Red Jacket News

MATEWAN a ' The Matewan City Council continued discussion on issues concerning the Red Jacket and Thacker water projects during its regular meeting last week.

Forty people line up outside the Operation Charity Food Bank in Matewan on a cool Friday afternoon.

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.

That statement from 47-year old Valerie Friend on the death of Carla Collins who was killed in Mingo County back in 2005.

A plea hearing is scheduled for Thursday for one of the two people charged with killing a drug informant in Mingo County back in 2005.

A group of southern West Virginia residents has sued four coal companies over the strip mining that helped build the King Coal Highway, claiming it has contributed to devastating flooding.

Twenty Mingo County families have filed a lawsuit alleging that strip mining related to construction of the King Coal Highway caused flooding that damaged their homes.

Two Mingo County residents whose previous convictions for murdering a federal drug informant in 2005 were overturned will get separate trials the second time around, a federal judge decided this week.

The Hatfield/McCoy River Rats gave the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church Youth Group a break from their missionary work a ' flood recovery assistance a ' and a tour of the Tug Fork from Hatfield/McCoy Park at McCarr, Ky., two-and-a-half miles to Matewan, W.Va. Taking a break from helping Mingo residents with flood cleanup last week, the Fifth Avenue ...

MATEWAN a ' Minor flooding washed through parts of Mingo County again yesterday after heavy rains poured down over the coalfield region.

The West Virginia National Guard is moving out of the southern coalfields following a month-long deployment.