OMAHA (Reuters) - Investigators in Omaha are looking at whether the murders discovered last week of a doctor and his wife are connected to the unsolved 2008 murders of a young boy and his family's housekeeper, police said on Monday. Full story
The $1.1 billion cost of selling a coal-fired power plant from one FirstEnergy subsidiary to another is "a reasonable price for protection" against the more expensive option of buying electricity on the spot market to meet demand in West Virginia, a utility executive said Monday. Full story
Oilfield services company Baker Hughes Inc. says the number of rigs actively exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. remains unchanged this week, at 1,769. Full story
The area surrounding the Green Bank Radio Telescope may be the quietest place in America, banning cell phones, Wi-Fi, and other transmitters. NBC’s Kevin Tibbles reports.
Green Bank, West Virginia is in the National Radio Quiet Zone, an area that covers 13,000 square miles. Bob Sheets, a life-long resident, says most people that visit are happy to turn off their cell phones, but others have a harder time adjusting.
Michael J. Holstine, business manager at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia tells NBC’s Kevin Tibbles that the steerable radio telescope, which is the largest in the world, can “peer back to just after the big bang.”
That's the message Democratic Senator Joe Manchin had about expanding background checks when he updated MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell in an exclusive interview on the status of his bill and why this fight is so personal for him.
If at first you don’t succeed, try again. That’s what leading senators, like Joe Manchin, who failed at gun control laws in April are doing. Manchin joins Andrea Mitchell to hash out his new plan to pass stricter gun control laws.
The U.S. Senate is expected to begin voting on gun reform amendments on Wednesday April 17, 2013, including an expansion of background checks proposed by Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W. Va. and Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa.. Manchin joins Morning Joe on the day of the votes to discuss what he expects.
Up host Steve Kornacki shows headlines from 1994 that exemplify how much has changed since the last major national gun control debate.
Democratic Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Republican Senator Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania are expected to announce a deal on gun control and background checks in just a few hours. NBC’s Kristen Welker reports.
A group of Magicicada septendecim cicadas are pictured in West Virginia in 2003 in this handout photo taken by a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Connecticut released to Reuters on May 2, 2013. This year heralds the springtime emergence of billions of so-called 17-y
A group of Magicicada septendecim cicadas are pictured in West Virginia in 2003 in this handout photo taken by a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Connecticut released to Reuters on May 2, 2013. This year heralds the springtime emergence of billions of so-called 17-y
A Magicicada septendecim cicada is pictured at Pipestem State Park, West Virginia in 2003 in this handout photo taken by a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Connecticut released to Reuters on May 2, 2013. This year heralds the springtime emergence of billions of so-c
A Magicicada septendecim, so-called Brood II cicadas, is pictured in West Virginia in 2003 in this handout photo taken by a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Connecticut released to Reuters on May 2, 2013. This year heralds the springtime emergence of billions of so-
