WEST VIRGINIA

History was made in Wheeling, West Virginia, Tuesday night when Rosemary Ketchum became the state’s first elected transgender official. Ketchum won a tight race, narrowly defeating Peggy Niebergall by 15 votes to become Ward 3’s representative.

Two West Virginia men who were born on the same day, in the same hospital, 24 years ago had their first babies on the same day and in the same hospital this week.

At one point Friday, more than 1,700 people waited to get into Mountaineer Casino, Racetrack and Resort in West Virginia

Members of seven predominantly black Baptist congregations in North Central West Virginia packed a small rural church March 15 with the threat still largely unknown.

Court papers show a West Virginia woman who had already been accused of kidnapping her daughter faces a new charge of retaining top-secret information from the National Security Agency in a storage unit she leased.

Correction officer trainees in West Virginia regularly gave the Nazi salute “as a sign of respect” for their instructor in the weeks prior to the release of a photo of the cadets with arms raised that triggered widespread outrage, state investigators said in a report Monday.

A group photo of West Virginia correction officer trainees giving what appears to be the Nazi salute has been released as the state’s governor ordered those involved to be fired. The image was made public Thursday and shows more than two dozen trainees with their arms raised and faces blurred. Officials have described the image of Basic Training Class Number...

Bribery and conspiracy charges have been filed against an Energy Transfer official and four security employees involved in an elaborate scheme to “intimidate citizens” over the Mariner East pipeline, according to the Chester County District Attorney’s Office.

Two Pennsylvania constables were arrested for misusing their elected positions to work as “hired guns” for Energy Transfer’s Mariner East Pipeline, according to the Chester County District Attorney’s Office.

If you don’t need to go outside on Sunday and Monday, don’t! That’s the word from the NBC10 First Alert weather team ahead of this weekend’s major winter storm. NBC10 First Alert Weather chief meteorologist Tammie Souza breaks it down for you.

With billions in federal aid and seats in Congress at stake, some states are dragging their feet in carrying out one of the Census Bureau’s chief recommendations for making sure everyone is counted during the 2020 census. Five states — Florida, Louisiana, Nebraska, South Dakota and Texas — have not set up “complete count committees” that would create public awareness...

The FBI has begun a corruption investigation into how Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration came to issue permits for construction on a multibillion-dollar pipeline project to carry highly volatile natural gas liquids across Pennsylvania, The Associated Press has learned.

NBC10 First Alert Weather meteorologist Glenn “Hurricane” Schwartz is tracking rain moving through our region Tuesday.

Two of Pennsylvania’s historic and iconic food and drink brands have teamed up to bring a chocolaty beer to market.

By the time drug enforcement agents swooped into his small medical office in Martinsville, Virginia, in 2017, Dr. Joel Smithers had prescribed about a half a million doses of highly addictive opioids.

A sailor killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor that launched the United States into World War II has been laid to rest in his New Jersey hometown.

Mine owner Blackjewel LLC filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on July 1 was a big hit to the region straddling northeastern Wyoming and southeastern Montana, where coal has quietly supported the economies of both states for decades and fuels a shrinking number of power plants in 28 states. Negotiations that could reopen the two Wyoming mines under new ownership...