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DUI arrests reported in Mingo Co.
WILLIAMSON — Criminal complaints were obtained from Mingo County Magistrate Court for three DUI arrests that occurred within the county during the past week. William David Sparks, 25, of Gilbert, was taken into custody by Gilbert Police Department Lt. D. Salmons following a traffic stop on a vehicle traveling on Rt. 52 South that was observed weaving from one side of the road to the other. Upon making contact with Sparks, the officer report...
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NRA sparring tests Manchin’s support base anew
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — He famously fired a gun in a TV ad while boasting of an endorsement from the National Rifle Association, but U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin can no longer rely on the backing of that powerful lobby. The West Virginia Democrat faced off against the NRA during last week’s debate over his proposal to tighten background checks for gun buyers, marking his second break with a major support group since his rise from the governor’s o...
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Infant taken from mother and injured
West Virginia State Police arrested brothers Christopher Likens, 21, of Logan, and Matthew Kennedy, 22, of Accoville, after an incident involving an infant in a stroller. Officers saw Kennedy pushing a stroller with an infant, the victim, on Dingess Street. The officers noted Kennedy was staggering from side to side and suspected he may be under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance. Recognizing the situation as potentially d...
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Logan doctor pleads guilty in Federal pill-mill prosecution
CHARLESTON – A Logan doctor has pled guilty in Federal court to federal drug charges. According to United States Attorney Booth Goodwin, Dr. Fernando Gonzales-Ramos, 47, pleaded guilty in federal court today, April 23, to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances without a legitimate medical purpose. Gonzales-Ramos was charged earlier this month in a legal filing known as an information. “Dr. Gonzales-Ramos wasn’t operating a doctor’...
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Appeals court upholds EPA block on W.Va. mine
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had the legal authority to retroactively veto a water pollution permit for one of West Virginia’s largest mountaintop removal coal mines years after it was issued, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia reversed a lower court’s ruling in a case that has economic implications across coal country and potentially the nation....
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<p>The Cheeriffic Youth Level 1 and 2 teams each took first place a couple of weeks ago at the U.S. Finals in Indianapolis. The Youth Level 1 team is currently ranked No. 1 in the United States.</p>
Cheeriffic clings to national title hopes
As regular gymnastics classes came to a close on Friday night at the Flip-N-Twist Gym in downtown Logan, Cheeriffic All-Star coaches Heather Bryant, Brittney Hartman and Teresa Bryant sat around the desk and pondered about another successful season. There was hardly a free space to sit as they were surrounded by trophies won this season by the Cheeriffic youth all-star cheerleading teams. On the walls hung championship banners from this s...
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Million March against child abuse and neglect in Logan
The Million March against Child Abuse took place at 300 cities in 45 states Monday, including Logan. Volunteers manned Logan streets and had tables with information on child abuse and neglect outside the Logan County Courthouse from 8 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. The walk was organized by Lin Seahorn, who is founder of Children Without a Voice USA (CWAV), a non-profit organization dedicated and determined to fight child abuse and neglect in America...
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W.Va. teen arrested in T-shirt flap back in class
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A West Virginia teenager who was arrested and suspended from school after he refused to remove an NRA T-shirt is back in class. Fourteen-year-old Jared Marcum of Logan returned to Logan Middle School on Monday after serving a one-day suspension. His lawyer, Ben White, says school administrators maintain that Marcum disrupted the educational process. He says Marcum was exercising his right to free speech and wasn’t disr...
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Five arrests made in two Logan County drug busts
Logan County Sheriff Sonya Porter released information about two drug busts that took place on April 19. The Logan County Sheriff’s Department (LCSD) obtained information illegal drug trafficking was taking place in a residence at Holden. The US 119 Task Force was contacted and a search warrant obtained for the residence at Skyview Avenue, Holden. The LCSD, US 119 Task Force and the West Virginia State Police executed the search warrant. ...
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Bandmill Coal sued over alleged selenium discharge
HUNTINGTON – Three environmental groups are suing Bandmill Coal Corp. after they claim it has been discharging selenium into waterways. Bandmill has held a permit to regulate water pollution from its Tower Mountain Surface Mine and constructed Valley Fills 1R and 1F in the headwaters of Burgess Branch of Right Hand Fork of Rum Creek of the Guyandotte River, which are navigable waters of the United States, according to a complaint filed Apri...
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New law affects Logan school
CHARLESTON — “Sometimes it takes baby steps before we can start walking.” With those words, a Logan County educator summed up the recent passage of House Bill 3160 by the state legislature. The primary sponsor of the bill, Democrat Delegate Brent Walker of Braxton County, appears to have had a school in his district in mind when he introduced the legislation. But other sponsors of the legislation included Democrat Delegates Josh Stowers o...
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Slain W.Va. sheriff coached suspect in boxing
DELBARTON, W.Va. (AP) — Mingo County Sheriff Eugene Crum gave boxing lessons to the man charged with killing him when the suspect was a teenager. Tommy Diamond, founder of the Delbarton Boxing Club, said he asked Crum, a former amateur boxer, to coach at the club in the early 1990s when Crum was Delbarton’s police chief. Diamond told the Charleston Gazette that one of the boys coached by Crum was Tennis Melvin Maynard, who was 15 at the tim...
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W.Va. tries to tackle childhood hunger and obesity
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — In West Virginia’s Mason County, children walk to the cafeteria together so they can start the day’s lessons with a side of whole grain waffles, cereal, fruit and milk. Here, among the coal mines and farms so familiar across Appalachia, the old adage that breakfast is the most important meal of the day is taken literally as a way to tackle two problems: improving achievement in a state that ranks 47th nationally in ...
