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DON EMMERTGetty Images An estimated 7,874,965,825 people survived the fall of the Chinese rocket, although I can’t speak to the losses among the marine life off the Maldives. So we dodged that…ah…bullet over the weekend. However, there is other news going on in places like, say, Charleston, West Virginia, where one of our many unsolved crises has finally hit the federal courts. We are now in the second week of a trial in which the three major U.S. distributors of opioids are being called...

Brendan McDermid/Reuters The booming SPAC market has been spooked by the acting SEC directors recent hints that new rules could be on the way. The financial forecasts used by companies going public through SPACs could come under scrutiny. A close look at the so-called Total Addressable Market estimates used by companies involved in SPACs shows why caution is advised. Last week John Coates, the Harvard academic who is acting director of the Securities and Exchange C...

CHARLESTON — After a year off due to the coronavirus pandemic, the West Virginia Book Festival will return to the Charleston Coliseum & Convention Center on Oct. 22 and 23.

• Sep 3, 2020 (Note: This interview first aired back in May.) Our guest is Eric Eyre, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter from the smallest newspaper ever to win that prize for investigative reporting. His book, based on the work that won him that prize, details his investigation into the corporate greed that pumped millions of pain pills into small Appalachian towns at the outset of Americas opioid crisis. "Death in Mud Lick" tells the riveting and shameful story of a pharmacy in K...

Looking for some last minute Christmas stocking stuffers? Check out these books Books make great last-minute stocking-stuffers. Here are a few suggestions for every type of reader, young, old and everything in between. Hint: You can also use this column for some ideas on how to spend those book store gift certificates that you find in your own stocking this year. Written By: Terri Schlichenmeyer / The Bookworm Sez | 12:00 pm, Dec. 20, 2020 × unique. Some family members w...