Attendance was up last June at a three-day Hatfield and McCoy festival held in Matewan and Williamson in West Virginia and in Pike County in Kentucky. The event featured tours, re-enactments ...

The combination of perilous working conditions and miner-guard tensions led to a massive strike in 1912 in southern West Virginia (Matewan sits on the state’s southern border with Kentucky).

Resident Wilma Steele, whose husband is a retired union miner, said she didn’t read about the battles of Matewan and Blair Mountain until she went to college. Now the Kentucky border town of about 430 ...

The Tug Fork River was the biggest concern from Matewan to Williamson ... also owns several motorcycles and 50 acres of property in Kentucky. He says he keeps checking his properties to see ...

Along the West Virginia-Kentucky line, some 3,000 miners responded ... arrived in the Mingo County town of Matewan on the Tug Fork to evict striking miners and their families from company houses.

“Boonie” Runyon, who confessed to helping plan the robbery of the Matewan National Bank branch at Kermit on Jan. 3, 1987. Runyon testified he and McCoy killed Russell Davis in Kentucky after ...

MATEWAN, WV (WOWK) — The Matewan Massacre happened in 1920, but the battle rages on as reenactors are set to take the stage Saturday for the 25th year of Matewan Heritage Day in the historic ...

One year earlier, 10 people had died in Matewan, West Virginia, in a skirmish over eviction notices served to miners who had joined the union. In Harlan County, Kentucky, the 1931 Battle of Evarts ...

MINGO COUNTY, W.Va. — West Virginia State Police have arrested five people who were in the area of a late night stabbing that killed one in Matewan in Mingo County. Cory Marcum, 27, of North ...

West Virginia State Police say Benjamin Adam Baldwin, 39, of Matewan is in serious but stable condition. Troopers responded to the 4000 block of Beech Creek Road in Matewan in regards to a ...