State official says many of West Virginia’s aging watershed dams don’t meet current design standards and need repairs. West Virginia Conservation Agency executive director Brian Farkas says his agency doesn’t have the resources to address the issue. There are 170 …
Sexual misconduct claims at prisons and regional jails have cost West Virginia nearly $12 million over the last decade. Board of Risk and Insurance Management records obtained by the Charleston Daily Mail show that prisoners and their lawyers received more …
A new report says that West Virginia has some of the nation’s worst bridges. The report from Transportation for America ranks West Virginia as having the 14th worst rate of deficient bridges in the nation. West Virginia improved since the …
Police in West Virginia say vandals caused an estimated $100,000 in damage to Braxton County’s school bus fleet. Thirty of the county’s 32 buses at a depot in Sutton were vandalized. The vandals broke windows and glass doors and discharged …
West Virginia is increasing enforcement of traffic laws in highway work zones in an effort to improve safety. The Department of Transportation is using some of its federal grant money to pay for extra work zone patrols by West Virginia …
In many states, the insured has a general duty to read the insurance policy. See Practical Tools for Handling Insurance Cases, § 2:28, pp. 43, fn.1 (Thomson Reuters, 2012 Supplement) (citing cases). Other courts have affirmatively rejected a duty to …
Federal investigators are releasing more than 1,400 pages of documents about a natural gas pipeline explosion in Sissonville, W.Va., but they won’t reveal the cause. The National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday’s document dump will contain interview transcripts, photos and …
A Logan County, W.Va., woman has been sentenced to three years and one month in federal prison for her role burning down a rental duplex to collect insurance money. U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced the sentencing Monday. Prosecutors say 46-year-old …
Federal highway data show that nearly 1,000 bridges in West Virginia are structurally deficient. On a sufficiency scale of 0 to 100, the Federal Highway Administration rates seven bridges in the state as 0. But West Virginia Department of Transportation …
West Viriginia small businesses and private nonprofits affected by severe storms last summer can still apply for federal disaster loans. June 19 is the deadline to apply for economic injury disaster loans offered by the U.S. Small Business Administration. The …