West Virginia

News from the state of West Virginia

Report: Drug executive emails mocked Appalachians

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Emails to and from a drug company executive presented at a landmark West Virginia trial against three large opioid distributors used...

West Virginia trial puts spotlight on sprawling opioid cases

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A corner of West Virginia wrenched by opioid addiction is getting the chance to argue in a courtroom that some of the corporate giants...

Biden meets with GOP senators as infrastructure talks deepen

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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden welcomed a group of Republican senators to the White House on Thursday to talk infrastructure as negotiations intensify over...

Manchin courtship: WVa senator joins Jill Biden at clinic

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The White House's courtship of U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin continued Thursday as the moderate Democrat joined first lady Jill Biden on...

‘Monster’: 7 life sentences for ex-hospital worker in deaths

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A former nursing assistant who killed seven elderly veterans with fatal injections of insulin at a West Virginia hospital was sentenced...

Data expert testifies at landmark West Virginia opioid trial

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A data expert testifying at a landmark opioid trial in West Virginia said Tuesday that the potency of prescription drugs sent...

Sentencing set in insulin injection deaths of 7 VA patients

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Sentencing is set this week for a fired nursing assistant who admitting to killing seven elderly veterans with fatal doses of...

Consultant: West Virginia city was bombarded with opioids

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A new analysis of opioids in West Virginia shows the city of Huntington and its surrounding county were overwhelmed with shipments...

1st week of landmark trial against opioid distributors ends

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia fire chief who starred in an Oscar-nominated documentary about battling drug abuse in ground zero of the nation’s...

Ex-health chief: Docs wrote excessive opioid prescriptions

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia’s former health commissioner described a culture of doctors for years writing more opioid prescriptions for their patients than necessary...