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A mine safety expert, handpicked by West Virginia's Senator Joe Manchin to investigate three mining disasters, has been accused by NASA of conspiring with the Catholic college where he is employed to ...
Read Full ArticleWest Virginia's Attorney General Darrell McGraw has filed a lawsuit against a Georgia company in order to stop it from distributing ingredients that are then used to make illegal designer drugs. The l...
Read Full ArticleA man widely known to West Virginians for his crime fighting was recently charged with breaking and entering. Andrew Palmer, the former host of "West Virginia's Most Wanted," was found armed and drivi...
Read Full ArticleWest Virginia has the unfortunate reputation of having a high level of drug use and illegal drug manufacturing. However, West Virginia is not the only state where this is a serious problem. Recently, ...
Read Full ArticleWest Virginia has the unfortunate reputation of having a high level of drug use and illegal drug manufacturing. However, West Virginia is not the only state where this is a serious problem. Recently, ...
Read Full ArticleRecently, the West Virginia Supreme Court ruled that a driver previously convicted of a DUI must be resentenced after leaving the scene of a drunk driving incident that killed five people and injured ...
Read Full ArticleRecently, a federal grand jury indicted a West Virginia sheriff on charges that he beat a criminal suspect to the point of bodily injury, in violation of federal criminal law . Jefferson County Sherif...
Read Full ArticleRecently, the West Virginia Supreme Court granted a writ of prohibition against a Kanawha County circuit court judge, Carrie Webster on the grounds that Judge Webster acted outside the bounds of her p...
Read Full ArticleWest Virginia's Governor Tomblin has sought the aid of the Justice Reinvestment Initiative in combating the problem of prison overcrowding. Governor Tomblin was moved to action after seeing the positi...
Read Full ArticleA gag order is either a legal order issued by the court or by the government, or a private order issued by an employer or institution, that restricts information from being made available to the publi...
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