CHARLESTON – A Kanawha County jury awarded more than $700,000 to the family of a 32-year-old inmate at Huttonsville Correctional Facility who died from septic shock his estate says was ignored by guards for days.
CHARLESTON – Several cases involving children born addicted to opioids have been removed to federal court despite the plaintiffs’ contention the defendants’ logic for the move is flawed.
CHARLESTON -- A former regional director for the state jail authority recently pleaded guilty to witness tampering, and a former parole officer has been charged with sexual assault of at least two of his parolees. Four federal lawsuits have been filed in relation to the incidents.
CHARLESTON – A Kanawha County man says excessive force by two Dunbar police officers, including being power slammed to the pavement, caused his son’s death this summer.
CHARLESTON – A Kanawha Circuit judge has issued an order allowing more infants to be added to the docket in a case involving children born addicted to opioids.
CHARLESTON – Attorneys representing children born addicted to opioids have filed a motion seeking to reopen and place certain infants on the same active docket as others.
BECKLEY – A high school girls basketball coach says he was injured when two West Virginia State Troopers providing protection for Gov. Jim Justice when he was shoved during an altercation at a game.
CHARLESTON – A civil lawsuit filed by a teenager claiming a state Child Protective Services worker kidnapped her, raped her and forced her to use illegal drugs has been amended to include an affidavit from another CPS worker corroborating many details in the complaint.
HUNTINGTON – A Huntington man who was struggling with opioid addiction claims five city police officers maliciously assaulted and battered him, breaking his neck and leaving him paralyzed for life.