A federal jury has convicted a Logan County, W.Va., man of burning his duplex to collect insurance money. U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin said Thursday that 58-year-old Michael L. White of Chapmanville was found guilty of conspiracy to commit arson, arson …
State and local officials are marking West Virginia’s new pipeline safety law. Media outlets report that Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin held a symbolic bill signing Monday at the Sissonville Volunteer Fire Department. Tomblin had signed the bill into law on …
A new labor union report says 43 workers were killed on the job in 2011 in West Virginia, down from 95 the previous year that included a mine blast that killed 29. According to the report by the AFL-CIO, there …
A federal jury has convicted a Logan, W.Va., man of burning his duplex to collect insurance money. U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin said Thursday that 58-year-old Michael L. White of Chapmanville was found guilty of conspiracy to commit arson, arson and …
Federal regulators say mining deaths during the first quarter of this year totaled 11, with West Virginia claiming nearly half of those fatalities. The report issued Wednesday by the Mine Safety and Health Administration showed that eight fatalities occurred in …
Bluefield’s Board of Directors has banned owning new pit bulls inside the city limits. Current owners have 10 days to register their dogs with the West Virginia city under the ordinance approved Tuesday. The Bluefield Daily Telegraph reports that people …
A worker at West Virginia’s Upper Big Branch mine has agreed to surrender his underground assistant foreman license for three years. The agreement settles allegations that Jeremy L. Burghduff didn’t turn on his methane detector when he was supposed to …
A $90 million verdict against a Charleston nursing home will stand for now after a judge denied the business owner’s request for a new trial. Kanawha County Circuit Judge Paul Zakaib Jr. ruled Wednesday that the verdict appropriately punished Heartland …
The West Virginia legislature has moved to limit the liability that nursing homes can face in potential lawsuits. The bill passed unanimously Saturday by the House explicitly applies the state’s Medical Professional Liability Act to nursing homes. That 2003 law …
Investigators believe a hose break caused a fire that damaged several pumper trucks at a gas well site in the Northern Panhandle. State Department of Environmental Protection Kathy Cosco says the cause hasn’t been verified. But she tells The Herald-Star …