Latest West Virginia Headlines
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3 West Virginia Volunteer Firefighters Charged with Arson
Oct 9 2019 // Authorities in West Virginia have charged three volunteer firefighters with first-degree arson and conspiracy. News outlets report Rhodell volunteer firefighters 39-year-old Matthew Allen Meadows, 19-year-old Alexia...
Coal Mine Electrician Dies in Accident at West Virginia Mine
Sep 19 2019 // West Virginia officials say a 40-year-old coal mine electrician has died in an accident. The West Virginia Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training says Steven Vernon Keeney of Sylvester died of injuries from an...
West Virginia AG Says Johnson & Johnson, Teva Hid Opioid Risks in New Lawsuit
Aug 27 2019 // West Virginia’s top prosecutor filed suits Friday against the major opioid makers Johnson & Johnson and Teva Pharmaceuticals USA for misrepresenting the risks of their painkilling drugs. The separate suits filed...
Disaster Declaration Granted to West Virginia for June Floods
Aug 14 2019 // President Donald Trump has granted a disaster declaration request for flooding in portions of West Virginia in late June. Gov. Jim Justice says in a news release five counties can receive federal assistance for public...
West Virginia Lawmakers Ask Attorney General for Control of $37M Opioid Settlment
Aug 2 2019 // A group of West Virginia lawmakers want control of a recent $37 million opioid settlement with the drug distributor McKesson. Members of the House of Delegates on Monday asked the attorney general to let the legislature to...
West Virginia Jury Finds Bar, Landowner Responsible in Drunken Driving Death
Jul 26 2019 // A jury says a now defunct West Virginia bar and the company that owned the land under the bar are mostly responsibly in a drunken driving death. The Journal of Martinsburg reported Tuesday that Dirty Dawg Saloon LLC was...
U.S. Criminally Charges Ohio Opioid Distributor with Profiting from Epidemic
Jul 22 2019 // An Ohio drug wholesale distributor and two former executives on Thursday were charged with profiting from the U.S. opioid epidemic by selling millions of pills despite signs the addictive drugs were being misused. Federal...
West Virginia Fraternity Sued Over Brain Damage to Student
Jul 3 2019 // A lawsuit says a former West Virginia University student has permanent brain damage because his fraternity brothers didn’t help him after he fell down the stairs at a party, instead ridiculing his unconscious body...
West Virginia Medical Marijuana Program Could Take Years to Roll Out
Jun 28 2019 // West Virginia patients and caregivers waiting for the state’s medical cannabis program to officially start in July shouldn’t expect their program cards or physicians certificates anytime soon. The Dominion Post...
National Weather Service Confirms Rare West Virginia Tornado
Jun 27 2019 // The National Weather Service says storm-related damage indicates that a rare tornado touched down in West Virginia. The weather service tweeted that a tornado hit the Alum Creek area Monday night along U.S. Route 119...
Reuters Report: How Judges’ Secrecy Has Added to Toll of Opioids and Other Products
Jun 25 2019 // WELCH, West Virginia —The opioid epidemic that has so far killed half a million Americans is routinely blamed on greedy drug makers, feckless doctors and lax regulators. But there’s another group that has...
West Virginia Governor to Pay $1M Fine Ordered Against Family Company
Jun 12 2019 // West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has agreed to pay a $1.23 million court-ordered sanction against one of his family’s companies. Justice’s lawyers and federal prosecutors said in a joint court filing Thursday...
West Virginia Coal Industry Data Shows Mines Releasing Excessive Pollution
Jun 5 2019 // Several West Virginia coal mines, including some owned by the governor’s family, have released many times the allowable amounts of pollutants into nearby waterways in recent years without being penalized by...
West Virginia AG Files Amended Suit Against State Catholic Diocese Over Abuse
May 29 2019 // West Virginia’s Roman Catholic diocese failed to publicly disclose decade-old allegations of sexual abuse of a student involving a Catholic school teacher, the state’s attorney general said May 21. Attorney...
West Virginia to Get $106M in Federal Disaster Funds for 2016 Floods
May 28 2019 // West Virginia is set to get $106 million in federal disaster relief money. U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin on Thursday said the state would be getting the funds as part of a federal grant. The West Virginia Democrat says the money...
State Farm to Cut Auto Rates by 5.5% in West Virginia
May 28 2019 // State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. said it plans to cut overall personal auto rates in West Virginia by 5.5%. The expected total statewide impact for State Farm Mutual by this rate decrease in West Virginia will be...
West Virginia Fines Pipeline Builder $266K for Environmental Violations
May 21 2019 // The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection and Mountain Valley Pipeline have agreed the latter will pay $266,000 for environmental violations dating back to April 2018. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports the...
Motorist Deaths Prompt Speed Limit Reduction on West Virginia Interstate
May 20 2019 // Speed limits have been reduced along a stretch of Interstate 77 in southern West Virginia where 12 motorists have died since 2016. The state Division of Highways lowered the speed limit last month along I-77 in Mercer...
Study: Fentanyl Deaths up 122% in West Virginia
May 15 2019 // West Virginia University researchers say fentanyl deaths are up 122% in the state. The college released the results of a study into the powerful synthetic opioid last month. Analysts looked at all drug-related deaths in...
W. Virginia Governor’s Coal Companies Sued by Feds Over Safety Violations
May 9 2019 // The U.S. government sued nearly two dozen of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice’s coal companies Tuesday to get them to pay about $4.8 million in unpaid mine safety fines. The civil lawsuit was filed by federal...
