Lenore News

The Mingo County Sheriffa s Department arrested two men on Friday for charges in connection to the shooting of an Appalachian Electric Power transformer at Tug Valley High School.

Volunteers such as Billy Joe Curry of Lenore help load carts with food to help families in need.

An accident in Matewan involving a Mingo County school bus and an automobile sent two people to the hospitala SMonday.

Second month attendance of the 2009-2010 school term in Mingo County saw a drop of 103 below the same period in the 2008-2009 school term, County School Superintendent Dwight D. Dials reported Tuesday.

A 30-year-old Mingo County man is accused of holding a gun to the head and stomach of a pregnant woman and threatening to kill her unborn child.

A Kermit man remains in jail after he confessed to police officers to murdering his estranged wife at a mining site.

WILLIAMSON a ' Employment, transfers, leaves of absence and other actions concerning professional and service personnel in the school system were reviewed by the Mingo County Board of Education Tuesday.

That Mingo County students at the elementary and middle schools levels are progressing in the field of mathematics and reading was confirmed Tuesday by a report on the WESTEST 2 scores of 2009.

WILLIAMSON a ' Two women and two men entered pleas of guilty to felony charges Tuesday and the men also were sentenced during proceedings in Mingo County Circuit Court.

WILLIAMSON a ' Two women and two men entered pleas of guilty to felony charges Tuesday and the men also were sentenced during proceedings in Mingo County Circuit Court.

Steve Steinbrecher is being place into a crusier for transport to the Southwestern Regional Jail by West Virginia State Trooper Moore.

The West Virginia Economic Development Authority has approved a resolution authorizing the issuance of up to $15 million in tax-free bonds for the purchase of the Greenbrooke Building and adjacent parking.

Nine indictments, including five sealed, drug-related true bills, were returned Tuesday following a one-day session of the Grand Jury serving the April 2009 term of Mingo County Circuit Court.