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Mingo pharmacist pleads guilty to Kermit ‘pill mill’
A licensed West Virginia pharmacist appeared yesterday in federal court and pleaded guilty before a United States District Judge to conspiracy to acquire or obtain controlled substances by misrepre...
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Man arrested after weekend ‘riot’
WILLIAMSON - A man accused of stabbing another man in a night club last weekend, which caused a scene similar to a riot to erupt, was arrested yesterday. Williamson Chief of Police C.D. Rockel tol...
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Complete list of Mingo candidates announced by clerk’s office
WILLIAMSON - Mingo county residents interested in seeking public office had until midnight on Jan. 28 to make their intentions official. According to Judy Harvey with the Mingo County Clerk’s offic...
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Trial Dates In Child Death Cases
The Mingo County grand jury has indicted a pair of women in separate cases involving the deaths of children, according to previously published reports. The panel indicted Cristy Lynn Chafin of Gil...
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Staff photo/JULIA R GOAD Charity Cox says she came to Crossroads after having been in other treatments and institutions, including serving jail time. Using a 12 step program called Recovery Dynamics, Crossroads offers a supportive environment that seems more of a home that an addiction treatment center.
Women change direction at Crossroads
GILBERT - The fight against addiction is a life and death battle that is often waged for years, and all too often it is a battle lost. But a home in Mingo County is become a fortress for women who...
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Staff photo/RACHEL C DOVE Firemen and ambulance personnel are in the process of extracting Shelia Maynard from her vehicle following a collision with a semi-truck. Maynard was pronounced dead shortly after at the Williamson Memorial Hospital. Her passenger escaped serious injury.
Woman dies after car accident on U.S. 119
WILLIAMSON - Shortly after 11:30 a.m. on Monday, Mingo County 911 received reports of a two-car collision on U.S. 119 near the Fairview/Goodman Hollow exit, which resulted in the death of a female ...
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Allegations of failure to dispatch first responders’ addressed
by RACHEL C. DOVE, STAFF WRITER
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WILLIAMSON - The Daily News has received numerous calls from local residents voicing complaints that the Mingo County 911 dispatchers were refusing to send fire department first responders on medic...
Mine legislation would increase penalties
by RY RIVARD, CHARLESTON DAILY MAIL
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House lawmakers introduced a coal mine safety bill Monday designed to increase penalties on violators and ensure underground mine equipment shuts off when explosive gas levels rise. House Speaker ...
FBI orders release of documents in Wilkerson police brutality case
by JULIA GOAD & RACHEL DOVE, STAFF WRITERS
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A federal magistrate has ordered the release of FBI documents in connection with a lawsuit that claim a mentally ill Mingo County man was assaulted by officers from three police agencies. The Will...
Tomblin receives high marks from his peers following his State of the State address
by MICHAEL BROWNING, STAFF WRITER
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CHARLESTON — Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin received high marks from his peers following his State of the State address last week at the State Capitol. Tomblin took firm stands on important issues such as ...
Woman pleads guilty to murdering husband
by CHAD ABSHIRE, STAFF WRITER
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WILLIAMSON - A woman accused of killing her husband on April 26 of last year pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. Crystal Gale Clark, 33, of Varney, was originally indicted in September by the ...
Pace named executive editor for newspaper group
by RALPH DAVIS, HEARTLAND PUBLICATIONS NEWS SERVICE
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Michael C. Bush, chief executive officer of Heartland Publications, LLC, has appointed veteran newspaperman Fred Pace as the new regional editor at five of its southern West Virginia newspapers. P...
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