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Pharmacies don't provide health care, Supreme Court rules
Starcher CHARLESTON – Pharmacies do not provide health care, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has decided. -
Case already on court followers' radar screens
Jones CHARLESTON – As the state Supreme Court agrees to hear a possible challenge to a medical malpractice reform law, those who supported and opposed it say they plan to watch the case closely. -
State completes $807 million tobacco bond sale
CHARLESTON -- West Virginia made more than $800 million Thursday on the sale of its tobacco settlement bonds. -
Maynard plans to run for Supreme Court again
Maynard CHARLESTON – State Supreme Court Justice Elliott "Spike" Maynard says he isn't ready to give up his seat on the bench just yet. -
Security freeze: What is it and what does it mean to you?
CHARLESTON -- Your wallet or purse is stolen along with its belongings, including your credit cards. What now? -
'Inartful words'
"Inartful" itself isn't actually a word. But it's the one Chief Deputy State Attorney General Fran Hughes has chosen to explain away her raw dishonesty before a State Senate Committee back on Feb. 12. -
CALA, AG's office attack each other
CHARLESTON – Armed with a report and a statewide ad campaign, a watchdog group is urging legislators to rein in some of Attorney General Darrell McGraw's practices. McGraw's top deputy, meanwhile, is attacking back. -
Lewis preparing for AG run, wants McGraw out
Lewis MORGANTOWN - Losing the closest attorney general's race in state history three years ago may help Hiram Lewis stand out in a crowd of Republican competitors during the 2008 race. -
Unfazed by probing, McGraw dishes out more money
McGraw CHARLESTON - Despite promises and a federal investigation, state Attorney General Darrell McGraw on Wednesday handed out even more of the settlement funds gained in a 2004 agreement with Purdue Pharma. -
Time to enforce Recht decision
Yoder May 11 was the 25th anniversary of the Recht decision, which continues to be used to hamper our children's education in the Eastern Panhandle. -
Sprouse suffers from selective amnesia
Jones CHARLESTON -- Senator Sprouse, as one of your constituents I have a question to ask you: "Are you not bothering to read the bills that you agree to sponsor or are you so beholden to the billion-dollar, out-of-state special interests headed by the U. S. Chamber that you are now willing to distort your own legislative record?" -
Is it even worth wasting my time?
CHARLESTON -- Is it even worth it? Do I even waste time and effort going back down this road again? -
The life of a defense lawyer
Sprouse CHARLESTON -- Most people don't know Tom Smith. But, if you are at the Capitol or if you are need of a good defense lawyer, you know his name. -
Manchin vetoes bill adding six circuit judges
Manchin CHARLESTON -- West Virginia's circuit court system will remain as is, at least for now, after Gov. Joe Manchin on Wednesday vetoed a bill that would have added six judges. -
WVU College of Law to explore pay equity between Mountain State men, women
MORGANTOWN -- In 1963, Congress passed the national Equal Pay Act, and it's been almost a decade since lawmakers enacted the 1998 Equal Pay Bill for the state of West Virginia. -
WVU PRESIDENT FINALISTS: Suit not a reflection on Garrison, attorney says
Garrison CHARLESTON – Despite naming him as a co-defendant in a 2003 lawsuit, a Charleston attorney says the suit should not impue a Morgantown attorney's ability to be the next president of West Virginia University. -
Another hurdle cleared toward safer mining
CHARLESTON -- During last year's legislative session, the members of the Legislature and I came together to pass a mine safety bill that would lead the way for the first national mine safety legislation to come out of Congress in more than 25 years. -
Free Choice Act actually could hurt employees
Merinar CHARLESTON -- The news of late has been dominated by Iraq and the 2008 presidential contenders. Still flying "under the radar" is House Resolution 800, which Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently described as "the most important labor law reform legislation of this generation." -
Who's watching the fox?
She wanted to prevent the federal government from "coming back and seizing money." -
Open debate? Yep, unless it's abortion or asbestos
CHARLESTON -- OK, let me heap some praise first for the House leadership before I head down the road of criticism.