Five arrested on drug charges
BARBOURSVILLE -- Five suspects were arrested in the early morning hours Friday on drug charges, three in the same incident, and lodged in the Western Regional Jail.
Marc Javier Chavez, 25, was arrested on two counts of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver. Raven Nicole Eddy, 21, was charged with three counts of the same crime.
In a single arrest, George Edward Cooper, 38, Melinda June Calhoun, 39, and Roger Lee Calhoun, 50, were each charged with one count of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver. Roger Calhoun is a convicted felon, according to the jail's Web site.
Summer Dive-In movie set for Friday
ELEANOR, W.Va. -- Putnam County Parks and Recreation is planning a summer cinema Dive-in movie featuring "Finding Nemo" at 8:30 p.m. Friday, July 11, at the Eleanor pool.
Admission is $3 and swimmers can enjoy the movie on a big screen while swimming in the moonlight. There will be a concession stand available.
Senior sky dive is tentatively rescheduled
SOUTH POINT -- A local seniors' group's plans to jump out of an airplane got rained out on Friday.
The First State Bank's seniors' travel and social group, the Harvest Club, had planned to sky dive Friday morning at the Lawrence County Airpark in South Point, Ohio. The event was canceled due to weather. The group has tentatively rescheduled their adventure for 11 a.m. Monday.
The group jumped last year on July 4 for the first time.
More information about the Harvest Club or the sky diving event is available by calling Adam Daniels at 304-302-6015 or e-mailing him at adamd@fsb-wv.com.
Daredevil grandson plans feat in Ohio
MASON, Ohio -- Weeks after Evel Knievel's son jumped 24 delivery trucks at Kings Island, another daredevil will try to surpass a family feat at the Cincinnati area amusement park.
Rick Wallenda wants to walk 2,000 feet across a cable suspended high above the park's Coney Mall. He won't use a safety net or harness in his planned Fourth of July stunt.
Wallenda's grandfather was Karl Wallenda, patriarch of "The Flying Wallendas" high-wire act. He completed an 1,800-foot sky-walk at Kings Island in 1974, four years before he fell to his death attempting to walk a cable strung between two hotel towers in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Robbie Kneivel's 200-foot motorcycle jump on May 24 came 33 years after his father famously jumped 115 feet over 14 buses at Kings Island.
Utilities to seek rate increases
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Two of Kentucky's largest utilities plan petition the state for 2 percent rate increases for electricity, saying the money is necessary to upgrade equipment.
Louisville Gas & Electric and it's sister company, Kentucky Utilities, say if the increases are granted by the Kentucky Public Service Commission, new rates could take effect as early as February.
LG&E also plans to ask for a 6 percent increase for natural gas. Kentucky Utilities does not sell natural gas. The increases would add about $16 to a typical LG&E customer's monthly bill.
For Kentucky Utilities customers, the rate hike would mean $4.50 more a month on an average bill.
The formal rate hike request will go to the Public Service Commission on July 29.
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