News from 2024
Proposed amendment would add U.S. citizenship to state voting requirements
CHARLESTON – A Senate resolution would create an amendment to the state Constitution providing that only West Virginia citizens who are United States citizens are qualified to vote in elections.
Stuart officially enters state Attorney General race
CHARLESTON – Former U.S. Attorney and state Senator Mike Stuart filed paperwork January 23 to run for West Virginia Attorney General at the state Capitol.
Jackson County woman files medical negligence lawsuit
PARKERSBURG – A Jackson County woman is accusing a Wood County medical facility and two physicians of negligence.
Most incumbents seek re-election to Circuit Court seats
CHARLESTON – Many incumbent circuit court judges from across West Virginia have filed paperwork to retain their seats.
Toriseva seeks Democratic nomination for state Attorney General
CHARLESTON – A Democrat has jumped into the West Virginia Attorney General race. Wheeling attorney Teresa Toriseva announced her candidacy January 23.
McCuskey files paperwork to enter Attorney General race
CLARKSBURG – J.B. McCuskey has filed paperwork to run for West Virginia Attorney General.
Company blames adjacent daycare for sewer issues
CHARLESTON – A company that owes real estate in Belle blames a child care facility for sewer issues.
Man says storage company destroyed his business records
CHARLESTON – A Kanawha County man says a company destroyed business records he had stored with them.
Scarr says ICA had great start in first full year
CHARLESTON — Chief Judge Thomas Scarr says the first full year of the Intermediate Court of Appeals was a great start for the court.
Estate files wrongful death suit against Teays Valley VFD
WINFIELD – The executor of a woman's estate blames the Teays Valley Volunteer Fire Department for her death.
REPORT: Inflation returns as top business problem on Main Street
CHARLESTON — West Virginia is not immune to soaring inflation, as the NFIB Small Business Optimism Index lays out in its latest report.
Flagger says Frontier coworkers ridiculed him
CHARLESTON – A Mingo County man says coworkers made fun of him while working as a flagger for Frontier Communications.
Shane Harvey and Jay Ingle added as new E.C. members
Jackson Kelly PLLC announces that it has elected Members, Shane Harvey and Jay Ingle, to its Executive Committee for three-year terms.
Stuart, other former U.S. Attorneys back Trump in Supreme Court amicus brief
WASHINGTON – Mike Stuart has joined other former U.S. Attorneys in filing an amicus brief with the Supreme Court asking it to overturn the Colorado ruling to keep former President Donald Trump off of that state's primary election ballot.
Morrisey raises issues with Biden over push for electric vehicles
CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey has written a letter to President Joe Biden raising concerns about “pushing a massive and hasty shift to EVs (electric vehicles), through tax credits for upper-class buyers, billions in new spending, and oppressive new agency rules.”
Former Gestamp worker says she was victim of sexual, racial harassment on the job
CHARLESTON -- A St. Albans woman has sued a staffing agency and a Kanawha County business for sexual and racial harassment as well as retaliation.
Woman files medical malpractice suit against Plateau Medical Center
CHARLESTON – A Fayette County woman has filed a medical malpractice suit against an Oak Hill provider.
Charleston law firm helps drivers obtain CDL licenses for church ministry
CHARLESTON — A West Virginia law firm has been helping those interested in obtaining their Class B commercial driver's license through a partnership with CDL Assist.
Three other states, D.C., DOJ join NCAA transfer rule case
CHARLESTON — Three other states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Department of Justice have joined a bipartisan multistate coalition in a lawsuit challenging the NCAA’s Transfer Eligibility Rule.
Morrisey, other AGs ask U.S. Supreme Court to reverse Colorado Trump ballot disqualification
WASHINGTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is co-leading an amicus brief with Indiana asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a decision from Colorado that kept former President Donald Trump off the ballot for that state’s presidential primary ballot.