BECKLEY - A man who says his photograph was wrongfully used in connection with an article in the Register-Herald about a man who was charged with sexual assault is suing it for libel.
Chief Justice Menis Ketchum CHARLESTON - The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, in a ruling last week, said a circuit court should have set aside a default judgment against popular breakfast sandwich maker Tudor's Biscuit World.
Whittaker CHARLESTON -- The West Virginia Supreme Court has ruled that a Raleigh Circuit Court "erred" when it reversed the decisions of a family court in the divorce of Powerball winner Jack Whittaker and his wife of nearly 42 years.
BECKLEY – Claims of widows that Jackson Kelly law firm hid evidence in black lung cases don't belong in federal court, U.S. District Judge Thomas Johnston decided.
BECKLEY – For years, a Fayette County company earned tens of thousands of dollars cleaning grease traps at Walmarts and Sam's Clubs throughout the mountain state.
HAMLIN -- Incumbent Circuit Court Clerk Charles Brumfield will be in the Nov. 2 general election ballot in Lincoln County after Raleigh Circuit Judge H.R. Kirkpatrick ruled that more than 300 absentee ballots be thrown out.
BECKLEY – A Lester man and his wife have filed suit against the manufacturers and distributors of a respirator that they say allowed particles to escape into the mask, causing the man to develop a lung disease.
MADISON -- The widow of a miner employed more than four years at the Upper Big Branch Mine has filed the second wrongful death suit related to the April 5 explosion that killed 29 coal miners.
Smoot BECKLEY -– Just because a report from a panel cleared Jackson Kelly lawyer Douglas Smoot of ethics charges in a black lung case doesn't mean the firm hasn't committed constant fraud, miner Clarence Carroll alleges in U.S. District Court.
BECKLEY – A coal company has removed to federal court a complaint in which a Raleigh County man claims he sustained a broken leg and other serious injuries after he was pinned between a machine and the wall of a coal mine.
BECKLEY -– Summit Treestands and Cabella Retail Inc. deny they are to blame for a man's mishap in connection with a full-body harness he was using manufactured and sold by the companies.
BECKLEY – A Minnesota company is asking its former employee to supply it with more information after he filed a suit against the company for its alleged violation of a public policy when it laid him off.
CHARLESTON - In addition to at least three other former clients, Jessica L. Toler led a Wyoming County man to believe that he not only won a multi-million dollar malpractice settlement, but also many federal agencies and officials, including former President George W. Bush, had taken an interest in his case.
BECKLEY -- A Raleigh County couple is suing two major debt collection agencies, saying they received at least 89 phone calls throughout a three-month span in which the companies tried to collect credit.
