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Williamson Daily News
April 13, 2018
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, West Virginia had the nation's highest rate of babies born dependent on drugs at 33.4 per ... 81.9 per 1,000; Putnam County had a rate of 26.4 per 1,000; Boone County had a rate of 72.4 per 1,000; and Logan County had a rate of 66.3 per 1,000.
West Virginia Record
April 13, 2018
LOGAN — A Logan County landlord is suing a tenant, alleging it owes $12,500 for breach of a lease agreement. G&M Enterprises filed a complaint March 13 in Logan Circuit Court against Body Kneads LLC, alleging the tenant intentionally failed to perform its contractual obligations. According to theÃâà...
West Virginia Record
April 12, 2018
LOGAN — A Logan County surface owner is suing an oil and gas well operator, alleging negligence and trespassing. Greg Blevins filed a complaint March 12 in Logan Circuit Court against NYTIS Exploration Company Inc., alleging failure to take reasonable and necessary steps to prevent a water runoffÃâà...
Huntington Herald Dispatch
April 12, 2018
HUNTINGTON — Cases of babies being born addicted to drugs are not slowing in West Virginia, according to new data released Wednesday from the ... 81.9 per 1,000; Putnam County had a rate of 26.4 per 1,000; Boone County had a rate of 72.4 per 1,000; and Logan County had a rate of 66.3 per 1,000.
West Virginia Record
April 11, 2018
18, 2016, Mark E. Messer was involved in an argument with another individual in Mud Fork and law enforcement was called, resulting in the arrival of Johnson to the scene of the altercation, according to a complaint filed April 3 in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia. Messer, who wasÃâà...
WV News
April 11, 2018
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U.S. News & World Report
April 6, 2018
A former West Virginia state senator has accepted a public reprimand and a $500 fine for failing to disclose income from consulting services provided to a county commission. April 6 ... Kirkendoll served on the Logan County Commission for three decades prior to his 2011 appointment to the state Senate.
WSAZ-TV
April 6, 2018
LOGAN COUNTY, W. Va. (WSAZ) -- Thursday, the West Virginia Ethics Commission announced that they will be imposing fines against former state senator Arthur Kirkendoll. He is accused of entering into an oral contract in 2013 with the Logan County Commission to provide consulting services throughÃâà...
WSAZ-TV
April 5, 2018
LOGAN COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- Fire burned through an abandoned house in Logan County early Thursday morning. The fire happened around 3 a.m. at a home in the Mt. Gay area, just outside of Logan. Firefighters say someone set fire to the house. They did take someone in for questioning, however,Ãâà...
Williamson Daily News
March 23, 2018
LOGAN - Filmmaker Michael Moore was in Logan County last week to discuss the historic West Virginia teacher strike and the current political climate in the state with state Sen. Richard Ojeda, D-Logan, who is also a current U.S. House 3rd District candidate. The two talked for hours in Hot Cup, a locallyÃâà...
The Lane Report
March 21, 2018
She worked with many agencies in a six-county area in southern West Virginia and participated on a number of nonprofit boards, including the Logan County Chamber of Commerce, Putnam County Chamber of Commerce and the American Red Cross. “I have loved working at Appalachian Power in bothÃâà...
E&E News
March 20, 2018
West Virginia is shrinking faster than any other state in the nation, mostly in the 3rd District, just a short drive down from the capital. Not all of them mine coal, but all of the ... "Rupie" sells mining motors in Logan County and coal in the state House of Delegates. "It's been a phenomenal year down home,"Ãâà...
Beckley Register-Herald
March 20, 2018
As part of the state's elk restoration project, 51 elk from Arizona were released into a holding facility in Logan County earlier this month, the West Virginia Department of Natural Resources announced. The elk, captured in late January and held near Flagstaff, arrived at the holding facility near Holden onÃâà...
West Virginia Explorer
March 19, 2018
Fifty-one elk completed their journey from Arizona and were released into a holding facility in Logan County earlier this month, the W.Va. Division of Natural Resources announced today. The elk, which are part of West Virginia's elk restoration project, were captured in late January and held near Flagstaff,Ãâà...
WSAZ-TV
March 18, 2018
Parts of Logan and Mingo County are dealing with landline phone issues Saturday evening, reportedly leaving those with a Frontier landline unable to get through directly to 911. According to Logan County 911, Frontier Communications customers with a landline phone cannot call 911 from that phone.
Williamson Daily News
March 18, 2018
I intend to brush the cobwebs from the local past in bringing readers the account (and much more never printed) from the pages of Logan County's checkered past that ... At the time of this writing, neither Marshall nor West Virginia University's basketball teams have played in this year's NCAA tournament.
WMKY
March 18, 2018
Now that thousands of striking teachers across West Virginia have returned to work with a pay raise and a promise to fix their health care plan, how ... and when we walk out, the people that hurt the most are the students,” Alicia Mullins, the group's president and a Logan County high school teacher, told us.
WV News
March 18, 2018
CLARKSBURG — Jason A. Young, founder of Vintage Theater, has already made a name as a champion for the arts in West Virginia. However, his path hasn't always been so clear. Born in Logan County, but reared in Mingo County, he moved to Bridgeport during his elementary school years. While heÃâà...
