Williamson News

A four-day holiday begins with the Thanksgiving Day observance Thursday for employees in the Mingo County Court House, Memorial Building and other public agencies.

Two Mingo County men are in jail in connection with an alleged weekend sexual assault in Williamson.

One Mingo County man is now charged with sexually abusing another man in Williamson while a third man watched.

The price for a gallon of gasoline has fallen in most areas outside of Logan County, but still remains high here.

Christmas season in the Tug Valley will soon be celebrated as plans for the Great White Way have been finalized.

The Williamson City Council and Mayor Darrin McCormick discussed the issues regarding the recent boil water advisory at the citya s rescheduled council meeting last week.

Williamson High School Principal Johnny Branch spoke to the Williamson Kiwanis Club Monday about a proposed a oeInnovative Zonea designation for his school.

Steven Spry is arraigned by Mingo County Magistrate Pam Newsome. The teen is charged in connection with the destruction of an AEP transformer causing a power outage in the Tug Valley area.

Public offices and other professional firms, along with schools and post offices will be closed today in observance of the national holiday of Veterana s Day.

The pictured section of concrete with graffiti is part of the Berlin Wall which divided the German city for many years until it was torn down on Nov.

Members of the Action in Mingo Group have been busy making plans for the annual a oeGreat White Waya celebration, which will be held Nov.

Vandals left hundreds of Tug Valley residents in the cold recently and prompted Appalachian Electric Power to offer $5,000 for the arrest and conviction of the person who shot the Dingess Station transformer.

The West Virginia State Police and Williamson Police Department confiscated over four and a half pounds of marijuana from Carl D. Ciscoa s residence at Beech Creek, court records show.

Just in time for Thanksgiving and Christmas, residents in Mingo County have a new place to shop.

WILLIAMSON a ' Nine persons have entered guilty pleas to various felony charges in the past several days in Mingo County Circuit Court and await sentencings during November and December.

The West Virginia State Police Bomb Squad was dispatched to an abandoned residence in Thacker Hollow on Monday.

A Delbarton man originally charged two counts of battery on a police officer and battery went before Mingo County Magistrate Pam Newsome on Thursday.

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.