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INSTITUTE, W.Va. - West Virginia State University has named Ashley Schumaker as the president's chief of staff and special assistant.

The engineering/technology program began this year, and 29 students currently are enrolled in the academy, Dr.

Samantha Rizzo shows off her diploma to people in the balcony during Saturday's graduation ceremony at West Virginia State University.

After more than 120 years in the community, an East End church will likely close its doors soon, a church official said.

For Northwestern track and field athlete Julisa Tindall, winning her third straight Class AAAA high jump state championship this Saturday at Spring Valley High School won’t be a charm; it’s expected.

While most people use tomatoes for food, Barbara Liedl is using them to teach students about teamwork, patience and the importance of hands-on learning.

The Kanawha Valley is preparing for the worst. The Kanawha/Putnam Emergency Planning Commission is using nearly $1 million in grant money to purchase 20 more state-of-the-art outdoor mod sirens to warn residents when danger is headed their way.

Just one day after learning she'd been accepted into the University of Virginia, James River High School senior Madison Ruddy is also learning that her family will pay $12,458 for her first year of education.

The parents of a Virginia State University student who drowned in the Appomattox River last month are criticizing the university's plan to stop hazing.

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With the help of the Virginia State University affiliated Cooperative Extension, farmer James Brown is trying to grow chickpeas at his farm in Clover.

Virginia State University has announced new anti-hazing initiatives that the university president says he hopes "will lead the effort to deter this abhorrent practice." Virginia State University President Keith T. Miller says hazing is not just a problem for college campuses, but is a societal problem.

The president of the Virginia State University's Student Government Association is fighting to have a guilty plea in a hazing case thrown out after he says the commonwealth's attorney pressured him.

Dionne Williams, right, pauses while speaking about her son Jauwan M. Holmes Thursday evening.

One of the men police say is connected to the apparent drowning of two Virginia State University students during an apparent hazing ritual will go on trial in June.

Major General James A. Hoyer, Adjutant General of West Virginia will address the 2013 graduating class of Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College Saturday, May 4. Commencement exercises will begin at 10 a.m. at the Coalfield Jamboree Theater in downtown Logan.

Growing up in the Park Heights in the community of Northwest Baltimore in the 1960s and 1970s, Harry Black never thought he would work in public administration, much less become director of finance for Baltimore.

Brandon Randleman has been convicted of misdemeanor hazing charges and his lawyer said he was pressured into signing a plea agreement.

The president of Virginia State University's Student Government Association is asking a judge to set aside his hazing conviction.

The president of Virginia State University's student government association is asking a judge to set aside his hazing conviction, arguing that he only pleaded guilty because the prosecutor said he wouldn't graduate if he refused.