Authorities are offering a $5,000 reward for information on a pair of fires ruled suspicious in Chillicothe in southern Ohio.

A federal judge says Ohio's lethal injection process has flaws but is not unconstitutional, paving the way for the possible execution of a man who mutilated his victim and left her body parts in Ohio and Pennsylvania.

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources is teaming up with grocers to help recycle plastic bags.

A lawyer for an FBI police officer accused of spying on girls as they tried on prom dresses at a charity event says his client is innocent and expects to be acquitted.

The state and Appalachian Regional Healthcare are planning a new $47 million psychiatric treatment facility in Beckley.

A West Virginia man has pleaded no contest to a charge that he illegally trapped a black bear in Pendleton County last October.

Gov. Joe Manchin wants the West Virginia Legislature to revisit failed proposals addressing student achievement, post-mining land use and high-tech economic development.

The FBI won't comment on two West Virginia employees charged with spying on girls who were trying on prom dresses at a charity event.

The West Virginia School Building Authority has awarded $124.2 million for school construction projects across the state.

Four television stations in Cincinnati have been asked to provide a court with videotaped interviews of jurors who found a man guilty of murder in the bathtub drowning of his wife.

A judge has denied bond for a Marine who fled to Mexico shortly before he was charged with killing a pregnant colleague in North Carolina.

Only two West Virginia colleges came through a productivity review of their degree programs with no recommendations for change.

With all eight of its state-owned hospitals using electronic health records, West Virginia is hoping to reap some of the roughly $17 billion in federal stimulus funds intended as incentives for such systems.

Gov. Joe Manchin is expected to announce whether he will ask the legislature to revisit any proposals that failed to pass the recently concluded regular session.

State and federal authorities say DuPont and Lucite International have agreed to pay $2 million to settle air pollution violations at a West Virginia plant.

Charleston, W.Va. (Ap) -- Marshall and West Virginia Universities are interested in continuing their cross-state football rivalry, but both schools want to modify the terms of the annual series.

West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw is warning consumers about businesses offering to help avoid foreclosures or to modify mortgages.

Ohio's Kings Island amusement park has collected $102,000 in an online charity auction for the first rides on its newest roller coaster.

Morgantown, WV (AP) -- U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller's office says the West Virginia lawmaker has undergone successful surgery to repair a torn tendon in his knee.

A Federal Appeals Court has granted a stay of deportation to Germany for accused nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk.

Gov. Joe Manchin is now deciding the fate of the few major health bills to emerge from a legislative session that left many others banged up and stranded in various committees.

The search is back on for a 26-year-old deckhand from Pittsburgh who fell from a coal barge into the Ohio River.

West Virginia University's interim president says tuition may go up as much as 4 percent this fall.

A lot of attention has been given to what the West Virginia Legislature didn't do in its 60 day session, and governor Manchin says it's time to focus on what was accomplished.

When West Virginia's Legislature returns in late May to craft next year's state budget, lawmakers could also revisit some of the topics that proved too thorny for the regular session.