West Virginia

Residents who enter the state’s new vaccine incentive lottery will have the opportunity to win prizes such as custom hunting rifles and shotguns, custom trucks, weekend getaways at state parks and lifetime hunting and fishing licenses among other things.

A former nursing assistant has been sentenced to seven consecutive terms of life in prison for injecting seven elderly veterans with fatal doses of insulin

Multiple tornadoes have caused damage across Mississippi, but no injuries have been reported.

One of the victims died when a falling tree brought power lines onto his vehicle.

Engineers floated a bridge down the Ohio River to Wellsburg, W. Va., in an effort that’s being hailed as historic.

A New Hampshire teen is being heralded as a hero after saving a 12-year-old who was trapped under an ATV over 800 miles away.

Like most 13-year-olds, Caden Cotnoir spends plenty of time on social media. On Sunday, his screen time took an unexpected turn.

A West Virginia man has pleaded guilty to a weapons charge after he was accused of selling machine gun conversion devices to followers of a far-right extremist movement.

A West Virginia man who expressed concern about the outcome of the presidential election was arrested while walking near the U.S. Capitol after police found a pistol and ammunition in his car, authorities said Thursday.

A second Republican lawmaker from West Virginia who marched to the U.S. Capitol to support overturning Democrat Joe Biden’s presidential win says he hopes President Donald Trump “calls us back.”

Derrick Evans, a Republican West Virginia state representative, was charged Friday after posting and deleting a video of himself storming the U.S. Capitol building.

A West Virginia lawmaker who posted video of himself and other supporters of President Trump rushing into the U.S. Capitol is facing a federal charge in the siege.

It’s been recorded and performed by hundreds of artists around the world. It’s been written about for decades. “Take Me Home, Country Roads” was John Denver’s first big hit and became both his signature song and West Virginia’s state song. Like many great songs, there are great stories behind the song as well. Some true, some not so true...

A West Virginia chemical facility erupted into flames after an explosion Tuesday night, killing one person and leading to a 2-mile shelter in place order for area residents before the fire was under control and the order was lifted, officials said.

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.