Baisden News

A Logan County judge is asking for advice from the state Supreme Court before hearing a long-simmering lawsuit over a pipeline company's bulldozer damage to a private cemetery that served a historically black coal camp community.

Logan County Commission President Art Kirkendoll, center, speaks Tuesday in the State Capitol, after a meeting of state and local leaders and coal executives.

At its regular meeting, he Mingo County Commission agreed to contribute to an effort to help Logan Mingo Mental Health reach out to victims of floods.

A Delbarton man is claiming police brutality after being arrested Oct. 14. Micah A. Baisden, who was arrested on three counts of obstructing an officer, two counts of battery on an officer and battery, is now claiming that police used excessive force during his arrest.

" The residents of this small Mingo County community received the best news yet in a long struggle to bring a public water supply system to them: water is on the way.

" The Lonesome Pine Fiddlers, a band started in Mingo County over 40 years ago, was inducted into the International Bluegrass Hall of Fame Oct.

A Dingess man was arrested yesterday after allegedly beating a woman and holding her captive.

Mingo County Sheriff's Department says they have arrested a man who allegedly kidnapped, choked and beat a woman in her own home.

The Mingo County Commission approved a bid proposal at the commissiona s regular session meeting Sept.

Mine inspectors and rescue coordinators from all over the state visited the RESA Emergency Training Center in Institute on Monday to get hands on training for how to deal with mine fires.

The state has awarded more than $1 million in contracts to repair roadways in Mingo County washed out by flooding.

West Virginia Director of Emergency Service Jimmy Joe Ginato presents a reimbursement check to the Mingo County Commission at the Slabtown, Tamcliffe, Paynter Bottom water project groundbreaking.

The West Virginia State Police made a traffic stop over the weekend that led to multiple arrests on drug and stolen check charges, according to law enforcement reports.

Casey James Behelar II, 28, of Gilbert, waived his right to a preliminary trial yesterday before Mingo County Chief Magistrate Eugene Crum after being accused of participating in a home invasion July 12.

The state has awarded more than $1 million in contracts to repair roadways in Mingo County washed out by flooding.

Logan County residents toss bags of trash onto a loader scoop in a lot beside of Baisden Brothers Hardware during the first weekend of the Logan County Commission's third-annual free trash pickup.

Local police made two recent drug related arrests which included weapons charges according to police reports.

Tuesday night during a traffic stop, 46 year-old Brian Gravely was arrested. Wyoming County Deputies said Gravely was charged with possession with intent to deliver.

Four men are in jail following what West Virginia State Police referred to as a home invasion Sunday night in Mingo County, when the men allegedly beat a man and raped his girlfriend.

State police are investigating a home invasion that happened overnight in the Gilbert area of Mingo County.