MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia University President Gordon Gee has penned a letter to the campus community as his four decade career as a university president winds down. Gee’s last day on the job ...

Two former West Virginia correctional officers were sentenced to decades in prison on Wednesday for their roles in an assault that resulted in the death of an inmate.

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Mystery surrounds an inmate’s escape nearly 100 years after he broke free from a North Carolina prison, historians said. “On July 10, 1930, Otto Wood made his final escape from Central Prison,” the ...

A lawsuit brought by several inmates in West Virginia’s correctional system raising issues about conditions under the previous administration of former governor Jim Justice was dismissed by a federal ...

A lawsuit brought by several inmates in West Virginia’s correctional system raising issues about conditions under the ...

A West Virginia man who lost nearly his entire family in a 2020 quadruple homicide is speaking publicly for the first time.

Owen Christopher Johnson, 28, of Ashton has been sentenced to 30-to-60 years in prison after being convicted on three counts ...

According to state officials, the water is flowing again at the Mount Olive Correctional Complex in Fayette County, after officials at the facility originally notified state agencies last week they ...

Hurricane Katrina is the deadliest flood event in the U.S. in the past 25 years. The storm crashed into the Gulf Coast and ...