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High school entrepreneur program deadline approaching
Chad Abshire Staff Writer Aspiring Pike County high school student entrepreneurs looking to develop their business and entrepreneurial skills can now apply for a week-long summer program to do just that. The Center for Rural Development’s Entrepreneurial Leadership Institute (ELI) is accepting applications through March 15 from high school freshmen, sophomores, and juniors within the Center’s 45-county primary service area in southern a...
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Man dies in single-vehicle accident
Chad Abshire Staff Writer PIKEVILLE, Ky. — Authorities say a man was killed in a single-vehicle accident in the Greasy Creek community of Pike County on Saturday. According to the Kentucky State Police, Lonnie Keen, 69, of Shelbiana, was traveling East on Kentucky Route 3226 when his vehicle ran off the road and struck a tree. Keen was pronounced dead at the scene by Deputy Coroner Zeb Hampton. There is no word on what might have ca...
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Unclaimed money representatives to be in Williamson
Rachel Dove-Baldwin Staff Writer WILLIAMSON - Do you think you may be one of the thousands of West Virginians who have unclaimed money or property through the WV State Treasurer’s office? If so, then you will be happy to know that representatives from that office will be at the Williamson City Hall on Friday to make it more convenient for you to claim what is yours. According to information provided by Williamson City Clerk Frances Frye...
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File Photo Crystal Davidson, 25, of Vinson Street, is pictured in a file photo taken during an arrest and arraignment hearing in Mingo County Magistrate Court in 2012. Davidson and her sister, Markia, were arrested on Friday last week for petit larceny and battery charges in regards to a theft that took place at The Liquor Store on Third Avenue in Williamson.
2 women arrested for liquor store theft
Rachel Dove-Baldwin Staff Writer WILLIAMSON — A woman who is no stranger to the Mingo County judicial system, and her sister, were arrested by officers with the Williamson Police Department on outstanding warrants issued for reasons of petit larceny and battery. The criminal complaints against Crystal Davidson, 25, and Markia Davidson, 22, both of Vinson Street, states that warrants was obtained against the siblings on Feb. 15 for an al...
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Rachel Dove-Baldwin | Daily News Members of the Belfry Volunteer Fire Department and Kentucky State Police are seen recovering a man's body that washed ashore from the Tug River on Monday. Speculation is that the body may be that of Chad Roberts, a Mingo County man who had been missing since January 3 and was last seen walking along the riverbank. The deceased was transported to the Commonwealth of Kentucky's State Medical Examiner's Office in Frankfort for identification purposes, where an autopsy will also be performed to determine the exact cause of death.
Man’s body recovered from Tug River
Rachel Dove-Baldwin Staff Writer WEST WILLIAMSON — Mingo County 911 received a call at approximately 11:45 a.m. on Monday reporting the sighting of a body lying alongside the shore of the Tug River, behind the floodwall surrounding the Appalachian Regional Hospital, across from Armory Drive. Emergency personnel responded, and began the long and tedious process of recovery. The body was identified as a “John Doe” at this point in the ear...
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WMH sponsors educational series for women
Rachel Dove-Baldwin Staff Writer WILLIAMSON — The Williamson Memorial Hospital (WMH) will be sponsoring a series of education events geared toward women’s health, beginning with the highly anticipated annual “Women’s Night Out”, scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 28, from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. According to the Human Resources Director for WMH, Jessica Martin, there will be a presentation on cardiac health presented by Dr. Ashok Patnaik, a local...
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Local groups to work together on solving child poverty
Chad Abshire Staff Writer Of the many concerns facing the Tug Valley and its surrounding areas, children in poverty may stand out as one of the most pervasive issues, affecting approximately one out of every three children under the age of 6 in the state. In an attempt to combat the growing problem, local agencies are partnering with the West Virginia Healthy Kids and Families Coalition in their “Our Children, Our Future: Mingo County C...
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MCC addresses busy agenda
Rachel Dove-Baldwin Staff Writer WILLIAMSON — The Mingo County Commission conducted their regularly scheduled meeting on Wednesday of this week. Commission President John Mark Hubbard and David Baisden were present; Commissioner Greg “Hootie” Smith was absent. Drawdown requests from the Tug Valley Recovery Shelter ($2,179.63 for January expenses) and the Mingo County Housing Authority ($21,069 from the Housing Reconstruction fund for sa...
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Photo by Ron Gregory Logan Sen. Art Kirkendoll and Boone Sen. Ron Stollings, left, stand with Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin as he orders a "stand-down" of all coal mining operations in the state on Wednesday.
Tomblin orders ‘stand-down’ of all coal mine operations
Ron Gregory Civitas News Service CHARLESTON — Coal mines around the state were set to be idle for an hour today in response to an executive order by Governor Earl Ray Tomblin. In a press conference held Wednesday afternoon at the state capitol, the governor was joined by several state legislators along with representatives of the coal industry to announce the “stand-down” in the coalfields. Tomblin and Eugene White, director of the Mi...
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Grand jury returns indictments, arrests made
Rachel Dove-Baldwin Staff Writer WILLIAMSON — The Mingo County Grand Jury convened on Wednesday, February 20th, and returned a total of 13 true bills that included 6 sealed indictments which were drug related cases. Circuit Court Judge Michael Thornsbury arraigned four of the defendants arrested on the sealed indictments on Thursday morning. Two of those arrested, George Ruben White, of Taylorville and Marvin Vance, of Breeden, had been...
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