By DENISE LAVOIE and SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — By the time drug enforcement agents swooped into his small medical office in Martinsville, Virginia, in 2017, Dr. Joel Smithers had prescribed about a half a million doses of highly addictive opioids in two ...
BECKLEY, W.Va. (AP) — A festival that celebrates West Virginia's Rocket Boys has ended its two-decade run. Author and former NASA engineer Homer Hickam tells news outlets that the Rocket Boys Festival which ended Saturday in Beckley was the last one. The festival had moved to Beckley in ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Control of a unit that fights Medicaid fraud in West Virginia is being transferred this week. The fraud unit is moving from the Department of Health and Human Resources to the state attorney general's office on Tuesday. The transfer was approved by the Legislature ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A federal judge has ordered companies owned by West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice to pay $35 million over a lawsuit accusing them of violating a mining contract. U.S. District Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove in Kentucky on Monday ordered the Kentucky Fuel Corp. and the ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia woman has been charged with setting a 2016 fire that killed her 10-year-old son. The state fire marshal's office says in a news release that 34-year-old Maria Young was arrested Tuesday and charged with first-degree arson. The statement says the ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Federal investigators say pilot error likely caused the 2017 crash of a small cargo plane in West Virginia that killed both crew members. The National Transportation Safety Board issued a final report Wednesday on the May 2017 crash at Yeager Airport in Charleston. ...
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say they charged 21 people in a drug trafficking ring that operated in Ohio and West Virginia. U.S. Attorney Mike Stuart on Wednesday announced the charges follow a long-term FBI investigation in the region. He says the trafficking operation ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A court appearance has been set for a West Virginia woman accused of falsely reporting that an Egyptian man tried to kidnap her daughter from a shopping mall. The Huntington Herald-Dispatch reports 24-year-old Santana Renee Adams is set to appear in court Thursday on ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say they've charged multiple medical professionals for overprescribing millions of opioids across Appalachia. Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski on Tuesday announced charges against 13 people in West Virginia, Ohio and Tennessee. ...
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — Police in West Virginia say they killed a man who used a woman as a human shield and shot at officers during a wild standoff. Huntington Police Chief Hank Dial says officers shot 41-year-old Jarod Lee Smith early Tuesday. He says officers were responding to an armed ...
ELKINS, W.Va. (AP) — Authorities say a DNA test has led to charges against a West Virginia man who had a child with an underage girl about five years ago. News outlets report Tuesday that 29-year-old Kyle Hoyman has been charged with third-degree sexual assault. A criminal complaint says ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The European country of Hungary and the state of West Virginia have agreed to do business. Hungarian officials came to Charleston on Tuesday to sign an economic cooperation agreement with the state. The document doesn't guarantee any specific deals but is a signal ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — An 18-year-old West Virginia man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for fatally shooting a man he believed owed him $2. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports Gregory Tyler White was sentenced Tuesday in the 2018 death of 27-year-old Michael Luis Camacho. White ...
By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia's special session is officially over. The Senate adjourned the education-focused session after a brief meeting Monday, capping a gridlocked legislative overtime where lawmakers approved a sweeping GOP plan to allow ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A bill expected to be introduced during the 2020 legislative session could end greyhound racing in West Virginia. News outlets report Republican Senate President Mitch Carmichael released an opinion piece Tuesday calling for an end to the practice. He's now facing ...
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia police chief says officers responding to a report of a hostage situation have fatally shot a man who fired at them. Huntington Police Chief Hank Dial told news outlets officers responded Tuesday morning to an address near a gas station. Dial says a ...
BLUEFIELD, W.Va. (AP) — The makers of TurboTax and QuickBooks are bringing 200 to 500 jobs to West Virginia. The Bluefield Daily Telegraph reports Intuit Inc. officially launched a "prosperity hub" on Monday in Bluefield. The Mountain View, California-based information technology company ...
WHEELING, W.Va. (AP) — Vehicles exceeding the weight limit of a West Virginia suspension bridge have led officials to close it indefinitely. News outlets report the Wheeling Suspension Bridge closed Tuesday morning and won't be open to vehicular traffic for at least a year. Pedestrians can ...
By BREANNA FRANCIS, The (Martinsburg) Journal MARTINSBURG, W.Va. (AP) — Despite heavy storm clouds rolling in above 1952 Files Cross Road, Aiden Sowers, 4, who has Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), shouted to his father, Don, from their vehicle parked on the gravel roadway ...
By RICK STEELHAMMER, The Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Weather radar screens painted with pixels from returning echoes have been observed by meteorologists at the National Weather Service's Charleston Forecast Office in recent days — even though there is no rain, ground ...