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On June 20, 1863, West Virginia seceded from Virginia to align with the Union during the Civil War. It rejected the Confederacy then, but the state hasn't taken down any Confederate statues in 2020.

Rashaan Salaam won the 1994 Heisman Trophy as college football's most outstanding player.

Officials in Oakland continue their grim search for victims of a fire that swept through a warehouse used as a communal artists' residence. The death toll is 33, making it the city's deadliest fire.

Officials call it a miracle that there've been no reports of deaths in the blazes, which destroyed at least 500 homes — and perhaps twice that number. In some cases families had just minutes to flee.

Police identified the driver, who was arraigned early Sunday on two counts of criminal homicide.

Gov. Andy Beshear has declared a state of emergency after heavy rains and flash flooding led to massive damage in the eastern part of the state.

Mike Miller has had his eagle eyes trained on the Illinois River Valley for a long time, and he says there's a lot more of the national bird to see around these parts than in years' past.

The coastal tourist town of Rockport, Texas, faced severe damage after Hurricane Harvey.

Record high temperatures, strong winds and thunderstorms are prompting warnings for high wildfire danger across the Pacific Northwest.

County bats is often tricky. Researchers use volunteers and innovative technology to monitor bat populations. (Story aired on Weekend Edition Saturday on Aug. 19, 2023.)