More than half of the opioid settlement dollars spent by localities across West Virginia last fiscal year went to law enforcement, according to a West Virginia Watch analysis of a local spending report published by the West Virginia First Foundation last week. According to the report, about ...
CHARLESTON — West Virginia lawmakers have spent years getting the state off the infamous “Judicial Hellhole” list, but actions by some Republican senators have now landed the state on a “Lawsuit Inferno” list. A new report released Tuesday by the American Tort Reform Association ...
TOKYO (AP) — One of the world’s strongest earthquakes struck Russia’s Far East early Wednesday, an 8.8-magnitude temblor that set off a tsunami in the northern Pacific region and prompted warnings for Alaska, Hawaii and south toward New Zealand. Tsunami warning sirens blared Tuesday in ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s become tradition. Congressional leaders from both major political parties blame each other for a potential government shutdown as the budget year draws to a close. But this year, the posturing is starting extraordinarily early. The finger-pointing with more than ...
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Union Pacific wants to buy Norfolk Southern in a $85 billion deal that would create the first transcontinental railroad in the U.S, potentially triggering a final wave of rail mergers across the country. The proposed merger, announced Tuesday, would marry Union ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A gunman who killed four people inside a Manhattan office tower blamed his mental health problems on the National Football League and intended to target the league's headquarters there but took the wrong elevator, officials said Tuesday. Investigators said Shane Tamura, a ...
