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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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