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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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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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Proposed Hunting, Trapping and Fishing Regulations to be discussed
CHIEF LOGAN STATE PARK — The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources (DNR) will host a public meeting from 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, March 19, at Chief Logan State Park Conference Center to discuss 2013 hunting regulations. The DNR will hold 12 public meetings across the state to provide hunters, trappers, anglers, landowners and other interested parties an opportunity to review and comment on proposed 2013 hunting regulations for white-tailed ...
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Bill would exempt veterans’ payments from divorce
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Republican state senators in West Virginia have proposed a bill that would exclude veterans’ disability payments from spousal support requirements. State law dictates that divorce courts take into account income from any source when setting levels of spousal and child support. This bill would create a special exemption for veterans’ disability payments. The bill’s lead sponsor Sen. Dave Sypolt says that veterans’ ...
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W.Va. lawmaker reports threats over gun measure
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Police at the West Virginia Capitol are investigating possible threats against lawmakers over pending gun legislation. Senate Government Organization Chairman Herb Snyder said senator offices have fielded hundreds of phone calls and emails from gun rights supporters. Many of these supporters are urging Senate action on a bill passed Monday by the House that would repeal gun control ordinances for a handful of citi...
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Hurley joins Man Police Dept.
MAN — Ronald Hurley, a native of the Buffalo Creek area, is the newest addition to the police force in the town of Man. Hurley was sworn in by Man Mayor Jim Blevins on Monday, March 11 at the end of the monthly Man Town Council meeting. Man Police Chief David Walls said his newest patrolman has a pretty unusual background. “He is a trained aircraft mechanic,” Walls said. Hurley is a veteran who served in the U.S. Navy and was assigned...
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W.Va. education bill clears final Senate committee
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin’s education proposal headed to a Friday vote on passage in the Senate after its endorsement Thursday by the Finance Committee, which learned it would save an estimated $630,000 during the next budget year and $2.1 million the following year. The money stems from 5 percent in personnel cuts added to the bill Tuesday by the Senate Education Committee for each of those budget years. Senate Finance...
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Slam scheme for new customers in area
If a call whose number is unidentified by caller ID, or begins with “Congratulations, you have won,” there is a good chance the call is a scam to obtain money or personal information. The number and type of scams increases every day and a 75-year-old McConnell resident was recently told she had been “slammed.” The elderly woman spends most of her time and energy caring for her husband who has multiple physical challenges and suffers from Al...
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Local Author Cora Hairston celebrates book release
A book release party for a local author, with America’s Got Talent winner Landau Murphy scheduled to attend, is set for Friday, March 15, at the offices of Robert Noone Legal Services (and Bucci, Bailey, Javins), 116 Stratton Street in downtown Logan, next to 317 Steakhouse, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m Murphy is planning to attend the event to support his longtime friend, whom he affectionately calls “Ms. Cora Lee.” “Way before most people hear...
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