CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia couple accused of neglect and forced labor involving their adopted children was convicted by a jury on Wednesday after eight hours of deliberations.
Jeanne Kay Whitefeather and Donald Ray Lantz went on trial in mid-January and each faced over a dozen ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez was sentenced Wednesday to 11 years in prison for accepting bribes of gold and cash and acting as an agent of Egypt -- crimes his own lawyer said earned him the nickname "Gold Bar Bob."
U.S. District Judge Sidney H. Stein announced the sentence ...
BECKLEY, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia pharmacist already serving a federal prison sentence in a fraud case was convicted Wednesday in state court in the killing of her husband.
A jury found Natalie Cochran guilty of first-degree murder in Raleigh County Circuit Court, news outlets reported. ...
CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Democratic Party is hoping the filing of a second lawsuit over the issue of what political party gets to choose the replacement for Joseph de Soto in the 91st District House of Delegates seat will get around a stay of their first lawsuit.
The party filed a new ...
CHARLESTON — A Parkersburg man was sentenced last week to three years in prison on a federal gun charge.
Christian Elliott, 21, of Parkersburg, pleaded guilty in September to a charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
According to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for ...
CHARLESTON — A spokesperson for the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals clarified Friday that the automatic stay requested last week by House Speaker Roger Hanshaw of a lawsuit filed by the state Democratic Party over who should be appointed to a forfeited House of Delegates seat is in ...