The Latest Breaking News from West Virginia

Boston’s Marcus Smart gets a West Virginia player T’d up from the stands of an Oklahoma State game

Veteran Boston Celtics point guard Marcus Smart is so good at getting under the skin of opposing players, he can evidently do it without being on the floor -- or even on the roster -- of his collegiate alma mater.

USA Today Sports Media Group · Jan 3, 2023

West Virginia plant to make batteries for US energy grid

A company that plans to make batteries for the U.S. energy grid will locate its first full-scale manufacturing plant in a former steel town in West Virginia

The Independent UK · Dec 22, 2022

States contend with short timeline to correct broadband map

States are racing against a deadline to challenge the map federal officials will use to divvy up the nation’s largest-ever investment in high-speed internet

The Independent UK · Dec 21, 2022

HIV outbreak in West Virginia

Political winds in the state blow against efforts to control an expanding HIV outbreak

Salon · Dec 19, 2022

What Germany’s coal miners can teach America about medical debt

PÜTTLINGEN, Germany — Almost every day, Dr. Eckart Rolshoven sees the long shadow of coal mining in his clinic near the big brownstone church that dominates this small town in Germany’s Saarland.

Tribune News Service · Dec 18, 2022

SKOL Search: Bryce Ford-Wheaton scouting report

The West Virginia product has a very appealing size profile. How does he stack up?

USA Today Sports Media Group · Dec 14, 2022

LIV Golf announces stops in Arizona, Oklahoma and West Virginia for 2023 schedule

Seven of LIV's 14 events for 2023 have now been announced.

USA Today Sports Media Group · Dec 14, 2022

Lessons from Germany to help solve the U.S. medical debt crisis

What would a world without medical debt look like? In Germany's former coal-mining region medical debt is almost unknown, despite economic challenges and health problems. Here's why.

WEKU · Dec 14, 2022

Bureaucratic incompetence among federal prison officials led to mob boss Whitey Bulger’s beating death in 2018, IG report says

HARTFORD, Conn. — The Justice Department’s inspector general has concluded that it wasn’t “malicious intent,” but rather “bureaucratic incompetence” that was responsible for mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger’s brutal beating death when prison officials transferred him to a violent West Virginia prison and housed him with rival gangsters in 2018.

Tribune News Service · Dec 7, 2022

US Justice Department finds ‘incompetence’ in Whitey Bulger death

A report issued Wednesday recommends disciplinary action for prison workers in connection to the famed mobster’s murder.

Al Jazeera · Dec 7, 2022