West Virginia

And I'm Faith Lapidus. This week on our program, we tell you about a popular area for outdoor activities in the state of West Virginia.

The land that formed West Virginia used to be part of Virginia, but the two areas differed in both surroundings and people.

Smith and McAdoo battled it out for 16 days until the exhausted convention nominated John W. Davis of West Virginia on the 103rd ballot.

Jarvis persuaded her mother's church in Grafton, West Virginia to celebrate Mother's Day on the anniversary of her mother's death.

Expert said, the rate of sleepless in West Virginia is twice higher than other states, for the sake of obesity and other healthy problems.

A hearing has been delayed for some of the suspects accused in a week-long torture of a West Virginia woman.

A few years out of the culinary institute, I got a great opportunity at the Greenbrier, a famous old luxury resort in West Virginia.

Shipping rates play a key role in that calculus as well due to the sheer length of the trip from a mine in West Virginia to a port in China.

Cucuzzella is a physician, a professor at West Virginia University's Department of Family Medicine and an Air Force Reserve flight surgeon.

A prosecutor in West Virginia says the woman reportedly tortured for days may have been involved with one of the alleged attackers.

In West Virginia's small towns it is often the churches that step in.

In West Virginia in nineteen twelve, violence connected to a miners' strike led to her trial and conviction for conspiracy to murder.

It's as if the whole future of the dollar were threatened by fiscal problems in West Virginia.

One of the first super delegates to come out for me was Senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia.

And under the leadership of the journalist Asra Nomani and scholar Amina Wadud, mixed-gender prayers have taken place in West Virginia.

My husband and I just got back from a week's vacation in West Virginia.

A week after she started looking, the 23-year-old from Wheeling, West Virginia, had a full-time job teaching English.

I came upon a shack in an isolated hollow, four miles up a winding mountain road over the Potomac River in West Virginia.

The company paid the largest financial settlement to date over a fire in another West Virginia coal mine in 2006 in which two miners died.

To begin with Anna, send Carnations in the church service in Grafton, West Virginia to honor her mother.

Had Al Gore held Arkansas or West Virginia or his own Tennessee, all strongly pro-gun, he would have won the election.

Loy Sneary is now negotiating with drillers in Texas and is working on a project in West Virginia. He also is looking at other states.

That requires a different kind of blade than one that works in Colorado or West Virginia, said Thomas Goldberg, the company's lobbyist.

Japan stands on the brink of nuclear catastrophe a year after the West Virginia mine explosion and the gulf oil spill.

The state of West Virginia, where nuptials cost an average of $14, 203, was the least expensive wedding location.

West Virginia stands out at the bottom of our list as having a surprisingly low level of energy consumption.

In the general election he did worse than Michael Dukakis in the Appalachian states of Kentucky and West Virginia.

Exelon has been a wholesale marketer of wind energy in Illinois, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

West Virginia earns $300 million a year in coal severance taxes, revenues officials say the state needs.

A woman in West Virginia, USA stole a hearse while she was walking home because she felt tired and didn't want to walk the rest of the way.

In 1960, Drake pointed a 26-meter radio telescope dish in Green Bank, West Virginia, at two stars for a few days each.

A vehicle sits partially submerged in Greenview, W. Va. Overnight storms flooded many out of their homes in Southern West Virginia.

it ' s thought to be a first for west virginia , a healthy set of quintuplets.

Finally, neighbour Jason Harschbarger heard her dismayed whinnying across the fields in Pullman, West Virginia, and came to her rescue.

After years of clear West Virginia skies, 'the contrast was significant, ' Mr. Mak recalls.

It operates nine plants in the United States in Kentucky, Indiana, Texas, Tennessee, Alabama, West Virginia, California and Mississippi.

Their alternative is slow growth that would turn whole countries into the national equivalents of West Virginia within the euro zone.

Ortigue and her team worked with a team from West Virginia University and a university hospital in Switzerland.

West Virginia is just one state where broadband availability could improve drastically over the next 10 years.

The company has stores in Maryland, Ohio, western Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.

I mean, literally, her hometown is called Whitesville, West Virginia.

American Electric Power (AEP) built a transmission line from West Virginia to Virginia in two years. The approval process had taken 14.

Witness the long-standing protection of coal mining by virtually all West Virginia politicians.

Byrd decided to support Obama even though Clinton easily defeated Obama in the West Virginia primary last week.

President Bush traveled to Martinsburg, West Virginia to visit soldiers and families attached to a National Guard unit based in the city.

