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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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W.Va. ag chief proposes coyote bounties
BECKLEY, W.Va. (AP) — Agriculture Commissioner Walt Helmick believes he has the solution to West Virginia’s coyote problem. Helmick is looking at establishing a bounty to encourage hunters to kill the critters. He said coyotes are the state’s biggest predator problem. They are in all 55 counties and pose a threat to both farm animals and domestic pets. “More of them are being born than we’re removing. They’re winning the battle,” Helmic...
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Ed bill overshadows lengthy agenda for W.Va. gov
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — His proposed changes to West Virginia public schools are getting plenty of attention, but Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin also has more than two dozen other measures pending at the Legislature. Halfway through the session, the governor is counting on lawmakers to begin advancing the rest of his 29-item agenda. With the education proposal up for a vote Monday in the Senate, just two of the governor’s bills have passed at lea...
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Nearly $1M in funding for Southern
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Representative Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) announced Friday that Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College has been awarded a federal grant to develop advanced technical education programs for students looking to acquire the necessary skills to work in the mining industry. “Opening doors to a college education and workforce training is essential to building a robust economy and ensuring a higher quality of lif...
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Marcum hearing continued
The hearing for the father charged with child neglect resulting in death was continued to allow him to attend his son’s funeral. Timothy D. Marcum, 25, of Dingess, was charged with child neglect resulting in death after his one-month-old son Alexander Marcum died on March 5. Marcum told officers he had fallen asleep with this son in his arms after taking prescription medication. The infant died after he slid down between his father’s arm ...
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Stollings water project moves forward
A proposed water treatment project for the Stollings area took a major step forward Tuesday night. A public hearing on the matter was held as part of the March meeting of the Logan Town Council and a representative for the project was on hand to answer questions. John Stump told councilmembers that a public hearing was required to move the project forward and asked if anybody had any questions about the proposed extension of services to 25 ...
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WVa bill proposes expanding stand your ground law
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A group of West Virginia state delegates has proposed giving residents broader leeway to use physical force to protect themselves and their property. The bill proposed by 11 Democrats Friday would expand the state’s so-called “stand your ground” law. Currently residents are allowed to use physical force to repel home intruders or any attackers. Under the proposed bill residents also could use force to defend anoth...
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W.Va. Senate holds off vote on education proposal
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The West Virginia Senate is revisiting Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin’s proposed changes to the school calendar and teacher hiring and transfers. Senators held off voting on the governor’s bill Friday while seeking to address concerns about those changes from groups representing teachers and school workers. A vote could come Monday as lawmakers, Tomblin administration officials and representatives of these groups discuss a...
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