CHARLESTON -- The publisher of the Shepherdstown Observer is suing Secretary of State Natalie Tennant, claiming she misapplied election law and stifled the newspaper's investigation into alleged voting irregularities.
MARTINSBURG -- Four couples have filed suit against the pawn shop that they claim sold a hand gun to a convicted felon, who later used the gun in a shooting spree at a bar.
McGraw CHARLESTON -- State Attorney General Darrell McGraw and the Legislature are on the same page when it comes to how to spend part of a $22.5 million settlement with Eli Lilly & Co.
MARTINSBURG – U.S. District Judge John Preston Bailey has cleared the way for construction of Far Away Farm residential development in Jefferson County.
Robert Peirce RICHMOND, Va. -- CSX Transportation is using a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in an attempt to get its fraud case against a Pittsburgh law firm going again.
CHARLESTON – Journalists around the nation press the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals to release referendum petitions with hundreds of phony signatures to the monthly Observer newspaper in Shepherdstown.
CHARLESTON - In less than a fortnight, a former Dunbar police officer has been sued, and convicted on separate allegations he unlawfully arrested women for purpose of having sex with them.
MARTINSBURG -- A Jefferson County woman is suing City Hospital, Inc., after she claims they were negligent in failing to protect her from being injured while she was a patient.
CHARLESTON – With a triple whammy, the Supreme Court of Appeals disqualified two members of Jefferson County's board of zoning appeals and the board's lawyer from a hearing on a permit for 600 new homes.
NATCHEZ, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - A federal jury decided Monday that two Mississippi lawyers committed fraud against a railroad company they sued in a pair of asbestos lawsuits.
CHARLESTON -– A committee of circuit clerks established by the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia will hold a meeting at 9 a.m. Feb. 16 at the Charleston Marriott to discuss potential ways to modernize the storage of court orders.
Whether judges should be appointed or elected is a question about which reasonable people can disagree. But the public financing of elections – for judgeships or any other position – is an option we should deplore.