Williamson News

The charges against a Varney resident accused of beating an elderly man, who he says he was trying to help, were dropped Thursday when the complaining officer failed to show up for court.

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.

Eleven indictments were reported by the September Grand Jury Monday during a supplemental grand jury session and arraignments were conducted Tuesday.

The Williamson Daily News submitted its readers' choice for the new consolidated high schools name, colors and mascot at the regular meeting last night.

" Ventilation problems are being blamed for a fire scare Tuesday morning at a local hospital.

The Majority Leader in the state Senate says now is not the time to hang up his public service hat.

"Hey, kids, guess what we're doing today! We're going to spend three hours in the car driving to Proctorville and back to pick up Mom's back-pain medicine and Granny's mood stabilizers.

Five days before a trial would have started between Mingo County Sheriff Lonnie Hannah and former deputy Roy Glenn Messer, U.S. District Judge Copenhaver cancelled the trial and declared Hannah the winner.

The Mingo County Health Department will be holding a swine flu vaccination clinic on Friday, October 30, 2009 at the Nntional Guard Annory in West Williamson.

Oct. 28, 2009 Mitchell is RCBI October Employee of the Month Special to Huntingtonnews.net Huntigton, WV - C.T. Mitchell of Huntington has been selected as Employee of the Month for October at the Robert C. Byrd Institute for Advanced Flexible Manufacturing, RCBI Director and CEO Charlotte Weber announced.

Although Megan Williams now recants her previous statements about rape and torture in a Logan County trailer, some Logan residents are wondering whether she's telling the truth.

On Oct 24th, 2009 there will be an Out of the Darkness Community Walk in Huntington WV at Ritter Park.

A drag show benefit for cancer research in the tiny coalfields town of Kermit has one local church warning that the Devil is coming to Kermit.

Contractors have been working hard on the new Mingo high school, for which the junior high students from the four facilities being consolidated have suggested names, school colors and a mascot.

WOMEN'S RETREAT - " Attending the annual women's retreat at Cedar Lakes FFA-FHA State Camp at Ripley Oct.

A mother's legal battle challenges whether state can force immunizations. Americans enjoy many personal freedoms, but one Mingo County mother is asking why West Virginia residents do not share the same rights as those from other states.

Officials in South Charleston are planning a new home for the West Virginia Sports Hall of Fame.

SPEAKEASY SINGLES Dance, Saturday, October 10, 2009 @ 8:00pm a ' midnight . WV State University - Wilson Student Union, Washington Avenue off of Route 25 , Institute, WV.

More than 15 percent of the 4,521 students now registered in the Mingo County school system was absent from classrooms Wednesday.

It has been awhile since I traveled down Memory Lane in the Tug Valley area and it's interesting to note the happenings that were claiming our attention in 1942 and today during the Mideast conflict in which we are participating.