Holden News

WILLIAMSON a ' The Williamson Police Department, with the assistance of the West Virginia State Police, investigated an armed robbery at the Sycamore Inn in Williamson Tuesday.

Local law enforcement officers have made several burglary arrests recently. a Paul David Cantrell, 21, of Kistler, was arrested by West Virginia State Police Trooper G.W. Collins for daytime burglary and grand larceny on Nov.

Local law enforcement officers have had their hands full recently with fraud-related arrests, according to police reports.

A federal magistrate scheduled a trial date for a McDowell County woman charged with permitting a minor child in her custody to engage sexually explicit behavior, producing visual depictions of the conduct and sending the materials by mail, computer or other means.

Local police have also made drug related arrests in recent weeks according to law enforcement reports.

It has become an unfortunate tradition in Logan County that every November the burglary and theft arrest rates climb and the month has become what several local police chiefs have called the start of the Christmas crime season.

The Logan Area Public Library is having a fund raiser for the 2010 Summer Reading Program.

A Logan County Deputy has been arrested again on a domestic violence charge. Logan County Deputy Derrick Pearson was arrested Tuesday night by the West Virginia State Police for domestic battery upon his estranged wife, Heather Pearson, who was also arrested on the same charge.

Local law enforcement officers have made more recent weapons-related arrests according to police reports.

Area law enforcement officers have made more drug arrests in recent weeks according to police reports.

MT. GAY a ' Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College's Dental Hygiene Clinic located at the Logan Regional Medical Life Services Center at Holden is offering free basic dental hygiene services.

Verdunville Elementary School will be having their annual salute to America's Veterans on November 6, 2009, at 10 a.m. Special guests include: Brian Abraham, Logan High School Band, Beni Kedem Highlanders, 130th Airlift Wing West Virginia Air National Guard, American Legion Post #19, Rev.

October was Domestic Violence Awareness month and multiple arrests on those charges kept local police busy for the past month.

Fast thinking on behalf of a witness who took a cell phone photo of a crime being committed helped local police make an arson arrest recently.

A Mingo County man suffered only minor injuries when his pickup truck collided with the rear end of a coal truck on Holden Mountain yesterday afternoon.

Area police have continue to make an unusually high rate of burglary and theft related arrests for this time of the year according to law enforcement officers.

Area law enforcement officers have continued to rack up drug arrests according to police reports.

A West Virginia company says it's received state approval to issue $100 million in tax free bonds to build a wood-fired power plant in Mingo County.

More information is available about recent drug related arrests made by local police.

Verizon Wireless sponsored a rally in West Virginia on Labor Day that was organized by climate bill foes and which was attended by conservative FOX News personality Sean Hannity and controversial guitarist, Ted Nugent.