By ANDREA LANNOM The Register-Herald CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Co-tenancy, which allows the development of oil and natural gas resources across adjoining properties as long as three-fourths of property owners agree, moved out of the House of Delegates Thursday by a 60-40 vote. The bill also creates a fund to hold interests[Read More…]
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West Virginia Senate passes intermediate court bill
By RUSTY MARKS NCWV Media CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The state Senate approved a bill Thursday that would create an intermediate appeals court, despite strong objections from Democrats. The Senate voted on party lines, 23-11, to pass Senate Bill 341 following lengthy debate. The bill would create an intermediate court between the[Read More…]
Senate passes two bills that could reshape West Virginia court system
By JAKE ZUCKERMAN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia Senate passed two bills Thursday that could rework the contours of the state’s judicial system. For one, it passed a bill that would create an intermediate court of appeals, which would hear circuit court appeals for certain cases before they[Read More…]
West Virginia Senate passes intermediate court bill
By ANDREA LANNOM The Register-Herald CHARLESTON , W.Va. — A bill to create an intermediate court of appeals — a level between circuit court and the state Supreme Court of Appeals — passed mostly along party lies on Thursday and heads to the House of Delegates. Cabell County Senator Mike[Read More…]
West Virginia Senate nixes proposal to force drug firms to disclose opioid pill numbers
By ERIC EYRE Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia lawmakers rejected a proposal Thursday that would have required drug companies to report the number of prescription opioids manufactured and shipped to the state during the past decade. By a 20-11 vote, state senators shot down a proposed amendment to legislation[Read More…]
In two years, drug giant McKesson shipped 5 million pain pills to West Virginia town of 400, House panel says
By ERIC EYRE Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — In just two years, drug giant McKesson Corp. shipped nearly 5 million prescription painkillers to a single pharmacy in a Southern West Virginia town with 400 residents, according to a letter released Thursday by a congressional committee investigating the opioid epidemic. McKesson,[Read More…]
Drenching downpour brings flash floods to Ohio Valley
By JOSELYN KING The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — Emergency officials found themselves busy with area flooding in creeks, streams, and even streets in the city of Wheeling, Thursday night, while the potential for the Ohio River to overflow this weekend concerns those in both West Virginia and[Read More…]
Students, 4-H’ers to ‘find their path’ at WVU Day at the Legislature Feb. 20
WVU Today MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Higher education can open the door to a world of possibilities for West Virginia’s young people. Hundreds of 4-H’ers and students will have an opportunity to learn how they can find their path to those possibilities and to West Virginia Universityduring the 2018 WVU Day[Read More…]
Former West Virginia coach survives Florida high school shooting
Staff and wire reports The Logan Banner LOGAN, W.Va. — An assistant football coach who also worked as a security guard is among the dead in a school shooting that claimed 17 lives in Parkland, Florida, and perhaps his last words were spoken to a fellow coach and Logan County[Read More…]
West Virginia Transportation Secretary Smith appeals to Eastern Panhandle for funds
By JOHN McVEY and TIM COOK The Journal MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — West Virginia Secretary of Transportation Tom Smith was in the Eastern Panhandle Thursday touring the MARC commuter train stations and speaking to the Jefferson County Commission and Berkeley County Council about contributing funds to keep the Brunswick Line running into[Read More…]
