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CHARLESTON, WV - A federal judge in West Virginia has delayed setting a trial date in a lawsuit filed by the city of Huntington and Cabell County over the opioid crisis.

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CHARLESTON, WV - The Judiciary Committee for the West Virginia Senate will see if the third consecutive time is the charm to establish an intermediate appeals court in the Mountain State.

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CHARLESTON, WV - While much of the current attention toward national politics is split between the impeachment trial against President Donald Trump and this year’s presidential contest, it will be a busy election year in West Virginia.

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WASHINGTON, DC - A divided U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said it will allow the Trump administration to enforce its controversial rule penalizing legal immigrants for using Medicaid and other public benefits while court battles play out.

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WASHINGTON, DC - Practice Fusion, a vendor of electronic health records software, will pay $145 million to resolve criminal and civil investigations, including an probe into a scheme to increase opioid prescriptions, the Justice Department said Monday.

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CHARLESTON, WV - The city of Huntington and Cabell County inched closer to trial Monday as attorneys in an opioid lawsuit blaming several drug firms for fueling the opioid epidemic in local West Virginia communities met in Charleston for the first time in three years in hopes of setting a trial date.

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CHARLESTON, WV - On Monday, members of the House Judiciary Committee debated a proposed bill that would change the rules and requirements for publishing legal advertisements in the state’s newspapers.

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