When Robert Byrd came to Congress from West Virginia, a postage stamp cost 3 cents and kids were clamoring for a new toy called Mr. Potato Head.
Math and reading scores for fourth- and eighth-graders in public schools improved nationwide, but African-American students continued to lag behind their white classmates, a new federal study found.
A former Army captain who was dismissed under a federal law dealing with gays and lesbians in the military lost his appeal Monday at the U.S. Supreme Court.
Emergency teams on Sunday were assessing damage from deadly storms that devastated parts of Missouri, Kentucky and West Virginia this weekend -- even as the threat of more severe weather continued.
If Craig Blair gets his way, anyone filing for unemployment or food stamps must show that they are drug-free. He's a state lawmaker in West Virginia who has introduced a bill to require random drug testing for benefits and lays out his case on a Web site called notwithmytaxdollars.com.
After more than 40 years and $1.5 billion, West Virginia's massive "Corridor H" project is getting another boost from the Obama administration's economic stimulus package, despite questions over whether the project will ever be completed.
Last week's West Virginia election should frighten you.
I may write about retirement for a living, but that doesn't mean I like seeing my 401(k) crater any more than you do. Given what's been happening in the market, I sometimes catch myself thinking how great it would be if my financial future weren't tied to something as volatile as Wall Street's mood.
In many states across the country, voting has begun, and in some cases, so have the headaches.
The Wall Street crisis notwithstanding, coal continues to embroil the presidential campaign into knots unlike any other issue in the swing states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia.
When Robert Byrd came to Congress from West Virginia, a postage stamp cost 3 cents and kids were clamoring for a new toy called Mr. Potato Head.
Math and reading scores for fourth- and eighth-graders in public schools improved nationwide, but African-American students continued to lag behind their white classmates, a new federal study found.
A former Army captain who was dismissed under a federal law dealing with gays and lesbians in the military lost his appeal Monday at the U.S. Supreme Court.
Emergency teams on Sunday were assessing damage from deadly storms that devastated parts of Missouri, Kentucky and West Virginia this weekend -- even as the threat of more severe weather continued.
If Craig Blair gets his way, anyone filing for unemployment or food stamps must show that they are drug-free. He's a state lawmaker in West Virginia who has introduced a bill to require random drug testing for benefits and lays out his case on a Web site called notwithmytaxdollars.com.
After more than 40 years and $1.5 billion, West Virginia's massive "Corridor H" project is getting another boost from the Obama administration's economic stimulus package, despite questions over whether the project will ever be completed.
Last week's West Virginia election should frighten you.
I may write about retirement for a living, but that doesn't mean I like seeing my 401(k) crater any more than you do. Given what's been happening in the market, I sometimes catch myself thinking how great it would be if my financial future weren't tied to something as volatile as Wall Street's mood.
In many states across the country, voting has begun, and in some cases, so have the headaches.
The Wall Street crisis notwithstanding, coal continues to embroil the presidential campaign into knots unlike any other issue in the swing states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia.
One person was killed and another injured in a chemical plant explosion late Thursday near Charleston, West Virginia.
Sen. Hillary Clinton used her big win in West Virginia on Tuesday to make her case that she has a better chance of beating the Republicans in the general election.
The New York senator enjoys a resounding, double-digit victory, but most say Obama has already won the real race
Sen. Barack Obama took the lead in the race for superdelegates on the eve of a contest that's expected to fall easily into Sen. Hillary Clinton's column.
The outcome of West Virginia's primary Tuesday may best be foretold by where Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama plan to spend the day.
West Virginia is a state that appears built to accentuate Sen Hillary Clinton's strengths and to highlight the weaknesses her campaign asserts would make Sen. Barack Obama a more vulnerable Democratic nominee.
West Virginians will head to the polls Tuesday for the state's Democratic primary between Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. But what will the vote there really mean after new delegate totals show Obama with a sizable lead?
Sen. Hillary Clinton added a previously unscheduled campaign stop Wednesday in West Virginia, soldiering on after a split decision in Tuesday's voting in Indiana and North Carolina, her aides said.
Underrated: Pittsburgh. The Panthers lost six games between Feb. 2 and March 1; thus their No. 6 seed. But it's worth noting that they have since avenged two of those losses, to Notre Dame and West Virginia, and that their loss to Rutgers in early February was only by four points. With All-America candidates Marcedes Walker and Shavonte Zellous delivering a reliable inside-out attack, the Panthers are dangerous.
Arizona Sen. John McCain piled up wins in the Republican race for the White House Tuesday -- with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee also surging to victories throughout the South just days after ignoring calls to drop out of the race.
Now that college football's most talented juniors (and third-year sophomores) have answered that weightiest of questions -- Should I Stay or Should I Go? -- we have a clearer sense of the national pecking order heading into 2008.
