Logan County News

Officials in Logan County say there have been as many as 1,900 students out of class in one day since the start of school this year.

Two years ago a shocking, distressing story was reported in southern West Virginia.

Area law enforcement officers have made many DUI and alcohol related arrests in recent weeks including one involving injuries.

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.

Emergency rescue crews bring the body of Charles David Milum up from the Guyandotte River Tuesday morning after the body was found by a Logan city worker.

Authorities have suspended their search for a missing 56-year-old man who walked away from a Logan County nursing home after finding a man's body in the river near Middleburg Island.

On Sept. 8, 2007, a passer-by heard Megan Williams, then 20, crying out from within a shed near a trailer in Logan County.

The US 119 Drug and Violent Crime Task Force made more arrests recently involving powerful prescription only narcotics.

The City of Logan Halloweenfest, held Saturday, Oct. 24, included a costume contest where top winners received a $50 cash prize from Logan Bank & Trust and a trophy.

A federal lawsuit alleges three Logan County sheriff's deputies sexually assaulted a woman after accosting her and her companions outside a Logan bar.

Governor Joe Manchin says there's no such thing as a "Fat Tax". Speaking today in Logan County, he says the term was reported erroneously and doesn't know where it came from.

A North Carolina man was killed as the result of a single-car accident near Cyclone early Monday.

A Kentucky resident was arrested over the weekend for allegedly stalking a local woman and pointing a gun at a man.

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.

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.

When a black woman told West Virginia authorities in 2007 that seven white people had raped and tortured her over several days in a racially motivated attack, minority rights groups rallied to her support.

Megan Williams, a woman who had claimed she was raped and tortured in a racist attack in West Virginia in 2007 made up the story, her lawyer said.

A local man was arrested over the weekend after he allegedly stuck several parked vehicles in the Man area, setting off a wild chase that included local firefighters.

In a Monday, Oct. 22, 2007 file photo, Megan Williams, 20, of Charleston, W.Va., stands outside of her home.

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