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Marshall University professor Jennifer Mosher was placed on leave this week after she was recorded saying that she hopes that Trump supporters die before the election of coronavirus. The university placed Mosher, a biology professor, on leave shortly after a clip of her comments circulated online.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A former Miss Kentucky who admitted to exchanging sexual photos with a teenage student when she was working as a West Virginia school teacher has been sentenced to prison.

The police chief at West Virginia University was forced to apologize after students noticed a “thin blue line” American flag honoring police on display in his home during a Zoom video conference. The chief apologized to the community after acknowledging the “hurt” his flag caused.

West Virginia elected its first openly transgender official on Wednesday as the Third Ward representative of the state’s Wheeling City Council.

Gov. Jim Justice praised President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak while warning of a looming “full-fledged depression.”

Gov. Jim Justice (R-WV) said the coronavirus outbreak may drive Americans to choose life in rural areas over urban alternatives.

West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey (R) is advising sheriffs in his state to stay on task processing concealed carry permit applications and issuing those permits for applicants legally able to carry a gun.

The deadly coronavirus has now affected all 50 U.S. states as West Virginia Governor Jim Justice confirmed the first positive case in the state on Tuesday.

A West Virginia man who was convicted of filming the sexual abuse of an infant was handed a hefty 775-year-sentence on Wednesday.

The “Bible bill” passed with an overwhelming 73-26 vote in the West Virginia House on Tuesday.

Katherine Johnson, a pioneering mathematician of her time who was featured in the movie Hidden Figures, has died at the age of 101, according to NASA. 

A West Virginia woman was shocked to hear that her grandfather lost his $6,500 in life savings, but she was even more shocked at the overwhelming support he got from people he did not even know to replace the money.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) is open to endorsing President Trump’s reelection campaign despite the president’s recent criticism.

The first pilot to break the sound barrier, Gen. Charles E. “Chuck” Yeager, was born on this day in 1923, in Myra, West Virginia.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), considered one of the swing-votes in the upper-chamber, on Monday responded to President Donald Trump’s criticism of the lawmaker’s vote to convict him during the Senate impeachment trial last week.

Virginia, which already holds the dubious distinction of being the only U.S. state from which two other states were born (West Virginia and Kentucky), could lose dominion over several counties near the West Virginia border. The reason? Big government!

Governor Jim Justice (R) on Tuesday invited Virginia counties weighed down by Democrat gun control to secede from the Old Dominion and become part of West Virginia.

A poll shows Joe Manchin could face strong political blowback if he votes to convict President Donald Trump on one or two articles of impeachment passed by the Democratic-controlled House.

West Virginia lawmakers are pushing a resolution inviting Virginia’s Second Amendment Sanctuary counties to become constituents of West Virginia. 

A stolen pitbull was reunited with his family Monday after 15 volunteers drove 2,000 miles to get him back home. 

A father in West Virginia has admitted that he married and had sex with his daughter after the two killed her boyfriend in February.

President Donald Trump reminded energy production workers in Pennsylvania on Wednesday of everything he had done to boost the economy in their state.

Manufacturing looks much stronger than expected in Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia

President Donald Trump awarded the Medal of Freedom to basketball legend Jerry Alan West of the Los Angeles Lakers.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) will not run for governor of West Virginia, a spokesman confirmed Tuesday. 

Massachusetts has been ranked as the number one most expensive state in which to buy a house, according to a recent report. 

Three people in West Virginia have been charged in the case of a sexually abused teen whose aunt allegedly forced her to drink turpentine to attempt to abort her unborn baby.

Former Vice President Joe Biden attacked the late-Sen. John McCain for not supporting “coal” adequately enough while campaigning in West Virginia during the 2008 presidential election.

The income growth in a number of states that once lagged following the Great Recession are now enjoying soaring levels of personal income among residents thanks to President Trump’s economy.

Former Vice President Joe Biden appeared to reverse course on his support for coal at the second Democrat presidential debate, despite having championed a “clean” form of the energy source throughout the Obama years. 

A West Virginia woman was sentenced to 15 years in prison after she admitted that she fatally stabbed her husband using a 14-inch knife during sexual foreplay.

Ostensibly environmentalist left-wingers living in smog-ridden cities lack credibility on environmental issues, said Gov. Jim Justice (R-WV), in a Wednesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

A rally of #RedforEd teachers at West Virginia’s state capitol on Monday failed to intimidate the GOP controlled West Virginia State Legislature from moving forward with legislation that would authorize charter schools in the state.

Silicon Valley investors have already gotten some election officials to begin using “vote by phone” technology, and hope that the concept will flourish, eventually becoming the new standardized voting procedure. Experts in coding and cryptography, however, are concerned over the tech innovation, warning that it will introduce more problems than it will solve.

West Virginia State Police on Wednesday morning shut down Interstate 68 for several hours near the Maryland border after a man allegedly threatened to assassinate President Donald Trump and bomb the Pentagon, according to reports. 

A fire destroyed nearly everything inside West Virginia church except for a cross and several bibles left untouched by the flames.