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Chief Logan to be stocked with catfish
PARKERSBURG – Catfish stocking begins in mid-May in West Virginia, and that provides another opportunity to encourage youth and families to get outdoors. Others include Kids to Parks Day on May 18, National Get Outdoors Day on June 8, and National Fishing and Boating week, June 1 -9. The latter includes Free Fishing days on June 8 and June 9 in West Virginia. Fishing is especially attractive to youngsters and is a West Virginia tradition. C...
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Logan Co. CAC celebrates anniversary
The Logan County Child Advocacy Center celebrated five years of working for the welfare of children with an open house Thursday, April 25. Pictured, David Farley of CSX is poses with Medina Mahon and Kristen Keen, both of the Center. CSX continued their financial support of the Center for the second year with a generous donation. Since its beginning five years ago, the center has served more than 500 children from all over southwestern West V...
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Tax Day collections zap W.Va. revenue deficit
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The April 15 deadline for income tax returns helped erase West Virginia’s general revenue deficit for the budget year, though state officials remain pessimistic about collections for the year’s remaining two months. State government had expected $511 million from general taxes in April and instead reaped nearly $565 million. That closed a $49 million year-to-date gap, leaving revenues $4.6 million ahead for the budg...
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Hoyer to address SWVCTC graduating class
Major General James A. Hoyer, Adjutant General of West Virginia will address the 2013 graduating class of Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College Saturday, May 4. Commencement exercises will begin at 10 a.m. at the Coalfield Jamboree Theater in downtown Logan. The public is invited to attend and also view the event via the worldwide web at www.southernwv.edu Hoyer assumed the duties as The Adjutant General, West Virginia, Joi...
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Chapmanville Police Department officers responded to a 911 call from Towne and Country regarding a shoplifter
Chapmanville Police Department officers responded to a 911 call from Towne and Country regarding a shoplifter. The criminal complaint says the officer was told the suspect attempted to steal $199.70 in cigarettes. According to the manager and cashiers, the suspect walked into the store, looked around, then grabbed four cartons of cigarettes. One of the cashiers yelled for him to stop, but the suspect ran, getting caught by the second auto...
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Suspect accused of duck taping and beating victim
Logan County Sheriff’s Department deputies responded to a 911 call regarding a domestic disturbance that took place at Pecks Mill. Upon arrival, the deputies spoke with the victim and he told them his live-in girlfriend and their juvenile daughter duck taped his mouth, held him down for two hours, stomped on his right hand and beat his head on the floor. After the altercation, the victim went to a neighbor’s house to call 911. The victim’...
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Rahall to deliver remarks at drug court graduation
U.S. Congressman Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) will join with local officials, judicial, probation and law enforcement department representatives and deliver remarks at the Logan County Drug Court graduation ceremony Friday, May 3. The ceremony is scheduled to begin at noon in the Logan County Commission Offices on Stratton Street.
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Rachel Baldwin Staff Writer HARDY, Ky. — An accident that occurred in Hardy, Ky., Monday evening that resulted in the arrest of a Williamson City Patrolman on charges of DUI and leaving the scene of an accident. Jefferson (Jeff) Taylor III, who has been an officer with the Williamson Police Department for a 2 year period, was off-duty and was traveling in his police cruiser when he lost control and crashed in the Hardy Camp community, s...
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W.Va. Drug Take-Back nets 4,642 pounds
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — About 4,642 pounds of unwanted or expired prescription drugs have been collected at more than 100 sites throughout West Virginia. U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin and John Ryan of the Drug Enforcement Agency announced results of last weekend’s Prescription Drug Take-Back event Tuesday. Saturday’s haul surpassed the previous Take-Back record 4,572 pounds collected in April 2012. Goodwin calls it another milestone in the...
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W.Va. man sentenced in slayings of wife, in-law
MADISON, W.Va. (AP) — A Boone County man convicted of killing his wife and mother-in-law has received two life sentences without mercy. Media outlets report that Timothy Parsons was sentenced Wednesday in Boone County Circuit Court. Judge William Thompson ordered the sentences to run consecutively. Parsons pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder in March. In exchange for his plea, prosecutors dropped sexual assault and kidnapp...
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Full house greets Capito
CHAPMANVILLE — A house full of enthusiasm greeted Republican Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito as she spoke Saturday, April 27, at the Logan Country Club in Chapmanville. Capito, who has already announced plans to give up her seat in congress to make a run for the United States senate in 2014, warmed up to the overflow crowd with partisan rhetoric and anecdotes about her famous West Virginia political family. The congresswoman has served...
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Logan Co. Animal Pound closed
Test results returned Friday confirmed the presence of distemper in the Logan County Animal Pound. The pound is now closed, quarantined and will not accept any more animals until further notice. Canine distemper is a contagious and serious viral illness with no known cure. The disease affects dogs, and certain species of wildlife, such as raccoons, wolves, foxes, and skunks. Within the last several months, several animal shelters in the s...
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W.Va. budget approved without line-item vetoes
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — For the first time in more than a decade, West Virginia lawmakers are getting the final say on new state spending. Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin has signed this year’s budget bill without making any changes. West Virginia governors can reduce or erase any spending line or language in the annual budget bill once it passes the Legislature. Records indicate the last chief executive to keep his veto pen capped was Gov. Bob ...
