Washington (AP) -- Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie are asking for your votes, lots and lots of your votes.

West Virginia's legislature has given itself until early June to pass a new state budget.

A federal bankruptcy judge has approved debtor-in-possession financing and auction procedures for the sale of West Virginia's historic Greenbrier Resort.

Veteran Justice Thomas McHugh has been officially sworn in to fill the unexpired term of State Supreme Court Justice Joseph Albright, who died last month.

The Ohio Supreme Court has set execution dates for two more condemned killers as the state picks up the pace of its capital punishment cases.

The House Judiciary Committee will not consider legislation this session adding sexual orientation to West Virginia anti-discrimination laws.

The House Education Committee doesn't want the promise college scholarship to increase its test score requirement.

An Ohio man who had to use the bathroom on an International Delta Air lines flight from Honduras to Atlanta faces a federal felony charge.

A report has found a consensus among academics, election officials and lawmakers on a number of broad changes that are needed in Ohio's election laws.

Not all counties favor legislation requiring West Virginia regional jails to return excess funds.

A recovery team is searching the Ohio River for a deckhand who fell off a barge while it was delivering coal to a power plant.

After polishing off a breakfast of free doughnuts and fast food sandwiches, a House of Delegates committee killed a bill that would require restaurants to post calorie counts for food items.

A new Families USA report shows about 497,000 West Virginians, or nearly one in three non-elderly residents, were uninsured for some period of time in 2007-2008.

A storm that dumped almost 8 inches of snow on parts of Michigan is now blanketing areas in northeast Ohio.

Through the persistence of some school students, Ohio now has an official state fruit: The tomato.

Doctors say a Connecticut woman who was nearly killed by a chimpanzee suffered such damage to her eyes that she will be blind for life.

The world's oldest known living person is celebrating her 115th birthday in Los Angeles.

A lawmaker has filed a lawsuit to force Gov. Ted Strickland to reveal more details of his plan for funding Ohio schools.

Hundreds of temporary census workers are starting a canvass of Ohio housing units to get ready for next year's people count.

The federal courthouse in Charleston is getting a green facelift.

The Morgan County Sheriff's Department has released the identities of three members of a Pennsylvania family killed in a weekend traffic accident near Berkeley Springs.

West Virginia University has received an $85,000 grant to help rural newspapers produce multimedia content for their web sites.

Negotiators for AT&T Inc. and union officials representing 112,500 employees are discussing new labor agreements.

West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller is weighing in on a dispute between Bayer Cropscience and the National Chemical Safety Hazard Investigation board.

Wastewater treatment projects designed to protect the environment and put people to work have received funding from the federal government.