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Calling his conduct reprehensible, West Virginia's Supreme Court stripped a veteran lawyer and frequent political candidate of his license Monday after he had someone involuntarily committed on mental health allegations later deemed untrue.

Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin announced Monday that delegates would meet Tuesday in special session to elect outgoing Speaker Rick Thompson's replacement.

A member of the Kennedy family will come to Wheeling this week on West Virginia's 150th birthday to honor the state's place in Kennedy family history and discuss the need to eliminate child poverty in West Virginia, state Senate President Jeff Kessler announced.

Charleston residents will continue to receive garbage and recycling bags for the next year, but how they get those bags is set to change.

First Lady Joanne Jaeger Tomblin stands with a few of the 72 quilters who assembled the West Virginia Sesquicentennial Quilt at the West Virginia Culture Center on Monday.

Police investigate a shooting that took place in the crosswalk between the Charleston Town Center Mall and the Charleston Civic Center on Monday afternoon.

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A West Virginia nursing home owner and his wife have made a record $5 million donation to the Kent State University College of Architecture and Environmental Design, university officials announced Monday.

Kanawha Circuit Judge Duke Bloom approved a request from Zachary Jones, the son of Charleston Mayor Danny Jones, to attend a drug treatment center in Huntington.

A Charleston man who pleaded guilty to charges in the stabbing of a University of a Charleston football player last year outside a Capitol Street nightclub told a judge if given home confinement, he'd never commit another crime.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Charleston Police are investigating a shooting after a man walked into St. Francis Hospital with a gunshot wound.

Reviving an idea shelved four years ago, University of Charleston leaders once again hope to build upscale housing along the Kanawha riverfront at Triana Field.

West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey wants to find out how abortion-providing clinics in West Virginia are regulated.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Alexander Holstein, 8, doesn't hesitate when asked what he wants to be when he grows up.

After more than two decades in fire service, first as a firefighter and later as West Virginia's fire marshal, Sterling Lewis stepped down last month to experiment with life in retirement.

Herbert Hoover was recently named a "School of Excellence" by the state Department of Education.

Charleston City Council's Strong Neighborhoods Task Force will implement a third phase of this popular public art project.

A shooting in Raleigh County left a man in critical condition Sunday. William Shelton,30, has been arrested for the shooting in the Lanark area .

West Virginia is sticking with new standards for math, reading and writing in public schools, but faces opposition fueled by the tea party movement, which believes the benchmarks are part of an attempted federal takeover of local education authority.

To her grandchildren, Anita Shackelford is just Grandma -- a great cook who spends time with them when she isn't running that business she has.