CHARLESTON – An arbitrator has ruled Charleston Newspapers’ publishing company owes the publisher of the defunct Charleston Daily Mail nearly $4 million. The petition confirming the arbitration award was issued Sept. 6 in federal court.
CHARLESTON – West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey has asked U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin to resign from Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s leadership team. Manchin’s response was blunt.
CHARLESTON – The attorneys for the family of Timothy Hill have disclosed that a settlement was approved by a judge in a lawsuit they filed against the West Virginia State Police for the death of their teenage son.
Though maintaining separate reporting staffs and the semblance of distinct perspectives, the Gazette and the Daily Mail merged their press and business operations in 1958.
CHARLESTON – It shouldn’t be difficult to change state rules that are stricter than those that are recommended by a left-leaning 2014 Environmental Protection Agency and that have been adopted by neighboring states.
PARKERSBURG – The former owners of the Charleston Daily Mail claims United Bank wrongfully induced Charleston Newspapers to sell the rights to the dailymail.com domain name.
An analytical newspaper reader can sometimes pick up things in an article that the reporter and editor may not have noticed, and that reader may even believe that the article in question communicates the opposite of what it seemed to.
WILLIAMSON – The Mingo County town of Kermit has joined the list West Virginia, a handful of counties and a few communities that have filed lawsuits against five drug companies it claims helped fuel an opioid epidemic within in the town and across the state The suit, filed Jan. 31 in Mingo Circuit Court, names McKesson Corporation, AmerisourceBergen Drug Corporation, Cardinal Health, Miami-Luken and HD Smith Corporation as well as former Kermit clinic owner Cameron Justice as defendants.
MADISON – Two more drug distributors are agreeing to settle claims against them in a lawsuit alleging they fueled the state’s opioid epidemic when they shipped large shipments of pain pills into the state over a period of several years.
CHARLESTON – Kanawha Circuit Judge Tod J. Kaufman was made aware Thursday in court that West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey’s office sent part of a 15-page court-sealed document to the Federal Trade Commission.
CHARLESTON – In its latest television commercial, Doug Reynolds’ campaign for state attorney general says incumbent Patrick Morrisey is lining his pockets with drug money while “West Virginians overdose in record numbers.” Morrisey’s campaign responded, saying the ad is another attempt by Reynolds “to divert attention away from the fact that he has no plan to fight substance abuse.” Reynolds’ ad, titled “Pockets,” can be viewed online.
CHARLESTON – This week on the campaign trail in the race for West Virginia Attorney General: On Sept. 12, incumbent Attorney General Patrick Morrisey’s campaign claimed challenger Doug Reynolds, a Democrat, is trying to hide his support of Hillary Clinton.
CHARLESTON – Attorney General Patrick Morrisey has gone on the offensive, criticizing Democratic challenger Doug Reynolds’ business relationship with the state’s largest newspaper.
CHARLESTON – Kanawha Circuit Judge Jennifer Bailey issued a preliminary injunction, which will block enforcement of West Virginia’s recent right to work law.
CHARLESTON — With Frontier Communications in statewide headlines for other matters, West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey says the company has increased internet speeds for approximately 15 percent of customers impacted by its estimated $160 million settlement with the state.
