WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) announced she will host four Academy Days this September for West Virginia students interested in learning more about opportunities at the U.S. service academies and available Reserve Officer’s Training Corps (ROTC) ...

CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General J.B. McCuskey laid out his argument to the U.S. Supreme Court defending the state’s law meant to keep transgender girls and women from competing with biological girls and women in public school and college athletics. The Attorney General’s ...

WELLSBURG — A Wellsburg man has been sentenced to life in prison, without chance of parole, after pleading guilty to the murder of his father, a death that had been called a suicide 37 years ago. The sentence for James Edward Adams Sr., 63, of Wellsburg, was complicated initially by ...

GRANTSVILLE — A Calhoun County commissioner and teacher was arrested Friday and charged with sexual abuse. According to a criminal complaint filed in Calhoun County Magistrate Court, Jacob Daniel McCumbers, 39, of Arnoldsburg, was charged with sexual abuse by a parent, guardian, custodian ...

ELKINS — Randolph County Schools Superintendent Dr. Shawn Dilly gave the Board of Education an update on the county’s enrollment at the most recent BOE meeting. Dilly provided new numbers to start the school year, and later in the meeting dipped into the role artificial intelligence may ...