NEW ORLEANS -- One of the main reasons there was so much attrition at the top of the polls in 2007 was that, with the exception of national champ LSU, most of the teams that populated the top 10 were highly dependent on young, inexperienced players.
As much as I'd like to believe our entire readership has been with this college hoops season from its basic-cable opener (Gardner-Webb over Kentucky, Nov. 8!) and its Pay-Per-View debut (Florida over North Dakota State, Nov. 9!), I am aware that is not the case. As bowl season fades away, casual hoop fans come trickling in with dire need of a catch-up course. The Power Rankings are here to provide it, tuition-free, in three parts per team:
Jennifer Garner may be the toast of Broadway for her Roxane in Cyrano de Bergerac, and she may be the national critics' darling for her role as the wannabe mom in the new movie Juno, but to the folks at home, she's no slouch, either.
Question: I'm 44, and after maxing out my 401(k) and Roth IRA, I still have about $400 a month I'd like to invest outside these accounts for early retirement. Would you suggest I invest this money in an annuity? - Angie Tyrie, Hinton, West Virginia
It's only three weeks into the season, way too early to have weeded out the contenders from the pretenders, right? Maybe not.
When federal prosecutors in Virginia released details of the dogfighting charges against Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick, all hell broke loose.
Six West Virginians charged with kidnapping, torturing and sexually assaulting a woman for at least a week may also face hate crime charges, Logan County Sheriff's officials said Tuesday.
Six West Virginia residents have been charged with kidnapping, torturing and sexually assaulting a Charleston woman for at least a week, the Logan County Sheriff's Department said Monday.
There's football this weekend, folks. Real, actual, meaningful football games. Let's not beat around the bush. Here are 10 questions I'm most eager to have answered by this time next week:
Americans are already among the fattest people in the world, and they just keep packing on the pounds. A new report finds that obesity rates have swelled during the last year in 31 states with not one state reporting that its obesity rate shrank.
You press your body tightly against the rock, fingers running along its crevices, trying to keep from slipping.
When his craving for painkillers got to be too much, Steve Dotson lay down and let his wife drive a car over his leg. It hurt, but he could dismiss the pain with thoughts of the medicated bliss that would follow.
More than 10 days after the disaster, six Utah miners are still trapped and three rescuers are dead. What went wrong?
For years, consternation over expiring tax breaks, questionable financial aid treatment and high fees cast a long shadow over 529 plans, the once and future king of college savings accounts.
The Barclays base metals index is a handy gauge of copper, aluminum, lead, tin, and zinc prices. Since 2005 it is up 95%, which has prompted a rally in a different market barometer. Call it the petty larceny index. In 2006 more than 24,000 manhole covers were stolen from the streets of Shanghai. In Fort Worth last June, bronze memory urns disappeared from graveyards. The following month, at a high school football field in Washington, D.C., 750 pounds of aluminum bleachers went missing. This past April two men got trapped in a West Virginia mine. They were attempting to steal copper wire.
Monday's analysis of the 50-team-deep coaching carousel looked at five new hires, in this Age of Impatience, who actually should be expected to win in Year 1. Situations such as Mark Turgeon's at Texas A&M, where he inherited a front line of two pro prospects and a team that's already top-20 caliber, are incredibly rare, however. Rebuilding projects are more the norm, so today I examine five high-profile coaches who should be afforded patience in their new gigs, whether it be one year, two, or the full length of their freshly inked contract.
NEW YORK -- Officially, the cameras and chroniclers will have the snippet of history correct: West Virginia senior center Robert Summers was the last to cut down a strand from the Mountaineers NIT championship net in Madison Square Garden. It must be noted, however, that fellow senior Frank Young made his job easier by scorching the those nets with six three-pointers earlier in the evening.
NEW YORK -- Three rows behind the West Virginia bench and no more than 10 feet from the three-point line where Darris Nichols caught the inbounds pass, set his feet and released a game-winning shot to push the Mountaineers over Mississippi State, 63-62, and into the NIT championship game, former Mountaineer March magician Mike Gansey was the first to throw up his hands and point at Nichols as the new starting guard wielding the shooter's wand.
It's a good thing the LSU defense is so good. The Tigers' offense can be downright awful.
AUSTIN, Texas -- The Southwest was kind to Big East on Saturday.
After nearly blowing a 17-point lead, riding a miraculous buzzer beater into overtime and barely missing one of his own that would have prevented a second, Louisville's Terrence Williams could finally taste victory. After West Virginia's Jamie Smalligan threw the ball away with 1:07 remaining in double overtime and the Cardinals up nine, Williams demonstratively pointed his finger the other way and led the charge back downcourt, temporarily ignoring the fact he still needed to inbound the ball.
At least four people were killed and at least two critically injured Tuesday when an explosion leveled a gas station in this southern West Virginia city, officials said.
I've been working here since 1974. At that time, I was an illustrator but had never sculpted. Since then I've designed 35 medals and 43 coins. We are all classically trained, and we demand a lot [o...
