Maybeury News

Richard "Ricky" Todd, son of Mattie Todd and the late Julius Todd, Sr., went to be with the Lord on Saturday, December 19, 2009 at Hospital University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pa.

Elizabeth "Littie" Smith, age 78, of Bluefield, formerly of Jenkinjones, peacefully departed this life on Sunday, December 13, 2009 in Bluefield Regional Medical Center.

Trooper D.R. Moore of the Welch Detachment of the West Virginia State Police drove into a nightmare on Wednesday night, July 16, 1975, and the memory of that moment remains ingrained in his mind as vividly as anything he encountered during his career in the state police.

A man died, and a woman was air-lifted with serious injuries, following a two-vehicle head-on collision Monday in McDowell County.

A section of U.S. Route 52 in McDowell County was closed this morning due to a two-vehicle accident with injuries A Health Net helicopter was contacted to airlift an individual from the scene of the crash near Maybeury.

A McDowell County teenager died in a head-on collision Monday morning. State Police confirm Joseph Pack, Junior, 19, of Davy was killed after an accident in Maybeury.

A McDowell County physician pleaded guilty before United States District Judge Thomas E. Johnston to aiding and abetting another person in illegally obtaining the pain reliever Hydrocodone.

A McDowell County physician has pleaded guilty in federal court to illegally prescribing hydrocodone.

Troopers of the Welch Detachment of the West Virginia State Police finished their annual marijuana eradication program Friday morning, and wound up harvesting a total of 5,621 pot plants in a six-week period - a haul worth an estimated $11.2 million.