While National Newswatch does not keep an archive of external articles for longer than 6 months, we do keep all articles written by contributors who post directly to our site. Here you will find all of the contributed and linked external articles from Leah Willingham, The Associated Press.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Synthetic dyes used to make brightly colored cereals, drinks and candies are coming under scrutiny in states across the country, where lawmakers say the federal government has stalled in taking action despite evidence of harmful effects.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- U.S. Sen. Jim Justice said he transformed West Virginia's financial policy from cow dung into gold during his time as governor.
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 related to terroristic threats against his colleagues.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Republican Gov. Patrick Morrisey issued a slew of aggressive executive orders on his first full day as West Virginia's chief executive Tuesday, including one enabling families to receive religious exemptions from required school vaccinations -- a massive departure for a state with one of the strictest vaccine policies in the nation.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Republican Gov. Patrick Morrisey issued a slew of aggressive executive orders on his first day as West Virginia's chief executive Tuesday, including one enabling families to receive religious exemptions from required school vaccinations -- a massive departure for a state with one of the strictest vaccine policies in the nation.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Former West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice signed a number of socially conservative laws during his two terms in office. But he rarely pushed for them.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice signed a number of socially conservative laws during his two terms in office. But he rarely pushed for them.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- A newly elected state lawmaker in West Virginia is facing at least one felony and is accused of making terroristic threats.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- West Virginia governor-elect Republican Patrick Morrisey will be sworn in Jan. 13, he said during a press briefing on Tuesday.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice appointed his wife to the state school board about a day after a decisive victory in a U.S. Senate race against his Democratic opponent.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Republican Attorney General Patrick Morrisey easily won the West Virginia governor's race Tuesday, using an endorsement from former U.S. President Donald Trump to catapult him to victory in the deep red state.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- West Virginians on Tuesday will choose between a Republican candidate for governor endorsed by former President Donald Trump who has defended abortion restrictions in court and a Democratic mayor who has fought to put the issue on the ballot for voters to decide.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- The closest West Virginia voters could come to having their say at the ballot box on whether abortion should be legal in the post-Roe v. Wade era might be in this year's governor's race.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- The family of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, says it has paid off debts to avoid the foreclosure on its historic hotel, The Greenbrier.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Bills aimed to reduce West Virginians' income tax burden are headed to the desk of Gov. Jim Justice.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Bills aimed to reduce West Virginians' income tax burden are headed to the desk of Gov. Jim Justice.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice's family is millions of dollars behind on payments to employees' health insurance fund at their financially beleaguered hotel, putting workers' coverage at risk despite the U.S. Senate candidate's claims otherwise, a union official said Friday.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Gov. Jim Justice is in a mad-dash legal fight as he runs for U.S. Senate to keep a historic West Virginia hotel at his luxury resort before it's auctioned off next week due to unpaid debts.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- The English bulldog had never been featured prominently in West Virginia history. It has now.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- The head of the national mine workers' union on Friday condemned what he characterized as an effort by House Republicans to block enforcement of a long-awaited federal rule directed at curbing workers' exposure to poisonous, deadly rock dust, calling it "a direct attack on the health hand safety of coal miners."