Settlement strides toward opioids crisis deal with three distributors
Local governments and states push toward a 26 billion settlement with AmerisourceBergen Cardinal Health and McKesson and Johnson & Johnson. J and J would halt opioid production for ten years and a new data sharing system would track prescribing to curb pill floods. States would have 30 days to join and localities five months to finalize terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
AmerisourceBergen
Cardinal Health
McKesson
Bluefield carrier earns Postmaster General Hero Award
Robert L. Williams of Bluefield was honored Tuesday with the Postmaster General Hero Award at the Bluefield Post Office on Cumberland Road. Amy Law presented the award as Williams helped a customer missing a prescription package, demonstrating vigilance beyond routine mail delivery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jessica Nuzzo
Bluefield
Robert L. Williams
Amy Law
Thomas Buzzo Jr
Cumberland Road
Bond denied for parents of infant who died of poisoning
In Tazewell Virginia a judge denied bond twice Tuesday for Kayla Nicole Stanford 28 and Evan Ray Stanford 30 residents of North Tazewell after their four month old infant died from Suboxone and Methadone poisoning. Kayla Stanford faced Judge Martha Ketron in Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court while Evan Stanford appeared later that day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bond
Tazewell
Kayla Nicole Stanford
Baptist Valley Road
North Tazewell
Martha Ketron
Tazewell County
Marsh warns Delta surge as COVID cases rise
West Virginia officials report 55 000 new cases nationwide on Monday with 83 percent Delta variant. Dr. Clay Marsh cites rising hospitalizations and deaths, urges vaccination, notes 97.5 percent of hospitalized and 99 percent of deaths are unvaccinated, and warns Delta will spread, including to children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
Clay Marsh
West Virginia
Marsh
Jim Justice
Icus
Also Mentioned on This Page
U.S
Johnson & Johnson
By Greg Jordan
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Law
Virginia
Abby
Charles Boothe
WTECH
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!