Jeanne Kay Whitefeather took the stand on Tuesday, Jan. 21 after being arrested with her husband Donald Ray Lantz in October ...

Adopted Black children to testify against white parents accused of treating them as ‘slaves’, trial told - Donald Lantz and ...

Jeanne Whitefeather, 62, and Donald Ray Lantz, 61, are charged with human trafficking, child abuse and forced child labor ...

Jeanne Whitefeather has denied locking two of her five adopted children in a shed -- despite authorities finding the teens in one back in October 2023.

If Donald Trump seizes the Panama Canal, Greenland and Canada, perhaps Glenn Youngkin should go after West Virginia.

A “This Week in West Virginia History,” published Jan. 15, 2025, reported that “West Virginia’s most famous soldier,” Thomas ...

A teenager whose discovery in a locked shed at her West Virginia home led to the arrest of her adoptive parents has taken the stand in the couple's trial ...

Largely mountainous and unable to support large-scale slavery, on which voting in slave-wealthy Virginia was based, the west had long considered separation. Virginia's disloyalty provided the ...

AMartin Robinson Delany was born in Charles Town, Virginia (now West Virginia), the grandson of slaves and the son of free blacks. Delany received his first instruction in reading from peddlers of ...

When Virginia seceded from the Union in 1861, the portion now known as West Virginia broke off to form its own state. Admitted to the Union in 1863, West Virginia was the only state created from ...