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In coal country, a show of solidarity takes root
Coal country is hurting, and the people who live there want the whole nation to know it. Thousands of miners have been laid off this year across ...
All that offense keeps fans coming to the stadium
When West Virginia Athletic Director Oliver Luck was looking for a new football coach, he wanted one who would not only win, but do it in a way that ...
Texas and West Virginia defenses struggling
What if No. 8 West Virginia and No. 11 Texas played Saturday and decided not to bring their defenses? At the rate those two have been giving up big ...
Holgorsen, West Virginia, right at home in Big 12
After a Saturday in which three quarterbacks passed for at least 550 yards and five touchdowns, let's scan the stats for a pick six of airborne feats.
No. 9 West Virginia beats No. 25 Baylor 70-63
No. 9 West Virginia and the Big 12, perfect together. Geno Smith and the fast-moving, high-scoring Mountaineers proved they fit right in with their ...
Iranian news agency picks up Onion article as fact
A joke by the satirical newspaper The Onion appears to have gotten lost in translation. An Iranian news agency picked up — as fact — a story from the ...
No. 25 Baylor-No. 9 WVU average 98 points a game
West Virginia's festive arrival in the Big 12 even has Baylor pumped up. The 25th-ranked Bears (3-0) would like nothing more than to make it a shaky ...
West Virginia gears up for Big 12 scoring spree
West Virginia is ready to start a new era, with what is primed to be a classic Big 12 scoring spree, and Urban Meyer will coach a Big Ten game for ...
West Virginia's Smith, S Carolina's Shaw on target
Geno Smith looked like a Heisman Trophy hopeful and Connor Shaw showed no signs of an injured shoulder. Smith threw for 338 yards to help No. 8 West ...
No. 8 West Virginia outlasts Maryland 31-21
West Virginia's Tavon Austin just can't get enough of Maryland. Austin caught three touchdown passes in another remarkable game against his home-state ...
Family wants answers on missing W.Va. 3-year-old
Her mother is in prison for welfare fraud. Her stepfather is lying low. Her six siblings, some just infants, are in the custody of child welfare ...
Alpha closing 8 mines, cutting 1,200 jobs in all
Coal producer Alpha Natural Resources said Tuesday it was cutting production by 16 million tons and eliminating 1,200 jobs companywide, laying off 400 ...
Alabama, Florida State post huge shutouts
Without Tyler Wilson, Arkansas never had a chance against Alabama. Florida State dispatched Wake Forest just as easily. The top-ranked Crimson Tide ...
Neighbor: NY rape suspect terrorized W.Va. women
The man accused of raping an elderly woman in New York's Central Park frightened people for years in his tiny West Virginia hometown, where a neighbor ...
NY rape suspect eyed in 2002 murder of W.Va. woman
A drifter accused of brazenly raping an elderly woman in broad daylight in New York's Central Park was a person of interest in a 2002 slaying in his ...
Top 25 Roundup
Braxton Miller helped make Urban Meyer's first game as Ohio State coach a record-breaking romp for the Buckeyes. Meanwhile, the new era at Penn State ...
Guide to the 2012 college football season
College football is in for some big and, some say, much-needed changes with the switch to a four-team playoff. Before we get to that, there's still ...
Award-winning journalist is AP's Indonesia chief
Margie Mason, an award-winning correspondent for The Associated Press in Southeast Asia, has been promoted to chief of bureau for Indonesia.
W.Va. embraces ancient sport of Irish road bowling
It sounds as if it ought to be a drinking game: Grown men and women hurl a 2-pound cannonball as far as they can down a paved country road, each ...
Appalachian Trail still evolving after 75 years
Like the people who hike it, the Appalachian Trail is always moving. Technically, Tuesday marks the 75th anniversary of its completion. But the ...
Late Sen. Byrd's FBI files reveal CIA leak uproar
U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd obtained secret FBI documents about the civil rights movement that were leaked by the CIA and triggered an angry ...
Reggie Wayne takes new on role with Indianapolis
Reggie Wayne's world is changing. The fun-loving receiver who always got overshadowed by Peyton Manning has suddenly become the feature attraction at ...
Big 12 back strong with 3 reigning league champs
The Big 12 Conference has come back strong after two straight summers of uncertainty about its future. Find another league that has ever featured ...
US judge strikes down EPA water rules for mines
The Environmental Protection Agency overstepped its powers by setting up water-quality criteria for coal mining operations in Appalachia, a federal ...
W.Va. dedicates Upper Big Branch Miners Memorial
On the heels of a West Virginia coal mining death, families of the 29 men killed in the Upper Big Branch mine dedicated a memorial Friday to their ...