SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.V. (AP) - West Virginia's buck season begins in less than two weeks, and the Division of Natural Resources says conditions are good for hunters.

CHARLESTON, W.V. (AP) - A statue honoring West Virginia's women veterans will be officially commemorated this week, about a year after it was installed at the Capitol Complex.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Squeezed into a new Ohio House district with a fellow Democrat, one state representative has decided to pack up and move across town to avoid a re-election battle.

CLEVELAND (AP) - The nation's top labor leader is leading the final union push in a fierce election battle over Ohio's collective bargaining law.

MORGANTOWN, W.V. (AP) - A proposed anti-bullying policy for West Virginia schools acknowledges for the first time that sexual orientation and gender identity are common reasons for harassment. Had it been in place when Michael White was in middle-school, it might have spared him the worst years of his life.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Veterans groups have bought 1,200 American flags for a major Ohio school district that now requires the Pledge of Allegiance but didn't have enough flags to pledge to.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Ohio motorists are paying a dime less for gasoline than they were a week ago, but analysts are expecting prices to rise again before long.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Ohio Gov. John Kasich has signed into law a bill designed to limit abortions for girls under age 18.

RANSON, W.V. (AP) - Authorities say a report of an exploding package and white powder at a West Virginia post office turned out to be just a malfunctioning fluorescent light bulb.

HUNTINGTON, W.V. (AP) - Amazon.com has opened a new 70,000-square-foot customer service center in Huntington that state officials say will create more than 200 full-time jobs.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A state lawmaker from Youngstown says Democrats will stick together and oppose a revised map of Ohio congressional districts that's scheduled for a vote Thursday in the Republican-led Ohio House.

CHARLESTON, W.V. (AP) - When Daylight Savings Time ends this weekend, it will take Roger Mackey a little longer than most people to fall back.

WHEELING, W.V. (AP) - Crews are preparing Oglebay Park in Wheeling for the annual Winter Festival of Lights.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A new analysis shows members of Ohio's college class of 2010 who took out student loans graduated with 7 percent more debt than students who finished the year before.

CHARLESTON, W.V. (AP) - West Virginia is getting a tax revenue boost from rising values of utility companies' properties.

PRINCETON, W.V. (AP) - A southern West Virginia jury has convicted a Tennessee man on charges of trying to buy his two granddaughters from his former daughter-in-law.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Ohio officials acknowledge that a state website identifying the whereabouts of convicted sex offenders recently listed people no longer required to register.

CHARLESTON, W.V. (AP) - Attorney General Darrell McGraw is warning West Virginia consumers to be wary of callers claiming to be agents with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration or law enforcement officers.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Though it's only the start of November, an annual program has restarted to help poor and elderly Ohioans with their winter heating bills.

MORGANTOWN, W.V. (AP) - West Virginia's fourth- and eighth-graders are doing slightly better than they were two years ago in both reading and math, but their scores remain below the national averages.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A Republican negotiator says a deal is getting close on an alternative map of new Ohio congressional districts.

CHARLESTON, W.V. (AP) - A new report on premature births gives W.V. D grade, despite a decline in the state's rate.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Supporters of an Ohio bill that would ban abortions after the first detectable fetal heartbeat will begin airing an ad in Dayton on Tuesday, urging voters to ask their state Senators to pass the bill.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The Ohio Parole Board has rejected a request for mercy from a condemned man who shot his three sons to death as they slept in 1982.

CHARLESTON, W.V. (AP) - West Virginia artists are being invited to create ornaments for the holiday tree at the governor's mansion.