News from 2006
This Just In: Kanawha County
Aug. 14
This Just In: Cabell County
Aug. 22
This Just In: Monongalia County
Aug. 15
This just in: Putnam County
Aug. 4
This Just In: Berkeley County
Aug. 16
Reforms have insurance market resurging
Manchin CHARLESTON -- On April 29, 2005, I was pleased to sign into law civil justice and insurance reform legislation that provided our residents with some needed financial relief.
Marshall, MIST to commercialize pregnancy software
HUNTINGTON -- Marshall University and Huntington-based software development company Strictly Business Computer Systems, Inc., last week announced formation of a partnership resulting in the creation of Medical Information Systems Technology, LLC (MIST).
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Dr. Suzanne Bell's forensic chemistry students at West Virginia University log lots of time in the lab, learning techniques they'll translate to real-life crime labs down the road. The field of forensic investigation used to be dominated by men, but that's no longer the case. And WVU is right on the curve of the profession's new conventional wisdom: some 70 percent of the 500 forensic majors here are female.
Wyoming County magistrate Carte dies
PINEVILLE, W.Va. – The West Virginia court system mourned the death of Wyoming County Magistrate Harold H. "Butch" Carte Jr., who died Aug. 19 in Raleigh General Hospital of a short illness. He was 64.
Forbes ranks state 49th among states for business
CHARLESTON – Thank God for Katrina.
Negligence in fall in mall parking lot charged
CHARLESTON - A Dunbar woman says Charleston Town Center is to blame for her fall in the mall's parking lot.
Parkersburg hospital blamed for death
CHARLESTON - Despite repeated complaints that he was having trouble breathing, a Parkersburg woman says her brother was never given proper medical attention and it led to his death.
DEP files suit
CHARLESTON - The state's Department of Environmental Protection says DTC Environmental Services haphazardly housed hazardous material.
Hyundai sued for wrongful death
CHARLESTON - A father blames the makers of his daughter's car for her death in an automobile accident on April 17.
Lawsuits filed over Sago disaster
McCloy CHARLESTON - The lone survivor of January's deadly incident at Sago Mine filed one of three lawsuits Wednesday against six defendant companies, alleging their negligence was to blame for what happened at the Upshur County mine.
Giatras serves car wreck suit
POINT PLEASANT – Attorney Troy Giatras of Charleston said he has served a suit on a defendant that at first he could not find.
Mine safety suit dismissed
WASHINGTON - On the same day three lawsuits were filed in Kanawha Circuit Court over the Sago Mine disaster, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., threw out a lawsuit filed by coal miners demanding that the government do more to ensure their safety.
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Standalone P1 art package for 8/28 issue: Coal trophy
Dave Fetty, a retired glass blower at Fenton, looks over his work on the Governor's Trophy, which will be presented to the winner of the Sept. 2 West Virginia-Marshall football game. The trophy is nearly 2 feet tall, weighs about 60 pounds and is made of crystal glass and coal. The hand-blown crystal football -- complete with etched laces and stripes -- holds 5 gallons of pulverized coal.
Woman sues sanitary board
CHARLESTON - A Charleston woman says a defect in the City of Charleston's sewer line caused raw sewage to be backed into her house during a rainstorm in a recently filed lawsuit.