Lincoln County News

At a public meeting Wednesday to discuss a new report on prison overcrowding, several speakers encouraged the West Virginia Council of Churches to resist the recommendation to build a new prison.

The Lincoln County 4th of July celebration kicks off this Friday at the fairgrounds near Hamlin.

Teachers and other state employees are not happy with a proposal from the Public Employees Insurance Agency Finance Board to not subsidize health insurance coverage for new employees after they retire starting in 2010.

Morris Enrichment Center of Morris Memorial Church , 4615 MacCorkle Ave., will sponsor a multiple-family yard sale from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday in the gymnasium.

A new system to monitor some criminals is now being used in Lincoln County. The Lincoln County Commissioned approved the purchase of 12 alcohol monitoring bracelets.

Debate Cancelled>>> A proposed debate between NASA Climate Scientist Dr. James Hansen and Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship that was to take place this evening and air on West Media Stations around the state has been canceled.

What Becky Bolte's wedding will lack in formality, it's going to make up for in frivolity.

The West Virginia Humanities Council will reissue the popular series, "West Virginia: A Film History" for the first time on a two-disc DVD.

Deputies from three counties conducted interdiction patrols from Southridge to the Logan County line Friday night.

MIDKIFF, W.Va. -- Two people were killed after driving into a house in Lincoln County early Saturday morning.

Two people were involved in a single-vehicle accident on Corridor G in Lincoln County.

State Police arrested three people after an anonymous tip led them to a meth lab in South Charleston.

A Lincoln County man may be facing federal firearms charges after police found what they believe to be fully automatic weapons at his home near Ranger.

Back in the 1960s, a philosopher named Marshall MacLuhan said that we were heading towards a global village society thanks to major mass media and that in the future everybody would be famous for about 15 minutes.

Students from Hamlin Elementary School in Lincoln County will have the opportunity to experience the Marshall Recreation Center after winning a healthy lifestyle contest at their school earlier this year.

Meteorologists with the National Weather Service say localized downpours are possible out of many of the thunderstorms that will move through West Virginia into Wednesday.

Even the smallest volunteers turned out to help during WCHS and Union Mission's Flood Aid drive for the families in Mingo County who lost nearly everything in the floodwaters.

A federal grand jury indicted a Lincoln County man Wednesday on charges that he produced, possessed and distributed child pornography, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced.

The West Virginia Supreme Court says a Lincoln County circuit judge was right to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the losing candidate in a circuit clerk election marred by illegal vote-buying. In a per curiam opinion filed Tuesday, the court ruled against Terry Hill, who ran unsuccessfully in 1996 against Gregory Brent Stowers, who pleaded guilty in ...

The West Virginia Board of Education has agreed to give the Lincoln County school board provisional control over the county's school system, which has been under the state's control since 2000.