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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- State employees who use their own vehicles for official business will get the same reimbursement from the state this year as they did in 2011.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Kanawha Players' adaptation of "Lend Me a Tenor" did well to portray all the qualities of a TV sitcom, where everything goes wrong, but things somehow return to room temperature at the end.

Bob Aaron Web Producer: Bethany Simmons Reported: Feb. 10, 2012 11:07 AM EST Updated: Feb.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Country star Miranda Lambert returns to Charleston March 25 with a show at the Charleston Civic Center.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Eight housing agencies in southern West Virginia will receive $2.1 million for repair projects and facility improvements.

While tuition bills continue to skyrocket, a small but growing number of private colleges and universities are bucking the trend and going on sale.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - The state Public Employees Insurance Agency is not going to leave retired public workers to fend for themselves amid rising health insurance costs, the agency director said Thursday.

The Ramada Inn Downtown Charleston's 12th floor will be converted into four condominiums.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - State lawmakers and the Tomblin administration are about to claim victory over a long-term funding shortfall, but critics on both sides worry the accomplishment will be costly to retired public workers and could be undone by political pressure.

Ashley Smith Videographer: Matt Durrett Web Producer: Ashley Smith Reported: Feb.

Shawn Lester, accused of the 2003 sniper-style shootings, listens as his lead attorney George Castelle argues for a change of venue in the highly publicized murder trial.

Kevin Byrne, president of the Association of University Research Parks, makes a point as Georgette George, a member of the West Virginia Regional Technology Park Corp.'s Board of Directors, and Charles D'Agostino, vice president and executive director of Louisiana State University's Louisiana Business & Technology Center, listen.

A panel of judges listened to 52 singers audition for Symphony Idol and chose eight finalists.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Efforts to protect gay and lesbian West Virginians from housing and workplace discrimination have gained two new champions.

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Charleston attorney Charles R. "Rusty" Webb is continuing with his tradition of giving a free divorce on Valentine's Day for the fifth year.

By RICHIE HEATH CHARLESTON -- While a lot has been made about the amount of third party spending in West Virginia judicial elections, not much coverage has been devoted to the amount of money actually spent by judicial candidates in recent elections for West Virginia's high court.

Hackers affiliated with the group Anonymous obtained personal information for more than 150 police officers from an old website of the West Virginia Chiefs of Police Association and posted the data online.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- West Virginia University's Center for Excellence in Disabilities is recruiting families of autistic children for a study and free behavioral therapy training.

Dr. Charles Knowles, a veterinarian and owner of Knowles Animal Hospital in Logan, surveys damage in the upper level the building Tuesday.