All the headlines from our West Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 30 2014 // The company that spilled chemicals into West Virginia’s largest water supply has paid an $11,000 fine for a pair of violations.The Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined Freedom...
Jul 29 2014 // A board tasked with compiling a list of animals that are illegal to keep as pets in West Virginia will consider one that’s shorter than a list suggested earlier.Media outlets report the state Wild and Dangerous...
Jul 25 2014 // The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) has filed a proposed reduction in workers’ compensation loss cost rates in West Virginia – the tenth reduction in 10 years.NCCI, West Virginia’s rating...
Jul 23 2014 // The West Virginia Fire Marshal’s Office is accusing members of a volunteer fire department in Wharton with forging state documents.The office said it has filed felony criminal complaints against fire officer Ira Rash...
Jul 21 2014 // At least $2.9 million could fuel studies in a proposed settlement between West Virginia businesses and residents and the company that contaminated their water supply.The deal between lawyers for Freedom Industries and...
Jul 18 2014 // The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration has agreed to pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit over the deaths of two miners in a 2006 fire at an underground coal mine in West Virginia, according to court documents.Under...
Jul 15 2014 // Former West Virginia Governor W. Gaston Caperton, III, has been joined USI Insurance Services as a senior advisor to help the broker expand in West Virginia, Kentucky and Virginia. The 32nd governor of West Virginia will...
Jul 14 2014 // State and federal environmental officials say they don’t have a way to monitor air quality as chemical storage tanks are taken down at the industrial site that fouled public drinking supplies for 300,000 West...
Jul 9 2014 // Rhino Eastern LLC changed management at its Eagle Mine 3 after inspectors warned that coal miners faced the risk of deadly explosions and developing black lung disease. The company acknowledged falling short of safety...
Jul 3 2014 // AssuredPartners has acquired Ramsey Insurance Agency Inc., in Charleston, West Virginia.Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Ramsey Insurance Agency reports revenues of approximately $1.5 million from selling...
Jun 27 2014 // Freedom Industries Inc., the chemical company that filed for bankruptcy after a leaky storage tank tainted the water supply in West Virginia, was ordered to do a better job of keeping the public informed.In a court filing...
Jun 26 2014 // A federal lawsuit blames a Charleston airport runway project for the January chemical spill that left 300,000 residents without clean water for days.The lawsuit says Yeager Airport’s completed runway extension never...
Jun 24 2014 // For the West Virginia company that sullied 300,000 people’s drinking water to start the year, slip-ups like not reading emails and leaving the company chemical headquarters unattended have produced problems for...
Jun 20 2014 // The West Virginia Supreme Court has slashed by more than half the multimillion-dollar damages a jury levied against a Charleston nursing home in connection with a former resident’s death.In a 76-page divided opinion...
Jun 16 2014 // Local cyclists seem to generally approve of new traffic laws in West Virginia to protect them, though many say the increasing number of riders on city streets already has created something of a truce with motorists.The new...
Jun 16 2014 // A Charleston company faces state violations after a storm water collection trench overflowed at the same site where chemicals spilled into West Virginia’s largest water supply in January.The Department of...
Jun 16 2014 // Industry groups are jittery that if state regulators require the wrong type of permit, companies could be subject to citizen lawsuits under a new environmental law that regulates storage tanks.State regulators disagree,...
Jun 4 2014 // The West Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles says some changes in laws will affect motorists starting this week. One new law allows DUI offenders to get on the ignition interlock program immediately if they do not...
Jun 4 2014 // Secretary of State Natalie Tennant’s office has removed all business filings from its website after one displayed an individual’s Social Security number.Tennant told WCHS-TV that the image displaying the number...
Jun 2 2014 // Three more defendants in a $1 million arson insurance scheme in Logan, West Virginia, have been sentenced to prison. U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin said the three were sentenced to a total of 25 years in prison for their...