Obama declared a major disaster in West Virginia Saturday night following historic flash flooding in the state that has left at least 23 dead and some 32,000 without power, according to the West Virginia Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management’s latest count.
After urging supporters in West Virginia not to vote, Donald Trump nonetheless won overwhelming victories in that state and Nebraska on Tuesday, soundly defeating two men who dropped out of the race last week.
On Tuesday, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders won West Virginia’s Democratic primary, making the state his second straight victory that party leaders don’t think will make a difference.
On Sunday, a Democratic candidate for West Virginia’s state senate was brutally beaten in an attack he believes to be related to Tuesday’s primary election, The New York Times reports.
Donald Trump once famously said that he “could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.” Last night in West Virginia he tried out a get out the vote strategy only slightly less daring than that one.
His name is Greg Bonecutter, he lives in West Virginia, and he would like to see trap doors under the White House lawn. The Guardian reports:
Back in March, Robert Murray, one of America’s last remaining coal barons and “the sine qua non of climate denying,” hosted a fundraiser for Texas senator Ted Cruz at Wheeling, West Virginia’s White Palace. “I have not picked a candidate, but I do know that Ted Cruz needs some money,” he said at the time. As it turns…
During a round table in West Virginia, a recently unemployed coal worker confronted Hillary Clinton over her remark at a CNN town hall in March that “We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.” In response, Clinton admitted her comment was a “misstatement.”
Just a few weeks ago, West Virginians passed a law overriding the cruel, barbaric raw milk prohibition that’s plagued the state for years. To mark the occasion, these same dairy-loving lawmakers downed what else but a tall glass of milk—raw and dirty just like god intended. In totally unrelated news, a bunch of West…
A West Virginia woman may have stopped a serial killer this month when she killed an attacker authorities say is potentially linked to 10 other victims, CNN reports.
Although deer have slipped out of the public eye since their peak back in 2013, there are still young bucks out there making big moves. Like moving into a guy’s house for a year, covering it in piss and shit, and then running off into the woods like everything’s cool as soon as the cops show up.
A West Virginia high school teacher may be in trouble after letting students pick a movie to show in class as a reward for their good performance. Turns out the kids’ tastes are very ... singular. You wouldn’t understand.
An attempted robbery of Good Family Pharmacy in Pinch, West. Va. last week was foiled after a pharmacist drew his concealed weapon and fired three shots at the armed suspect, killing him.
A CSX train carrying crude oil burst into flames this afternoon after derailing in Fayette County, West Virginia. One rail car careened into a nearby house, setting it on fire, and at least one other crashed into the Kanawha River.
The owners and operators of a chemical company that dumped 10,000 gallons of toxic chemicals into a West Virginia river last year are one step closer to facing a judge and jury of their very unhappy peers.
Following a 12-hour manhunt, the body of West Virginia shooter Jody Lee Hunt was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound inside a pickup truck in the woods. Hunt, the owner of a towing company, shot and killed four people in a rampage Monday: his ex-girlfriend, two men she had allegedly been involved…
A dead fraternity pledge shared an eerily prescient message on social media Wednesday, tweeting, "It's about to be a very eventful night to say the least," just hours before he was found unconscious on the floor of a West Virginia University frat house.
Saira Blair, an 18-year-old who had been campaigning from her dorm room at West Virginia University, was voted into the West Virginia House of Delegates position on Tuesday, making her the youngest state lawmaker in America. Celebrate! But then be afraid.
