CHARLESTON (AP) — Public schools in West Virginia may soon be required to display the phrase “In God We Trust’’ in every building if a bill passed by the state Senate on Monday becomes law.

BUCKHANNON — The West Virginia State Wildlife Center is hosting its annual Groundhog Day event, complete with a weather forecast from French Creek Freddie.

CHARLESTON — A bill that would allow teachers, administrators and support personnel to carry guns in K-12 public schools is advancing in the West Virginia House of Delegates.

CHARLESTON — People in West Virginia would be permitted to collect unemployment benefits for fewer weeks and be required do more to prove they are searching for work to remain benefit-eligible under a bill passed last week by the state Senate.

CHARLESTON — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice unveiled his most ambitious personal income tax proposal yet last week: a 50 percent reduction over the next three years.

CHARLESTON — Police in West Virginia are seeking the public’s help for information in the shooting of an American bald eagle whose wing had to be partially amputated.

CHARLESTON — A West Virginia journalist lost her job last month after she reported about alleged abuse of people with disabilities within the state agency that runs West Virginia’s foster care and psychiatric facilities.

CHARLESTON — Public education, health insurance for government employees and restructuring the ailing Department of Health and Human Resources will be key priorities for West Virginia lawmakers during the new legislative session beginning next week.

SOUTH CHARLESTON — The bodies of two men from Duck, West Virginia, who jumped into the Elk River after a confrontation with an officer were recovered on Saturday, according to West Virginia State Police.

CHARLESTON — West Virginia has lifted its hiring freeze for the agency that runs the state’s foster care system and will offer bonuses for youth social service workers and other positions, Gov. Jim Justice said last week.

SOUTH CHARLESTON — The number of antlered white-tailed deer killed in West Virginia during the 2-week firearms season increased 18% compared to a year ago, wildlife officials said.

WASHINGTON  — A push by West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin to speed permits for natural gas pipelines and other energy projects has failed in the current Congress, but could come back as soon as next month.

CHARLESTON — A company that recycles scrap metal and turns it into sustainable steel plans to open a $450 million “micro mill” in West Virginia’s Eastern Panhandle, Gov. Jim Justice announced last week.

WASHINGTON — The prison beating death of notorious gangster James "Whitey’’ Bulger at the hands of fellow inmates was the result of multiple layers of management failures, widespread incompetence and flawed policies at the Bureau of Prisons, the Justice Department’s inspector general said in…

FAIRMONT (AP) — A tractor-trailer truck wound its way from Interstate 79 to the Baptist Temple church parking lot on Morgantown Avenue with a Fairmont Police Department escort.

CHARLESTON — West Virginia’s General Revenue collections last month were $112.7 million above estimates and 10.3% ahead of prior year receipts, Gov. Gov. Jim Justice said.

ELKINS — Ascend West Virginia announced on Tuesday that the program’s fourth group of recruits will soon be making their way to the Mountain State.

CHARLESTON — Republican Gov. Jim Justice said Wednesday that West Virginia’s state of emergency related to the COVID-19 pandemic will end at the start of the new year.

Delegate Moore Capito, the next generation of a West Virginia political dynasty, says he’s running for governor.

MILTON — As many industries across West Virginia are still dealing with worker shortages, Blenko Glass in Milton has been working for the past year with the U.S. Department of Labor Office of Apprenticeship and the West Virginia Department of Economic Development to build and implement the f…

CHARLESTON — West Virginia’s state treasurer is running for the U.S. House in 2024.

CHARLESTON — West Virginia’s Supreme Court released a full opinion Thursday in an order it issued last month that allowed a non-public school scholarship program to continue.

HINTON — Highway crews plan to build a temporary bridge over a giant sinkhole in southern West Virginia that has overtaken a road and threatened a nearby police department’s building.

CHARLESTON — A consulting firm hired to review West Virginia’s health agency has concluded the department should not be split as lawmakers wanted.

CHARLESTON — Republicans tightened their grip on the West Virginia Senate and House of Delegates, adding historic gains to their supermajorities in the general election.

CHARLESTON — Citing the “great danger” that a Navy engineer and his wife posed to U.S. security, a federal judge gave both of them lengthy prison terms last week for a plot to sell secrets about nuclear submarines to what they thought was a representative of a foreign government.

CHARLESTON — The two Christmas trees on display during the holidays this year on the Capitol Complex are Canaan Firs donated by Jim Rockis from his Christmas tree farm in Morgantown.

CHARLESTON  (AP) —  A federal judge ruled this week that one of  Gov. Jim Justice’s businesses owes more than $1.5 million to a Swiss company for undelivered coal.

CHARLESTON — West Virginia transportation officials say construction has begun on a full-service Division of Motor Vehicles regional office in Morgan County.

House Speaker Roger Hanshaw doesn’t want to stand still on West Virginia’s education performance.

MARTINSBURG — Clorox has opened a new cat litter plant that is expected to create more than 100 new jobs.

BERKELEY SPRINGS — Every couple weeks, Lauren Lee stuffs a few dozen gallon jugs into a big black laundry bag. She brings it to a covered pavilion right in the middle of Berkeley Springs State Park, which itself is right in the middle of downtown Berkeley Springs.

CHARLESTON — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice said last week he will propose a plan to eliminate a personal property tax on vehicles.

CHARLESTON (AP) — The State Auditor’s Office maintains that its new role in selling delinquent tax properties will aid communities plagued with vacant, dilapidated structures.

FAIRMONT, W.Va. (AP) _ Base Camp Printing highlights the beauty of West Virginia, without leaving the state.

CHARLESTON — The National Park Service is funding recreation and restoration projects in West Virginia state and local parks with $2.4 million.

CHARLESTON — A program that incentivizes West Virginia families to pull their children out of K-12 public schools by offering them state-funded scholarships will be able to resume, after the state Supreme Court issued an order Thursday reversing a lower court’s ruling.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court says it won’t review the conviction of former coal CEO Don Blankenship, who was found guilty of conspiring to violate safety standards at West Virginia’s Upper Big Branch mine before the 2010 explosion that killed 29 men.

MORGANTOWN — A West Virginia University fraternity has been cleared of hazing allegations but will be sanctioned separately on other violations, the school said.

CHARLESTON — A U.S. Navy nuclear engineer and his wife entered new guilty pleas last week in a case involving an alleged plot to sell secrets about nuclear-powered warships, a month after their previous plea agreements that had called for specific sentencing guidelines were rejected.