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    Coronavirus Updates
    West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice announced in late December that residents over the age of 80 would be able to receive doses of the vaccine from their county health departments.
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    West Virginia's Vaccination Rate Ranks Among Highest In World

    Feb 22, 2021
    How did West Virginia become one of the world's leaders in delivering COVID-19 vaccines? One piece of the story starts with a striking photograph in the local paper.
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    Retired Army Sgt. Felix McDermott is buried in Pennsylvania's Westmoreland County. His death is one of seven that Reta Mays has been charged with.
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    Former VA Medical Worker Pleads Guilty To Murdering 7 Patients In West Virginia

    Jul 14, 2020
    Reta Mays was charged with killing seven patients by injecting them with insulin. She worked as a nursing assistant on the night shift at a Veterans Affairs medical center in Clarksburg.
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    Coronavirus Live Updates
    West Virginia Governor Jim Justice (pictured in January) has said he wants all nursing home residents and staff for coronavirus.
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    West Virginia Aims To Test All Nursing Home Residents, Workers for COVID-19

    Apr 17, 2020
    West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice said there have been discrepancies in data from the homes, and wants even those already checked to be retested.
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    Coronavirus Live Updates

    Citing Concerns About Access For 'Seniors,' West Virginia's Governor Delays Primary

    Apr 01, 2020
    More than a dozen states have delayed primaries because of the coronavirus.
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    West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, pictured in July, said all 31 graduating correctional cadets would be fired. An investigation found the salute started in the second or third week of training "as a sign of respect" for an instructor.
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    West Virginia Governor Approves Firing All Cadets Who Posed In Nazi-Like Salute Photo

    Dec 30, 2019
    "As I said from the beginning, I condemn the photo of Basic Training Class 18 in the strongest possible terms," Gov. Jim Justice said, "This act needed to result in real consequences."
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    Main Street, St. Clairsville, Ohio (population about 5,000), the county seat of Belmont County.
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    Drug Overdoses Contribute To Rise In Midlife Mortality In Ohio River Valley

    Dec 23, 2019
    Life expectancy in the U.S. has taken a significant downward turn. This is especially true in Ohio and West Virginia, which have the highest rates of overdose deaths among people ages 25 to 64.
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    Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., became the focus of a heated argument at the West Virginia statehouse on Friday, after an anti-Muslim display in the rotunda juxtaposed her photo with the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
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    Sign Falsely Linking Muslim Congresswoman To 9/11 Sparks Outrage In West Virginia

    Mar 02, 2019
    The poster was on display at West Virginia's "GOP Day" on Friday. It provoked an argument, an injury, the resignation of a staff member and potential disciplinary action against a lawmaker.
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    Education
    In a 2018 photo, teacher Jennifer Hanner holds a sign outside the state Senate chambers at the Capitol in Charleston, W.Va.
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    W.Va. Teachers Go On Strike Over State Education Bill

    Feb 19, 2019
    Educators oppose charter schools and a new voucher system. The strike comes a year after the last walkout sparked similar strikes across the U.S.
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    The Salt
    Members of the Appalachian Beekeeping Collective inspect one of their apiaries. The collective teaches displaced coal miners in West Virginia how to keep bees as a way to supplement their income.
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    Out-Of-Work Appalachian Coal Miners Train As Beekeepers To Earn Extra Cash

    Jan 28, 2019
    In West Virginia, mining jobs have been declining for years, and there have been few other options to make a living. The Appalachian Beekeeping Collective is hoping to help turn that around.
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    Shots - Health News
    Anthony Dooley, 32, successfully graduated from an addiction recovery program recently. He credits Cox's team with visiting him in the hospital and walking him through his options.
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    Knocking On Doors To Get Opioid Overdose Survivors Into Treatment

    Oct 24, 2018
    Within days of an OD from opioids or other drugs, users in Huntington, W.Va., are visited by a quick-response team at home, the hospital or in jail. Reversing an OD is just recovery's first step.
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    Law
    West Virginia House Speaker Pro Tempore John Overington presides over a hearing on articles of impeachment on Monday at the state Capitol in Charleston, W.Va.
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    West Virginia House Votes To Impeach All 4 State Supreme Court Justices

    Aug 13, 2018
    The votes come one week after the state House Judiciary Committee approved articles of impeachment against the entire bench of the state Supreme Court of Appeals.
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    The Salt
    More than 2,100 drug felons were denied SNAP benefits in West Virginia in 2016. The number has more than tripled during the past decade.
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    In Some States, Drug Felons Still Face Lifetime Ban On SNAP Benefits

    Jun 20, 2018
    The 1996 federal ban aimed to punish drug offenders, but research shows denying aid disproportionately affects the poor and increases recidivism. Many states have opted out or modified the policy.
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    Politics
    Rick Colyer votes at the Durham County Library North Regional in Durham, N.C., Tuesday.
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    4 Takeaways From The Big Primary Kickoff Night

