CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia looks to receive as much as $55 million from the announced $74 billion dollar settlement between 13 states and the Sackler Family that ran the drug company Purdue Pharma that produced Oxycontin.

Members of the family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, and the company itself, agreed to pay up to $7.4 billion in a new settlement to lawsuits over the toll of the powerful prescription painkiller,

Initial filings for unemployment benefits in New York dropped last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday. New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, fell to 17,670 in the week ending January 18, down from 21,902 the week before, the Labor Department said.

The Atlanta Falcons signed former New York Giants and Denver Broncos wide receiver David Sills to a reserve/future contract, the team announced on Tuesday.

A new study shows which states are the most TikTok-obsessed amid uncertainty about the social media platform’s future in the U.S.