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APNewsBreak: Feds OK coal waste dam expansion
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Federal regulators have approved Alpha Natural Resources’ plan to expand one of the nation’s biggest coal slurry impoundments to a height taller than the Hoover Dam. The plan will also increase the volume of waste it holds to 8.5 billion gallons. The Mine Safety and Health Administration confirmed the approval this week and provided The Associated Press a copy of a letter giving Virginia-based Alpha permission to ...
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W.Va. House urges Congress to avoid gun control
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s House of Delegates wants gun control off the table as Congress considers responses to the latest mass shootings A non-binding resolution adopted Thursday says millions of law-abiding gun owners should not be punished for the acts of evil people. The measure instead says the threat comes from dangerous criminals and the seriously mentally ill. Delegates approved it on a voice vote without dissent....
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W.Va. elections chief targets Voter ID legislation
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s elections chief is enlisting allies to fight legislation that would require voters to show photo identification. Secretary of State Natalie Tennant unveiled the Voting Rights Protection Coalition on Monday at her Capitol office. The group is targeting voter ID. Tennant and other coalition members warned that these proposals would lead to delays at the polls and prevent legitimate voters from castin...
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Health officials: 1 in 50 school kids have autism
NEW YORK (AP) — A government survey of parents says 1 in 50 U.S. schoolchildren has autism, surpassing another federal estimate for the disorder. Health officials say the new number doesn’t mean autism is occurring more often. But it does suggest that doctors are diagnosing autism more frequently, especially in children with milder problems. The earlier government estimate of 1 in 88 comes from a study that many consider more rigorous. It...
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House delays drug court expansion bill again
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The West Virginia House has delayed a bill that would expand the state’s very successful drug court program. Wednesday marked the second time this week that the House Health Committee failed to vote on the proposal, requesting more study. The proposal would allow the state Supreme Court to shift about $1.4 million in drug treatment programs to the budget of the Department of Health and Human Resources. The shift...
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Landau attends book signing
FACES BEHIND THE DUST – Landau Eugene Murphy Jr. attended the book signing for Cora L. Hairston’s debut novel, Faces Behind the Dust, on Friday in downtown Logan. The book is available at Amazon.com in print and Kindle editions and other booksellers. Hairston is currently working on the sequel to Faces Behind the Dust titled Hello World! Here Comes Claraby Rose! Pictured, Neva McCoy, far right, poses with Landau and Hairston at the signing. F...
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Suspect kicks deputy
Gregory Lee Prince, 25, of Mallory, was arrested and charged with tresspassing (when asked to leave), public intoxication, obstructing an officer, assault on an officer and battery on an officer. Logan County Sheriff Department deputies answered a 911 call in regards to a prowler complaint. Deputies spoke with the homeowners and learned the defendant, Gregory Lee Prince, had grabbed the door and pulled it, then walked into the residence. ...
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Clinic manager pleads guilty to ‘pill mill’ operation
CHARLESTON — A South Williamson, Ky. woman who served as the office manager of the Mountain Medical Care Center (Williamson Wellness Center), which was located on Third Avenue in Williamson, entered a guilty plea in U.S. Federal Court on Tuesday to charges of conspiring to misuse a physician’s Federal Drug Registration number who is accused of operating a “pill mill” for well over five years. While being questioned in court by federal prose...
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International students visit Logan High School
Logan, WV —- Students hailing from Cambodia, South Africa, Korea, and Namibia who are a part of a group from Sandy Spring, Maryland doing service work in Logan County this week will sit in on social studies and history classes at Logan High School on Thursday, March 21st. As part of the cultural exchange, the international students will talk about their culture and government, answer questions from Logan students, and also learn about life an...
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Senators consider ways to address poverty
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Easing the penalties on people who fail to pay child support would seem to be an odd strategy to use to alleviate child poverty. But that’s what was discussed at a West Virginia Senate committee on child poverty on Wednesday. And that discussion is likely to lead to legislation that will have bipartisan support. The committee heard from Rev. Matthew Watts, a community leader from Charleston’s West Side, who descri...
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Two cars and a telephone pole damaged by driver charged with DUI
Mark A. Cook, 52, of Cyclone, faces multiple charges after a recent accident. The criminal complaint filed in the Magistrate Court of Logan County says Cook, the defendant, was driving on W.Va. Route 10 heading towards Cyclone when he swerved into the opposite lane of traffic, causing another motorist to crash. The defendant then hit a telephone pole, causing the wires to fall onto the other crashed car. The defendant continued to back up...
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American Legion leadership visits Logan
American Legion Post 19 welcomed National Commander James E. “Jim” Koutz, National Vice Commander David R. Hall and West Virginia Department Commander Jack Gerrard to a breakfast meeting as they travel to visit posts throughout the district. National Commander James E. “Jim” Koutz, who has served the American Legion at the local, district and national levels, is a Vietnam veteran and a member of the American Legion Post 200 in Boonville, In...
