WV State News

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia will have free vaccination clinics at state parks and forests through Memorial Day. Currently, clinics are open at 10 sites, and that will expand to all parks and forests on Memorial Day weekend. Vaccines...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A trial began Monday in a lawsuit filed in West Virginia accusing three drug distributors of fueling a local opioid epidemic with excessively large shipments of painkillers over several years. The city of Huntington and Cabell...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A trial is set to start in a lawsuit filed in West Virginia accusing three drug distributors of fueling a local opioid epidemic with excessively large shipments of painkillers over several years. The city of Huntington...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A consumer outreach and compliance specialist from the West Virginia attorney general's office will meet with Metro Valley residents this month. Danielle Adams will discuss consumer-related issues and answer questions, Attorney General Patrick Morrisey's office said...

By CUNEYT DIL Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The police chief of West Virginia's capital city said two officers shot and wounded a Black man wielding a knife Friday afternoon, a confrontation captured on police body camera video that...

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A long-shot bid to pass legislation that would make the District of Columbia the nation's 51st state got a little longer on Friday. Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia said that...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The West Virginia Quilts and Wall Hangings Juried Exhibition opens its 40th annual show next month. The free exhibition opens May 28 and continues through Sept. 23. The West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture and History...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The U.S. Senate confirmed Gayle Manchin, an educator and former West Virginia official married to Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, to be the co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission. Biden nominated Manchin to the post in the...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A former West Virginia police officer has been indicted on federal charges that he used excessive force during an arrest. A federal grand jury in Charleston indicted Everett Maynard on Tuesday on one count of depriving...

MADISON, W.Va. (AP) — A man working to to tear down old silos at an inactive mine in West Virginia died when one of the structures collapsed on equipment he was operating, authorities said. James Simpkins, 73, owned a recycling...