There was a historical marker near our West Virginia home commemorating the Civil War Battle of Blue's Gap.

Nestled deep in the green hills of West Virginia , a dish- shaped telescope keeps an unceasing vigil on the sky .

The southwestern Virginia coalfield is dominated by sandstone, while argillaceous rock types are more prevalent in northern West Virginia.

THE students at West Virginia University don't want you to think they take life too seriously.

West Virginia University study says there's no evidence of a link between candy consumption and hyperactivity.

From its quiet beginnings in North Carolina, it meanders northward, growing in volume and velocity, until it reaches West Virginia.

She brought up the idea of having such a day. She live in West Virginia.

After tonight's tremendous victory here in West Virginia, it's clear that the pundits declaring this race over have it all wrong.

The mobile system was used in several geological weak section of West Virginia railway lines, for data collection.

More than 470 mountaintops in the states of Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee have been obliterated by the coal industry.

I grew up dirt-poor in the middle of West Virginia on my grandparents' stories of the Great Depression.

Also scoring well were residents of West Virginia, which has some of the nation's highest heart attack death rates.

Located in West Virginia, the cool climate and prevailing winds greatly influenced the "flagged" shape of the red spruce trees found here.

The future Civil War hero was raised by an uncle in the town of Jackson's Mill, located in present-day West Virginia.

West Virginia executive, visiting Germany for the first time, was invited to the home of his largest customer.

My son, a West Virginia state trooper, stopped a woman for going 15 miles over the speed limit.

Country roads take me home to the place I belong: West Virginia, mountain mom-ma, take me home country roads, take me home country roads.

"Coal mining is the broad-shouldered Atlas of West Virginia's economy, " said Jason Bostic of the West Virginia Coal Association.

Senate races that had been considered toss-ups, in such states as California, Nevada and West Virginia, broke their way in the end.

West Virginia couples understand the idea of the brother and sister itself, and then given the full understanding and support.

Avalon resort, in northeastern West Virginia, takes ordinary activities to a nude level.

Marking Independence Day in West Virginia, President Bush urges resolve in Iraq saying US troops will stay until the fight is won.

A bill by Democratic Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, which would offer financial incentives for private industry is a promising start.

Now on parole, the 26-year-old was recently peddling the first edition of her new biography in West Virginia.

Politicians from West Virginia have been pushing a bill in Congress that threatens to re-regulate the railways.

Bush's visit to West Virginia last week included a chat with Bob Kiss, Democratic speaker of the West Virginia House of Delegates.

Politicians from West Virginia have been pushing a bill in Congress threatens to re-regulate the railways .

Like a family feud in the hills of West Virginia, these things get started lots of different ways.

WHAT happened in West Virginia would have been unthinkable in most other countries.

On August 25, in Huntington, West Virginia, Chelsea and I began a four-day train trip to Chicago.

In the U. S. , in 1908 Ana Jarvis, from Grafton, West Virginia, began a campaign to establish a national Mother's Day.

Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia was the featured speaker.

Some say that it began with a church service in West Virginia in 1908.

Monday's accident has brought to light a history of safety violation at the Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia.

West Virginia broke away from Virginia in the 1860s. It is called simply the Mountain State for the ancient Appalachian mountains.

Our long walk south continued through the hills of West Virginia and into eastern Kentucky, and then into Tennessee.

Democrats also were victorious in closely fought contests in West Virginia, California and Connecticut.

Maria Gunnoe of the Appalachian area of West Virginia in the United States won from North America.

The failure of the Point Pleasant or Silver Bridge, in West Virginia, in 1967 which was caused by the fracture of an eyebar is well known.

The mother of two in Weston, West Virginia, often doesn't have the energy to coordinate everyone's schedule around a sit-down dinner.

Country road, take me home To the place I belong, West Virginia, mountain momma, Take me home, country road.

In classic photos by Hine, boys with blackened faces gaze at the camera while standing outside mines in West Virginia.

In Montana, New Hampshire, Washington state and West Virginia, Democratic governors are asking voters to return them to office.

In essence, a rich bloke in a Brentwood villa gets money from a poor taxpayer in West Virginia.

For the Republican Party, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is stumping for GOP Senate candidate John Raese in West Virginia.

In 1863 these counties were admitted to the Union as the state of West Virginia.

Her family has eight generations in a town called Whitesville, West Virginia.

This West Virginia was making what amounted to a pass at his customer's wife.

His terrible result in West Virginia this week underlines once again his weakness with the white working-class.

