All the headlines from our West Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 7 2019 // A jury in West Virginia has returned a nearly $17 million verdict after a woman was injured when staffers tried to detain a shoplifter in Walmart.Jurors in Wood County, West Virginia, issued the verdict Monday. A lawyer...
Feb 20 2019 // West Virginia Governor Jim Justice has appointed James A. Dodrill as insurance commissioner, effective March 4, 2019.Dodrill succeeds Allen McVey, who was appointed earlier this year as secretary of the West Virginia...
Feb 15 2019 // A Colorado-based natural gas producer has agreed to pay a $3.15 million civil penalty to resolve pollution violations at 32 drilling sites in West Virginia. The U.S. Department of Justice says in a news release the agency...
Feb 11 2019 // A West Virginia lawmaker says the state has been paying insurance on thousands of vehicles than it doesn’t actually own.House of Delegates committee on government organization chairman Gary Howell announced last week...
Feb 11 2019 // Firefighters in West Virginia are investigating two more suspicious blazes in Huntington, for a total of 13 since the beginning of the year. The Herald-Dispatch reports one fire reported on Thursday occurred at a home...
Feb 8 2019 // Five former volunteer fighters in West Virginia have been charged with arson following a two-year investigation by the state fire marshal’s office.The office says in a news release that the former Cabell County...
Feb 6 2019 // West Virginia Governor Jim Justice has appointed Erin K. Hunter as acting insurance commissioner for the state, effective Jan. 25, 2019.She takes over for Allan McVey who was appointed by Justice last month as Secretary of...
Feb 5 2019 // Fire officials say they’re investigating after responding to nearly a dozen structure fires in five weeks.According to Huntington Fire Marshal Captain Matt Winters tells WCHS-TV that there have been 11 fires so far...
Feb 4 2019 // Emergency officials in West Virginia say a charter bus carrying a high school girls basketball team has rolled over, leaving 16 injured.News outlets report the bus was carrying a team from Martinsburg High School when it...
Jan 31 2019 // Drug overdose deaths doubled in one West Virginia community last year.The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register reports figures released Jan. 22 by Wheeling police show officers responded to 13 overdose deaths last...
Jan 23 2019 // A program that helps people rebuild homes that were damaged or destroyed in West Virginia’s 2016 flood is being affected by the partial federal government shutdown. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports a statement...
Jan 9 2019 // A West Virginia county saw a more than 40 percent drop in the number of non-fatal drug overdoses last year as compared to 2017.The Huntington Herald-Dispatch reports just over 1,000 non-fatal overdoses were reported in...
Dec 27 2018 // A congressional report on prescription pill dumping in West Virginia blames U.S. prescription drug distributors and the Drug Enforcement Administration for not doing enough to help mitigate the nation’s opioid...
Dec 21 2018 // One person has died and dozens of others were left homeless due to an apartment fire in West Virginia.Wheeling Police Department spokesman Philip Stahl told news outlets the blaze was reported Tuesday afternoon at North...
Dec 6 2018 // The West Virginia University Board of Governors has settled a lawsuit over a student’s 2014 death at a fraternity house for $250,000.The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports the state Board of Risk and Insurance...
Dec 3 2018 // A West Virginia man has been ordered to pay $7.6 million in damages to the family of a pedestrian who was killed in a hit-and-run accident.The Dominion Post reports the Monongalia County Circuit Court jury issued the...
Nov 30 2018 // A company building a natural gas pipeline in West Virginia has agreed to pay $122,350 for environmental violations.The Charleston Gazette-Mail cited a consent order made public Monday in reporting that Columbia Gas...
Nov 28 2018 // A fire official says operations have been suspended at a Macy’s distribution center in West Virginia after a fire broke out. No one was hurt.Hedgesville Volunteer Fire Capt. Brian Mulligan tells The Herald-Mail of...
Nov 16 2018 // West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has made three appointments to the state’s Office of Miners’ Health Safety and Training.The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports that Justice said in a news release that he appointed...
Nov 2 2018 // Documents show five lawsuits against a former West Virginia state trooper have been settled for $780,000, with half of that sum involving a woman who accused him of sexual assault.The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports the...