All the headlines from our West Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 11 2018 // West Virginia regulators say a 43-year-old coal miner has been killed on the job.The Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training says shuttle car operator Ronald R. Taylor of Belington died of head injuries when he...
Jun 11 2018 // A federal judge has given final approval of a $151 million settlement of a lawsuit stemming from a chemical spill into a West Virginia river.The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports that U.S. District Judge John T. Copenhaver...
Jun 5 2018 // West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has declared a state of emergency in eight counties for flooding from heavy rains.The governor’s office said in a news release that some emergency evacuations were underway Sunday...
Jun 1 2018 // As a young man, Barry Shrewsbury dug coal in the West Virginia mines and spent his time off hunting and fishing in the rolling hills.Now, at 62, he struggles to breathe and accomplish basic tasks such as shopping and...
May 29 2018 // Four people have been hospitalized after oil tanks exploded in West Virginia.News outlets report a company was removing three oil tanks in West Union on Friday when the tanks exploded. West Virginia Department of...
May 22 2018 // Two counties in West Virginia have declared a state of emergency over flash-flood risks in the area. The Journal of Martinsburg reports the declaration in Jefferson and Berkeley counties comes after four days of torrential...
May 11 2018 // West Virginia’s Division of Highways says it will take additional steps to increase safety in the Interstate 64 work zone between Milton and Hurricane.Media reports say the steps were spurred by a rash of at least 25...
May 7 2018 // A roofing company in West Virginia has been assessed $57,600 in proposed fines for workplace safety violations. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports the Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited Master Roofers and...
May 2 2018 // A judge in West Virginia has approved a $1.75 million settlement of a lawsuit filed in a teenager’s drowning at a municipal swimming pool. Media outlets report Harrison County Circuit Judge Chris McCarthy approved...
Apr 25 2018 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Region III and the West Virginia Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (WVDHSEM) hosted the first-ever West Virginia Flood Insurance Partners Roundtable in...
Apr 23 2018 // A pharmacy accused of dispensing millions of prescription pain pills in West Virginia has agreed to a $550,000 settlement with the state.In a news release, Attorney General Patrick Morrisey says the settlement of a lawsuit...
Apr 20 2018 // West Virginia regulators are monitoring a damaged dam in the northern part of the state that could potentially fail. The state Department of Environmental Protection says in a news release a worker with the town of...
Apr 19 2018 // The U.S. government on Tuesday proposed tightening rules governing the amount of prescription opioid painkillers that drugmakers can manufacture in a given year, in hopes of reining in the deadly opioid epidemic.The Drug...
Apr 18 2018 // A mid-April storm that pushed across the U.S. created a tornado in North Carolina that killed a person, caused widespread power outages in North and South Carolina and caused flooding emergencies in West Virginia and...
Apr 13 2018 // West Virginia sued Equifax Inc on Thursday for failing to safeguard consumer information of hundreds of thousands of state residents and for delaying alerting the public to a breach that exposed the personal data of about...
Apr 10 2018 // A lawsuit filed by a West Virginia miner’s widow says the Mine Safety and Health Administration didn’t do enough to stop the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster.The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports Carolyn Diana...
Apr 2 2018 // West Virginia’s governor has signed legislation to limit opioid prescriptions that doctors can prescribe to treat acute pain.Gov. Jim Justice signed the bill last week that would limit such prescriptions to supplies...
Mar 20 2018 // Eleven additional local West Virginia governments are suing drug companies who they say failed to follow state and federal law to prevent the distribution and abuse of prescription pain medication that’s created the...
Mar 16 2018 // Two men pled guilty in federal court for their respective roles in a scheme to commit insurance fraud by arson.Dudley Bledsoe, age 63, of Hanover in Wyoming County, West Virginia, and Ricky Dwayne Gleason, age 54, of Peach...
Feb 28 2018 // Ten doctors have been charged with overprescribing pain pills from clinics in West Virginia and Virginia, federal prosecutors announced Feb. 20. Two of those patients died.Most of the 69-count indictment charges the...