West Virginia alone has had three major mining disasters in the last decade, all caused by explosions in coal mines.

Roger H. L. Chen, Ph. D. , is a professor of civil engineering at West Virginia University (WVU), Morgantown.

A couple of weeks ago I visited West Virginia, USA, where some friends of mine run a small real estate business.

The FDA said 31 Salmonella Saintpaul infections have been seen in Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Utah, and West Virginia.

"Mountaineers Are Always Free" is the state motto of West Virginia.

The workers made good progress on the project until they started working near Big Bend Mountain in West Virginia.

West Virginia is suing Mr Obama's Environmental Protection Agency over mining regulations.

That July was the hottest month ever in West Virginia.

Mountaintop removal: Aerial of mountaintop removal coal mining site in West Virginia.

Western Pennsylvania, Kentucky and West Virginia are dominated by old coal-fired power plants.

Almost Heaven, West Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River.

There is a city in West Virginia that changed control between the Union and Confederate forces during the Civil War 18 times!

wild ginger having persistent heart-shaped pungent leaves; West Virginia to Alabama.

The first observance of Father's Daytook place in Fairmont, West Virginia on July 5, 1908.

The Supreme Court ruled on a vote by a judge elected to West Virginia's high court five years ago.

West Virginia contractor Jack Whittaker wins the biggest single-winner jackpot ever, $315 million, in the Powerball game.

Visitors, like Hermansons come all the way from West Virginia , to the one-of-a-kind diamond park in town.

Nowadays, the tops of West Virginia's mountains are blasted off to expose the coal inside for extraction.

But she also vowed to continue her campaign in upcoming primaries in West Virginia and Kentucky, where she is favored.

Do you think Andy could help us plan the camping trip to West Virginia?

The latest superdelegate to line up behind Obama is veteran Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia.

And that accent you've tried so desperately to shed? Pure West Virginia.

IF YOU have ever wondered what the little metal ball in a wooden labyrinth feels like, drive through rural West Virginia.

In West Virginia, a judge must weigh their arguments and decide whether a settlement can go forward.

And finally, a request for Sunday hunting on the ballot in six counties in West Virginia was defeated.

Eight tax-office employees in West Virginia claimed a winning Powerball ticket worth more than 276 million dollars.

President Abraham Lincoln signed an act admitting West Virginia to the Union.

Miss Anna Jarvis sent 500 white carnations to the Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church, in Grafton, West Virginia.

West Virginia: One Big Happy Family. . . . . . Really!

West Virginia had the best showing with a 2. 1% increase.

To be prepared for your future life, you don't need to know the capital of West Virginia or the landmass of Chile.

Another coal giant just coughed up $4 million to settle claims that it polluted the water in West Virginia and other states.

Alexander, a 6-foot-8 forward from West Virginia, struggled with an injury in training camp during his rookie year.

A methane gas explosion at the Sago Mine in West Virginia trapped 13 miners underground for more than 40 hours; only one survived.

One night, she drove to a rest area on I-95 to meet a truck driver from West Virginia.

Obama joined hundreds in the courtyard of West Virginia's capital Friday to remember Byrd.

Ann Jarvis from Grafton, West Virginia, had started the idea to have a day to honor mothers.

The longest-serving senator in American history was first elected to the Senate to represent West Virginia in 1958.

This user lives in West Virginia but is not a hillbilly .

Meantime, Hillary Clinton was in West Virginia , vowing to stay in the race until there is a nominee.

West Virginia Democrat Nick Rahall chairs the House Natural Resources Committee.

and Michigan, New Hampshire, Delaware, West Virginia and Mississippi, which have the highest home-ownership rates.

West Virginia's supreme court is its only appellate court, so not many cases get reviewed.

As a result, West Virginia, where "Mountaineers Are Always Free, " was formed.

Thanks to Syd S. Peng, chair of Mining Engineering at West Virginia University.

In the United States, the first recorded deep drill was in West Virginia in the 1820's.

His Mount Vernon plantation grew to 6, 500 acres, and he had other acreage in Virginia and what became West Virginia.

Country roads take me home to the place I belong: West Virginia.

In 2006 an explosion at a mine in Sago, West Virginia, trapped 13 miners underground for two days; only one survived.

This kind of Arkansans, Tennessee, Oklahoma, West Virginia region.

West Virginia and Kentucky are likely Clinton wins, but they offer fewer than 100 delegates combined.

For one thing, West Virginia's electorate is older and whiter than average.

In fact, until 1900, salt mined and used by residents in the Kanawha River Valley in West Virginia contained trace amounts of iodine.

