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See who has filed to run in the 2012 primary elections
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With just three days left to file for candidacy for West Virginia’s May 8 primary election, nominees for state and local offices continued to trickle in Wednesday.
Bride Guide 2012
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Marshall Plane Crash
Check here to find original stories, photo galleries, victim information and coverage of the filming of the 2006 movie "We Are Marshall."
100 Years of History
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Tri-State's Wanted
The Herald-Dispatch's “Tri-State’s Wanted” list has featured several fugitives since June 2006, many of whom have been captured.
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More Elections
HUNTINGTON -- Two members of the House of Delegates representing Cabell County have filed for re-election.
CATLETTSBURG, Ky. --There will be Democratic primaries in the races for Commonwealth's Attorney and Boyd County Circuit Clerk, but so far only Chuck Charles has filed as a non-partisan candidate for Ashland mayor.
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Jon Huntsman staked his presidential campaign on New Hampshire and his bid to become a legitimate competitor on distinguishing himself from front-runner Mitt Romney. But less than a week after a disappointing third-place finish in the Granite State's GOP primary, Huntsman decided to quit the race and back Romney.
New U.S. House maps emerging
West Virginia lawmakers are considering new maps for the state's congressional districts, while the legal fight continues over the one struck down by a panel of federal judges this month as unconstitutional.
These candidates have filed to run for office in the May 8 primary elections.
CHARLESTON -- West Virginia officials want the U.S. Supreme Court to put a hold on the federal ruling that struck down the state's new congressional districts.
HUNTINGTON -- Republican John Raese filed for another run at one of West Virginia's U.S. Senate Seats Friday after he was defeated by Joe Manchin during last year's special election.
HUNTINGTON -- Candidates continued to line up for public office on Wednesday, three days into the filing period for candidacy in the West Virginia primary election on Tuesday, May 8.
HUNTINGTON -- Candidates vying for elected posts in Cabell County continued to steadily file for candidacy Tuesday after a flurry of filing on Monday.
CHARLESTON -- West Virginia officials no longer face a Jan. 17 deadline to submit a new congressional redistricting plan, but they also cannot conduct this year's three U.S. House races with the map that was struck down last week as unconstitutional, the federal judges who issued that decision said Tuesday.
HUNTINGTON -- The filing period for state and county offices in West Virginia opened Monday with a flurry of activity.
WELLSBURG, W.Va. — A veteran Northern Panhandle legislator says he won't seek re-election.
HUNTINGTON -- Three more candidates have filed to run for Huntington City Council, bringing the total to five.
HUNTINGTON -- Rick Simmons has filed to run for Huntington City Council.
HUNTINGTON -- Filing for the 2012 primary election in the city of Huntington began Tuesday, Jan. 3, and runs through the end of the month.
Ohio voters reject anti-union law
The state's new collective bargaining law was defeated Tuesday after an expensive union-backed campaign that pitted firefighters, police officers and teachers against the Republican establishment.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s Democratic governor, Steve Beshear, appears to be comfortably ahead at the final turn of a gubernatorial race that on paper looks like he should have tripped coming out of the gate.
KENOVA -- Applications were due to the West Virginia School Building Authority Tuesday, but an application to replace Kenova Elementary in Wayne County was not among them.
CLEVELAND (AP) — An Ohio congressman facing a primary fight against a fellow Democrat is lobbying for an embattled GOP redistricting plan, asking voters to call state lawmakers on his behalf.
CHARLESTON -- West Virginia still plans to offer public campaign funds to its Supreme Court candidates during next year's election, but supporters of the pilot program say they're concerned about its prospects after a recent legal setback and a failed bid to increase its revenue sources.
