Updated: 7:53 AM Actress and activist Angelina Jolie had an elective double mastectomy because she's a carrier of the gene that causes breast cancer. A leading oncologist explains what that means to you and what you can do.
Posted: 5:50 PM The Ohio House has cleared a bill correcting a new state law that inadvertently allows coaches and referees in youth sports leagues to be criminally prosecuted for violating rules regarding players' head injuries.
Posted: 5:48 PM The Ohio House has unanimously approved a bill making more teachers eligible to participate in meeting Ohio's new third-grade reading guarantee.
Posted: 5:44 PM Some Ohio conservative activists who say they were targeted by the Internal Revenue Service are heading to Washington as federal investigations widen.
Posted: 5:29 PM A former sheriff convicted in the beating of a bank robber is being held at the Northern Regional Jail in Moundsville until the U.S. Bureau of Prisons has a bed for him.
Updated: 6:41 PM While the U.S. Government has been mentioned in a pair of controversies in recent days, a day-long conference held Tuesday was intended to explain to the public where they could go to see how their tax dollars are being spent.
Updated: 6:14 PM Go to our web channel, www.thenewscenter.tv, and click on the "Hot Button", for information on donating to two projects involving Fenton Art Glass.
Updated: 11:02 AM Bond was set for Amber Pickens in court Tuesday morning. She and another man are accused of robbing and beat up a victim during a phoney apartment showing.
Posted: 10:01 AM The Campus Martius museum in Marietta advises residents it will be firing up to 10 cannon rounds Tuesday afternoon as part of a Civil War field day for middle school students...this is just a demonstration.
Updated: 1:34 PM Melissa Lott is ordered to pay more than $13,000 restitution to the Wood County Board of Education after her indictment for embezzlement and grand larceny by embezzlement over a four-year period.
Updated: 6:44 PM Fourteen states have hate crime laws that do not include crimes based on sexual orientation or gender identity, West Virginia is one of them.
Updated: 6:46 PM West Virginia law enforcement officials have seized 200 meth labs to date in 2013, nearly approaching the 288 they shuttered in all of last year.
Updated: 5:54 PM Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin came to Parkersburg South High School Monday to sign the bill allowing the school's mascot to fire his muzzleloader at away games.
Posted: 5:18 PM A gay teacher challenging her firing by a central Ohio Catholic school says the local union for Catholic educators decided not to proceed with her complaint.
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