Posted: 6:02 PM Fire officials say an Ohio woman and her grandson were killed and their bodies thrown from their home in an explosion that was heard miles away.

Posted: 5:58 PM West Virginia lawmakers are weighing criminal penalties for funeral protesters just as the U.S. Supreme Court upheld such pickets.

Posted: 5:56 PM A man trying to scare away strays has been charged with making what he allegedly called "cat bombs."

Posted: 5:53 PM A judge has declared a mistrial in the case of a man accused of killing a Marshall County postmaster because of a lack of jurors.

Updated: 5:51 PM State lawmakers in Ohio have seen ultrasound images of two fetuses as proponents of what would be the most stringent abortion law in the nation pushed their proposal.

Posted: 5:49 PM Officials at a veterans administration hospital in southwest Ohio say nine patients have tested positive for hepatitis in screenings conducted because of a dentist who failed to change gloves and sterilize instruments properly between patients.

Posted: 5:47 PM Acting Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin and Treasurer John Perdue are refunding money that donors contributed to their 2012 campaigns.

Posted: 5:45 PM Ohio's attorney general says he'll meet next week with local, state and federal officials to figure out ways to pay for cleaning up meth labs should federal money for such work dry up.

Posted: 6:28 PM The tolls slated for a West Virginia section of U.S. Route 35 would go away after about 30 years under a measure advancing to a state Senate vote.

Posted: 6:24 PM West Virginia has ended its streak of nine better-than-expected months of general tax revenue collections.

Posted: 6:21 PM The Ohio Supreme Court has set three new execution dates for condemned killers, including a man on death row since 1984 for shooting his three sons as they lay in bed.

Updated: 6:19 PM A loss of more than 18,000 jobs in January pushed West Virginia's unemployment rate into double digits.

Posted: 5:41 PM Ohio's top election officer wants to get rid of a disputed weeklong period in which new voters can register and then immediately cast a ballot in what's traditionally a Presidential battleground state.

Posted: 5:39 PM The security chief of a Massey Energy Co. subsidiary has been charged with obstructing the investigation of a 2010 explosion that killed 29 miners at the company's Upper Big Branch mine in southern West Virginia.

Posted: 5:37 PM The Division of Natural Resources is proposing limits on the number of antlerless deer that hunters can kill in some counties.

Posted: 5:35 PM Ohio gasoline prices have shot up nearly 30 cents in the last week due to a jump in oil prices sparked by the violent power struggle in Libya.

Posted: 5:31 PM West Virginia's spring fire season is set to begin.

Posted: 5:45 PM The West Virginia Supreme Court says no judge has the right to review decisions made by the Secondary Schools Activities Commission about calls on the field or other rulings by game officials.

Posted: 5:43 PM Rising health care costs and an aging population could soon mean major changes to how West Virginia covers its public retirees.

Posted: 5:41 PM Ohio prison officials say the state has hit an 11-year low in the rate of inmates winding up back behind bars after they get out.

Posted: 5:40 PM Future trips to West Virginia's Division of Motor Vehicles may become more expensive under one senate committee's plan.

Posted: 5:38 PM Gov. John Kasich's administration wants to hike the cost of an Ohio vehicle title by $10 while eliminating a $20 late fee for driver license renewals.

Posted: 5:58 PM Ohio Senate leaders say they plan to change a collective bargaining bill to allow state workers the chance to negotiate wages, but the measure would now ban public employees from striking.

Posted: 5:54 PM Ohio Gov. John Kasich plans to give his biggest speech of the year on March 8, as the state faces an estimated $8 billion budget gap.

Posted: 5:53 PM A Morgantown drilling consultant who helped develop a plan last year to free 33 trapped chilean miners has kicked off his campaign for West Virginia Governor.