CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice on Monday ordered a sweeping investigation of the State Police after he accepted the resignation of the agency's superintendent and revealed allegations of wrongdoing, including that a video camera was placed inside a women's locker ...
(The Center Square) — Missouri, Florida, and West Virginia withdrew from the Electronic Registration Information Center on March 6.
Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft (R) said the state was withdrawing because ERIC would not “require member states to participate in addressing ...
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — The first of several sessions of a "nature-focused therapy group" at Marshall University met recently with 13 student participants.
That's how Tiffany Bowes, a mental health specialist in Marshall's Counseling Center, describes Gro Garden Therapy, which will meet ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A new "good neighbor" rule issued by the Environmental Protection Agency will restrict smokestack emissions from power plants and other industrial sources that burden downwind areas with smog-causing pollution they can't control. Nearly two dozen states will have to cut ...
By JOHN RABY Associated Press
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia's governor on Monday signed a bill that makes interfering with a police officer and causing their death a felony punishable by up to life in prison.
The bill that passed unanimously in both chambers of the Legislature ...
By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A bill that would ban evidence-based health care for transgender minors in West Virginia, the state estimated to have more transgender youth per capita than any other in the nation, is headed to the desk of Gov. Jim ...
By JOHN RABY Associated Press
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A child marriage bill is heading to the West Virginia governor's desk after lawmakers agreed to let 16- and 17-year-olds get married with restrictions.
The House of Delegates passed the bill 83-9 without debate Saturday, a day after ...
STEVE KEENAN, The Register-Herald
Brooke Ewing and Jessi Mooney have found a new ally in helping to navigate through a learning process which sometimes might be a little too dry for their liking.
The two seventh-graders at Midland Trail High/Middle School in Hico are among the student ...
By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A bill that would cap some of the damages West Virginia workers and their families can receive if their employer deliberately puts them in harm's way on the job is headed to the desk of Gov. Jim Justice.
The Republican ...
By Greg Stone, Charleston Gazette-Mail
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — In this digital age, when streaming seems the way of the future, Charleston's newest TV service provider is still going old school.
CAS Cable is building the guts of its service near the bottom of Watts Street, on Charleston's ...
By JOHN RABY Associated Press
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A child marriage bill is heading to the West Virginia governor's desk after lawmakers agreed to let 16- and 17-year-olds get married with restrictions.
The House of Delegates passed the bill 83-9 without debate Saturday, a day after ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia lawmakers on Friday approved a bill that would require counties to post their approved school curriculum online at the beginning of each school year.
The House of Delegates passed the bill 75-21. The bill now returns to the Senate, which previously ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The West Virginia Senate on Friday removed a lawmaker who had interrupted the chamber president's explanation of legislation.
Republican President Craig Blair ordered the sergeant at arms to remove Randolph County GOP Sen. Robert Karnes.
Blair was explaining a bill ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A bill that would cap some of the damages West Virginia workers and their families can receive if their employer deliberately puts them in harm's way on the job is headed to the desk of Gov. Jim Justice.
The Republican governor has not indicated whether he will sign ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A child marriage bill was passed by the West Virginia Senate on Friday night after it was changed to prohibit anyone younger than 16 from getting married and to ban age gaps of more than four years for 16- and 17-year-olds.
The Senate passed the bill on a 31-1 vote. ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia's Republican supermajority Senate followed a growing national trend of GOP opposition to health care for transgender youth by passing a bill that would ban certain treatments and therapies, while approving a significant change to add exceptions for ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A bill to prohibit minors from getting married in West Virginia was resurrected in the state Senate on Thursday, a day after its defeat in a committee.
The about-face didn't necessarily give the bill a clear path to passage. Several senators gave impassioned speeches ...
SANDSTONE, W.Va. (AP) — An empty coal train hit a rockslide along tracks in West Virginia on Wednesday morning, causing a fiery derailment that injured three crewmembers, CSX Transportation said in a statement.
Four locomotives and 22 empty cars derailed in Summers County near the New River, ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A bill that would have prohibited minors from getting married in West Virginia was defeated Wednesday night in a legislative committee.
The Republican-dominated Senate Judiciary Committee rejected the bill on a 9-8 vote, a week after it passed the House of ...
BECKLEY, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia man accused of fleeing the scene of a crash that killed a mother and daughter has been charged with murder and other counts, police said.
Kevin Lamar Graybeal, 54, of Dameron was taken into custody Monday and charged with two counts of second-degree ...