FDA adds warning to widely used painkillers
By By Matthew Perrone The Associated Press WASHINGTON - Federal health regulators will add their strongest warning labels to the most widely used prescription painkillers, part of a multi-pronged...
View ArticleWV Supreme Court sides with Benjamin, Wooton on public campaign financing
By Phil Kabler Less than two-and-a-half hours after they heard two hours of oral arguments Wednesday, acting West Virginia Supreme Court justices overturned lower court rulings and upheld the awarding...
View ArticleLight pole falls on Winfield softball field, but team carries on
By Laura Haight A light pole fell onto the Winfield High School girls softball field, but the team isn't letting it stop them. The pole fell onto the field during a storm last week, head coach Steve...
View ArticleCAMC to consider opioid prescribing practices after CDC recommendations
By Lydia Nuzum Charleston Area Medical Center may consider changing its policies on opioid prescribing in light of new federal guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, hospital...
View ArticlePEIA cuts on front burner again
By Phil Kabler Cuts in public employee health care benefits totaling $120 million are expected to be back on the table when West Virginia's Public Employees Insurance Agency Finance Board meets...
View ArticleDerakhshan plea hearing set
By Staff reports A federal judge on Wednesday scheduled a plea hearing for next month in the case of a Charleston neurologist charged earlier this week with violating a controlled substance record...
View ArticlePSC staff recommends dismissal of South Charleston sewer rate complaints
By Daniel Desrochers Customers who have filed complaints to try to stop South Charleston's sewer rate increases haven't found much success. Two complaints filed with the Public Service Commission over...
View ArticleUS Muslims dismiss Cruz call for surveillance
By By Gillian Flaccus and Jeff Karoub The Associated Press ANAHEIM, Calif. - A few miles from Disneyland is a place most California tourists never see. The signs along the thoroughfare suddenly switch...
View ArticleWV American Water customers weigh in on water protection plan
By Ryan Quinn Several attendees of a Wednesday night meeting on West Virginia American Water's proposed "source water protection plan" for its Kanawha Valley Water System stressed that the system...
View ArticleUnemployment rates increase in most West Virginia counties
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Unemployment rates increased in 52 of West Virginia's 55 counties in February. WorkForce West Virginia says unemployment rates fell in Marion, McDowell and Wyoming counties....
View Article2,300 patients of Beckley clinic warned to get tested for hepatitis, HIV
By Lori Kersey State health officials say they are not sure exactly what caused several cases of hepatitis B and C that have been linked to a heart clinic in Beckley. The viruses have been linked to...
View ArticleAround WV: March 24, 2016
By Erin Beck In Around West Virginia: a returning soldier surprises his daughters, two drug court graduates marry, the Wheeling Suspension Bridge closes, and more. n A soldier who had been deployed...
View ArticleWest Virginia natural gas producer fined for spill
MOUNDSVILLE, W.Va. (AP) - A natural gas pipeline company has paid a $14,440 fine to settle an environmental complaint stemming from a ruptured pipe in West Virginia's Northern Panhandle. The...
View ArticlePhotos, video: Country legend Hank Williams remembered in Oak Hill
A crowd honored the memory of Hank Williams on Thursday in Oak Hill during a presentation ceremony of a memorial plaque. Williams was declared dead in the West Virginia town, after being discovered...
View ArticleSeveral boil-water advisories issued for Raleigh County areas
n Beckley Water Company has issued a boil-water advisory customers on Second Street and Brierwood Drive in the Shady Spring area. Also included is the area from the intersection of Hinton Road and...
View ArticleWork release inmate fails to return to Beckley Correctional Center, charged
By Staff reports A Beckley Correctional Center inmate who had been granted work release is being charged with felony escape after failing to return from employment, according to a corrections...
View ArticleSaint Francis will turn ER into urgent care clinic in April
By Lydia Nuzum Saint Francis Hospital will move forward with its plan to convert its emergency room into an urgent care clinic, and will have completed the transition in a month, hospital officials...
View ArticleOverall lottery revenue down slightly for 2015–2016
By Phil Kabler State video lottery revenues saw a rare uptick in February, compared to the same month in 2015, but West Virginia's acting Lottery director attributed that more to comparatively good...
View ArticleCharleston Rose Society cancels summer exhibition
By Staff reports The Charleston Rose Society has canceled its annual rose show. In a letter to sponsors, show chairwoman Lynda Grass said there aren't enough exhibitors to make the show viable. "Our...
View ArticleFDA outlines standards for anti-abuse generic painkillers
By By Matthew Perrone AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal officials are encouraging generic drugmakers to reformulate their painkillers to make them harder to abuse, the latest in a string of...
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