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Trail permit sales jump in 2 W.Va. counties
BRAMWELL, W.Va. (AP) — Mercer and McDowell counties are becoming popular destinations for Hatfield-McCoy Trail System riders. Hatfield-McCoy Trail Authority executive director Jeff Lusk says permit sales for the Indian Ridge Trail in McDowell County are up 25 percent from 2012. Lusk tells the Bluefield Daily Telegraph that permit sales for the new Pocahontas Trail in Mercer County also are strong. This growth has created a need for more...
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TAS announces show info and auditions
The Aracoma Story, Inc. has announced its venue and upcoming auditions for the upcoming 2013 Summer Season’s productions. Along with “The Aracoma Story,” TAS has opted to do “The Wizard of Oz” as its summer offering. Auditions for both productions will be held Friday, May 10, from 3-7 p.m. and Saturday, May 11, from noon-4 p.m. at the Logan High School Theater. Rehearsals for “The Wizard of Oz” will begin on May 15 and the show runs from Ju...
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Family receives fallen soldier’s pouch
The North of France will forever be scarred by memories of past conflicts and loss, but a family thousands of miles away will never forget receiving an ammunition pouch carried by a young American soldier after it was discovered in a farmhouse near the town of Valenciennes. Alex Gilmour sacrificed his life for freedom during World War II in the North of France. It was his pouch, found 69 years after his death, which began its journey to his...
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Impaired suspect crashes stolen vehicle
A Logan County Sheriff’s deputy responded to a call in reference to a motor vehicle crash at Mudfork. The criminal complaint says when the officer arrived at the scene, he found Joseph Allen Marcum, 24, of Breeden, standing outside of the vehicle on the road. Bystanders told the deputy that Marcum, the suspect, was trapped in the driver’s seat, under the steering wheel upon contact with the vehicle. The bystanders also told the deputy the...
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Logan Lions Club supports local chess champion
In recognition of a local chess prodigy who has advanced quickly and now qualifies to represent the United States in the World Youth Championship, the Logan Lions Club held a fundraiser to help with travel expenses to the tournament, which is to be held in the United Arab Emirates. Advait “Adi” Patel has competed in and won several chess tournaments and is the 2012 US Junior Division VII Champion, US Junior Division VII Blitz Champion, the ...
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Shoplifter flees in attempt to avoid arrest
The criminal complaint says Terry Paul Browning, 36, of Simon, conspired with his wife to commit a shoplifting offense against Wal-Mart in the amount of $400.68. Browning was in his 2001 Chevrolet Silverado when he fled from officers, driving east on WV Route 73 towards WV Route 10, driving at a speed of approximately 65 miles per hour. The chase came to an end in the Middleburg Bridge area, where the vehicle was stopped and Browning plac...
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Shovel used as weapon during altercation
A Logan County Magistrate Court Criminal Complaint filed by the West Virginia State Police says officers responded to a call with injuries in the community of Saunders Fork. They found the victim with bruises to the left side of his face and neck. The victim told officers he and Alexander Dwayne Dalton, 28, of Chapmanville, got into a verbal altercation at Dalton’s residence and Dalton hit him in the face with a shovel, causing a deep bruis...
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Attorney Noone named Ala. Civil Air Patrol’s “Safety Officer of Year”
While known for regularly practicing law and performing music in the Logan area, many may not know that Attorney Robert “Bob” Noone is also a First Lieutenant and pilot in the Civil Air Patrol, an official auxiliary of the United States Air Force, as a member of the Alabama Wing of CAP. Recently at the Civil Air Patrol Wing Conference in Mobile, Ala., Lt. Noone was honored as “Safety Officer of the Year” and “Character Development Instructo...
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Street paving to take place this week
A joint project between the West Virginia Department of Highways (DOH) and the City of Logan is moving forward next week. Logan Mayor Serafino Nolletti says the project has been in the process for over a year now, along with new traffic lights, and other paving projects. Beginning Monday, paving will be taking place on Main Street up to Holland Lane, down Stratton Street, Washington Street and Jefferson Avenue. Mayor Nolletti says the p...
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W.Va. utilities propose $58M tree-trimming plan
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Appalachian Power and Wheeling Power customers would foot the bill for expanded tree-trimming around transmission lines under a plan submitted to state regulators. The West Virginia Public Service Commission ordered the two American Electric Power subsidiaries to submit a plan after last summer’s storms left thousands of customers without power, some for up to two weeks. The Charleston Gazette reports that if the ...
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Company not at fault for fire at hotel started by off-duty employee
CHARLESTON – The state Supreme Court ruled that a construction company could not possibly be liable for a fire at a hotel caused by the company’s off duty employee’s dropped cigarette. The March 29 opinion affirmed the Circuit Court of Logan County’s dismissal of a lawsuit filed by Evanston Insurance Company against Powell Construction Company. The circuit court dismissed the suit for “failure to state a claim.” The underlying claim of th...
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Patels plays in chess Supernationals
Logan’s own chess prodigy got second place at his first Supernational event, and qualifies to represent the U.S. in a World Youth tournment to be held in December. Ten-year-old Advait “Adi” Patel played the Supernational, which is held every four years and hosted by the Gaylord Opryland Resort in Nashville, Tenn. This year, the event was from April 5-7. There were 5300 young participants and Adi faced higher rated competitors from differe...
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