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Bethany College’s board has chosen the Rev. Dr. Tamara Rodenberg to serve as the school’s 20th president, effective Jan. 1. 2016. Bethany was founded in 1840 and is West Virginia’s oldest private college.

A report says West Virginia had the second-highest rate of obesity among adults in the nation. The report was released Monday by Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. It found...

Former U.S. Nick Rahall is donating 2,000 boxes of documents from his congressional career to West Virginia University. The papers include testimony, speeches, news releases and other documents. Rahall represented southern West Virginia for...

Leaders are using new data on poverty to try to do something about it. Kanawha County’s 17 percent poverty rate last year was the highest it has been in the last decade, with the...

Two men from Mexico each face up to five years in prison after pleading guilty in West Virginia to conspiring to commit credit card fraud. U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin says 22-year-old Marco Carillio and...

Researchers plan to survey West Virginia residents about their experiences with crime as part of a study of crime reporting in the state. Other study topics include residents’ willingness to seek help from law...

Miguel Quinones is charged with murder in the death of Kareem Hunter last year in Charleston, and ten attorneys have bee appointed to represent him. The Charleston Gazette reporting that two attorneys filed a...

Two men have been charged with illegally trafficking guns from West Virginia to Maryland. A federal grand jury in Elkins returned an indictment charging 26-year-old Jarrud Dixon of New Market, Maryland, and 32-year-old Robert...

An elementary school gets the all clear after an issue with bed bugs last week. Chamberlain Elementary in Kanawha City closed early Friday because bed bugs were found in a locker, and then another...

Four energy partners have formally asked the federal government for permission to build a 564-mile natural gas pipeline in West Virginia, Virginia and North Carolina. The application for the $5.1 billion Atlantic Coast Pipeline...