Across West Virginia, teachers and staff are learning their jobs have been cut due to dire school finances. While reduction in force letters are going out, lawmakers haven’t signed off on changing the school funding formula for next year that could give more money to counties. Tracy Moss, 36, was surprised in February to learn…
The body of a miner who went missing in a flooded West Virginia coal mine over the weekend has been found, West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morissey announced Thursday morning. Morissey identified the man as Steve Lipscomb. The foreman was working alongside a crew when he became trapped Saturday afternoon inside the Rolling Thunder Mine. Lipscomb…
A massive search operation is underway in West Virginia, where officials say crews are “working around the clock” and continuing “aggressive” efforts to locate a missing coal miner who became trapped in a flooded coal mine on Saturday afternoon. “There is nothing that we would spare to try to save the life of the miner,”…
A court in West Virginia is set to hear arguments in a lawsuit challenging the deployment of the state National Guard to patrol the streets of Washington, D.C., as part of President Donald Trump’s push to send the military into Democratic-run cities. The hearing Monday afternoon is the third in the past three weeks in…
Rhodell, West Virginia — For as long as Roman Patsey of Raleigh County, West Virginia, remembers, the Appalachian Mountains have provided virtually everything he’s needed to survive, from his income as a coal miner, to his tap water. “I don’t know if it’s safe or not to tell you the truth,” Patsey told CBS News…
Hundreds of West Virginia National Guard members will deploy across the nation’s capital as part of the Trump administration’s effort to overhaul policing in the District of Columbia through a federal crackdown on crime and homelessness. The move comes as federal agents and National Guard troops have begun to appear across the heavily Democratic city…
NEED TO KNOW Mary Lou Retton was arrested in May on a DUI charge in West Virginia The Olympian’s arrest was captured on body cam footage She made history in 1984 as the first American female gymnast to win an individual all-around gold medal Bodycam footage of Mary Lou Retton’s May arrest shows her in…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday threw out appellate rulings in favor of transgender people in four states following the justices’ recent decision upholding a Tennessee ban on certain medical treatment for transgender youths. But the justices took no action in cases from Arizona, Idaho and West Virginia involving the participation of transgender…
Thousands of motorists were stranded for more than eight hours along a section of rural interstate highway in southern West Virginia early Friday after a mudslide caused by heavy rains blocked a storm drain the previous night, flooding and completely shutting down the northbound lanes. Traffic backed up for 12 miles along the West Virginia…
A northern West Virginia region still cleaning up from flash flooding less than two weeks ago was hit with torrential rains that sent creeks over their banks again Thursday night. A flash flood warning was issued for the Wheeling area, about an hour’s drive southwest of Pittsburgh. The National Weather Service said up to 2…