CHARLESTON, W.V. (AP) - The state Film Office has denied tax credits to a company planning an MTV reality series, citing concerns the show "Buck Wild" will negatively portray West Virginians.

WHEELING, W.V. (AP) - The Division of Highways says it has to prioritize repairs to more than 420 slips along Northern Panhandle roads because of a lack of funding.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - For the first time in nearly 70 years, the governors of the two states will have a more personal stake in the outcome when Ohio State and Michigan take to the field in their annual football rivalry.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A bill awaiting Gov. John Kasich's signature would allow Ohio college students to use grant money for their room and board tax-free.

LEBANON, Ohio (AP) - An anti-abortion group in southwest Ohio has severed ties with a statewide anti-abortion group partly over a bill that would ban abortions in the state after the first detectable fetal heartbeat.

CHARLESTON, W.V. (AP) - State officials say all but five West Virginia counties saw unemployment rates decline from September to October.

WESTERVILLE, Ohio (AP) - Authorities say a motorist who served nearly eight years in prison and lost his license after killing an Ohio trooper while driving drunk has been charged with driving under suspension and having an open mixed drink in the vehicle.

CHARLESTON, W.V. (AP) - Senate President Jeff Kessler is keeping the leadership team he assembled during his nearly yearlong tenure as the body's acting president.

BARBOURSVILLE, W.V. (AP) - Two Cabell County elementary schools are experimenting with single-gender classrooms to determine whether boys and girls can learn better without distractions.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Environmentalists and local officials complain that proposed standards for extracting oil and gas from the shale beneath Ohio don't go far enough.

WHEELING, W.V. (AP) - Several new displays await visitors to the annual Winter Festival of Lights at Wheeling's Oglebay Park.

CHARLESTON, W.V. (AP) - Patients at 10 West Virginia hospitals who pay out of pocket or with commercial insurance can expect higher bills next year.

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (AP) - Authorities in Ohio report another attack on an Amish man whose hair and beard were cut.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The state estimates that about 90,000 eligible military veterans are missing out on Ohio bonuses of up to $1,000.

CHARLESTON, W.V. (AP) - Emergency officials in some counties are questioning whether a state police-supported 311 telephone system for non-emergency calls is needed.

CLEVELAND (AP) - A poll worker in Ohio accused of biting a voter's nose during an Election Day argument has been charged with assault.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The lost Purple Heart of a World War II soldier who died in the D-Day invasion has been given to his Ohio brother after being anonymously left at a veterans' shelter in Maryland.

CHARLESTON, W.V. (AP) - A Utah man has pleaded guilty to federal charges in a multimillion-dollar mortgage fraud scheme involving a Hurricane subdivision called Stonegate.

KINGWOOD, W.V. (AP) - Producers of the All Good Music Festival in West Virginia deny responsibility for an accident that killed one South Carolina woman and injured two others.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Ohio troopers say stepped-up efforts to combat drunken driving have contributed to a nearly 9 percent drop in fatal accidents this year.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - An appeals court has refused to reopen federal claims by a condemned Ohio man who shot his three sons to death as they slept in 1982.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Ohio Republicans still hope they can avoid a June primary by instituting a new map of congressional districts before Dec. 7.

CLEVELAND (AP) - An Ohio poll worker suspected of trying to bite off the nose of a voter during an Election Day argument has surrendered to sheriff's deputies.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A national conservative group known for its annual rankings of members of Congress has released a report of the political leanings of Ohio's General Assembly.

CHARLESTON, W.V. (AP) - West Virginia's 10 community colleges are vowing to help soldiers pursue their educational goals even as they serve their country.