West Virginia

Nearly two weeks in the trees cost Catherine "Fern" MacDougal two days of freedom.

West Virginia officials rejected Don Blankenship's attempt to appear on the U.S. Senate ballot in November.

The contracts are hoped to curb the U.S.'s opioid crisis.

"We have a three-alarm fire in West Virginia," said Republican strategist Ford O'Connell.

Don Blankenship hit headlines previously with his 'Cocaine Mitch' ad.

The candidate, who previously called McConnell's father-in-law a "Chinaperson," talks over a country melody in the political ad.

For decades, presidents, lobbyists and policymakers have invoked the image of coal miners.

"Catching the dealers and the pushers, I'd like to take them out back and waterboard them," Jack Newbrough said.

Part of the victim's body was found near the home where Roena Cheryl Mills was discovered covered in blood.

The four-day strike had left more than a quarter of a million students out of school.

The West Virginia teacher strike is heavily intertwined with natural gas and energy policy.

"Nobody's going to shoot at me or anything, are you?" West Virginia Governor Jim Justice asked a crowd of striking teachers at a town hall meeting.

A two percent increase in pay amounts to about $800 a year. Teachers are saying it isn't enough.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee has sent letters to three top drug distributors requesting more information.

The state currently ranks in the bottom 10 for public school teacher pay.

The West Virginia Democrat that Pence touted as proof of Democrats swinging Republican is a Democrat in name only.

Drug wholesalers also shipped millions of pills to another town with 400 people.

The political climate has increased "the effort to inject religion into public schools more often," an ACLU attorney said.

Blankenship was sentenced to a year in prison in 2015 for conspiring to break mine safety laws after an investigation into the deaths of 29 miners in 2010.

African American children and children who've been abused are disproportionately handed life sentences.

Charles Krauthammer argued on Fox News this week that impeachment would sow division.

Your political affiliation may determine what you think it meant, but in the grand scheme, double rainbows aren't uncommon.

West Virginia is a state that has been aggressive in taking advantage of opportunities offered by the federal government under the Affordable Care Act.

When the going gets tough, Americans used to get up and go. Not today they don't.

The Rust Belt revolted against the rolling out of a neoliberal new economy and multicultural society.

For those suffering from the symptoms of electromagnetic hypersensitivity, the town of Green Bank, West Virginia, provides a quiet refuge.

The state received one-quarter of its annual rainfall in one day as storms sweep through midwest and beyond.

Hillary Clinton hasn't closed the deal yet, and there's not much indication she can before July.

The result is unlikely to alter the outcome of either the Democratic or Republican race.

Bernie Sanders leads Hillary Clinton in polls out of the Mountain State.