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In the final week of candidate filings in West Virginia for the 2022 election, last minute filings seemed to be a theme among many Democrats seeking state office.

There are problems in out-of-state group homes. West Virginia officials say they are going to ‘ensure this doesn’t happen again.’

In several cases, the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources has continued or renewed contracts with the facilities despite its own inspection reports revealing abuse.

CHARLESTON — The chairman of the West Virginia House of Delegates’ Health Committee has been named commissioner of the newly established Bureau for Social Services within the Department of Health and Human Resources. Del. Jeffrey Pack, R-Raleigh, will resign from his position as delegate. His district includes parts of Raleigh, Summers and Monroe counties. Pack, of Cool Ridge, West Virginia, was appointed to the House in January 2018 and then elected for two two-year terms. According to his legislative biography, he works in human resources and was last employed with Metrick Pest Co...

For The Inter-Mountain CHARLESTON — The debate was polite, but representatives of the House of Delegates and Senate could not hammer out a compromise Friday on a bill to limit the emergency powers of the governor. Members of the conference committee on House Bill 2003, relating to the authority and obligations of the governor and Legislature when in declared states of preparedness and emergency, could not agree on either the Senate’s conference committee report or the House’s conference committee report. The conference committee met Friday morning in the Senate President’s Conference ...