Mingo County News

At its regular meeting, he Mingo County Commission agreed to contribute to an effort to help Logan Mingo Mental Health reach out to victims of floods.

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

Charleston Attorney and former TV anchor Kathy Brown said on Saturday, Oct. 31, 2009 she is exploring a run for the Kanawha County bench whether she's appointed to the position or not.

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.

A large-scale coal-to-gasoline plant proposed for far southern West Virginia is another important step closer to reality.

A show, set up to raise money for cancer, is also raising eyebrows. It's happening in nearby Mingo County, West Virginia.

Three Marshall University freshmen from Southern West Virginia have been awarded the Friends of Coal scholarships for 2009.

A proposed plant in Mingo County will join a growing interest in burning scrap wood for power.

A man working in a railroad tunnel in Mingo County was killed Thursday morning when a large rock fell on top of him.

One person has been killed in a construction accident inside a Norfolk & Southern Railroad tunnel near the Wayne-Mingo County Line.

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.

Charleston entrepreneur Thomas Loehr today announced plans to build a $150 million plant in Mingo County.

A Mexican man who was convicted of supplying multiple kilos of cocaine to a Mingo County drug ring was sentenced to life in prison in federal court on Thursday.

A Charleston businessman heading up the city's methane powered electric plant is expanding his push for clean energy sources.

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.

Former Gov. Bob Wise's group targets nation's 'dropout factories' Bob Wise described himself as an "education governor," as have so many of his predecessors in West Virginia.

" The Lonesome Pine Fiddlers, a band started in Mingo County over 40 years ago, was inducted into the International Bluegrass Hall of Fame Oct.