A South Charleston man bought a Powerball ticket for his brother, an Army National Guard soldier recently deployed to Iraq, and it ended up being worth $50,000.

The governor of the country’s second-largest coal-producing state is angling for a sit-down with President Obama over his administration’s stance on climate change and its pursuit of cap-and-trade legislation.

The agency that oversees West Virginia’s regional jail network is writing rules to charge inmates nominal fees for medical services.

A recently discovered letter from the Wright Cycling Co. reveals West Virginia-grown spruce was likely used to build frames for the Wright brothers’ first flying
machines.

The West Virginia Legislature has joined the social networking generation.

The president of the Pagans Motorcycle Club is heading to jail until a federal magistrate can decide whether he should get a chance at bail.

Columbus police are on the look-out for a suspect vehicle out of an alleged hit-skip crash involving a light-model truck and a motorcycle.

An environmental activist who chained himself to a giant dump truck during a mountaintop removal mining protest has been convicted of trespassing and conspiracy.

A federal inmate has been convicted of maiming and disfiguring a fellow prisoner by dousing him with scalding water that contained a caustic substance.

A West Virginia program created to distribute digital pictures of missing children is being
eliminated.

For reasons as varied as the contents of their closets, more people than ever are selling goods during West Virginia’s Largest Yard Sale running through tomorrow.

For the first time in its history, there are no taxpayer dollars in the North Central West Virginia
Airport’s budget.

A former federal prison guard convicted in the fatal beating of his 5-year-old daughter has been sentenced to 80 years behind bars.

The Lakin Correctional Center for Women has opened a new section where inmates can live with infants born in custody.

A Grafton couple who befriended an elderly woman and became her caretakers have been charged with faking a kidnapping to extort a $20,000 ransom from her.