A judge sentenced a Weirton, West Virginia, man to one to five years in prison for pushing his male landlord off a rooftop ...

A Brooke County man has been sentenced to prison following a guilty plea to multiple counts of sexual abuse involving a child ...

An inmate transferred from the Arkansas Department of Corrections to a federal facility in West Virginia earlier this year ...

CHARLESTON — A lawsuit brought by several inmates in West Virginia’s correctional system raising issues about conditions under the previous administration of former governor Jim Justice was dismissed ...

A former Boone County School maintenance director was sentenced to nearly three years in prison and three years of supervised ...

A man and woman have been charged with felonies following an incident in a Randolph County prison in which an inmate, a correctional officer and a nurse all had to be transported to a local hospital.

Former Hancock County Sheriff’s Deputy, Patrick J. Hoder, plead guilty to one felony count of child pornography in Ohio ...

CHARLESTON — Two former West Virginia correctional officers were sentenced to decades in prison on Wednesday for their roles in an assault that resulted in the death of an inmate. Mark Holdren, 41, ...

Long before notorious Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger was killed at a federal prison in West Virginia, lawmakers, advocates and even prison guards had been sounding the alarm about dangerous ...

A Benwood man plead guilty to four felony sex offender offenses in Marshall County Circuit Court Wednesday. Kacey Smith plead guilty to one count of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Five former ...