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The body of a coal miner has been found in a flooded West Virginia mine, the governor says

November 13, 2025

Gov. Patrick Morrisey says crews have found the body of a coal miner who went missing when a mine flooded in West Virginia. Morrisey says the body was found inside the mine early Thursday in southern West Virginia. A mine crew hit a pocket of water last Saturday in Alpha Metallurgical Resources’ Rolling Thunder mine. More than a dozen other miners were accounted for after the accident was reported. Machines had pumped out water at a fast-enough rate to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool in under two hours. The death is the third at an Alpha facility in West Virginia this year.

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FILE - Signs are displayed at a tent during a health event June 26, 2021, in Charleston, W.Va. (AP Photo/John Raby, File)

US appeals court overturns West Virginia landmark opioid lawsuit decision

October 28, 2025

A federal appeals court has overturned a landmark decision in an opioid lawsuit in West Virginia. A lower court judge had rejected attempts by an opioid-ravaged area to be compensated by U.S. drug distributors for a influx of prescription pain pills. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, ruled that the judge erred when he said West Virginia’s public nuisance law did not apply to the lawsuit. Cabell County and the city of Huntington had accused three major U.S. drug distributors of causing a public health crisis. Tuesday’s ruling sends the case back to U.S. District Court in Charleston for further proceedings.

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FILE Sen. Jim Justice, R-W.Va., arrives in the Old Senate Chamber for a mock swearing-in ceremony, at the Capitol, in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Debt problems that dogged Sen. Jim Justice as West Virginia’s governor continue to nip at his heels

October 23, 2025

A trail of debts that persisted during Jim Justice’s time as West Virginia’s governor has followed him to the U.S. Senate. The Republican was elected last November to the seat vacated by Joe Manchin. This month the IRS filed liens totaling more than $8 million against Justice and his wife on unpaid personal taxes. Last month state tax officials filed liens against the Justice family’s historic hotel and a residential community at The Greenbrier resort over unpaid sales taxes. Recently a foreclosure auction on lots owned by the Justice family at another resort community were put on pause. Justice continues to insist that the collection efforts are politically motivated.

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FILE - A patient prepares to take the first of two combination pills, mifepristone, for a medication abortion during a visit to a clinic in Kansas City, Kan., Oct. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

US appeals court upholds West Virginia restriction on abortion pill sales

July 15, 2025

A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court’s decision to restrict abortion pill sales in West Virginia. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a 2023 ruling. That’s despite federal regulators’ approval of it as a safe and effective medication. A district judge determined in 2023 that the near-total abortion ban signed by Republican Gov. Jim Justice took precedence over approvals from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Appeals court judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III wrote that disregarding the Supreme Court’s landmark 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade “is not an option.”

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FILE - West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey speaks during a news conference at the Hubert Humphrey Building Auditorium in Washington, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

A West Virginia parent sues seeking a religious exemption from required school vaccinations

June 24, 2025

A West Virginia woman has filed a lawsuit seeking a religious exemption from required school vaccinations for her young child. Miranda Guzman alleges that the state’s vaccine mandate violates West Virginia’s 2023 religious freedom law. West Virginia was among just a handful of states that granted only medical exemptions from school vaccinations when Republican Gov. Patrick Morrisey issued an executive order in January allowing religious exemptions. However, the state Board of Education voted this month to direct public schools to ignore the executive order and instead follow long-standing school vaccine requirements that are laid out in state law.

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