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Diabetes Prevention Program classes at SWVCTC set
Type 2 diabetes is a serious disease putting individuals at risk for damage to the heart, kidneys, eyes, nerves and an increased risk of strokes. The good news is type 2 diabetes can be prevented, or at the very least delayed for years. For those at risk for diabetes, have prediabetes, have borderline diabetes, have a higher blood sugar, had gestational diabetes during pregnancy, or are overweight and active less than three times per week t...
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Premier bank announces community improvement awards
Premier Bank has announced a program which will grant a $1,000 award to a local community service organization in each of its five operating divisions. In announcing the program, Premier Bank Boone Division President Emma Byrnside said, “this program is another of the many ways in which Premier Bank demonstrates its community focus and we invite local service organizations to submit an application.” The program begins May 6 and applicatio...
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Chapmanville student wins Money Smart essay contest
A 7th grade student at Chapmanville Middle School in Logan County has been selected as the grand prize winner of the West Virginia Money Smart Week essay contest. Emily Triplett earned the top spot, while six other students were selected as grade-level winners and runners up, including Chapmanville Middle School student Savannah Toney winning 7th Grade Second Place. Students across the state in grades six, seven and eight participated in the ...
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Choir to perform May 5
The Appalachian Children’s Chorus (ACC) will present a free concert at the Savas-Kostas Theater at Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College (SWVCTC) on Sunday, May 5 at 3 p.m. The event is being sponsored by SWVCTC. The concert features ACC’s Cantare, Concert and Camerata choirs. ACC is excited to showcase its Cantare choir, now in its fifth season. The Cantare Choir rehearses in Logan County. Jean Ray and the Logan County Cha...
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Logan mom headed to NYC for makeover
Recently, Sarah Erwin Vance followed advice from friend and co-worker Beth Shawver and applied for a Mommy Makeover to be done on the Live with Kelly and Michael Show in New York City. The young mother is excited to have won and is packing her bags to leave on Thursday. Sarah said, “I am very, very, very excited. I have been telling everyone I’ve seen about it. I’ve been on cloud nine since I found out.” As a teenager, Sarah suffered from...
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BOE to hire independent investigator over t-shirt incident
The Logan County Board of Education has decided to hire an independent investigator to look into the incident involving Logan Middle School student Jared Marcum and his wearing a t-shirt depicting an NRA logo and rifle. Marcum was suspended for one day after refusing to either turn his t-shirt inside out or take it off. The Logan City Police were called to the scene after Marcum allegedly was belligerent with school staff and caused a distu...
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New OMB director has local ties
WASHINGTON - A woman with roots in Mingo County has been appointed to be Director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Sylvia Mathews Burwell, a native of Hinton, was confirmed in the Senate by unanimous vote this on Wednesday. Burwell has close ties to the Tug Valley. Her uncles are local businessmen, Charlie and Nick Maroudas and her first cousin is Nicole McNamee, owner of Hurley Drug. Her mother, Cleo Mathews is a graduate...
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One arrested in weekend drug bust
Chapmanville Police Department Cpl. N. Tucker contacted the Logan County Sheriff’s Department about possible drug activity in the Best Western at Chapmanville. Sheriff’s Department Deputies Sutherland and Brumfield responded, bringing along K-9 Kimbo, a dog specially trained to detect the presence of drugs. Sutherland and Brumfield, arrived at Best Western with K-9 Kimbo. Kimbo indicated at room 201. Cpl. N. Tucker knocked on the door a...
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2013 Drug Take Back Day a success
April 27 was National Drug Take Back Day and citizens around the country had the opportunity to dispose of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs. The service was free and anonymous, no questions asked. Medicines kept in various locations in homes are highly susceptible to diversion, misuse, and abuse and the usual methods for disposing of unused medicines—flushing them down the toilet or throwing them in the...
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Manchin visit Logan Thursday
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) will travel around southern West Virginia this week to discuss an array of issues, including ways to fix our nation’s fiscal challenges, how to grow West Virginia’s industrial and manufacturing sectors and the importance of keeping guns out of the hands of criminals and the dangerously mentally ill. He will also talk to West Virginians about ways to improve our education system, the need t...
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Hearing begins on Patriot’s bid to cut benefits
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A long-awaited bankruptcy hearing began Monday in which a St. Louis-based coal company insists it must significantly cut thousands of retirees’ health care and pension benefits or risk liquidation — a claim that its miners union strongly rejects. Patriot Coal Corp.’s proposed benefits cuts have been the most contentious aspect of its bankruptcy case since it filed for Chapter 11 protection last summer, when it estimated it ...
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Manchin: Gun bill to be reintroduced
WASHINGTON (AP) — One of the architects of failed gun control legislation says he’s bringing it back. Sen. Joe Manchin on Sunday said he would re-introduce a measure that would require criminal and mental health background checks for gun buyers at shows and online. The West Virginia Democrat says that if lawmakers read the bill, they will support it. Manchin sponsored a previous version of the measure with Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of Pe...
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