All the headlines from our West Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 20 2010 // A Martinsburg, West Virginia official says arson is on the rise in the Eastern Panhandle city. Lt. Greg Hoover said the Martinsburg Fire Department investigated 10 arsons in the first three months of 2010. That’s...
Apr 19 2010 // A trust fund that invests in Massey Energy wants the board of directors and top executives held personally accountable for the recent explosion that killed 29 coal miners.The Manville Personal Injury Trust sued last week...
Apr 19 2010 // Investigators have seized a small fortune from a Mingo County, West Virginia doctor in a case that parallels a previous raid of a Williamson pain clinic, court filings show.The U.S. District Court papers disclose that...
Apr 16 2010 // Massey Energy Co. said its officials are meeting with families of the 29 miners killed the April 5 blast at its Upper Big Branch mine to describe the benefits the firm will provide them and denied it was trying to stave...
Apr 14 2010 // The West Virginia panel that writes mining safety rules wants to join state and federal inspectors underground as they work to figure out what caused last week’s explosion that killed 29 men.Typically, the state...
Apr 12 2010 // Time stopped five days ago for the families of 29 coal miners killed in the devastating explosion at Upper Big Branch mine.As thousands waited, hoping for any word someone might have survived Monday’s blast, life in...
Apr 9 2010 // The U.S. mining industry may face additional regulations following this week’s deadly explosion at a West Virginia coal mine.Key lawmakers have vowed to look into the accident at Massey Energy’s Upper Big...
Apr 7 2010 // Drills boring into a West Virginia coal mine Wednesday carried hope for a “miracle” rescue of four miners missing after a blast killed 25 people in the worst U.S. mine disaster in a quarter century.The...
Apr 6 2010 // An explosion ripped through a West Virginia coal mine owned by Massey Energy, killing at least 25 miners in the deadliest U.S. mining disaster since 1984.Governor Joe Manchin said Tuesday morning that four miners remained...
Apr 2 2010 // Bayer CropScience has agreed to pay a $143,000 fine to resolve safety citations stemming from a fatal explosion at its Institute, West Virginia plant in 2008.Bayer said that the citations are principally related to the...
Mar 30 2010 // America’s top coal mine regulator says he will redouble pressure on the industry to meet a 4-year-old congressional mandate to equip the nation’s underground mines with high-tech communications and tracking...
Mar 22 2010 // House and Senate in West Virginia lawmakers have signed off on allowing cities and towns to tap insurance proceeds when clearing away buildings destroyed by fire. The bill has been sent Gov. Joe Manchin, who sponsored the...
Mar 15 2010 // West Virginia lawmakers want to give police and the courts an easy way to verify whether a driver has required liability insurance.The House has approved a measure previously backed by the Senate to instruct the Division...
Mar 15 2010 // Lawmakers have signed off on allowing West Virginia’s cities and towns to tap insurance proceeds when clearing away buildings destroyed by fire.The Senate has sent Gov. Joe Manchin his proposal to allow...
Mar 12 2010 // Lawmakers hope a new bill will blunt business groups’ criticism of West Virginia’s court system.The Senate voted unanimously Wednesday to allow the state Supreme Court to create special business courts in...
Mar 12 2010 // A foreman accused of faking a safety inspection report at a Patriot Coal Corp. mine pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of making false statements and certifications under federal mine safety laws.John Renner, 40, of...
Mar 11 2010 // Competition and the expiration of federal tax exemption cut BrickStreet Mutual Insurance Co.’s profit by 66 percent in 2009.The workers’ compensation insurer says it earned $38.9 million last year, compared to...
Mar 9 2010 // State lawmakers appear ready to increase the independence of West Virginia’s local governments, and they aren’t waiting on results from an ongoing experiment on the subject.The Senate is expected to take up a...
Feb 1 2010 // Three recent chemical leaks at a West Virginia DuPont plant, one of which killed a worker, don’t appear to be related, a federal investigator said.U.S. Chemical Safety Board investigator Johnnie Banks promised a...
Jan 27 2010 // Federal safety officials are investigating a DuPont chemical plant Monday after a series of leaks that resulted in the death of one worker and the operation’s temporary shutdown.DuPont officials put the sprawling...