Report: Drug executive emails mocked Appalachians
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...