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A man originally facing hate crime allegations and obstruction resolved the cases against him with a guilty plea in federal court to obstructi…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WV News) — The West Virginia Supreme Court will hear arguments at 10 a.m. this Tuesday in a case that could have long-lasti…
A Department of Justice decision not to seek the death penalty in the USP Hazelton slaying of notorious mob hitman James “Whitey” Bulger will …
The future of artificial intelligence — AI — is hotly debated all across the developed world.
The WVU College of Law’s Child and Family Advocacy Clinic has been helping make a difference in the lives of West Virginians for more than a d…
Intermediate Court reverses DHHR order that cost Parkersburg YMCA about $250,000 in fed funds (copy)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WV News) — A decision by the state Department of Health and Human Resources that cost the YMCA of Parkersburg a quarter of …
A new state law on the books since early June requires county school boards to publish curriculum online and gives parents the right to inspec…
During this year’s legislative session, the West Virginia Legislature passed House Bill 3302, “To recognize unborn child as a distinct victim …
During this year’s legislative session, the West Virginia Legislature passed House Bill 3302, “To recognize unborn child as a distinct victim …
Chief Justice Beth Walker and justices Tim Armstead, John Hutchison, William Wooton and Haley Bunn are the public face of the West Virginia Su…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WV News) — The state Public Service Commission has issued an order aimed at streamlining part of the process of boosting br…
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The Rosenbaum Family House joins the Healthcare Hospitality Network in celebrating National Healthcare Hospitality Week, o…
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A partnership formed by the WVU Cancer Institute and Child & Family Advocacy Law Clinic aims to decrease barriers to l…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WV News) — With the state Supreme Court term winding down, the justices ruled in two key cases.
CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (WV News) — The WVU College of Law is taking a six-figure federal grant and investing it in the future of those recovering f…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WV News) — A trip to the state West Virginia Supreme Court may represent the last stand for opponents of the state’s new ch…
West Virginia’s court system, from alignment to election law, is getting a major shift in time for the 2024 election.
West Virginia’s senior deputy solicitor general argued last week that if a jury deadlocks in a bifurcated mercy phase of a murder trial, the i…
Veteran Harrison Circuit Judge Thomas A. Bedell has dismissed a lawsuit filed recently challenging the new format for the West Virginia high s…
A recent item on the calendar for the West Virginia Supreme Court drew what, on first glance, seemed like an inordinate amount of attention.
U.S. Supreme Court, by 7-2 vote, won't lift injunction shelving West Virginia transgender sports law
The U.S. Supreme Court will let stand the Fourth Circuit's decision temporarily shelving West Virginia's transgender sports law while a case c…
Three civil rights groups are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to allow to stand a Fourth Circuit injunction that shelved West Virginia’s transge…
Where’s the bright line duty for an employer when it comes to acts committed by a worker once they’re off the clock?
In September 2015, Brandy Liggett showed up for her new job at the Glen Dale Speedway illegally under the influence of amphetamine, benzodiaze…
Chief Judge Dan Greear has been leading the new West Virginia Intermediate Court of Appeals since it began last July.
Trial will be held toward the end of 2024 for three men accused in the federal prison homicide of Boston-area mobster turned FBI informant Jam…
A new jury should decide whether parole is a possibility for a 23-year-old Fairmont man who was convicted of murdering a WVU student two years…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WV News) — On Jan. 1, Beth Walker became chief justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court for the second time.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WV News) — On Jan. 1, Beth Walker became chief justice of the state Supreme Court for the second time.
In legal circles, 2022 will go down as the year West Virginia added a new appeals court.
It’s been nearly 10 years since West Virginia lawmakers passed a law basically giving convicted felons on probation and home incarceration two…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WV News) — West Virginia's statute making it a misdemeanor crime for "an unlawful user" of a controlled substance to posses…
The West Virginia Supreme Court has answered three certified questions that will allow prosecution of a leaving the scene with death charge ca…
West Virginia’s new Intermediate Court of Appeals’ first signed opinion involved a child custody dispute in which the mother’s lawyer couldn’t…
A 3-2 decision by the West Virginia Supreme Court will allow a Logan County jury to decide whether the school board was negligent in respondin…
The trial for three men in connection with the October 2018 prison slaying of mobster-turned-informant Whitey Bulger has been postponed indefinitely.
CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (WV News) — A 60-year-old Pennsylvanian who was to operate a company to construct commercial buildings for a Morgantown hold…
With its fall term rapidly drawing to a conclusion, West Virginia Supreme Court justices have been busying hearing cases and issuing opinions …
B. McKay Mignault was formally and historically sworn in recently as the first female chief bankruptcy judge for the Southern District of West…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WV News) — Sober living residences in the Southern District of West Virginia are a focus of the United States Attorney’s He…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WV News) — In one of its biggest rulings of 2022, a divided West Virginia Supreme Court earlier this month ruled 3-2 that t…
Monongalia County Circuit Judge Phillip D. Gaujot will retire Dec. 31.
Opponents of a West Virginia voucher law that offers up to $4,300 in funding toward private schooling say it would open the door for “fly-by-n…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WV News) — With the West Virginia Supreme Court poised to hear arguments Oct. 4, the sides in the Hope Scholarship Act are …
The bid by Greece authorities to extradite former West Virginia University basketball player Brian Casey Mitchell looks like it’s set for the …
Bullying surely has been around in schools since the first textbook was printed. But with current events in mind, there’s probably never been …
It’s been a minute since West Virginia University College of Law students had a full academic year free of some sort of COVID restrictions.
