News from September 2006
Frugality led to Cingular class action
CHARLESTON – Jim Strawn admits he's a penny pincher.
Consumers for Justice bankruptcy petition in good standing in Charleston
CHARLESTON – In reporting an attorney's error, The West Virginia Record committed an error.
Court to decide if firefighter should lose his job
CHARLESTON – Folks in Huntington cannot decide if firefighter Michael Giannini should lose his job for getting busted near a crack house, so the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals must decide.
Woman falls, sues Kroger
CHARLESTON - A Charleston woman says Kroger grocery store had a duty to protect her from dangerous conditions and is suing it for not doing so.
AT&T hit with 21 lawsuits over air in former office
CHARLESTON - Twenty-one individuals who worked at AT&T's old Charleston office at One Davis Square have filed lawsuits against the company alleging the air quality in the building was harmful.
Lawsuit blames Bon-Ton for overloaded clothes rack
CHARLESTON - In a recently filed lawsuit, a Charleston woman says she was struck by a falling clothes rack and is suing Bon-Ton Department Stores.
Former school worker files fumes suit
CHARLESTON - A former school employee says she was exposed to harmful chemicals while working.
Beauty school claims slander
CHARLESTON - A Charleston beauty school is claiming that two of its former students have slandered it and are also suing the state's Human Rights Commission and Attorney General's office for not getting to the bottom of the dispute.
Women claim sexual harassment
CHARLESTON - Two former employees of House of Demitri No. 2 claim they were sexually harassed.
McGraw's tactics questioned in DHHR case
McGraw CHARLESTON - In helping settle a class action lawsuit brought on by seniors and disabled citizens against the state's Department of Health and Human Resources, state Attorney General Darrell McGraw claimed to be protecting one of the most vulnerable sections of society. One group, however, says it was just an act.
Two groups ready Domestic Violence Awareness events
CHARLESTON – Those who've experienced the pain and trauma of domestic violence will have the opportunity to learn how to go from being a victim to a survivor with the help of two domestic violence awareness events this month.
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Sept. 15
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This just in: Berkeley County
Sept. 13
Couple uses knowledge of law to live rent-free
CHARLESTON – Despite denying she influenced the state Supreme Court to reduce her son's 2001 kidnapping and torture conviction, court records show a Dunbar woman and her husband may have used their knowledge of the legal system to avoid paying rent for nearly two years.
McGraw def. Manchin
It's Darrell McGraw's West Virginia world, and we all merely live in it.