All the headlines from our West Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 1 2013 // Nine Ohio and West Virginia residents who have cancer and other diseases have filed federal lawsuits this month against chemical giant DuPont Co.The lawsuits accuse the Wilmington, Del.-based company of knowingly...
Oct 29 2013 // State regulators are investigating spills from a drilling operation in West Virginia’s Ohio County that damaged a house and entered a creek.More than 6,000 gallons of water and a non-toxic clay mixture called...
Oct 28 2013 // D.A. Gohil’s family is still rebuilding its convenience store business in Nicholas County, a year after Superstorm Sandy buried parts of West Virginia in wet, heavy snow that collapsed roofs and pulled down power...
Oct 17 2013 // A federal investigation into a multi-million-dollar workers’ compensation scheme extended to the Bank of Mingo in southern West Virginia, where authorities seized computer hard drives and documents.FBI Special Agent...
Oct 4 2013 // A West Virginia man and two Kentucky residents have been sentenced for their roles in a workers’ compensation scheme.The Charleston Gazette reported that Jerome Edward Russell of Williamson, Frelin R. Workman of...
Oct 1 2013 // West Virginia higher education officials are considering a campus safety rule that establishes policies and procedures addressing four-year institutions’ planning and response to natural disasters, shootings or other...
Sep 30 2013 // West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Robin Davis criticized her colleagues in a dissenting opinion Friday for refusing to let institutional shareholders revive a lawsuit filed against the former Massey Energy two weeks...
Sep 27 2013 // U.S. Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia broke ranks with fellow Democrats and said he’d support a stopgap spending plan that delays the individual mandate in President Barack Obama’s health-care...
Sep 17 2013 // State highway officials say West Virginia’s bridges are safe despite dozens that are both in disrepair and at risk of collapse if hit hard enough in the wrong place.An Associated Press review of federal records found...
Sep 16 2013 // The state Supreme Court has denied a bid by institutional shareholders in the former Massey Energy Co. to revive a lawsuit they filed two weeks after the Upper Big Branch mine disaster.In an order released Friday, the...
Sep 13 2013 // A major storm and settlements of inmate lawsuits contributed to a nearly $20 million increase in the West Virginia Board of Risk and Insurance Management’s claims expenses.The agency’s annual report shows that...
Sep 10 2013 // Municipalities in West Virginia are asking lawmakers for help in their battle against blight.A resolution endorsed by the West Virginia Municipal League earlier this year at its annual conference seeks an amendment to the...
Sep 9 2013 // The state Supreme Court has been asked to decide whether the Monroe County Commission and a dog warden are responsible for the 2009 death of a man who was attacked by neighborhood dogs.The justices heard arguments last...
Sep 9 2013 // The number of filings in the state Supreme Court was the lowest in more than 25 years in 2012, according to a report presented to West Virginia lawmakers.The report by court clerk Rory Perry says there were 1,524 cases...
Sep 4 2013 // The family of a Rainelle, West Virginia man who died in a traffic accident is suing an ambulance company and an emergency medical technician for allegedly circulating photos of the victim’s corpse.The lawsuit in...
Sep 4 2013 // Institutional shareholders in the former Massey Energy Co. want the state Supreme Court to revive a lawsuit they filed two weeks after the Upper Big Branch mine disaster.Lawyers for the California State Teachers’...
Aug 29 2013 // Billionaire coal company and resort owner Jim Justice is in a war of words with the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection over an illegally built dam at a gated golf course community, a 17-foot-high...
Aug 23 2013 // A southern West Virginia coal company contractor has been charged with conspiring to defraud the federal government.Aracoma Contracting LLC of Williamson is accused of structuring cash withdrawals in increments of $10,000...
Aug 22 2013 // A state study says no new rules are needed to protect West Virginia’s air quality from natural gas drilling.State lawmakers were presented with the study’s results during an interim committee meeting this week....
Aug 21 2013 // The number of filings in the state Supreme Court reached its lowest level in more than 25 years in 2012, according to a report presented to West Virginia lawmakers.The report by court clerk Rory Perry says there were 1,524...