Nonprofit TRIP estimates recently reported that West Virginia’s vehicle miles traveled in 2019 was 19.1 billion miles, and that $125 billion i…
Dan Greear, first chief judge of the new West Virginia Intermediate Court of Appeals, has a simple goal in a sense, but one that likely won’t …
Dan Greear, first chief judge of the new West Virginia Intermediate Court of Appeals, has a simple goal in a sense, but one that likely won’t …
CHARLESTON — Thirty-year Circuit Judge Thomas A. Bedell followed the state Supreme Court’s order to more thoroughly discuss the issues in the …
CLARKSBURG — The shooting death of Nicholas County Deputy Tom Baker in the line of duty June 3 left law enforcement officers in West Virginia …
West Virginia’s history of lagging most of the nation in many categories is well documented. And so, too, is the premise that the Mountain Sta…
CLARKSBURG — There are many ways to look at how adult drug treatment courts accomplish their goals of improving the community.
It’s been a long time since 1972, the year when the United States had its all-time high motor vehicle deaths total of nearly 55,000. It’s even…
William James, known as the father of American psychology, once said that “the great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”
When John A. Hutchison was coaching college basketball in the 1970s, teaching and coaching in Raleigh County in the same time period, or worki…
Giving the Department of Health and Human Resources the ability to hire its own counsel in abuse-and-neglect cases is a bad idea that likely w…
Reading all the way through West Virginia Code Section 61, “Crimes and Their Punishment,” is no small feat.
WHEELING — If drugs are a major point of emphasis for federal prosecutors around the country, other cases ranging from gun crimes to cyberatta…
CHARLESTON — A special judge’s decision to certify a class action lawsuit in an October 2017 Wood County warehouse fire that burned for eight …
The tens of thousands of deer, bear, turkey and other wild animals that are plentiful in West Virginia make the Mountain State a great place f…
Twelve organizations have joined in a bid to get the public, media and law enforcement officers to change the way they talk about and report o…
The U.S. Marshals Service in Southern and Northern West Virginia has had plenty of success in recent years chasing down fugitives
CLARKSBURG — West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals won’t start operating until next July.
West Virginia’s bankruptcy filings were trending down anyway. Then from June 2020 to June 2021, in the heart of the pandemic, those numbers dr…
BRIDGEPORT — In July, author Brad Thor released the thriller “Black Ice,” which centers on a fictional bid by the Chinese government to get th…
CHARLESTON — Back in 2016, after the Legislature repealed the law requiring a concealed carry permit for most adult residents, some were wonde…
If Dave Wygal and Jason Webber were in the Navy, they’d be labeled a couple of salty dogs. As it is, Wygal is a former police officer, and Web…
CLARKSBURG — Former and current WVU College of Law students say the clinical law program is an indispensable part of the curriculum.
MORGANTOWN — At age 45, West Virginia University’s clinical law program is rapidly closing in on a half century of service.
West Virginia, “Almost Heaven” in so many ways, is struggling to contain one blight upon its land: The growing number of cases involving child…
CHARLESTON — When Harrison County Prosecuting Attorney Rachel Romano, Lewis County Prosecuting Attorney Christina Flanigan or any of the state…
CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (WV News) — In serving the legal community for over 45 years with honor and distinction, Bob Steptoe is credited with elevat…
CLARKSBURG — Harrison County’s three circuit judges have ample patience with defendants on bond, probation and home incarceration.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WV News) — West Virginia Supreme Court Chief Justice Evan Jenkins on Friday issued an administrative order bringing the cou…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WV News) — A special judge is considering — for a second time — whether to certify a class action involving an October 2017…
CHARLESTON — The law for class action lawsuits has evolved somewhat since 1993, when Erin Brockovich began the eventually famous work that res…
CLARKSBURG — The American justice system often is described as the finest and fairest in the world.
CLARKSBURG — Serial killer Reta Mays has a birthday coming up on June 16. It will be the first she’s spent behind bars, but probably not the last.
CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (WV News) — Serial killer Reta Mays has a birthday coming up on June 16. It will be the first she’s spent behind bars, but p…
CLARKSBURG — In ordering the pretrial detention of a man accused in connection with an alleged chemical spray attack on three law enforcement …
Before COVID-19, most courts in West Virginia had the ability to hold hearings remotely, but judicial officers seldom did so.
MORGANTOWN — The West Virginia University College of Law turns 150 in seven years. In new William J. Maier, Jr. Dean Amelia Smith Rinehart, Pr…
The effort to legalize marijuana has taken root in various forms in states from coast to coast. But the laws are so different from place to pl…
The future of the federal death penalty is coming front and center under the administration of new President Joe Biden, and that is likely to …
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Whatever further chapters history writes about former president Donald John Trump, one part is already in the book: He’s th…
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We have said before that West Virginia University President Dr. E. Gordon Gee was the right …
“I’ll reach out to drill down about the low hanging fruit. Let’s leverage our synergies. The…
President George Washington said, “To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means…
WVU Medicine and Marshall Health have come together to offer Medicare-eligible West Virginia…
When government leaders ponder cutting taxes, there is always a bit of concern, a fear that …
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