Cabin Creek native named president of United Mine Workers
Cecil Roberts, sixth generation coal miner from Cabin Creek, sworn in Friday as president of the United Mine Workers of America succeeding Richard Trumka. Trumka lauded him as militant. Roberts cites the 1989 Pittston Co. strike as landmark, led by Roberts, with civil disobedience and health-benefit battles.
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Charleston
Cecil Roberts
United Mine Workers of America
Richard Trumka
Aflcio
Trumka
Roberts
UMW
Pittston Co
Afl-Cio
Jerry D. Jones
Lesser
Jones
Carlo Tarley
Monongah
Cabin Creek
Wales
Bill Blizzard
Logan
Blair Mountain
Harding
Drunk Driver Reported in Matoaka Area
A 1988 burgundy Ford van with silver stripes was seen in the Matoaka area. The driver had no insurance and a Mercer County Circuit Court judge ordered no driving. Deputy L Catron investigated. A portable basketball goal was stolen from Anthony Taylor on Oakland Drive Princeton. Lt Ran dall Earnest investigated. Donald Wayne Blankenship, 28, of Montcalm was arrested for domestic battery. Trooper P P Richmond investigated.
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Mercer County Sheriff's Department
Matoaka
Mercer County
John Frazier
L. Catron
Anthony Taylor
Oakland Drive
Princeton
Randall Earnest
WV State Police
Donald Wayne Blankenship
Montcalm
P.P. Richmond
Stepson of Union man admits part in fatal fire
Kenneth T. Johnson Jr., 32, of West Virginia, admitted in court last week that he helped ignite the boarding house fire that killed four former psychiatric patients. Carl son, 37, a former fire chief, is charged with arson and faces life if convicted. The case, unsolved for 18 years, was revived by a crusading weekly and a drunken confession.
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Sea Bright
N.J
West Virginia
Kenneth T. Johnson Sr
Union
Monroe County
W.va
Kenneth T. Johnson Jr
Charles J. “Skip” Carlson Jr
Alan Hinton
Marlboro Psychiatric Hospital
Carlson
Johnson
FBI
Barry Mann
William Hull
John LaRocque
James Mayer
Victor Podnarz
Buddy Williams
Asbury Park
Geraldo Rivera
Prosecutor Challenges Caperton Sentence Commutations
Morgantown AP report cites Kanawha County prosecutor Bill Forbes questioning Gov. Caperton’s Dec 8 commutations of two murderers Robert Leach and John Wayne Ford and urging stripping the governor’s office of clemency power. Forbes learned of the action only via a Jan 3 parole hearing notice. Ford, 45, of Chesapeake, was convicted in 1968 for the beating death of Henry Russell during a 1967 armed robbery. Leach, 37, of Baltimore, received a reduced sentence amid criticism of secrecy surrounding the action.
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Morgantown
Gaston Caperton
Robert Leach
Baltimore
John Wayne Ford
Chesapeake
Kanawha
Bill Forbes
Caperton
Forbes
Ford
Leach
Henry
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Locust Street
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Jim
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Rare Serene ES SD
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