    May 09, 2018
    Republicans dodged a big bullet with a convicted coal executive's loss of the GOP Senate primary. But they continue to be the party facing more division.
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    Elections
    Former Massey CEO and West Virginia Republican Senatorial candidate Don Blankenship, greets supporters Doug Smith, left, and Wanda Smith, right, prior to a town hall in Logan, W.Va., on Jan. 18.
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    Former Coal CEO Turned Senate Hopeful Don Blankenship Says He's 'Trumpier Than Trump'

    May 08, 2018
    Blankenship could win West Virginia's GOP Senate primary, despite spending a year in prison after 29 miners died in an explosion at a mine owned by the company he led. Trump isn't backing him.
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    Politics
    Don Blankenship, left, talks to Patrick Morrisey, right, after a heated exchange at a campaign stop in Parkersburg, W.Va.
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    Republicans Might Want To Run Away From Trump This Year, But Not In West Virginia

    Apr 15, 2018
    A wild GOP primary fight has emerged here with everyone tying themselves to the president. It features a congressman, an attorney general and an ex-con businessman, who's turned the race upside down.
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    Politics
    A member of the West Virginia National Guard works in the basement of the state Capitol in Charleston, W.Va., on secondment to the Secretary of State's office to work on cybersecurity around state elections.
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    States Turn To National Guard To Help Protect Future Elections From Hackers

    Apr 11, 2018
    Election officials have traditionally focused on a smooth voting experience, but after the 2016 elections, they've also had to focus on cybersecurity.
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    The Two-Way
    Mine-safety officials speak with workers at the Gibson North mine in Princeton, Ind., in 2015.
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    Congress Boosts 'Black Lung' Treatment Funding By Millions

    Mar 28, 2018
    After NPR reporting on the Progressive Massive Fibrosis epidemic, Congress and the White House agreed to give the maximum funding authorized for clinics treating the disease in 15 coal-mining states.
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    The Two-Way
    West Virginia teachers, students and supporters hold their signs aloft during a demonstration earlier this month in Morgantown, W.Va.
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    'We Have Reached A Deal': West Virginia Teacher Strike Set To End With Pay Raise

    Mar 06, 2018
    The strike, which shuttered classrooms in the state for more than a week, reached a resolution as Gov. Jim Justice, the union and lawmakers all agreed to a 5 percent salary bump for state employees.
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    The Two-Way
    W. Va. teachers, students and supporters hold signs on a Morgantown, W. Va., street on Saturday. The strike is in its second weekend after the state Senate failed to pass the 5 percent raise teachers are demanding.
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    Still No School In W. Va. As Salary Snag Ensures Strike Will Go On

    Mar 04, 2018
    The state Senate failed to pass the raise teachers are demanding. Now an end date for the strike is unclear as students face their eighth day of no school.
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    National
    Special needs teacher's aide Belva Perry holds up a sign on Wednesday at West Virginia's Capitol that reads "no deal."
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    W.Va. Teacher Walkouts, School Closures Continue Despite Governor's Deal With Unions

    Feb 28, 2018
    After Gov. Jim Justice and union leaders announced an agreement had been made to end the teacher strike, uncertainty forced all of the state's counties to call off school yet again.
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    Environment And Energy Collaborative
    President Trump praised the 2017 opening of this mine in Friedens, Pa., which created around 100 jobs.
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    Coal Jobs Have Gone Up Under Trump, But Not Because Of His Policies

    Feb 23, 2018
    The number of U.S. coal jobs rose slightly during the president's first year in office. But energy analysts credit short-term market forces and say they won't stop long-term decline.
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    The Two-Way
    Jennifer Hanner, a first-year teacher from Harts, W.Va., holds a sign Thursday at the Capitol in Charleston. Teachers statewide went on strike Thursday over pay and benefits.
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    West Virginia's Teachers Walk Off The Job, Protesting Low Pay And Benefit Cuts

    Feb 22, 2018
    Teachers formed picket lines and descended on the state Capitol to demand higher salaries and better insurance. The state has some of the lowest teacher pay in the country.
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    The Two-Way
    A House commerce committee investigation found that two drug wholesalers had sent more than 20 million pain pills to two pharmacies in the small town of Williamson, W.Va., seen in 2016.
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    Drug Distributors Shipped 20.8 Million Painkillers To West Virginia Town Of 3,000

    Jan 30, 2018
    Other towns were similarly inundated, in a state that now has the highest rate of drug overdose deaths. In 2008, one wholesaler provided 5,624 pills for every man, woman and child in Kermit, W.Va.
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    Goats and Soda
    Philip Alston, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, is leading a mission to investigate poverty in the U.S.
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    The U.N. Looks At Extreme Poverty In The U.S., From Alabama To California

    Dec 12, 2017
    One sign of the poverty they're investigating — the recent (and surprising) reemergence of hookworm in Lowndes County, Ala.
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    Politics
    President Trump talks with West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice before Justice spoke during a rally Thursday in Huntington, W.Va. Justice said at the rally that he intends to switch parties and rejoin the Republicans.
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    West Virginia Governor Announces He'll Switch To GOP At Trump Rally

    Aug 03, 2017
    Appearing with the president Thursday night, Gov. Jim Justice announced he'll flip to the GOP: "I can't help you any more being a Democrat governor," he told the crowd.

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