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Voters in West Virginia’s May 12 Primary may need some extra time to study the candidates before going to the ballot box.

In what they acknowledged is a long-shot bid, West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice and Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. urged unhappy Virginia counties Tuesday to secede and join a neighboring state where Democrats aren’t in charge.

Ohio's attorney general has approved the next step of a proposal to amend the state constitution to raise the minimum wage.

West Virginia officials are looking for volunteers to help clean up litter on state streams or public lands.

The West Virginia House of Delegates has approved a measure that would make it a crime to give someone a drug that kills them.

A bill on the way to Gov. Mike DeWine is aimed at protecting the hearing of motorcyclists.

House Republicans in Ohio are discussing doing away with the death penalty, as executions remain on hold amid the state's struggles to obtain lethal-injection drugs.

A gold bar worth almost $1,500 has been found among donations to one of the Salvation Army's red kettles in Kentucky.

An adverse reaction to a prescription drug sent five Lewis County high-school students to the hospital on Monday, authorities said.

Hunting and fishing licenses for next year have gone on sale in West Virginia

A record 8,020 people registered to vote in September, West Virginia election officials said.

Bankrupt Timberline ski report sold at auction for $2.2 million.

The parent company of Broughton Foods in Marietta announced Tuesday that it will seek bankruptcy protection as it seeks to reorganize its finances.

Country singer Kathy Mattea will be coaching music students at West Virginia University.

Ohio-based Murray Energy, a major U.S. coal-mining company, filed for bankruptcy protection on Tuesday.

West Virginia is preparing for a potential $100 million cut to the state budget, an official said on Friday.

Gov. Mike DeWine has ordered flags in parts of the Ohio lowered to half-staff to honor an Ohio soldier killed in an Army training accident in Georgia.

Pharmacies in Ohio will soon offer biodegradable bags so people who are prescribed opioids for work injuries can safely dispose of any opioids they don't use.

Former Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who ran against President Donald Trump in the 2016 Republican primary, said he supports impeaching the president.

A new raising the minimum age to buy tobacco products from 18 to 21 goes into effect on Thursday in Ohio.

Open enrollment for Medicare is underway in Ohio. Residents have until Dec. 7 to sign up or make changes to their coverage under the government health-insurance plan.

The Ohio Department of Aging is accepting nominations for the state's Senior Citizens Hall of Fame.

Hepatitis C cases in the West Virginia's largest county have soared to the highest numbers in years, months after a program offering clean needles was suspended, state Health Department data shows.

The number of induced abortions in Ohio continued a downward trajectory last year, the state Department of Health said.

West Virginia's two U.S. senators want to make the New River Gorge a national park.

The Ohio Department of Health has confirmed the first human death in the state this year from the West Nile virus.

An Ohio lawmaker has introduced a bill banning the sale of flavored vaping products as concerns grow about health effects of vaping.

No bids were received during a competitive lease sale for coal underneath about 430 acres of the Wayne National Forest, the federal government said.

Federal authorities have charged 17 people with distributing methamphetamine and heroin in shipments from California to West Virginia.

The West Virginia State Police is offering several testing dates for people interested in becoming a state trooper.