New data from the West Virginia Department of Education quantifies what every teacher already knew: Students who attend school regularly perform significantly better than students who miss a lot ...

Every month or so I check the county-by-county voter registration figures at the West Virginia Secretary of State’s Office to see if the shift toward more Republicans and fewer Democrats is ...

Cam Inman is a Bay Area News Group sports reporter who covers the San Francisco 49ers for The Mercury News and East Bay Times. He joined the Bay Area News Group in 1995, though he delivered the ...

A 6-year-old Virginia student took a gun to school Monday and investigators are trying to figure out how the child got ahold of the weapon, according to authorities. The incident happened at ...

Academic and activist Cornel West, who is running for president as an independent candidate, won’t be on the ballot in Pennsylvania, the state Supreme Court decided Monday in upholding a lower ...

The family of an 11-year-old boy said he was suspended from his Virginia Beach, Virginia, school because administrators thought he waited too long to report that another student brought a bullet ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- The Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) has released its final guidelines for school districts to become cellphone-free zones by the start of 2025. The guide banned cellphone ...

A longtime valet at the popular Barney’s Beanery location in West Hollywood was left in critical condition after he was beaten by an unknown attacker over the weekend. “This past Saturday ...

TIME's senior sports correspondent Sean Gregory tries his hand at several Olympic sports while learning from Olympians. Subscribe now to get unlimited access to TIME.com and more! Tidal action ...

ATLANTA (AP) — In yet another reversal, votes in Georgia for presidential candidates Cornel West and Claudia De la Cruz will count for now after the Georgia Supreme Court paused orders ...

Popular beach destinations along the coasts of Maryland and Virginia are closed Sunday to swimming and even wading as officials investigate reports of “medical waste,” including needles ...

According to a report released in July by the Rockefeller Institute of Government at the State University of New York, West Virginia ranked 22nd out of 50 states for the amount of federal tax ...