West Virginia

At least seven states have set new records for single-day increases in coronavirus cases, prompting some to set new restrictions as concerns mount over possible “superspreader events” during the upcoming holiday season.

History was made in Wheeling, West Virginia, Tuesday night when Rosemary Ketchum became the state’s first elected transgender official. Ketchum won a tight race, narrowly defeating Peggy Niebergall by 15 votes to become Ward 3’s representative.

Two West Virginia men who were born on the same day, in the same hospital, 24 years ago had their first babies on the same day and in the same hospital this week.

Members of seven predominantly black Baptist congregations in North Central West Virginia packed a small rural church March 15 with the threat still largely unknown.

Court papers show a West Virginia woman who had already been accused of kidnapping her daughter faces a new charge of retaining top-secret information from the National Security Agency in a storage unit she leased.

Correction officer trainees in West Virginia regularly gave the Nazi salute “as a sign of respect” for their instructor in the weeks prior to the release of a photo of the cadets with arms raised that triggered widespread outrage, state investigators said in a report Monday.

A group photo of West Virginia correction officer trainees giving what appears to be the Nazi salute has been released as the state’s governor ordered those involved to be fired. The image was made public Thursday and shows more than two dozen trainees with their arms raised and faces blurred. Officials have described the image of Basic Training Class Number...

With billions in federal aid and seats in Congress at stake, some states are dragging their feet in carrying out one of the Census Bureau’s chief recommendations for making sure everyone is counted during the 2020 census. Five states — Florida, Louisiana, Nebraska, South Dakota and Texas — have not set up “complete count committees” that would create public awareness...

City leaders and the Chicago Teachers Union will be back at the bargaining table Thursday, exactly one week away from a potential strike. The union says one of the biggest sticking points is smaller class sizes, saying that nearly 25% of Chicago Public Schools classrooms are overcrowded.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot and the Chicago Teachers Union pointed fingers at one another Monday as the clock continued to tick down to a potential teachers strike later this month.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said she wants to negotiate with the Chicago Teachers Union seven days a week until an agreement is reached as schools across the city brace for a potential strike.

The Chicago Teachers Union announced Wednesday teachers will go on strike on Oct. 17 if a deal cannot be reached.

Negotiations are slated to resume Tuesday as Chicago schools brace for a potential teachers strike.

Chicago Public Schools staff and Chicago Park District workers are expected to delivery strike notices to Mayor Lori Lightfoot Tuesday.

One day after Chicago Teachers Union members anounced they voted to authorize a strike, union leaders began bargaining sessions with the Chicago Board of Education in an effort to keep teachers from walking off their jobs.

By the time drug enforcement agents swooped into his small medical office in Martinsville, Virginia, in 2017, Dr. Joel Smithers had prescribed about a half a million doses of highly addictive opioids.

One day after the Chicago Teachers Union declared a strike, both sides were back at the barganing table on Friday. NBC 5’s Mary Ann Ahern reports. 

Chicago Teachers Union members have voted to authorize a strike, union leaders announced Thursday night, setting the stage for more than 25,000 teachers and staff to walk off the job in the nation’s third-largest school district. CTU President Jesse Sharkey said the union eclipsed the 75 percent threshold needed to authorize a strike at approximately 9:15 p.m. Thursday. Sharkey said...

Will the Chicago Teachers Union authorize a strike? The votes continue to be counted through Thursday, the earliest teachers and schools could find out the results. Rank-and-file members have been casting their ballots in a strike authorization vote beginning Tuesday, according to the union. Per state law, if the vote passes with more than 75%, the union can strike –...

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, among other prominent individuals, made an appearance at a Chicago Teachers Union rally Tuesday evening. NBC 5’s Dick Johnson has the details,