The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at ...

How did the grave of a soldier from the Shenandoah Valley wind up in one of the most remote and rugged mountain regions in ...

The Women’s Christian Temperance Union group started in 1874 intending to end the consumption of alcohol in the United States ...

A long-lost Confederate flag, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg and among the rarest Civil War artifacts, will be a top lot for bidders at an Ohio auction house this month.

The West Virginia House of Delegates has passed legislation that would strip civil service system inclusion and access to grievance procedures from a wide swath of state employees. In a 69-30 vote ...

The lawsuit, West Alabama Women’s Center, et al. v. Marshall, et al., was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama in Montgomery by the American Civil Liberties Union and ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A man working on a documentary called “Bring Them Home” focused around tracking down West Virginia MIA Vietnam War Veterans and their families says he’s making some ...

Lee as its “spiritual founder” and long championed the Southern “Lost Cause,” a revisionist view of history that romanticizes the Confederacy and portrays the Civil War as a valiant ... Rodebaugh of ...

The West Virginia House of Delegates is poised to pass more legislation that would strip civil service system inclusion and access to grievance procedures from a wide swath of state employees.

AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered Texas and U.S. flags to be flown at half-staff statewide in honor of Carole Keeton, a trailblazing leader and longtime public servant who died this week.

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan’s main opposition party said Thursday a peace agreement that ended a five-year civil war has collapsed, following the arrest of its leader Riek Machar a ...