A free-fall free for all in West Virginia. It's the Bridge Day Celebration in West Virginia.

The biggest increase was in the Cumberland area of Maryland and West Virginia, where the median price climbed 21% to $114, 900.

And tonight, in light of our overwhelming victory here in West Virginia, I want to send a message to everyone still making up their mind.

In recent weeks , she has scored overwhelming victories in the states of West Virginia and Kentucky .

Smoke stacks are seen at a coal power plant in West Virginia.

Coal mining companies recruited many Italians to work in the deep mines of West Virginia; others found work on railroads and farms.

AEP is planning a test project at its Mountaineer plant in West Virginia.

Utah had the fewest smokers, at just 13 percent, while Kentucky and West Virginia tied for first place at 31 percent.

The Supreme Court ruled on a vote by a judge elected to West Virginia's high court 5 years ago.

Harpers Ferry was part of Virginia then; today it is located in West Virginia.

An explosion in Sago, West Virginia mine traps 13 men for nearly two days. Only one survives.

But Mr Obama has now lost both West Virginia and Kentucky by huge margins.

That plane crashed 300 miles away near Henderson, West Virginia, killing the pilot.

A city of western West Virginia on the Ohio River west of Charleston.

God bless their families. God bless West Virginia.

December 7, 1941: A small boat rescues a USS West Virginia crew member from the water after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

West Virginia's Asya Bussie (center) drives between Lamar defenders during their first-round game March 21 in Austin.

Virginia and West Virginia were hit hardest.

It's an annual tradition in West Virginia, attracting people from 13 countries.

West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin uses a gun to shoot legislation he doesn't like.

Now it is turning up farther south, in Virginia and West Virginia.

It's the Bridge Day Celebration in West Virginia.

Pure West Virginia. What's your father, dear?

The "emergency" bill for Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq war included $1. 8m to promote art in West Virginia.

In the Potomac Highlands of West Virginia, the Mountain Weavers Guild keeps the tradition of hand weaving alive.

The Democratic presidential hopefuls are making their final push as voters go to the polls Tuesday in West Virginia's primary.

It's a story heard across West Virginia these days.

The Grave Creek Mound in the panhandle of present day West Virginia is nearly 70 feet tall and 300 feet in diameter.

In states where globalization has hit hard, such as Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania, he lost working-class whites.

a town in central West Virginia on the New river.

300 million years ago: Formation of West Virginia coal deposits.

Horizon also leads a team that is developing the first statewide smart grid implementation plan for West Virginia.

But mining accidents in China, Russia, West Virginia, New Zealand and Turkey each killed dozens of workers.

Many people have retired to West Virginia to enjoy its wealth of natural resources.

In 1910, West Virginia became the first state to recognize Mother's Day.

49: West Virginia's rank in median household income.

West Virginia ended 2005 with three mining deaths, the lowest since 2000.

A free-fall free for all in West Virginia.

We are studying that possibility, but the answer is not yet clear in West Virginia.

Neal used data from a screening scheme introduced for all state school pupils aged 10 or 11 in West Virginia in 2000.

He was born in West Virginia , United Staes.

Republicans need to win 10 seats to take control of the Senate, a feat that is almost impossible without West Virginia.

The park, with an area of about 3. 5 square miles (9 square km), is situated in Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia.

That is the $6, 000bn dollar question, not just for West Virginia, but the wider financial system.

Number 10 on the list was West Virginia at 2. 94 subscriptions per 1000, while number 41, Michigan, averaged 2. 32.

the Marcellus Shale in the northern Appalachian Basin of West Virginia, Pennsylvania;

Bartholomew Clinic, Bluefield, West Virginia

Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College (Mount Gay)

Forests of West Virginia, U. S. A. And Shaanxi, China: a study in forest exploitation and recovery

West Virginia Department of Transportation

West Virginia University, College of Business and Economics

West Virginia's Chapter of the National Organization for Women

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New River Gorge Bridge (Fayetteville, West Virginia)

Rescuers Drill Hole in West Virginia Mine, No Response From Missing Miners

West Virginia University at Parkersburg

West Virginia University School of Medicine

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Country Road Takes Me Home Almost Heaven, West Virginia,

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West To the place I belong, West Virginia

For the river at Wheeling, West Virginia

The Highlands Of West Virginia (Jim Clark)

Century Aluminum of West Virginia

Hole Punch Clouds over West Virginia

University of West Virginia Regional Research Institute

West Virginia, My Home Sweet Home

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