By Eric Eyre The Charleston Gazette-Mail Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Rep. Evan Jenkins, R-W.Va., had harsh words for drug giant Cardinal Health on Thursday, saying the company shouldn’t have listed a Huntington neonatal clinic in a federal court filing that seeks to spread the blame for the area’s opioid crisis.[Read More…]
Month: August 2017
Municipal Bond Commission leads e-Government figures
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – State Treasurer John Perdue’s e-Government program accepted $493 million from state agencies and other entities in fiscal 2017, with the Municipal Bond Commission topping the chart. E-Government allows those who do business with the state to use either credit/debit cards or have payments automatically deducted through the Treasury’s[Read More…]
10 things to know: Friday, Aug. 11
The regional bureau of The Associated Press, shares 10 things you need to know Friday, Aug. 11, 2017. Look for full stories on these late-breaking news items and much more in West Virginia newspapers. 1. WHY NOT SHOOT DOWN NORTH KOREAN MISSILES It would be humiliating and counterproductive if U.S.[Read More…]
Amid opioid crisis, drug firm cites WV infant rehab clinic for possible fault
By ERIC EYRE Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — In a bid to dilute responsibility for West Virginia’s opioid epidemic, one of the nation’s largest drug distributors is pointing a finger at the most unlikely of targets: Lily’s Place, a Huntington clinic that nurses drug-exposed newborns through withdrawal. Cardinal Health has[Read More…]
WVU Tech’s campus president makes announcements on arrival of upcoming students
By JORDAN NELSON The Register-Herald BECKLEY, W.Va. — WVU Tech President Carolyn Long told neighborhood residents and city officials Wednesday they have nothing to fear in regard to the Beckley campus officially opening its doors to students next week because they will all work as a community in going through[Read More…]
Gupta presents state BOE with facts on opioid crisis
By ANDREA LANNOM The Register-Herald CHARLESTON, W.Va. — About 50,000 to 60,000 people died last year in the U.S. from drug overdoses, the Commissioner of the Bureau for Public Health told State Board of Education Wednesday. Dr. Rahul Gupta presented a report called “Opioids: A Crisis in Evolution,” and which[Read More…]
Though filmed in Welch, town had to scramble to screen ‘Glass Castle’
By JENNIFER GARDNER Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Getting the movie based on Jeanette Walls’ memoir “The Glass Castle” to show in McDowell County — where the author spent her school-age years — didn’t require an act of Congress. But it almost did. The McDowell 3 Marquee Cinemas in Welch[Read More…]
Your guide to Rails & Ales, the state’s largest beer fest
By DAVE LAVENDER The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — The start of the college football season is just weeks away, but while the teams are out sweating away on the fields, you can get your tailgate training on this weekend. Jay Fox, one of the organizers of Huntington’s annual beer festival, Rails[Read More…]
Morgantown readies for WVU students’ return
By ALEX LANG The Dominion Post MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — WVU students are returning to the area, and the university has a host of welcome activities planned. Official move-in for most of the resident halls is set for Aug. 12. Monday Night Lights — an event for first-year students — is[Read More…]
West Virginia, Ohio to comply with voter registration data request
By JESS MANCINI The Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — Several states have denied a request for voters registration data from a presidential commission studying the integrity of federal elections, according to a survey of secretaries of state by the Associated Press. West Virginia and Ohio are complying with[Read More…]