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Feds want a stay in McGraw settlement funds issue
McGraw CHARLESTON -- The federal government wants to stay proceedings in West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw's challenge to a $2.7 million Medicaid withhold until a similar case is sorted out. -
McGraw, CMS spar over disputed settlement funds
McGraw CHARLESTON -- West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw and the federal Medicaid agency traded barbs recently when responding to each others' motions for summary judgment in a dispute over settlement funds. -
New WVU law class to focus on abuse, neglect law
MORGANTOWN -- Abuse and neglect cases take up at least a third of a typical circuit judge's time, so the Supreme Court's Court Improvement Program Board this semester is underwriting the first-ever class solely on civil abuse and neglect law at the West Virginia University College of Law in Morgantown. -
FINANCIAL FOCUS: Long-term care insurance helps you grow wiser today, older tomorrow
CHARLESTON - Americans recognize the need to save for retirement. But few are mindful of the need to protect themselves against the steadily growing costs of long-term care services. Long-term care insurance can cover the costs of long-term care services and protect lifetime savings. -
McGraw settlement causes $446K hole in Medicaid funding
McGraw WASHNGTON - The federal government plans to withhold nearly a half-million dollars the next time it doles out Medicaid funding to the State of West Virginia as a result of a settlement engineered by state Attorney General Darrell McGraw. -
Mercer judge Swope is keynote speaker at "Pip" kickoff
CHARLESTON -– Judge Derek C. Swope of the Ninth Judicial Circuit in Mercer County will be the keynote speaker at the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources Bureau for Children and Families' "PIP Kickoff" Thursday at the Charleston Civic Center. -
Family sues over son's injuries from fight at Hurricane High
PUTNAN COUNTY -- After their son received a fractured jaw and paralysis of his lower lip while attending Hurricane High School, an Arizona couple has filed suit against the Putnam County Board of Education and the family whose son allegedly caused the injury. -
Adoption Month focus on older children in foster care
CHARLESTON -– Of the 115,000 children in foster care nationally who are available for adoption, the average age is 8.6 years. -
Child, family services and Title IV-E foster care assistance reviews
Davis CHARLESTON -– The Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia and West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources Bureau for Children and Families had been collaborating for nearly two years in preparation for the second West Virginia Child and Family Services Review (CFSR) this week. -
AARP sponsors state consumer protection week
CHARLESTON -- AARP will lead the effort to protect West Virginia consumers from scams during West Virginia Consumer Protection Week Feb. 3-8. -
WV Health Info Network gets federal funds
CHARLESTON -- West Virginia will be far ahead of the curve in the effort to coordinate health information networks across the country, thanks in part to a $2.5 million federal contract the West Virginia Health Information Network (WVHIN) received, the network's chairman said. -
State notifies federal agency of intent to appeal in McGraw controversy
McGraw CHARLESTON - There are seven reasons the federal government is overmatched in its $4.1 million dispute with the State of West Virginia, the state's Department of Health and Human Resources recently said. -
'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. -
McGraw's mess
But a week after the U.S. government called on West Virginia, demanding an explanation as to why its elected leaders were so willfully diverting federal Medicaid funds to pay for their own favorite political projects, those leaders kept diverting. -
Who's watching the fox?
She wanted to prevent the federal government from "coming back and seizing money." -
AG's appeal in Warrick trial rejected by Supreme Court
McGraw CHARLESTON – An appeal by state Attorney General Darrell McGraw's office for a new trial in a drug company case was rejected Wednesday by the state Supreme Court. -
State employee under investigation for threatening welfare recipients
CHARLESTON – A state employee who sued her employer for failing to halt a co-worker's harassment is now under investigation for her alleged role in harassing welfare recipients receiving counseling from a Westside domestic violence clinic. -
Auvil: Manchin caused time crisis to replace Beane
Walt Auvil PARKERSBURG - It took nearly a year for J.D. Beane to be tabbed as a replacement for retired Wood Circuit Judge George Hill. -
Wood County judgeship still open, disputes continue
Walt Auvil CHARLESTON - Carte Goodwin, legal counsel for Gov. Joe Manchin, says the circuit judge opening in Wood County should be filled soon. -
State Supreme Court receives grants
CHARLESTON –- The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has received two federal grants that will help it collaborate with the Department of Health and Human Resources to improve management of child abuse and neglect cases.