State standards aimed at reducing buildups of explosive coal dust in underground mines but regulators haven’t been enforced. More than a fifth of the more than 5,500 dust samples taken from mines by state regulators since August 2011 didn’t comply …
A jury has ordered the city of Huntington, W.Va., pay more than $1 million to 18 families whose homes were hit by flooding. The Wayne County jury made its verdict this week, ruling that the city was negligent when it …
A rule that could toughen the limits on methane gas levels in West Virginia coal mines remains stalled as state officials debate both definitions and a timetable for implementation. The State Journal says Tuesday’s meeting of the state Board of …
To Sue Bonham, it was as if the world were coming to an end: A wall of flame had suddenly engulfed her West Virginia neighborhood. Amid a deafening roar, objects began crashing through her ceiling. Her home began melting around …
The insurance pool for West Virginia county governments asked a judge Thursday to declare that it has no obligation to defend a Jefferson County sheriff who resigned in disgrace and pleaded guilty in the beating of a bank robbery suspect. …
A natural gas company is helping residents affected by a pipeline explosion in Sissonville, W.Va., buy new homes or repair homes that were damaged. NiSource Inc. spokeswoman Chevalier Mayes tells the Charleston Daily Mail that the company can’t provide a …
Kanawha County officials suspect electrical problems are the cause of three townhouse fires in a St. Albans, W.Va., subdivision. One fire broke out at the Indian Head subdivision on Sunday. Two more fires occurred in the same subdivision Monday. There …
An insurance company has donated $2.5 million to West Virginia’s Marshall University to establish a research endowment. The university said Thursday that the gift form the BrickStreet Insurance Foundation Inc. is expected to be matched through the state’s “Bucks for …
On-the-job incidents killed 43 workers in West Virginia in 2011, the third-lowest total since an annual federal census of workplace fatalities began in 1992, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said Thursday. The bureau’s preliminary 2011 total was 54.7 percent …
Ex-schools superintendent Jorea Marple plans to sue the state Board of Education for what her lawyers are calling her illegal dismissal and will ask for “serious” damages, the attorneys said Wednesday. The four veteran lawyers representing the longtime educator, administrator …