The Latest Breaking News from West Virginia

After West Virginia opioid verdict, another case postponed

The trial for a lawsuit accusing three major U.S. drug distributors of causing a health crisis throughout West Virginia has been postponed

The Independent UK · Jul 5, 2022

Parmy Olson: Mass surveillance in schools won’t solve mass shootings

Administrators at Oak Hill High School in Fayette County, West Virginia, are attuned to potential violence. If a student scrawls a threat on the bathroom wall about shooting someone, which happens in schools on occasion, staff will set up a mobile unit of metal detectors in the school’s yellow-brick entranceway.…

Tribune News Service · Jul 5, 2022

A federal judge sides with 3 major drug distributors in a landmark opioid lawsuit

The lawsuit accused them of causing a health crisis by distributing 81 million pills over eight years in one West Virginia county ravaged by opioid addiction.

WEKU · Jul 5, 2022

WVa opioid trial verdict still pending nearly a year later

Last July, a federal judge in West Virginia heard closing arguments in the first lawsuit to go to trial over the U.S. opioid addiction epidemic

The Independent UK · Jul 1, 2022

Trulieve Opens Medical Marijuana Dispensaries In Florida And West Virginia

Trulieve Cannabis Corp. (OTCQX: TCNNF) (CSE:TRUL) is opening two new medical dispensaries.

Benzinga · Jul 1, 2022

SCOTUS delivers a dagger to the planet

"We don't have another option for large-scale reductions in greenhouse gasses"

Salon · Jun 30, 2022

US supreme court rules against EPA and hobbles government power to limit harmful emissions

Court sides with Republican states as ruling represents landmark moment in rightwing effort to dismantle ‘regulatory state’

The Guardian - US · Jun 30, 2022

Supreme Court Rejects Broad EPA Authority to Regulate Greenhouse Gases from Power Plants (Updated)

Chief Justice Roberts writes for a six-justice majority in West Virginia v. EPA.

Reason · Jun 30, 2022

Georgia safety Tykee Smith ranked as the No. 8 safety in NFL draft

Tykee Smith is a top-10 safety in the NFL draft per PFF...

USA Today Sports Media Group · Jun 30, 2022

Editorial: It now falls on states like Maryland to uphold women’s right to choose

By striking down Roe v. Wade which has for nearly five decades protected the right of women to terminate pregnancy, the U.S. Supreme Court has not only turned its back on legal precedent and many of their own personal pledges to uphold Roe as “settled law” made during U.S. Senate…

Tribune News Service · Jun 28, 2022