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With the hiring season for the next school year well underway, county education officials soon will have to adapt their procedures to comply with new rules.

Members of the Wheeling Human Rights Commission are about to wrap up their only remaining open case as they brace for a massive funding cut - but members do not believe the case has to be their last.

Firefighters responded to a blaze in East Bank on Tuesday morning that completely destroyed a home, said Kanawha County Fire Coordinator C.W. Sigman.

Capitol Street and the surrounding area have changed a lot over the past few decades, but few changes had as much of an impact on the area as the opening of Charleston Town Center , which drew city shoppers away from what had been the hub of downtown Charleston shopping for decades.

Charleston , Kanawha County , West Virginia Two staffing agency executives have pleaded guilty to federal employment tax evasion charges.

Charleston , Kanawha County , West Virginia Runners like to move fast, and here's a deal you don't want to slip away from you.

Spring is definitely here and so is the Charleston Blues Fest in downtown this weekend, and if you're heading that way, listen up.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Citing a poor sales environment and high electricity costs, New Haven steel additive manufacturer Felman Production is planning to lay off some workers and temporarily shut down one of its furnaces next month.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Charleston police are trying to find out who shot a man on the city's West Side early Sunday.

Kennie Bass Videographer: Matt Durrett Web Producer: Kennie Bass Reported: May. 20, 2013 4:42 PM EDT Updated: May.

Charleston , Kanawha County , West Virginia The U.S. Department of Education has approved West Virginia's waiver request from the federal education accountability law.

Jeff Morris Web Producer: Jeff Morris Reported: May. 20, 2013 1:38 PM EDT Updated: May.

Erique Harris, 21, pleaded guilty to first-degree sexual assault and second-degree sexual assault in Kanawha Circuit Court, according to assistant prosecutor Michele Drummond.

A Charleston neurologist who prescribed hydrocodone more than any other doctor in the state in 2010 had been disciplined twice before by the West Virginia Board of Medicine.

A legislative audit of Potomac State College found a lack of internal controls on inventory and payment card security, legislators were told Monday.

A Charleston man who was shot on the West Side early Sunday morning remains in the hospital in stable condition suffering broken leg.

The gilded dome of the state capitol is Charleston's best-known feature, but government is only part of the story here.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The West Virginia Supreme Court reversed a lower court's decision that would have let a convicted drunk driver get off without having his driver's license suspended.

You're out of luck if you try to head up South Ruffner Road these days, at least during normal working hours.

A pregnancy center that counsels women not to have abortions has moved next door to a women's health facility in Charleston that provides abortions.