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Congressional Redistricting Now Issue 1
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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A plan to change the way the state’s map of Congressional districts will be drawn after the 2020 census will be on the May ballot as Issue 1. The Ballot… Read More
WVU Researcher Sees Shooter Status Threat in Mass Killings
By: Associated Press
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) – A West Virginia University researcher says there likely will be more mass shootings at U.S. schools and that apparent underlying issues include shooters’ perceived threat to… Read More
Trump Administration Wants To Let Insurers Offer Plans With Fewer Benefits
By: Alison Kodjak | NPR
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The Department of Health and Human Services is proposing a rule that would expand short-term policies that don’t have to meet the Affordable Care Act’s benefit requirements.
Election Chiefs ‘Straddle The Line Between Sounding The Alarm And Being Alarmist’
By: Miles Parks | NPR
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State election officers from all over the country met in Washington, D.C., this weekend, and received a classified intelligence briefing on threats from foreign adversaries.
Elvis Returns to Stuart’s with the Award Winning Dwight Icenhower
Stuart’s Opera House in Nelsonville, OH welcomes nationally recognized Elvis tribute artist Dwight Icenhower on Saturday, February 24th at 7:00pm and tickets are on sale now! Dwight Icenhower was raised… Read More
West Virginia House OKs Work Requirement for Food Stamps
By: Associated Press
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) – The West Virginia House has voted 78-19 to impose the federal 20-hour weekly work requirement for many food stamp recipients statewide. It would apply to people… Read More
Criminal Justice Changes Touted to Curb Prison Population in Kentucky
By: Associated Press
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) – With Kentucky’s prisons expected to run out of space by mid-2019, proposals to curb rising incarceration rates picked up some momentum as lawmakers begin considering the… Read More
Police Say Man Threatened Shooting at Ohio High School
By: Associated Press
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TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) – A 20-year-old man accused of threatening a shooting at an Ohio high school has been charged with inducing panic and held on $50,000 bond. Toledo police… Read More
Permanent Pothole Patches to Follow Warmer Weather
By: Nathan Buccilla
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This week’s spring-like temperatures have prompted Athens City Council to pay an asphalt plant to reopen early to produce hot asphalt to patch the growing potholes around the city. The… Read More
New Synchronized Skating Coach Brings Lifetime of Experience
By: Thomas Garverick
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Sixteen. That’s the number of years that Ohio University Junior Jess Huber has been carving up the ice. How did her love for skating begin? “Disney on Ice” – of course…. Read More
Pomeroy Works to Rebound from Flooding
By: Kaitlin Kulich
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POMEROY, Ohio – The Ohio River rose upwards of 40 inches since last Thursday flooding many businesses and houses in Pomeroy. Downtown Pomeroy is no stranger to flooding, especially business… Read More
American Creed | Coming February 27 to WOUB-TV
AMERICAN CREED PREMIERES TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27 ON PBS Former Sec. of State Condoleezza Rice, Historian David M. Kennedy, Author Junot Díaz, Chicago Cubs Manager Joe Maddon, and Others Come Together… Read More
FirstEnergy Plans To Close Power Plant If No Buyer Found
By: Associated Press
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ST. MARYS, W.Va. (AP) – FirstEnergy says if it doesn’t find a buyer for a West Virginia coal-fired power plant, it will close the facility at the beginning of next… Read More
Kentucky Governor Files Suit To Defend Medicaid Waiver
By: Associated Press
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) – Republican Gov. Matt Bevin’s administration has filed its own lawsuit in response to a legal action challenging Kentucky’s first-in-the-nation work requirement for Medicaid. Bevin administration officials… Read More
West Virginia House Panel Backs More Insurance Funding
By: Associated Press
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) – With teachers and other public workers planning a statewide walkout Thursday and Friday over pay and benefits, West Virginia’s House Finance Committee has advanced legislation that… Read More
Low-Lying Areas See River Flooding In South, East Ohio
By: Associated Press
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CINCINNATI (AP) – Roads and businesses in some low-lying areas have had to close along the Ohio River after days of rain swelled waterways past their banks. Some businesses were… Read More
Prosecutor Seeks No Bond For Suspect In 2 Ohio Officers’ Slayings
By: Associated Press
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – A prosecutor is asking that the suspect in the fatal shooting of two Ohio police officers be held without bail or bond as the potential death… Read More
Clean-Up Begins As Ohio River Recedes In Pomeroy
By: Susan Tebben
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POMEROY, Ohio — After days of dreary, rain-soaked weather, the sun finally came out over Pomeroy. With the sun came full views of the Ohio River and its new shoreline,… Read More