Posted: 4:03 PM 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.
Posted: 3:53 PM COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A Republican negotiator says a deal is getting close on an alternative map of new Ohio congressional districts.
Updated: 3:35 PM CHARLESTON, W.V. (AP) - A new report on premature births gives W.V. D grade, despite a decline in the state's rate.
Posted: 3:33 PM 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.
Posted: 3:51 PM 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.
Posted: 3:49 PM CHARLESTON, W.V. (AP) - West Virginia artists are being invited to create ornaments for the holiday tree at the governor's mansion.
Updated: 3:48 PM KINGWOOD, W.V. (AP) - Three people arrested during this summer's All Good Music Festival in Preston County remain behind bars.
Posted: 3:45 PM COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Ohio gasoline prices continue to zigzag with oil prices, as markets remain uncertain about the economy.
Posted: 3:35 PM CHARLESTON, W.V. (AP) - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is using West Virginia schools as an example for good child nutrition standards and outreach efforts.
Posted: 3:33 PM CHARLESTON, W.V. (AP) - Lawyers for a 22-year-old Mingo County man who says three West Virginia state troopers and several local officers repeatedly assaulted him have filed a lawsuit in federal court.
Posted: 5:35 PM CLEVELAND (AP) - Police say a Cleveland couple tried to give their 2-year-old daughter to a neighbor, telling him they were going to drug rehab.
Posted: 5:34 PM CHARLESTON, W.V. (AP) - An early winter storm could clip a dozen counties in West Virginia.
Posted: 5:32 PM COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - An Ohio student group is asking its peers to avoid costumes based on racial or ethnic stereotypes this Halloween.
Posted: 5:30 PM COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Democrats won't have extra time to try to repeal Ohio's new congressional districts under a Thursday state Supreme Court decision.
Posted: 5:27 PM HUNTINGTON, W.V. (AP) - Occupy Huntington activists are celebrating their third week of protest.
Posted: 5:45 PM BAINBRIDGE, Ohio (AP) - Police in northeast Ohio captured a nearly topless speeder on dashcam video and charged her with drunken driving.
Posted: 5:44 PM CULLODEN, W.V. (AP) - A West Virginia man has been reunited with his best friend, and police are looking for a Hurricane man believed to be responsible for their separation.
Posted: 5:43 PM LEBANON, Ohio (AP) - A former Ohio high school teacher has been found guilty of having sex with teenage boys at her home.
Posted: 5:37 PM CHARLESTON, W.V. (AP) - Two West Virginia outdoor attractions are getting the attention of the nation's interior secretary, Ken Salazar.
Posted: 5:31 PM WHEELING, W.V. (AP) - Nearly 100 federal inmates serving time for crack cocaine offenses in West Virginia's Northern District will be released from prison next week under revised sentencing guidelines.
Posted: 5:23 PM COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The Ohio Supreme Court has set execution dates for a man who killed a hotel clerk in northeast Ohio and a double killer whose victims included a suburban Cleveland police officer.
Updated: 5:19 PM CHARLESTON, W.V. (AP) - West Virginia is playing catch up on a delayed project to use federal stimulus funding to expand high-speed Internet access in the state.
Posted: 5:15 PM COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A new poll ahead of next month's election finds growing opposition to an Ohio law limiting the bargaining rights of 350,000 public sector workers.
Posted: 5:05 PM CINCINNATI (AP) - Ohio Republican officials say presidential contender Mitt Romney will visit volunteers at a phone center seeking supporters for Ohio ballot issues on public employee bargaining and on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
Updated: 5:02 PM CHARLESTON, W.V. (AP) - West Virginia wildlife calendars are now available to help you plan 2012.
