BECKLEY – Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship pleaded not guilty Thursday to federal charges he was to blame for the April 2010 explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine that killed 29 miners.
CHARLESTON – A federal grand jury on Thursday returned an indictment charging former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship with four criminal offenses related to the April 2010 explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine that killed 29 miners.
CHARLESTON – On Monday, a day before Election Day, a federal judge issued a consent decree allowing resubmitted absentee ballots to be counted in the race for House District 35.
CHARLESTON – U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin, Prestera Center for Mental Health Services CEO Karen Yost and law enforcement officials on Tuesday announced an intervention program through which certain heroin addicts are being referred to treatment.
MORGANTOWN – Rob Alsop, special counsel at Bowles Rice and former chief of staff to Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, has been appointed vice president for legal and governmental affairs and entrepreneurial engagement at West Virginia University, effective Oct. 27.
WASHINGTON – The Justice Department says a West Virginia developer and entities affiliated with him have agreed to pay $110,000 and make approximately $1.7 million in retrofits required to remove accessibility barriers at 30 apartment complexes, involving more than 750 units in West Virginia.
In a famous "Monty Python" sketch, comic representatives of the Spanish Inquisition attempt to extract a confession from an elderly woman (and alleged heretic) by poking her with “soft cushions” and forcing her to sit for hours in a “comfy chair.”
MORGANTOWN — The West Virginia University College of Law will have its 2014 Commencement and Hooding Ceremony at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, May 10, in the WVU Creative Arts Center.
CHARLESTON -- U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Resident Agent in Charge Suzan Williamson have announced that Saturday's Prescription Drug Take-Back event collected a total of 6,211 pounds of unwanted, unused and expired prescription drugs from citizens and households across West Virginia.
CHARLESTON – United States Attorneys Booth Goodwin, Southern District of West Virginia, and Bill Ihlenfeld, Northern District of West Virginia, on Wednesday recognized 88 high school juniors from throughout West Virginia as U.S. Attorney’s Ambassadors for Justice.
RICHMOND, Va. -- A federal judge has given preliminary approval to a proposed settlement with former Massey Energy investors who claim they were misled about the company's safety record before a 2010 mine disaster.
CHARLESTON -- U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin and West Virginia Division of Corrections Commissioner Jim Rubenstein on Wednesday visited St. Mary’s Correctional Center in St. Mary’s to celebrate the donation of hundreds of blankets, scarves and bags crafted by St. Mary’s and Lakin inmates to give to foster children.
CHARLESTON -- A federal judge granted judgment to Johnson & Johnson in the first multridistrict litigation case over alleged transvaginal mesh injuries.
CHARLESTON - West Virginia public officials have been speaking out to help residents during the current water crisis regarding price gouging and the ongoing investigation.
