West Virginia

A black bear gave a West Virginia principal quite the wake-up call when it emerged — growling and roaring — from a dumpster outside an elementary school.

School surveillance video shows an elementary school principal in West Virginia coming eye-to-eye with a bear when unlocking the school dumpster one morning.

Six students and three adults were taken for medical attention after the floor of a press box collapsed during a West Virginia softball tournament. None of the injuries appear to be life-threatening.

The Supreme Court rejected an attempt by West Virginia to prevent transgender girls from participating in girl’s sports.

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.

West Virginia’s Senate passed a bill Monday that would give $25,000 in tax credits to former residents who move back to the state to work.

The head of the federal Environmental Protection Agency has visited a West Virginia county where some residents recently got access to clean water after years of having to boil it before drinking. EPA Administrator Michael Regan spoke with community members in McDowell County about drinking water and wastewater inequity. Regan’s Journey to Justice tour focuses on historically disadvantaged communities. Residents...

Fifty-five-year-old Fotios “Freddy” Geas, 48-year-old Paul “Pauly” DeCologero, and 36-year-old Sean McKinnon were charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in the beating death of Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger in a West Virginia prison in 2018

A West Virginia man charged with trying to kill his sister, who recently awakened from a two-year coma and identified him as her attacker, has died. Authorities say Daniel J. Palmer III was pronounced dead Thursday at a Charleston hospital. No cause of death was released. Palmer had been taken to the hospital Wednesday following an evaluation by jail medical...

Medical staff said despite having brain damage from the attack, Wanda Palmer was able to speak and identify her brother as her assailant, according to the West Virginia Metro News.

Police in Charleston, West Virginia say that a woman’s actions may have prevented a mass casualty event following an altercation about speeding through a neighborhood.

A woman in West Virginia fatally shot a man who began firing an AR-15-style rifle into a crowd of people that had gathered for a party, authorities said.

West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has not forgotten the comments singer and actress Bette Midler made about his state back in December

West Virginia lawmakers introduced a bill to ban abortion after 15 weeks — a proposal nearly identical to the Mississippi law under review by the U.S. Supreme Court.