CHARLESTON – Gary Johnson has had interim removed from his job title. The state Supreme Court of Appeals voted unanimously March 6 to make Johnson, a former circuit judge, the permanent Administrative Director of West Virginia Courts, Chief Justice Allen H. Loughry II announced.
MORGANTOWN – Noted criminal justice system critic Ann Jacobs delivered the Charles L. Ihlenfeld Lecture on Public Policy and Ethics Feb. 3 at the West Virginia University College of Law.
MARTINSBURG – New Jackson Kelly attorney Susan R. Snowden has big plans for her position at the firm that involves helping clients in her beloved eastern Panhandle.
CHARLESTON – More than $6 million from a court settlement account has been transferred to West Virginia University and Marshall University to aid in research and rural health.
CHARLESTON – Tucker County native Allen H. Loughry II will become the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia for the first time on Jan. 1.
FAIRFAX, Va. – Although there is some not-so-bad news for West Virginia's health care ranking in a report recently released by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, the predicted direction is predominantly up, according to one of the report's authors.
MORGANTOWN -- Jennifer L. Bauer, a third-year law student at West Virginia University, was recently published by the Institute for Human Rights and Business, an international human rights organization.
MORGANTOWN – A new partnership between West Virginia University and China Shenhua Energy Co. is expected to promote discoveries that could provide cleaner, cheaper energy to countries across the globe.
CHARLESTON – Nicholas Circuit Court judge-elect Stephen Callaghan has filed a lawsuit asking for a federal judge to dismiss a disciplinary case against him. Callaghan is facing ethics charges for campaign tactics during the May primary, in which he defeated longtime Nicholas Circuit Judge Gary Johnson by just over 200 votes.
HUNTINGTON – ITT Technical Institute is another in a long list of for-profit schools that have lost their accreditation and had to close, leaving students in the lurch with college loans from a school that no longer exists.
CHARLESTON – A St. Albans man is suing Perma-Pipe Inc. after he claims its defective steam pipe system at West Virginia State University caused him injuries.
CHARLESTON – A statewide legal reform group is celebrating Lawsuit Abuse Awareness Week, but a group for trial lawyers denounced it as another effort to take away West Virginians’ right to a jury trial.
CHARLESTON – Kathy A. Brown faced a situation that many others in the television news business have experienced. She felt it was time to move on from the profession as younger colleagues came onto the scene.
WASHINGTON – When United States Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz visited West Virginia on Monday, he got a first-hand look at our state’s role in America’s energy revolution.
MORGANTOWN – U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) recently chaired a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on the economic importance of modern, reliable infrastructure in West Virginia and other energy-producing states.
WARDENSVILLE – The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced recently that New Biz Launchpad was one of 68 winners of its third annual Growth Accelerator Fund Competition.
