Joseph de Soto, a newly elected state lawmaker in West Virginia, was arrested Thursday in Martinsburg on charges that include making terroristic threats. The 61-year-old, who was set to represent ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The president of West Virginia's largest gun-lobbying group has been appointed to fill the seat of a lawmaker-elect who was ousted while confined to his house on charges ...

For 60 days, lawmakers had every opportunity to pass legislation to alleviate overcrowding and safety problems in West Virginia’s prisons and jails. Instead, they passed laws to lengthen prison senten ...