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Manchin revealing details of his plan to revise Democrats' voter rights legislation
WASHINGTON – Sen. Joe Manchin is pushing a plan to revise the Democrats’ election and voter rights bill.
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Judge grants injunction halting law that would keep companies from deducting union dues from checks
CHARLESTON – A Kanawha Circuit Judge has granted a temporary injunction to stop a new state law that would keep employers from deducting union dues from public employees’ paychecks.
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Justices, circuit judge issue rulings in favor of former Trump advisor related to her divorce
CHARLESTON – The state Supreme Court has affirmed an Ohio County family court divorce ruling in favor of a former adviser to President Donald Trump who had a “tumultuous” divorce with her ex-husband.
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Rannazzisi's testimony repeatedly challenged, questioned and stifled
CHARLESTON – A key former Drug Enforcement Administration official spent the day on the witness stand giving testimony between objections, legal limitations and frustrations.
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Longtime Charleston attorney remembered as brilliant lawyer, family man
CHARLESTON — A respected Charleston attorney has died after being involved in an accident on Interstate 79. Sean McGinley was a partner at DiPiero Simmons McGinley & Bastress in Charleston.
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Justice files amended complaint in Greensill lawsuit
NEW YORK — Gov. Jim Justice, his family and several companies have filed an amended complaint saying he wouldn't have personally guaranteed $700 million in loans if he were aware of the instability of the lender.
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Employee sues assisted living facility after she was fired for refusing to take COVID vaccine
LEWISBURG – A Greenbrier County woman has sued a Chicago-based assisted living facility operator after she was fired for refusing to take a COVID-19 vaccine.
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Parkersburg's chief fire inspector says city officials won't allow him to do his job properly
PARKERSBURG – The city’s chief fire inspector is suing the City of Parkersburg, claiming officials have obstructed him from doing his job properly.
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Emails show McKesson employees felt 'overwhelmed,' 'not possible to be truly diligent'
CHARLESTON – As the landmark federal opioid trial entered its fourth week, plaintiffs jumped into McKesson Corporation’s threshold guidelines and due diligence process.
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Lawyers continue to question company's knowledge of excessive opioid shipments
CHARLESTON – As the landmark opioid trial continues, lawyers brought in a former AmerisourceBergen’s sales executive to ask what he knew about more than 32 million prescription pain pills being shipped to Huntington and the rest of Cabell County over an eight-year span.
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Opioid data: Threshold kept increasing as Huntington/Cabell received more than 36.2M doses in 8 years
CHARLESTON – As the federal trial against three major opioid distributors continued, data showing pharmacies in Huntington and Cabell County were ordering well above the national average of controlled substances, some ordering more than five times the national average.
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Morrisey, other AGs call for Biden to support additional energy infrastructure
CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey has joined a coalition of 19 attorneys general in calling upon President Joe Biden to support additional energy infrastructure following the Colonial pipeline shutdown, which caused price spikes, fuel shortages and lines at gasoline stations across southern and eastern states.
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Morrisey praises U.S. Supreme Court decision to hear abortion rights case
CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is praising a U.S. Supreme Court decision to hear arguments as to the constitutionality of a pro-life law passed in Mississippi.
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Morgantown firefighters won't see reduction in pay after settling issue with city
MORGANTOWN – The City of Morgantown and members of its fire department have agreed to a proportional increase in base pay that will result in no change of pay.
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Group protests alleged poor treatment of attorney by another lawyer
CHARLESTON – More than a dozen residents gathered outside of Steptoe & Johnson’s Charleston office May 12 to protest what the organizer calls poor treatment of a black attorney by a member of the firm.
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Morgantown and firefighters resolve issues related to shift differential pay
The city and 47 members of the International Association of Firefighters Local 313 jointly announced the resolution in a statement May 7. The agreement is contingent on Morgantown City Council approving the terms, but both parties say they anticipate that approval.
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Morgantown files lawsuit to stop civil service hearing regarding firefighters' pay
MORGANTOWN – The City of Morgantown wants a circuit judge to stop a hearing regarding its decision to stop paying shift differential pay to firefighters.
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Distributors object to Gupta's testimony on transition from prescription to street drugs
CHARLESTON – A historian of opioid use and drug policy testified, in a federal trial against three major opioid distributors Wednesday, about three principal opioid epidemics that preceded the ongoing crisis.
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UPDATE: Landmark federal opioid trial against three drug distributors begins
CHARLESTON – The landmark bellwether trial accusing three major drug distributors of helping fuel the opioid epidemic has begun.
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Morrisey leads 19-state petition urging Supreme Court to limit EPA authority
CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is leading a 19-state coalition in asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take action to stop an appeals court ruling that would give the Environmental Protection Agency what he calls "virtually unlimited authority to regulate wide swaths of everyday life with rules that would devastate coal mining, increase energy costs and eliminate countless jobs."