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West Virginia Residents Urged to Check Their Smoke Detectors
Fall is in the air. The sky is clear, the air is crisp and the nights are getting progressively colder. We are likely only weeks away from our first morning frost and snow flurry. Many people rely upon portable ceramic or electric space heaters to provide additional warmth in the cold Fall and Winter months....
Texting While Driving Kills More Teens Than Drinking While Driving
A recent study from the Cohen Children's Medical Center, in New York, has confirmed what we already feared; texting while driving kills more teens each year than drinking and driving. With the explosion of mobile technology - some of you may be reading this on your smartphones right now - has also come an explosion...
Driving In Wet Conditions | Mani Ellis & Layne, PLLC
Yesterday a car flipped over on I-64 East, in Charleston. //www.wvgazette.com/Multimedia/topmedia/201305060138 Luckily, no one was hurt in this wreck, but the potential for injury was great. The police attribute slick roads to the accident. Accidents like these happened on a daily basis. People tend to get complacent driving and "out-drive"the conditions. People speed or don't...
Coal Miners Will Hopefully Get Protection
Hardly a day goes by when there isn't an article about coal miners or coal mining in the papers. As I read the paper this morning, I noticed two separate articles. In the first article, it is noted that Senators Rockefeller and Manchin are proposing a law that would help to protect pensions and health...
West Virginia's Bridge Day Parachute Jumper Seriously Hurt
West Virginia celebrates Bridge Day, which it describes as, "What's wilder, what's more wonderful, than jumping off one of the largest bridges in the world? The people of the Mountain State can celebrate like few others can." The event is the "largest extreme sports event in the world," drawing hundreds of BASE jumpers and up...