Five days a week for 26 years, Charleston lawyer Tim DiPiero walked into work where heâd see his friend and colleague Sean McGinley, whom he remembered as a gifted attorney with âa keen sense of right and wrong and seeking justice.â
An Interstate 79 crash Thursday killed McGinley near the Frametown exit in Braxton County. He was returning from a hearing in Morgantown. He was 55.
McGinley served as counsel to The Charleston Gazette and, later, the Gazette-Mail during a sparkling legal career spanning 30 years. He was a partner at DiPiero Simmons McGinley & Bastress PLLC, in Charleston.
âSean was a brilliant lawyer,â DiPiero said. âJust amazingly talented. . He would always improve any draft of writing I did. He could always make it better. He was incredible at research and writing, and just had a way with words.
This summer, though the pandemic continues, a statewide summer feeding plan and reduced COVID-19 restrictions could help close student feeding gaps in West Virginia.
Originally published on May 26, 2021 11:06 am
During years when the prescription opioid epidemic was spiraling out of control, corporate executives at the drug wholesaler McKesson sent at least two memos ordering employees to refrain from using the word suspicious to describe escalating opioid orders from pharmacy chains.
The documents were disclosed this week as part of a landmark federal opioid trial now underway in West Virginia, one of the states hit hardest by opioid deaths.
The case focuses on claims by local officials in Cabell County and the city of Huntington. They say their community of roughly 90,000 residents was devastated by tens of millions of prescription opioid pills shipped to local pharmacies.
Drug distributors have faced embarrassing revelations about their internal practices. One email shared by corporate executives described rural Americans addicted to opioids as "pillbillies."