Latest West Virginia Headlines
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FEMA Hosts Flood Insurance Roundtable in West Virginia
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...
West Virginia Settles With Pharmacy Accused of Providing 10M Painkillers
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...
West Virginia Regulators Monitoring Collapsed Section of Dam
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...
Trump Administration Proposes Curbs on Opioid Manufacturers
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...
Spring Storm Brings Tornadoes, Floods to Southeast
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...
West Virginia Sues Equifax Over Data Breach
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...
Lawsuit Filed Against Mine Safety Agency Over 2010 West Virginia Mine Blast
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...
West Virginia Gov Signs Bill Limiting Opioid Prescriptions
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...
11 More West Virginia Towns, Counties Sue Over Opioid Crisis
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...
Two Plead Guilty to Insurance Fraud by Arson in West Virginia
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...
10 Doctors Charged in West Virginia, Virginia Pill Mill Case
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...
Judge Denies McKesson Bid to Keep Lawsuit Out of West Virginia County
Feb 27 2018 // The nation’s largest prescription drug distributor has lost its bid to keep a lawsuit out of a West Virginia county. News outlets report a judge rejected McKesson’s claim that it has no duty under state law to...
West Virginia Judge Tosses Coal Company Lawsuit Against HBO’s John Oliver
Feb 26 2018 // A West Virginia judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by coal company Murray Energy against HBO host John Oliver. A segment of Oliver’s Sunday show “Last Week Tonight” in June poked fun at Murray Energy...
Flood Warnings in Effect Along Ohio River in West Virginia
Feb 20 2018 // Flood warnings continue along the Ohio River in West Virginia following recent heavy rains. The National Weather Service says the Ohio River was nearly seven feet above flood stage Sunday at Point Pleasant. It was expected...
West Virginia Officer Fired For Refusing to Shoot Suspect Settles Suit for $175K
Feb 15 2018 // A white West Virginia police officer who was fired after he refused to shoot a black man who had a gun has settled a lawsuit for $175,000. The American Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia announced the settlement with...
Underground Coal Miner Killed in West Virginia
Feb 8 2018 // Authorities say a coal miner has been killed at an underground mine in northern West Virginia. The West Virginia Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training says the incident occurred shortly before 4 a.m. Tuesday...
West Virginia Man Sentenced to Nearly 2 Years for Filing $354K in Fraudulent Claims
Jan 26 2018 // A West Virginia man has been sentenced to one year and nine months in federal prison for filing false insurance claims totaling more than $354,000. Thirty-six-year-old Daniel Lichtman of Kearneysville was sentenced for...
West Virginia to Get $153K in Drugmaker Settlement
Jan 25 2018 // West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey said the state will receive more than $153,000 in a national settlement with a prescription drug manufacturer. Morrisey says in a news release last month that every state and...
Report: West Virginia Controlled Substance Dispensing Down 11.7% in 2017
Jan 23 2018 // A West Virginia board report says state pharmacies dispensed 31 million fewer controlled substances last year, a trend the board’s acting chief says is due to heightened awareness about prescription medication...
Insurers Off The Hook for West Virginia Hole-in-One Tournament Payouts
Jan 22 2018 // A federal appeals court says Gov. Jim Justice’s charity is stuck with almost $200,000 in payouts made to fans at the 2015 Greenbrier Classic tournament after two golfers aced the 18th hole at his resort in southern...