Moral issues sometimes drive voters to the polls not only to support or oppose a candidate, but also to make their voices heard on dozens of ballot measures dealing with issues like same-sex marriage, abortion or stem cell research.
In a random test of nine emergency air packs used by West Virginia coal miners, all nine failed, the state's Office of Miners' Health Safety and Training said Thursday.
A Pakistani woman, whose carry-on items initially tested positive for explosives and prompted the evacuation of a West Virginia airport terminal, later was put on another flight with her luggage, said an airport official.
U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd on Monday became the longest serving senator in history, passing the record held by the late Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina.
Federal government fines for coal mine safety violations are far below the level imposed by other government agencies and may not be offering incentives for mine companies to fix safety problems, according to a published report.
Hundreds of dead cats, dogs and other animals were found in two wooded areas of West Virginia, the state Division of Natural Resources said Thursday.
West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin has called on all mines in his state to halt operations until thorough safety checks are made, following the deaths of two miners on Wednesday.
Following the deaths of 14 West Virginia miners in less than three weeks, state lawmakers on Monday approved legislation aimed at improving the chances of survival for miners trapped underground.
Doctors hope to bring the critically injured survivor of a coal mine explosion out of his medically induced coma Sunday, his attending physician said.
In all my travels for CNN, I had never been to West Virginia. It didn't take long to realize this was not how West Virginia was supposed to look.
Less than 30 hours after the state of West Virginia scrapped its state-run workers' compensation fund and handed the reins to privately owned BrickStreet Mutual Insurance Co., the newly formed company was faced with its first tragedy: the Sago Mine explosion.
Let's face it: We all desperately wanted it to be true. We wanted the improbable to happen in the worst way. So when we heard a dozen miners were alive, we all ran with it. Practically skipped.
Wednesday's Powerball drawing could produce the largest lottery prize in history, a record jackpot of $340 million.
It's one of the biggest investments you'll ever make: College tuition. With tuition rates increasing every year, parents will need to have over one hundred thousand dollars in the bank by the time they send their child to a four-year public college.
Each of the 50 states and and Washington D.C. in order of the number of auto fatalities among drivers aged 16 to 20 per 100,000 teen drivers, according the National Safety Council and the group End Needless Death on Our Roadways.
A Pentagon analyst faces a new charge of knowingly and unlawfully possessing classified U.S. government documents at his home in West Virginia.
Friday is the first day of the rest of Martha Stewart's life.
In early 1993, Washington Post reporter Michael Weisskopf wrote a front-page story that characterized the followers of conservative church leaders Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson as being " largely poor, uneducated and easy to command." Both Weisskopf and the Post were rightly criticized for publishing that unfair, offensive smear, especially by conservatives who introduced the Post quote as Exhibit A to prove that the liberal, secular press was full of elitists who mocked church-goers.
Viewing the vast empty canyon that was once the site of the twin towers of the World Trade Center, Karen McCoy of Droop Mountain, West Virginia, said, "I had to back away."
One day you're instructing a grateful nation how to assemble a delicious warm pear salad; the next you're contemplating a diet of bologna sandwiches in an underdecorated minimum-security prison. On...
As you slept, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Richard Myers landed in Baghdad for a quick meeting with senior military commanders that, while unannounced until shortly before they jumped on the plane, is aimed at quelling the public storm over prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib.
It's 9 A.M. Thursday, and magistrate Janie Moore is facing a scruffy blond accused of drunk driving. Moore goes over the charges and sets bail at $200. The accused signs his stack of forms and hand...
Running afoul of the law is easy, especially if you look at what's on the books. Road-kill stew gets the okay in West Virginia, but, according to dumblaws.com, Massachusetts is tougher on experimen...
Leave it to our manic, overachieving society to produce a new meditation culture, where we have to squeeze relaxation into hyperactive schedules. It's not about religion anymore either. Americans a...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be another vote on the Supreme Court for judicial restraint. That would appear a boon for business. But Clint Bolick, vice president of the Institute for Justice, a conserv...
Most Americans take their Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans for granted -- much as they once did their local savings and loans. Maybe they shouldn't. Last year Blue Cross/Blue Shield of West Virgini...
Almost 80% of MONEYsubscribers with school-age kids gave their local schools either an A or a B on a grading scale that ranged down to F in our poll. Still, if you want to check on your system, sch...
Quaint, old-fashioned and nearly as dead as the quilting bee. Until recently, that was most Americans' opinion of family reunions. But the tradition -- once thought lost as families began scatterin...
MICHELE LEE FOWLER, 17, a high school senior in West Virginia, a state that has cut its high school dropout rate almost 33% by revoking students' driving licenses if they leave school, on why she r...
TWENTY-TWO years after the opening shot in the War on Poverty, most Americans have given up hope of victory. According to a recent opinion poll, the overwhelming majority of Americans believe that ...
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