West Virginia

Some private insurers are balking at paying for the first drug fully approved to slow mental decline in Alzheimer’s patients.

A Maryland man drowned in the Potomac River on July 4 after he tried to cross through the water while fishing near Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, authorities say. Here’s brief info.

A Maryland man drowned in the Potomac River on July 4 after he tried to cross through the water while fishing near Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, authorities say.

A black bear gave a West Virginia principal quite the wake-up call when it emerged — growling and roaring — from a dumpster outside an elementary school.

School surveillance video shows an elementary school principal in West Virginia coming eye-to-eye with a bear when unlocking the school dumpster one morning.

Six students and three adults were taken for medical attention after the floor of a press box collapsed during a West Virginia softball tournament. None of the injuries appear to be life-threatening.

The Supreme Court rejected an attempt by West Virginia to prevent transgender girls from participating in girl’s sports.

A man leapt from a bridge in West Virginia expecting his parachute to let him glide down safely — but he ended up dangling in midair for more than 90 minutes. 

A BASE jumper had to be rescued from a bridge in West Virginia on Tuesday after his parachute got stuck. Here’s a quick look at the aftermath.

A child marriage bill was passed by the West Virginia Senate on Friday night after it was changed to prohibit anyone younger than 16 from getting married and to ban age gaps of more than four years for 16- and 17-year-olds.

West Virginia’s Senate passed a bill Monday that would give $25,000 in tax credits to former residents who move back to the state to work.

With the record warmth last week, something else unusual but not unheard of happened: Dust from other parts of the country impacted the D.C. area.

With the record warmth last week, something else unusual but not unheard of happened: Dust from other parts of the country impacted our area. Storm Team4 Meteorologist Amelia Draper reports.

Authorities are investigating reports of a powder in the air and on some cars in West Virginia, northern Virginia and Maryland. The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection said Friday it’s working to collect and analyze samples of the dust-like substance after it was reported in the state’s Eastern Panhandle, about 100 miles west of Washington, D.C. The Maryland Department...

Authorities say three Virginia college students were killed when their vehicle left a road and struck a tree in West Virginia. The Hardy County Sheriff’s Office says the single-vehicle accident occurred Thursday night along West Virginia Route 259 near the Virginia border. There were five men in the vehicle, all 19-year-old students at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Three...

A Maryland man who admitted stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from a southern West Virginia resort where he was the maintenance director has been sentenced to two years and three months in federal prison. Prosecutors say Dhanraj Singh of Bowie, Maryland, paid back more than $382,000 that he admitted to embezzling from the resort. According to court records, Singh...

The head of the federal Environmental Protection Agency is scheduled to visit a West Virginia county where some residents recently got access to clean water after years of having to boil it before drinking. EPA Administrator Michael Regan will speak with community members in McDowell County about drinking water and wastewater inequity. Regan’s “Journey to Justice” tour focuses on historically...

Republican Gov. Jim Justice has signed into law a ban on abortions at all stages of pregnancy. West Virginia is now the second state to enact a law prohibiting the procedure since the U.S. Supreme Court’s June ruling to end the constitutional protection of the procedure.  Justice described the legislation in a tweet as “a bill that protects life.” The...

West Virginia has passed a near-total ban on abortion and it may shut down the state’s only abortion clinic. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports.

West Virginia’s Legislature has passed a sweeping abortion ban with few exceptions. Several Republicans, whose party holds a supermajority, say they hope the bill approved Tuesday will make it impossible for the state’s only abortion clinic to continue to offer the procedure. Under the legislation, rape and incest victims would be able to obtain abortions at up to eight weeks...