More than a month before the election, Jim Justice declared victory in his U.S. Senate race in deep red West Virginia.

The family of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has reached an agreement with a credit collection company to avoid the foreclosure of their historic hotel as he runs for U.S. Senate, the resort announced Thursday.

A request for an injunction to stop the auction of the Greenbrier Resort was filed Monday in Greenbrier Circuit Court, according to WSAZ.

West Virginia University is recommending slashing its language department and dozens of other programs amid a $45 million budget shortfall.

More than ten years after a Franklin County woman disappeared, there’s finally been a conviction in the case.

Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in as the first Black woman justice on the Supreme Court on Thursday at noon.

The Republican governor on Monday had heralded a sharp drop in COVID-19 deaths since the beginning of the year, metrics health officials cited to support the governor easing restrictions on businesses. “I'm really sorry.”Dr. Ayne Amjad, the state's health officer, said officials are waiting to find out if there are more unreported deaths. She blamed it on facilities not filling out death reports online to the state's health department in a timely matter. The single facility with the most unreported deaths was at a hospital in Parkersburg, Camden-Clark Medical Center Memorial Campus, with 12 fatalities. It’s the second such discovery of dozens of unreported deaths during the pandemic in West Virginia.

And they largely reinforce plans already in the works by governors, who have primary responsibility for public health in their states. “You’re going to call your own shots,” Trump told the governors Thursday afternoon in a conference call, according to an audio recording obtained by The Associated Press. In briefing governors on the plan, Trump said they were going to be responsible for deciding when it is safe to lift restrictions in their states. “We have a very large number of states that want to get going and they’re in very good shape,” Trump said. Trump also held conference calls Thursday with lawmakers he named to a new congressional advisory task force on reviving the economy.