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Mine Safety Debt For WV Gov. Justice’s Family Companies Grows to $4M
An Ohio Valley ReSource analysis of federal mine safety data shows that the companies belonging to the family of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice owe $4.3 million in delinquent debt… Read More
Bad Diets Are Responsible For More Deaths Than Smoking, Global Study Finds
Some 11 million deaths annually are linked to diet-related diseases like diabetes and heart disease, a study finds. Researchers say that makes diet the leading risk factor for deaths around the world.
U.S. Jobs Rebound To Solid Growth; Unemployment Holds At 3.8 Percent
Employers added 196,000 jobs in March, bouncing back from February’s weak growth, the Labor Department said Friday. The jobless rate was unchanged at nearly 50-year lows.
AIFVF ’19 Interviews: ‘I Am DJ Barticus’
Who is DJ Barticus? That is the question that filmmakers and Ohio University alumni Logan Fouss and Hannah Barrow did their best to answer in their film, I Am DJ… Read More
Tri-State Poets Set to Celebrate National Poetry Month at Dairy Barn Arts Center
In honor of National Poetry Month the Dairy Barn Arts Center is pleased to welcome nationally lauded poets to its poetry series “Spoken & Heard, Poetry of Departure and Relevance,”… Read More
W.Va. Child Exploitation Unit Makes 19 Arrests in 6 Months
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) – Authorities say they’ve made 19 arrests in six months after investigations into child exploitation in West Virginia. Federal and state officials on Thursday announced the results… Read More
NMF ’19 Interviews: Death Cab For Cutie
Death Cab For Cutie exists in a peculiar spot. The Portland based indie rockers are symbolic of millennial nostalgia — their 2003 release, Transatlanticism, being formative to more than a… Read More
Man’s Claim Gives False Hope in Yearslong Missing Boy Case
CINCINNATI (AP) – The Latest on the investigation of a man who allegedly claimed to be a long-missing child from Illinois. 11:15 a.m. An FBI affidavit says an Ohio man… Read More
Ohio Schools Now Must Notify Parents When Kids Are Absent
CLEVELAND (AP) – If Ohio children are absent from class without excuse, their schools will have to notify their parents within the first two hours of the school day under… Read More
China To Close Loophole On Fentanyl After U.S. Calls For Opioid Action
Some manufacturers evaded scrutiny by slightly modifying the molecular structures of substances. Monday’s announcement “puts a wider array of substances under regulation,” a Chinese official says.
Lawsuit: W. Va. Teacher Sexually Abused Child, Birthed His Kids
WHEELING, W.Va. (AP) – A West Virginia man says his middle school teacher sexually abused him for years, gave birth to his children and threatened to take them away if… Read More
Health Officials: E. Coli Cases in Kentucky Climb to 46
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) – Kentucky officials say a contaminated food source is believed to have caused an E. coli outbreak that has sickened at least 46 people in the state…. Read More
Official: County ‘Ripe’ for HIV Outbreak Among Drug Users
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) – West Virginia health officials are investigating an increase in HIV cases, mainly among intravenous drug users in Cabell County, but they haven’t detected an increase among… Read More
Speaker Has Concerns About New School Funding Formula
A new school funding formula from two state representatives is getting a lot of attention. But while the House Speaker calls the existing formula a “disaster”, he says the new… Read More
This Week On Radio Free Athens: April 6, 2019
Every weekend local music geeks unite to provide the region with 11 hours of creatively curated tunes on WOUB 1340AM, an endeavor that is known commonly as Radio Free Athens!… Read More
Les Misérables | MASTERPIECE | Starting Sunday, April 14 at 9
The greatest novel. The greatest adaptation. Les Misérables Dominic West, David Oyelowo and Lily Collins star in Victor Hugo’s epic tale, scripted by Andrew Davies on MASTERPIECE Sundays, April 14… Read More