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West Virginia counties set the rules for opioid funds with no one watching
WCHS - West Virginia
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WEST VIRGINIA (WVU) — For two hours every Thursday and Friday, Randall Brown gathers a handful of people in front of a whiteboard. They sit on a couch or armchairs on either side – the walls filled with colorful drawings while coffee brews in a...
West Virginia to conduct nighttime deer surveys across the Mountain State
West Virginia Explorer
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August 18, 2025
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — State biologists will conduct spotlight surveys across the Mountain State in August and September to monitor white-tailed deer populations, according to the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources. Advertisement The surveys...
Chamber of Commerce calls ongoing workforce decline in West Virginia 'a warning sign'
WCHS - West Virginia
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WEST VIRGINIA (WCHS) — The West Virginia Chamber of Commerce has called a continuing decline in the state’s labor force and overall employment “a warning sign.” The concerns come following the July 2025 jobs report from WorkForce West Virginia...
Former West Virginia law firm office manager pleads guilty to $602,000 bank fraud scheme
Lootpress - West Virginia
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August 18, 2025
HUNTINGTON, WV (LOOTPRESS) – A longtime law firm office manager in Huntington has pleaded guilty to bank fraud after admitting to embezzling more than $600,000 from his employer and clients. Todd M. Chapman, 57, entered his guilty plea Monday in...
'It's still old West Virginia to me': Rich Rodriguez goes deep on his return
Sporting News
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August 18, 2025
MORGANTOWN, W. Va. – Rich Rodriguez leans back into a leather couch next to a wall of coal bricks in his office at the Milan Puskar Center. He pairs a white hat and blue polo – both emblazoned with the gold "WV" logo. He is comfortable. Home...
National Guard in DC might be equipped as West Virginia sends out soldiers at Trump’s demand to take on ‘out of control’ criminal offense
Web NewsWire
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August 18, 2025
National Guard soldiers released to Washington, DC, might quickly start bring weapons, as President Donald Trump broadens the Guard’s function in the capital with supports from West Virginia. The Wall Street Journal reported that some Guard...
Is Trump’s DC Military Deployment the Start of a Slow-Motion Civil War?
The Nation
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August 18, 2025
Politics / August 18, 2025 Anything is possible in the coming days and weeks, but it’s difficult not to feel like we are veering toward escalating violence. Ad Policy Members of the National Guard walk on the National Mall on August 14, 2025 in...
Former Senator Manchin Starting Book Tour
WCBC - Maryland
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August 18th, 2025 by WCBC Radio Former U.S. Senator Joe Manchin will release a memoir in September called Dead Center: In Defense of Common Sense. Manchin’s book tour will begin in Morgantown Friday, Sept. 12 at 5:30 p.m. at West Virginia...
Ohio State names Julian Sayin starting QB ahead of showdown with Arch Manning, Texas
The New York Times
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August 18, 2025
Ohio State has named Julian Sayin its starting quarterback. After eight months of competition between Sayin and Lincoln Kienholz, Buckeyes coach Ryan Day said Monday that Sayin, a five-star recruit who originally signed with Alabama in the Class...
State of West Virginia sues national pharmacy benefit manager over opioid crisis
MetroNews - West Virginia
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August 18, 2025
Attorney General J.B. McCuskey announced a lawsuit against Express Scripts, a pharmacy benefit manager, alleging its central role in the opioid crisis. The lawsuit claims St. Louis-based Express Scripts, now Evernorth Health, prioritized profits...
Abortion pill campaign targets rural West Virginia, Kentucky gas stations
The Register-Herald - West Virginia
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CHARLESTON — Advertisements promoting the abortion pill will be at gas stations across West Virginia and Kentucky over the next few weeks. Mayday Health, a New York-based health education nonprofit, will run the ads at 104 rural gas stations...
Texas House has enough lawmakers present to pass gerrymandered congressional map
The Guardian
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August 18, 2025
Texas House achieves quorum as Democrats return to statehouseThe Texas House achieved quorum today for the first time in two weeks since state Democrats staged a walkout in protest of a gerrymandered congressional map drawn by Republicans. “Let me...
West Virginia, Ohio governors commit National Guard troops to D.C. policing
Parkersburg News & Sentinel - West Virginia
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A first sergeant with the District of Columbia National Guard watches as activists protest President Donald Trump's federal takeover of policing of the District of Columbia, Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)...
West Virginia, Ohio Send Hundreds of National Guard Troops to Washington, D.C.
The Intelligencer - West Virginia
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A member of the District of Columbia National Guard walks past the Lincoln Memorial, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson) PARKERSBURG — National Guardsmen from West Virginia and Ohio are headed to Washington,...
Praise the Lord, and pass the rattlesnakes! West Virginia’s fading snake handling tradition
West Virginia Explorer
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August 18, 2025
JOLO, W.Va. — On a warm Sunday in late May 2012, a locally well-known Pentecostal pastor named Mack Wolford invited friends and family to what he billed as “a homecoming like the old days,” a day of music, prayer and the spiritual “signs” drawn...
Start of high school football practice brings heat, provides hope
Baltimore Sun - Maryland
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August 18, 2025
Coaches compare this feeling to Christmas morning. Except instead of unwrapping presents underneath a decorated tree, they watch players enter the Bel Air High School doors one by one, equipment in hand, giving fist bumps as they pass by, ready...
West Virginia and Ohio broadcaster Josephine Corey dies at 95
WCHS - West Virginia
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS) — A member of the WCHS-TV family has passed away. Josephine Corey, known for her contributions to broadcasting in both West Virginia and Ohio, has died at 95. Corey was born in Charleston and got her start in television...
West Virginia QB battle: Rich Rodriguez debates naming starter before season opener
On3
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August 17, 2025
The 2025 regular season is rapidly approaching. Despite that, head coach Rich Rodriguez has not named a starting quarterback for the West Virginia Mountaineers. Recently, Rodriguez was asked about his plan at quarterback. Ultimately, he was coy...
West Virginia National Guard to Deploy in D.C
[your]NEWS
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August 17, 2025
By Charles Hawes, Capital News WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a bold move that underscores the Trump administration’s sweeping effort to overhaul policing and combat homelessness in the nation’s capital, hundreds of National Guard troops from West Virginia...
Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics — 8.18.25
Florida Politics
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August 18, 2025
Good Monday morning. Welcome to the world — Brooks Allan Grissom, the son of Kristen and Mike Grissom (she is at Bascom Communications and Consulting, he is at Buchanan Ingersoll Rooney PC). Brooks was born on Aug. 14 at 10:25 a.m., weighing 8...