June 25, 2020 West Virginia Gov. Justice accepts resignation of top health official amid coronavirus West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice forced out a top health official Wednesday, hours after he publicly criticized the state’s active coronavirus caseload as potentially overstated.
June 12, 2020 Court denies immunity to West Virginia cops in 2013 Shooting: ‘This Has to Stop’ The decision sets the stage for further legal discussions surrounding qualified immunity.
June 11, 2020 Amid push to remove Confederate monuments, little outrage over Robert Byrd’s namesakes in home state Confederate monuments are being taken down or vandalized in cities across the country in the wake of George Floyd's death in police custody -- but so far the revived push to remove symbols of slavery and segregation has largely overlooked the late Democratic senator who was a former KKK member yet later rejected those views.
June 10, 2020 West Virginia men claim hospital switched them at birth in 1942, forcing them to suffer 'lifetime of consequences' Two West Virginia men are accusing a Roman Catholic diocese of making them suffer a “lifetime of consequences” after they were allegedly switched at birth nearly 80 years ago.
May 19, 2020 West Virginia governor reopening indoor dining, large retail stores and outdoor recreation businesses West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice signed an executive order allowing his state to enter the “Week 4” phase of coronavirus reopening on Thursday, which will include reopening indoor dining at restaurants, malls and outdoor recreation.
May 19, 2020 West Virginia man accused of gouging out neighbor's eyes over loud rooster: sheriff A West Virgiina man was behind bars on a murder charge after deputies say he gouged out a neighbor’s eyes over a loud rooster that was also killed, according to reports.
May 19, 2020 After 17 years underground, vast army of cicadas set to emerge Some 17 years after making their last appearance, a vast army of cicadas is set to emerge from underground in Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina.
May 18, 2020 America reopening: 14 more states ease restrictions before Memorial Day weekend As the United States continues its gradual reopening, on Monday more than a dozen states began easing restrictions that had shuttered nonessential businesses and brought daily lives to a screeching halt for the better part of two months.
May 11, 2020 America reopening: Dozens of states including Michigan, Ohio ease coronavirus restrictions this week The U.S. is continuing its gradual reopening this week, with more than a dozen states easing strict lockdown measures that shuttered businesses and brought the daily lives of millions of Americans to a halt for more than a month as part of a critical tradeoff to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
May 5, 2020 West Virginia kidnapping suspect now charged with mishandling top-secret, national security information A West Virginia woman already accused of kidnapping her daughter and fleeing to Mexico was charged again last week with mishandling classified Department of Defense documents, leaving them unguarded in a storage unit she leased.