At least 200 union workers picketed FirstEnergy Corp.'s annual shareholder meeting in West Virginia on Tuesday, demanding the Ohio-based utility hire enough people to keep the power on without forcing an ever-shrinking labor force to work as many as 1,800 hours of overtime a year.Full story
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
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.
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-
