CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A committee of lawmakers in West Virginia's Republican-majority Legislature is advancing a bill that would require photo IDs to be added to the cards low-income residents who qualify for government assistance use to purchase food.
Sponsors say the bill, which passed ...
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Iowa and New Hampshire are about to kick off the 2024 presidential nominating process, but Sen. Joe Manchin said Friday it won't become clear until March whether there's a path for a third-party candidate.
The West Virginia Democrat visited New Hampshire just before ...
By LEAH WILLINGHAM and JOHN RABY Associated Press
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice once rejected a legislative budget by showing a plate of cow dung he brought from a farm to the state Capitol on a silver platter. He hoisted the hind end of his pet English bulldog in ...
By JOHN RABY AP Sports Writer
Olympic gymnastics great Mary Lou Retton says she faces a long battle recuperating at home from a rare form of pneumonia in which doctors weren't sure whether she would survive. Retton said during an interview that aired Monday on NBC's "Today" show that she was ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A 28-year-old man and four young children died in a house fire on Saturday near the community of Mathias, West Virginia.
Hardy County 911 received a call about the blaze at around 5 a.m., according to a news release from the state Fire Marshal. One woman, who was ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia is issuing the first checks from a fund established by the settlement of opioid lawsuits in the state, which has by far the nation's highest drug overdose death rate.
The Kanawha County Commission said Thursday it received a $2.9 million check and plans ...
BEAVER, W.Va. (AP) — An inmate at a West Virginia jail scrutinized in lawsuits citing inmate deaths and alleging poor living conditions was pronounced dead Friday morning, officials said.
Correctional officers at Southern Regional Jail found the 24-year-old man unresponsive in his cell and ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Moore Capito, the son of U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, is resigning from the West Virginia Legislature to focus on his gubernatorial campaign.
The Republican submitted a letter to House Speaker Roger Hanshaw's office declaring his resignation Thursday, weeks before ...
WHEELING, W.Va. (AP) — A self-proclaimed white supremacist was sentenced to more than six years in federal prison Wednesday for making online threats toward the jury and witnesses at the trial of a man who killed 11 congregants at a Pittsburgh synagogue.
Hardy Carroll Lloyd, 45, of ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Moore Capito, the son of U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, is resigning from the West Virginia Legislature to focus on his gubernatorial campaign.
The Republican submitted a letter to House Speaker Roger Hanshaw's office declaring his resignation Thursday, weeks before ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Republican Gov. Jim Justice on Wednesday appointed a member of his cabinet to a circuit judge position and replaced him with one of his senior advisers.
The governor appointed Dave Hardy, the state's Department of Revenue secretary to the position on ...
By BRUCE SCHREINER and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A pregnant woman in Kentucky filed a lawsuit Friday demanding the right to an abortion, the second legal challenge in days to sweeping abortion bans that have taken hold in more than a dozen U.S. states since ...
PRINCETON, W.Va. (AP) — A man fatally shot an 11-year-old girl and wounded two other people at a home in southern West Virginia before turning the gun on himself, state police said.
Officers responded Wednesday to reports of a male holding multiple people at gunpoint in a home in Mercer ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Five former correctional officers in West Virginia were indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday in connection with the 2022 death of an incarcerated man who was beaten while handcuffed and restrained in an interview room and later a jail cell.
All five officers, as ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia coalition that helps support a network of anti-abortion pregnancy centers in the state is receiving $1 million in taxpayer dollars to distribute to organizations committed to encouraging people not to end their pregnancies.
The West Virginia Pregnancy ...
Coach Neal Brown will get another chance at West Virginia after finishing with his best regular-season record despite being mired in the program's worst stretch in four decades.
West Virginia athletic director Wren Baker said Friday that Brown will return in 2024, putting to rest any ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — An entire county school system in coal-producing West Virginia is going solar, representing what a developer and U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin's office touted on Wednesday as the biggest-ever single demonstration of sun-powered renewable electricity in Appalachian public ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The agency in charge of managing health insurance for more than 200,000 government workers in West Virginia is facing pushback over proposed premium increases, five years after public school employees went on strike over rising health care costs.
The state Public ...
By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Joe Manchin's decision not to seek reelection virtually ensures that the Democratic Party will lose his Senate seat next year in deep-red West Virginia, making the party's steep path to retaining its razor-thin Senate majority ...
By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — The proportion of U.S. kindergartners exempted from school vaccination requirements has hit its highest level ever, 3%, U.S. health officials said Thursday.
More parents are questioning routine childhood vaccinations that they used to ...