Thursday, May 24 2012 4:46 PM EDT2012-05-24 20:46:56 GMT
CHARLESTON (AP) — A former West Virginia doctor admits she provided drug prescriptions to people she never examined. Diane Shafer pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiracy to misuse a U.S. Drug Enforcement
Diane Shafer pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiracy to misuse a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration registration number. Prosecutors say she faces up to four years in prison at an Aug. 24 sentencing.
Thursday, May 24 2012 10:13 AM EDT2012-05-24 14:13:26 GMT
In a recently filed federal lawsuit, a West Virginia independent expenditure political action committee says a Secretary of State policy that prohibits independent expenditures by corporations limits free
A West Virginia independent expenditure political action committee says a Secretary of State policy that prohibits independent expenditures by corporations limits free speech rights.
Wednesday, May 23 2012 2:07 PM EDT2012-05-23 18:07:12 GMT
A lawsuit filed by the state's attorney general against Elk Funeral Home and its owner alleges the funeral director misappropriated funds belonging to at least 16 consumers who paid in advance for funeral
The lawsuit alleges Surrat never reported the consumer's transaction to the state and instead spent the money.
Wednesday, May 23 2012 10:09 AM EDT2012-05-23 14:09:02 GMT
Don Humberson is charged with battery and possession of a controlled substance.
Don Humberson is charged with battery and possession of a controlled substance.
MARTINSBURG (AP) — The Berkeley County Prosecutor's
Office says a magistrate exceeded her authority when she dismissed
drunken-driving charges against two people and filed new charges to
settle the case.
A circuit court complaint says Magistrate JoAnn Overington acted over the objections of the state.
It asks a judge to overrule her decision in the handling of the cases against a Virginia woman and a West Virginia man.
Chief
deputy prosecutor Christopher Quasebarth says there's no law giving a
magistrate the power to initiate a complaint on her own.
Overington
says she thought she could accept reduced pleas of reckless driving to
settle cases but now realizes she made a mistake and needed a
prosecutor's approval.
She tells the Herald-Mail it wasn't intentional, and she sees it as a lesson learned.
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