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Police: Top heroin distributor nabbed

Jose Salazar arrested Wednesday night Skip Holbrook said the inves-
tigation followed a pipeline
doses,” Holbrook said. “He
became the top of the food
FRIDAY By CHRISTIAN in the Tri-State was arrested vice. Salazar was named in
from Mexico to Columbus
into Huntington. Salazar’s
chain, as far as the investiga-
tion went.”
June 19, 2009 ALEXANDERSEN
The Herald-Dispatch
Wednesday night.
Jose “Carlos” Salazar was
a criminal complaint in U.S.
District Court in Huntington
arrest marks the closing of
that major supply line, Hol-
Holbrook said he’s never
seen another case that has
calexandersen@herald-dispatch.com arrested during a routine on a charge of felony con- brook said. so greatly affected the lives
HUNTINGTON — A man traffic stop in Columbus, spiracy to distribute heroin “That supply route moved of the community.
who authorities describe as Ohio, according to a release in August 2008. all of the black tar heroin that
the largest supplier of heroin from the U.S. Marshals Ser- Huntington Police Chief was the source of our over- Please see SALAZAR/5A Salazar

Wilcox indicted on murder Marshall

charges in wife’s death approves
A hands-on tuition
history lesson
Area youth created
colorful pillows the
old-fashioned way
increase
during a treadle Board: Money needed
sewing class at to offset rising costs
Heritage Farm
Museum and By BILL ROSENBERGER
The Herald-Dispatch
Village. brosenberger@herald-dispatch.com
Community / 1C HUNTINGTON — In-state Marshall
University students will pay $338 more
during the 2009-2010 school year.
Mountain Stage The Board of Governors unanimously
approved the 7 percent increase at its
memories Thursday meeting in the Memorial Stu-
dent Center.
Music columnist “It’s with great reluctance I support
Dave Lavender hits this,” said finance com-
mittee chairman Mike
some Mountain Perry. “(But) maybe the
Stage highlights only thing worse than
from Charleston, increasing tuition is not
increasing tuition. This
where the famous isn’t enough money, but
show kicks off the Mark Webb/ The Herald-Dispatch it keeps us from going
10-day FestivALL Tom Wilcox is escorted to a police cruiser following his arraignment on Thursday at the Lawrence County Courthouse. into the wrong direc-
tion.”
at 8 tonight. The increase is the
Life / 3C
Ironton man could face death penalty if convicted same for metro stu-
dents and $240 per “It’s with great
semester for out-of- reluctance that
Shooting death By CHRISTIAN ALEXANDERSEN
The Herald-Dispatch
Coal Grove, Ohio. Visitation is planned
at the school from 10 a.m. until the time
state students. School I support this.
of Medicine tuition (But) maybe

ruled suicide calexandersen@herald-dispatch.com

IRONTON — An Ironton man was
The Barboursville indicted Thursday on an aggravated
murder charge in the burning death of
Police Department his estranged wife, a charge which could
has determined lead to the death penalty.
Wednesday’s Thomas Wilcox pleaded not guilty
in Lawrence County Common Pleas
shooting death Court on Thursday after a special grand
in the Village of jury returned a seven-count indictment
Barboursville Park against him.
He is suspected of killing his estranged
was a suicide. wife, Amy Wilcox. She died on June 12
Local / 3A at a Cincinnati hospital 43 days after
fire burned more than 90 percent of her
File photo/The Herald-Dispatch body. Amy Wilcox, 38, taught special
Sounds of Amy Wilcox died June 12 at a Cin-
cinnati hospital, 43 days after fire
education at Collins Career Center.
Funeral services for Amy Wilcox have
summer burned more than 90 percent of
her body.
been set for 1 p.m. today, June 19, at Daw-
son-Bryant High School gymnasium in
of service.
The seven-count indictment against
will increase by $400
per semester for resi-
the only thing
worse than
her husband includes six felony charg- dents and $1,000 per
increasing
es, the most serious of which was an semester for nonresi-
aggravated murder charge, a capital dents. tuition is not
offense. Felony charges include aggra- Full-time graduate increasing
vated arson, aggravated burglary, child resident and metro tuition.”
endangerment and assault. student tuition was
Those allegations stem from an April increased by $178 per Mike Perry
30 fire at Amy Wilcox’s residence on finance committee
semester, with gradu- chairman for MU
Perry Township Road 254, northeast of ate nonresident tuition Board of Governors
Coal Grove. Investigators charged Tom increased by $266.
Wilcox with setting the victim on fire in Perry, who said he’s always looking
a domestic dispute. for other financial resources to avoid
Thomas Wilcox, 38, was initially increases in tuition and fees, told the
charged with felonious assault, attempt- committee and later the entire board that
ed aggravated murder, aggravated bur-
glary and aggravated arson.
there simply is nowhere else to turn. There
are only three sources of revenue for the
Please see WILCOX/5A
university — the state, investment profits

The annual Heiner’s Please see TUITION/5A

Summer Concert
Series kicked off
another year of cel-
ebrations and music
Summer’s almost here? East Duke says plans for Ohio
in Huntington with
a performance by
the Oakwood Road
wonders ‘who’ll stop the rain’ nuclear plant uncertain
The Associated Press
Band at Pullman WASHINGTON — Mud season
Square on Thursday. has been extended.
From North Dakota to Long
Local / 3A Island, rain after rain after
rain has dampened spirits and
Index swamped roads. Picnics and kids’
baseball games have been washed
Bridge 3D Local 3A out, rescheduled and rained out
Business 5B Movies 4C
again. Big-time sports, too.
Classified 1D Nation 7A
Comics 7C Obituaries 2C
In Farmingdale, N.Y., Tiger
Editorials 6A J. Spencer 3C Woods’ defense of the U.S. Open CINCINNATI — Politicians trumpeted a possible nuclear
Horoscope 5D Sports 1B championship was delayed power plant in southern Ohio on Thursday as though bull-
Life 3C Television 4C Thursday as rain pelted an dozers were ready to start moving dirt any minute.
already soaked course and post- But licensing by regulators is years away, let alone
© poned most of the first round The Associated Press construction and the thousands of jobs that look good
Champion Publishing, Inc. until Friday. “Where’s my canoe,” Traffic slowly moves down a flooded street in Bismarck, N.D., on on a politician’s resume.
www.herald-dispatch.com England’s Ian Poulter wrote on Tuesday. Forecasters at the National Weather Service warned that Duke Energy is taking the lead in the project, but a
Huntington, West Virginia his Twitter feed. up to 2 inches of rain could fall Thursday. From North Dakota to spokeswoman said there’s no firm commitment by Duke
Vol. 109 No. 169 In Bismarck, N.D., heavy rain New York’s Long Island, rain after rain after rain has dampened or its partners to build a nuclear plant on the 3,700-acre
swamped streets, stressed storm spirits, swamped roads and delayed sports this spring. Defense Department site in Piketon, about 80 miles
sewers and stalled vehicles. Roads east of Cincinnati.
were shut down, and the roof of a of its normal position over the last “It’s a lot like an extended The partners don’t know how big an ownership role
bowling alley collapsed under the couple of weeks, sending a series spring,” said O’Lenic in a tele- each will assume.
weight of water. of storms across the Midwest and phone interview. “For whatever
The high-altitude jet stream that East, explained meteorologist Ed reason, and the atmosphere only
guides the movement of weather O’Lenic of the federal Climate knows the answer, this is the way More on Business, 5B
across the country has been south Prediction Center. it is being acted out.”