CHARLESTON – West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is blasting the Charleston Gazette-Mail for a social media comment he called “false, biased and offensive.”
CHARLESTON – The owners of The Charleston Gazette-Mail have agreed to declare Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Charleston Newspapers is planning to file for bankruptcy on Jan. 30.
CHARLESTON – The Charleston Gazette-Mail might be sold to another company, according to court documents filed in a lawsuit in federal court between MediaNews Group and Daily Gazette Company.
CHARLESTON – West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner has said he plans to enforce a state law that bans anonymous campaign mailers, despite the fact that state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey has called the law unconstitutional.
CLARKSBURG – A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit against West Virginia University alleging a former student was sexually assaulted and the school mishandled her report of the rape.
CHARLESTON – I read with interest the recent Charleston Gazette-Mail editorial on quality of life issues relevant to West Virginia’s law placing arbitrary caps on damages in medical malpractice lawsuits, and I wanted to expand on your thoughts if I might.
CHARLESTON – Purchases and use of furnishings by West Virginia Supreme Court justices have come into the spotlight after an investigation into renovations at the court offices.
CHARLESTON – In the wake of a Charleston newspaper column referencing it, state Supreme Court employees removed a leather couch from Chief Justice Allen Loughry’s home.
CHARLESTON – The West Virginia Judicial Investigation Commission, along with Kanawha Magistrate Jack Pauley’s counsel, recommended a 45-day suspension without pay for ethics violations.
WASHINGTON – The year was 1986, Ronald Reagan was president, the Chicago Bears won the Super Bowl and Top Gun was the hit movie at the box office — and it was also the last time the federal government reformed the tax code.
CHARLESTON – The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has decided it will no longer pay dues to legal associations for its employees beginning in 2018.
CHARLESTON – The Charleston Gazette-Mail has asked a federal judge to vacate a $3.8 million arbitration ruling made against the newspaper earlier this month.
CHARLESTON – In West Virginia, location is a key selling point for manufacturing companies that want easy access to eastern markets and east coast shipping channels. Yet location means little if roads and bridges are not well maintained or modernized.
CHARLESTON – A federal arbitrator’s nearly $4 million ruling sheds more light on how Charleston became a one-newspaper town. In his filing, Arbitrator Edward D. McDevitt of Charleston provides some details about what happened internally at Charleston Newspapers when executives were deciding to shut down the Charleston Daily Mail and merge it with the Charleston Gazette. In closing his 16-page order, McDevitt writes that a newspaper expert used by Charleston Newspapers determined that the authority to cease publication of the Charleston Daily Mail “did not exist.”
