Recent News About The Washington Post
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Blankenship says now is the time to overrule landmark defamation case
WASHINGTON – Attorneys for former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship say his defamation case against Fox News and other media outlets is the perfect one for the U.S. Supreme Court to consider overruling a landmark case about press freedoms. -
Blankenship wants U.S. Supreme court to hear defamation case
WASHINGTON – Attorneys for former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Fourth Circuit Court opinion in his defamation case against Fox News and other media outlets. -
W.Va. attorney helps man who debunked Lindell election theory get $5M ruling
CHARLESTON – A West Virginia attorney helped a Nevada man earn a $5 million ruling after he proved MyPillow founder and election conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell didn’t have data showing Chinese interference in the 2020 election. -
UPDATE: Landmark federal opioid trial against three drug distributors begins
CHARLESTON – The landmark bellwether trial accusing three major drug distributors of helping fuel the opioid epidemic has begun. -
Blankenship's media defamation case moves forward with fewer defendants
CHARLESTON – A federal judge has refused to dismiss defamation claims against nearly two dozen media outlets and others from a case in which Don Blankenship alleges they called him felon. -
First lawsuit in VA hospital deaths seeks accountability
MORGANTOWN – The first lawsuit over the suspicious deaths at the Louis A. Johnson Veterans Hospital in Clarksburg has been filed. This is the first of many. -
Morrisey sold us out with drug settlements
CHARLESTON – There has never been any doubt that the opioid epidemic has ravaged the state of West Virginia. Now newly uncovered evidence proves what we already know. -
Blankenship says national media, GOP leaders worked together to defame him in '18 primary
WILLIAMSON – Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship has filed a $12 billion lawsuit claiming saying national media outlets and leading Republicans intended to defame him in his 2018 U.S. Senate bid. -
Newspapers want federal appeals court to unseal data about opioid crisis
CHARLESTON — Two newspaper companies have filed briefs in a federal appellate court in order to obtain information involving the opioid crisis. -
Morrisey calls Manchin a hypocrite, blames him for fueling opioid crisis
CHARLESTON – West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey says U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin's "negligence and legislative record" has helped fuel the state's opioid crisis. -
Local officials right to seek recovery of lost tax dollars
MARTINSBURG – According to the Centers for Disease Control, opioid overdose deaths in 2015 killed West Virginians at the rate of 41.5 per 100,000 residents. Lost lives. Shattered families. An estimated millions of dollars in state, county and municipal debt thanks to the highest overdose rate in the country – one that’s three times the national average. -
Neely: Delaware newspaper suit simply 'about money'
CHARLESTON – An attorney says a lawsuit regarding the recent consolidation of Charleston’s two daily newspapers simply is about money. Last month, Charleston Publishing Company filed a complaint against Daily Gazette Company and Daily Gazette Holding Company LLC in Delaware Chancery Court. Charleston Publishing Company is a subsidiary of MediaNews Group Inc. doing business as Digital First Media. MediaNews Group was the owner of the Charleston Daily Mail, which merged in July with the Cha -
Manchin says he isn't switching parties
CHARLESTON – A day after a historic state and national election, West Virginia's soon-to-be lone Democrat in Washington brushed off rumors that he might switch parties. -
Georgetown law professor is first speaker in MU Amicus Curiae lecture series
HUNTINGTON – Dr. Laura K. Donohue, a professor of law and director of the Center on National Security and the Law at Georgetown University Law Center, will be the featured speaker Thursday, Sept. 11, in the first installment of the fall 2014 Amicus Curiae Lecture Series at Marshall University. -
THEIR VIEW: Solyndra fiasco cost taxpayers $537 million
MORGANTOWN -- WVU economics professor Russell Sobel, in his book "Unleashing Capitalism," wrote that capitalism succeeds because it keeps the economy focused on the highest-value targets in the marketplace. -
Business4Breakfast seminar set for June 24 in Charleston
CHARLESTON -- Huddleston Bolen announced that the topic for the June Business4Breakfast seminar will be "Communicating Effectively in a Multigenerational Workplace." -
Manchin running for U.S. Senate
Manchin CHARLESTON -- Gov. Joe Manchin announced Tuesday he will run for the U.S. Senate to fill the late Sen. Robert Byrd's unexpired term. -
THEIR VIEW: Trial lawyers support public financing
CHARLESTON -- West Virginia Record readers should ask themselves this question: Why is a publication that has led the charge against attorney contributions in state supreme court elections now attacking the very public financing legislation that removes its influence? -
THEIR VIEW: A historic house vote
Last Saturday, President Obama called on Democratic Congressmen to "answer the call of history" and support the massive health care reform legislation. -
Gates learned to talk back in W.Va.
CHARLESTON -– "Boy, you crazy sometimes," Henry Louis Gates Sr. told his namesake son in Piedmont about 50 years ago.