy case starts Monday
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The United Mine Workers of America union is promising to have thousands of miners and their supporters rallying in St. Louis next week as Patriot Coal Corp.’s bankruptcy hearing goes to court. St. Louis-based Patriot filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in July. The case is scheduled to begin Monday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in St. Louis Patriot was spun off from another St. Louis coal company, Peabody Energy Corp., in 2007. In...
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Elkins charged with grand larceny
On two separate occasions, Richard Lee Elkins Jr., 28, of Lorado, is accused of entering the property of Apogee Coal Company, located at Kelly Mountain, and stealing copper cable from a large spool. The amount taken each time was approximately 150 feet, each with an approximate value of $5,250. Images were captured by a hidden surveillance camera. After a review of the images officers were able to positively identify the suspect. The of...
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W.Va. motorcycle ride to honor slain sheriff
WILLIAMSON, W.Va. (AP) — A motorcycle rally in Mingo County will take on a special meaning this year. The Rally in the Valley set for May 3-5 in downtown Williamson will hold a motorcycle ride to honor the late Sheriff Eugene Crum. The Sheriff Eugene Crum Memorial Poker Run will be held starting at 12:30 p.m. on May 5. Organizer Paul Price of the Sidney, Ky.-based club Appalachian Brotherhood says the route is still being worked out. He...
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Receiving star treatment from a star
A local woman and her husband were guests at the recent Academy of Country Music Award show in Las Vegas, thanks to a loving daughter and the generosity of one of her favorite country singers. Rose Erlewine, owner of Unique Kitchens in Chapmanville, was diagnosed with Small Cell Lung Cancer and has been receiving chemotherapy and radiation treatments. “My parents travel to Las Vegas frequently throughout the year. The trip they had schedu...
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County officials address dog pound issues
Logan County Administrator Roscoe “Rocky” Adkins and Logan County Commission President Danny Godby answered questions and commented on recent activities at the Logan Animal Pound. Godby began with an overview of some of the issues affecting the facility. “Dogs are often dropped off by the side of the road and people call for someone to pick them up. That means the dog pound is often left unattended because the employee is out picking up d...
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Arrests made after indictments are returned
WILLIAMSON — The Mingo County Sheriff’s Department, along with officers from the Williamson, Gilbert and Delbarton Police Departments, gathered together at the Mingo County Courthouse early Thursday morning for a strategic planning session that was held prior to arresting defendants throughout the county that had been indicted on drug related charges. Forty-one true bills were returned by the Mingo County Grand Jury on Wednesday, with seven...
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Rockefeller urges participation in Drug Take Back Day
Senator Jay Rockefeller is encouraging West Virginians across the state to properly dispose of unwanted or expired prescription drugs during the sixth National Drug Take Back Day. On Saturday, April 27, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and its partners will set up locations across the state where West Virginians can rid their medicine cabinets of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription ...
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Fundraising held for Sheriff Crum Memorial Fund
WILLIAMSON — The ladies auxiliary of the Mingo County Sheriff’s Department (MCSD), the “Shielded Hearts”, which is made up of spouses, mothers and significant others of the deputies are selling items to raise funding for the Sheriff Eugene Crum Memorial Fund. According to Amanda Mines, the wife of Corporal Norman Mines and who is also employed as a Home Confinement Officer, the newly founded group is made up of 19 members including Sheriff ...
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Long-term care in aging US: Not for me, poll says
WASHINGTON (AP) — We’re in denial: Americans underestimate their chances of needing long-term care as they get older — and are taking few steps to get ready. A new poll examined how people 40 and over are preparing for this difficult and often pricey reality of aging and found two-thirds say they’ve done little to no planning. In fact, 3 in 10 would rather not think about getting older at all. Only a quarter predict it’s very likely that ...
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2013 Mingo County Fire and Rescue School scheduled
Rachel Baldwin Staff Writer The 6th Annual Mingo County Fire and Rescue School is scheduled to be held from May 10th through May 12th, and members of the MCFCA have been meeting regularly to put the finishing touches on this year’s event. As always, according to Williamson Fire Chief Jerry Mounts, the intended purpose of the weekend training event is to provide emergency responders with the best learning experience available on this par...
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Feds questioning construction of W.Va. slurry dams
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — A draft report kept under wraps since 2011 shows federal engineers are concerned about construction techniques, quality-control procedures and possible compaction problems at seven West Virginia coal slurry dams subjected to surprise inspections. The citizens’ group Sludge Safety Project obtained a one-page summary of the report that the federal Office of Surface Mining and Reclamation has refused to release. About ...
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Boil water advisory issued for Airport
The Logan County Public Service District has issued a boil water advisory for the Airport due to an interruption of water services. The advisory was issued Thursday, April 25. The LCPSD recommends boiling water for one minute and let cool before using or use bottled water. The area will be notified when it is no longer necessary to boil the water. For more information call the LCPSD at 304-946-2641.
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Removal of dilapidated buildings progressing
Ray Perry gave the Logan County Commission a report on the dilapidated building project and the progress being made. At the last meeting, there were 411 dilapidated structures being worked on, 74 had been removed. Over the past few weeks, nine more structures were added. Six of those nine had already been removed. A total of 80 structures have been removed and Perry expects in the next 90 days, 12 more that are highly visible structures a...
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Littering over 500 pounds sends Logan resident to jail
Logan Police Department officers responded to a call about someone throwing trash over the hill at Wilson Camp. The officers saw the trash in the weeds when they arrived, then saw a red truck while they were driving on Pine Street and stopped it. When they approached the vehicle and asked for driver’s license and vehicle information, Kevin William Sperry, 49, of Pine Street, told them he was going to clean up the trash he had thrown over ...
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Frances Creek water project gets funding
Clean, running water will be coming to residents of the Frances Creek and Kiah Creek areas of Lincoln County, according to an announcement made by U.S. Rep. Nick Rahall and Senators Jay Rockefeller and Joe Manchin. The funding of more than $1 million in federal grant and loan monies for the project is part of the USDA’s Emergency Community Water Assistance Grants Program. “Clean running water is important to the health and safety of our fam...
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US regulators report 11 mining deaths in ‘13
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Federal regulators say mining deaths during the first quarter of this year totaled 11, with West Virginia claiming nearly half of those fatalities. The report issued Wednesday by the Mine Safety and Health Administration showed that eight fatalities occurred in coal mines, with the remainder reported in metal and nonmetal mines. Six coal miners died in less than one month, with four of those in West Virginia. That pr...
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