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W.Va. gov orders hiring freeze amid weak revenues
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin wants a freeze on hiring for the rest of the budget year. The governor ordered the restriction on executive branch agencies on Tuesday, effective until June 30. Tomblin cited state budget woes. Taxes that support the general revenue portion of state spending are nearly $35 million below estimates for the budget year. While that’s less than 1.5 percent of projected general reve...
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12 arrested during coal co. protest
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Protesters have again marched in St. Louis over plans to take away health care and pension benefits for retired coal miners. Patriot Coal Corp. filed for bankruptcy in July and said last week it wants to modify its collective bargaining agreement and create a trust fund for retiree health care benefits. Patriot says the move is needed to save 4,000 existing jobs. Patriot spun off from Peabody Energy in 2007. On Tuesday,...
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Future funds being explored by legislature
West Virginia is on the brink of a natural gas boom that may be equal to or larger than that of the coal industry in the last century. Efforts are being made to create a grass-roots movement that will result in sustainable wealth for the state. Booms and busts in coal counties result in lower household incomes; higher poverty rates; worse health; lower education levels and high income inequality. A Future Fund offers a way to prepare for ...
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W.Va. bill would crackdown on coal mine protests
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia Senate committee has amended and unanimously approved a bill that would toughen the penalties on coal mine protesters. The bill advanced Tuesday would make it a felony to damage or remove any equipment from a coal facility that could be construed as promoting health or safety. It would be punishable by up to three years in jail and a $10,000 fine. The amended version of the bill is much less harsh ...
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Diabetes Alert Day to be held at Chief Logan Recreational Center
Diabetes is a serious illness that many people may not even know they have. Early diagnosis is critical to successful treatment and delaying or preventing complications like heart disease, blindness, kidney disease and stroke. For 25 years, the American Diabetes Association has set aside one special day for people to learn if they are at risk for developing type 2 diabetes, which is a growing epidemic in the United States, but can be contro...
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Commission pledges support to retirees
Members of United Mine Workers of America (U.M.W.A.), Local Number 5958 attended the Logan County Commission to solicit their support to fight contract changes Patriot Coal wants to make. Patriot has asked the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to modify collective bargaining agreements with the United Mine Workers of America, allowing the company to cut health care coverage for retired miners. If the court allows the modification, more than 1,100 retir...
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Child poverty forum held
One in three Logan County children under age six lives in poverty and faces real and frightening issues they have to cope with every day. Homelessness, hunger, access to health care, domestic abuse, prison overcrowding, teen pregnancy, over-prescribing of prescription drugs and parent education were among the issues discussed at a forum with more than 100 attendees March 16. The forum was one in of 47 forums being held in support of the s...
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Akers on phone for meeting
For the first time since his accident, Logan County Commissioner Willie Akers attended a meeting — by phone. More than 20 people were in the courtroom to hear and welcome the voice of one of Logan County’s most admired residents. Commission President Danny Godby had Akers on the phone and put him on speaker so everyone there could hear him. Godby asked him how he was doing. “I had a rough morning, therapy from 9 - 11:30, going through a...
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W.Va. taking requests for help with home heating
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — State officials will start accepting applications for the Low Income Energy Assistance Program on Monday. The applications are available at all West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources offices. The program will run until the state’s funding for it is exhausted. Residents must apply in person and meet certain income-eligibility requirements. Officials say applicants also must have some emergency tha...
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UMWA chief blasts Patriot Coal bankruptcy move
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The top official with a national miners’ union on Monday called bankrupt Patriot Coal Corp.’s bid to cut retiree health care immoral, as it seeks millions of dollars for executive bonuses and faces mounting payouts of $16 million in legal fees and expenses. “Patriot has thousand-dollar-an-hour lawyers and two-dollar-an-hour morals,” United Mine Workers of America President Cecil Roberts told reporters, four days after St. L...
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W.Va. delegation fights mine commission cuts
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Three members of West Virginia’s congressional delegation are urging the U.S. solicitor of labor to reconsider plans to dramatically slash the number of people handling a backlog of contested mine safety violations, saying it’s too soon to declare “mission accomplished.” Sen. Jay Rockefeller on Monday released a copy of letter signed by fellow Sen. Joe Manchin and Rep. Nick Rahall, both fellow West Virginia Democrat...
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W.Va. Senate passes amended ed bill
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin’s education proposal arrived at the House of Delegates on Monday after the Senate agreed to last-minute changes pushed by groups representing teachers and school workers. As amended, the measure passed unanimously by the Senate scraps the governor’s invitation of the nonprofit Teach for America program into state classrooms. Lawmakers would instead study ways to offer alternative paths for cert...
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W.Va. Senate committee raises insurance minimums
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia Senate committee advanced a bill Monday that would likely increase car insurance premiums for drivers who can least afford it, but also expand liability coverage for the highest-risk drivers. The bill would raise the minimum amounts of coverage that auto insurers must provide, but the limits in the committee version of the bill are much lower than the bill’s sponsors originally sought. It was the s...
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