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With its trailblazing public financing program for judicial elections targeted for elimination by Republican state leaders, North Carolina got a visit this week from two prominent West Virginia conservatives who made a case for why such programs benefit a state's people and economy.

The Price of Justice: A True Story of Greed and Corruption. By Laurence Leamer. New York: Times Books/Henry Holt and Co., 433 pages.

I have so far chosen to follow the Keystone campaign from a safe distance. After staring into a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence in West Virginia and barely escaping, I was pretty sure I wasn't ready for jail again.

Reed Smith attorney David Fawcett attracted celebrity status on an elevator at the law firm's Fifth Avenue headquarters Wednesday morning from admiring colleagues who said they have read or will read all about him in Laurence Leamer's "The Price of Justice." The book, a true story of a small Virginia coal company operator's 15-year fight against a ... (more)

Don Blankenship , head of Massey Energy since the early 90s, is about to be brought to justice.

Donald Blankenship is the most powerful coal mogul in America, but he could soon be indicted, thanks to 14 years of work by two Pittsburgh lawyers.

A draft report kept under wraps since 2011 shows federal engineers are concerned about construction techniques, quality-control procedures and possible compaction problems at seven West Virginia coal slurry dams subjected to surprise inspections.

It's the kind of case that has an attorney up at 3 a.m. pondering the next play or just the seeming injustice of it all.

Kafkaesque considerations lie at the heart of The Price of Justice , such as whether a citizen's constitutional right to due process and a fair trial was violated when the judge received large contributions from one side of the legal dispute.

To the person who said it would be a cold day in hell before he would ever vote for a Democrat: Now you know how I have felt since the day George W. Bush was selected president.

After visiting West Virginia communities affected by mountaintop removal coal mining, the United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights is calling for an investigation into allegations of human rights abuses related to the practice, in which mountaintops are blasted off and the resulting waste dumped into streams below.

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Hydraulic fracking to extract natural gas, as seen here in central Pennsylvania, may be coming to Virginia.

Imagine you are driving down the highway at 90 mph where the posted speed limit is 55 mph.

The Boston Marathon bombings killed three and injured more than 180. The West, Texas industrial explosion killed at least 14 and injured more than 180.

A draft report kept under wraps since 2011 shows federal engineers are concerned about construction techniques, quality-control procedures and possible compaction problems at seven West Virginia coal slurry dams subjected to surprise inspections.