Robert Bosch Tool Corp. announces a recall of Skil Warrior drill battery chargers.

A woman is arrested for selling drugs near a school.

The Bush Administration Friday raised the national terror alert from yellow to orange, citing a U.S. intelligence warning of a "high risk" of terrorist attack, a senior administration official said.

UWATEC AG announced a recall of dive computers sold in 1995 and 1996 and Trak Inc. announced a recall of snowshoe bindings.

NASA engineers settled into their long, joyless task of figuring out how space shuttle Columbia broke apart, saying conditions in the shuttle's final minutes point to a possible problem with its critical heat-protection tiles.

The battle over open heart surgery between Parkersburg's two hospitals continues in Charleston.

Some Cooper Lighting 500-watt halogen bulbs and Zenith large-screen televisions have been recalled.

Valentines are arriving in the mail in Loveland, Colorado, from all over the world to receive the town’s stamp of love.

Some Baseline Design beanbag chairs have zippers that can be opened, allowing access to the polystyrene beads inside the chairs.

President Bush had some familiar themes in his State of the Union address.

Top weapons inspector Hans Blix said Monday that Baghdad had not genuinely accepted U.N. resolutions demanding that it disarm.

After drawn-out debate and a nearly unprecedented reshuffling of the federal bureaucracy, the Department of Homeland Security became the government's 15th Cabinet department Friday.

About 364,000 portable wooden cribs are being recalled because the bottoms can fall out if not tightly assembled, the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced Thursday.

Marchers will mark the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

The Army is sending its most modern combat division to the Persian Gulf region and the Navy is dispatching two aircraft carriers to join two others already within striking distance of Iraq, officials said Tuesday.

Parkersburg police continue to investigate an explosion early Monday morning on Market Street.

Build-A-Bear Workshop has announced a recall of "Founding Bear" stuffed bears because of a choking hazard.

Exploding pans recalled.

The House Judiciary Committee passed a medical malpractice reform bill Monday night.

A commuter plane carrying 21 people crashed into an airport hangar on takeoff Wednesday and burst into flames, killing everyone aboard, authorities said.

When a Tennessee man sped through all three tollbooths on the West Virginia Turnpike, he drove more than 75 miles before any state troopers were available to pursue him.

Gov. Taft signed a bill today allowing the donation of unused prescription drugs to needy Ohioans.

Millions of travelers arriving and departing the U.S. will have to submit detailed personal information this year under rules proposed by the federal government Friday as part of the war on terrorism.

A walkout by surgeons protesting high malpractice insurance costs will continue indefinitely because Gov. Bob Wise and the Legislature have not done enough to address the problem, a participating surgeon said Friday.

The number of miners killed on the job in the United States in 2002 fell to the lowest level on record: 67.