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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The American Tort Reform Association has long had West Virginia on its radar, so it should surprise no one that the state was one of five chosen to be surveyed on the transparency of its attorney general's office.

The organization already ranks the entire state as the No. 1 Judicial Hellhole in the country, and, according to the survey's results released Monday, the s...

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RIVERHEAD, N.Y. - The son of former New York Mets star Bud Harrelson was sentenced to five years probation and 420 hours of community service on Monday for hindering the prosecution in the samurai sword slaying of a retired police officer.

Troy "T.J." Harrelson, 19, was the key witness in the trial of his one-time best friend Zachary Gibian for the 2005 murder of Gibian's stepfather, Sco...

Two Massachusetts men are in jail in Maine after border patrol agents allegedly found nearly three-thousand Oxycontin pills in their vehicle at a highway checkpoint.

The U.S. Border Patrol says the arrests took place Thursday at a checkpoint on Interstate 95 in the northern Maine town of Sherman.

Agents say a search of the men's vehicle uncovered plastic bags that held 2,999 80 mi...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The stress of unemployment may dampen healthy people's immune system function -- but the good news is that finding a job can restore its fighting power, according to a new study.

Past research has linked chronic stress to impaired immune function and a higher risk of infection and other illness. But little is known about what happens to the immune system when ...

The study -- part of a national effort involving 11 clinical research centers -- is in response to increasing incidents of prescription drug abuse, said to Dr. Stephen Dominy of the San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center, who is co-leading the University of California-San Francisco portion of the study.

"The abuse of prescription opiates has become a very serious problem in our soc...

Open source developers and users will gain little or nothing from a patent reform law introduced to US Congress last week.

The Patent Reform Act of 2007 (PDF) proposes a series of changes to current rules, allowing for patents to be challenged for a period of up to three years after being awarded.

The proposed legislation also bans 'forum shopping', where a patent owner files a le...

Two Massachusetts men are in jail in Maine after border patrol agents allegedly found nearly 3000 Oxycontin pills in their vehicle at a highway checkpoint.

The US Border Patrol says the arrests took place Thursday at a checkpoint on Interstate 95 in the northern Maine town of Sherman.

Agents say a search of the men's vehicle uncovered plastic bags that held 2,999, 80-milligram ta...

Huntington Mayor David Felinton is moving ahead with plans to shut down a clinic that dispenses methadone to drug addicts.

We just hope that the discussion takes place with all the relevant information in hand.

Last week, Felinton scheduled a public hearing to discuss the impact of the Huntington Treatment Center at 135 4th Ave. on the surrounding community. The hearing will be at 6...

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