Williamson Daily News
March 18, 2018
MILTON, WEST VIRIGNIA - Fifteen cities, municipalities and counties throughout West Virginia, including several local communities, have filed this month ... Logan's lawsuit alleges more than 35 million were shipped to Logan County, which has a population of 36,743, by 16 different defendants during theÃâà...
Williamson Daily News
March 16, 2018
LOGAN - A third arrest has been made after the West Virginia State Police Logan Detachment and the Logan County Sheriff's Department recently began investigating several robberies reported at businesses across Logan County. WVSP reported three armed robberies and one unarmed robbery in LoganÃâà...
Insurance Journal
March 16, 2018
Two men pled guilty in federal court for their respective roles in a scheme to commit insurance fraud by arson. Dudley Bledsoe, age 63, of Hanover in Wyoming County, West Virginia, and Ricky Dwayne Gleason, age 54, of Peach Creek in Logan County, West Virginia, both pleaded guilty to a charge ofÃâà...
Charleston Gazette-Mail
March 16, 2018
The West Virginia Supreme Court has annulled the law license of a Logan County attorney who pursued a woman as a client and then had sex with her after he provided her with drugs and alcohol while she was on probation in 2015. Benjamin White “preyed” on the woman's vulnerability amid a divorce,Ãâà...
WVNS-TV
March 7, 2018
LOGAN COUNTY, WV (WOWK) - Troopers with the West Virginia State Police, along with the Logan County Sheriff's Department are investigating a string of armed robberies in the county. According to State Police, three armed robberies and one unarmed robbery have plagued the county just in the lastÃâà...
Charleston Gazette-Mail
March 3, 2018
Several public school employees and schools superintendents from Southern West Virginia counties said Friday morning they believe the ongoing worker ... Angel McCoy, a social studies teacher at Logan County's Man High, agreed with Hodge's position, as did Antonette Mazzella-Gwinn, an eighth-gradeÃâà...
WRAL.com
March 3, 2018
A statewide teacher strike in West Virginia entered its seventh day Friday, with teachers defying efforts by the state's governor and union leaders to end the ... “At this point everybody's still prepared to be out for the long haul,” said Julie Alderman, 35, a first-grade teacher in Logan County, in the state'sÃâà...
The New Yorker
March 3, 2018
Rough-voiced, shouty, and intent on raising the stakes, Roberts warned that the anti-union movement would try to sever the union from its leadership (“They attacked Jesus! They attacked Moses!”), and he compared the strike to West Virginia's labor actions past: the ten thousand coal miners who marched in Logan County,Ãâà...
New York Times
March 2, 2018
“At this point everybody's still prepared to be out for the long haul,” said Julie Alderman, 35, a first-grade teacher in Logan County, in the state's southern section, who was waiting for a babysitter to arrive so she could head to Charleston, the capital. “We're starting to kind of say, 'Wow, this really may last aÃâà...
Williamson Daily News
March 2, 2018
In Mingo County, local union leaders want to continue the walkout until Friday, voicing displeasure with the West Virginia Senate and its reluctance to pass a 5 percent raise promised by the governor. In Logan County, it's up in the air if teacher and staff would continue to walkout, now entering its seventhÃâà...
POLITICO Magazine
March 2, 2018
After pushing 90 for the better part of an hour to get here to the gold-domed Capitol from his home in rugged, woebegone Logan County, the former ... In hard red, Donald Trump-loving West Virginia, Ojeda has become a kind of one-man blue wave, threatening to defy a conventional belief that the only kindÃâà...
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
March 1, 2018
A warrant was served on Hughes Wednesday by the West Virginia State Police Logan Detachment, Woods said. Hughes is currently being held without bond at the Southwestern Regional Jail in Logan County. In West Virginia, first-degree murder carries a penalty of life in prison. If a jury recommendsÃâà...
WSAZ-TV
February 22, 2018
The former Superintendent and Curriculum Director for Logan County Public Schools faces federal charges following an indictment issued Thursday. ... Multiple agencies handled the years-long investigation, including the FBI and the West Virginia Legislature Commission on Special Investigations.
WSAZ-TV
February 19, 2018
A man was arrested Sunday after some scary moments during a church service in West Logan, county sheriff's deputies say. Adam Chastain is charged with public intoxication, battery, and disturbance of a religious service. Deputies say it happened at Missionary Baptist Church in West Logan. They say aÃâà...
WOWK
February 1, 2018
Roberts was pronounced dead at the hospital due to her injuries, and the extent of Adkins' injuries are unknown at this time. Officers from the West Virginia Public Service Commission were contacted and responded to the scene as well. The Logan County Sheriff's Department is continuing to investigateÃâà...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
Coal barons like Mr. Blankenship used to be despised in Logan County, a rugged region in southern West Virginia. The Battle of Blair Mountain happened here in 1921, when miners seeking to unionize clashed with a private army fielded by mine owners, and more than 50 people died. But as West VirginiaÃâà...
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