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West Virginia expands its education savings account program for military families
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A program that incentivizes West Virginia families to pull their children out of K-12 public schools by offering them government-funded scholarships to pay for private school… Read More
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice appoints his wife Cathy to the state education board after his U.S. Senate win
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice appointed his wife to the state school board about a day after a decisive victory in a U.S. Senate race against his Democratic… Read More
Republican Morrisey wins West Virginia governor’s race
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Republican Attorney General Patrick Morrisey easily won the West Virginia governor’s race Tuesday, using an endorsement from former U.S. President Donald Trump to catapult him to victory in… Read More
One candidate for West Virginia governor defends abortion bans. The other wanted abortion on the ballot
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The closest West Virginia voters could come to having their say at the ballot box on whether abortion should be legal in the post-Roe v. Wade era might be in… Read More
Debt paid on the historic Greenbrier Hotel owned by family of West Virginia’s governor, a US Senate candidate
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The family of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, says it has paid off debts to avoid the foreclosure on its historic hotel,… Read More
Old newspaper boxes are being used to distribute the overdose reversal drug Narcan
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — For decades, Jeff Card’s family company was known for manufacturing the once ubiquitous tin boxes where people could buy newspapers on the street. Today, reach into… Read More
West Virginia lawmakers delay taking up an income tax cut and approve brain research funds
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia lawmakers speedily approved funding for the state veterans home, a program to help kids at risk of dropping out of school and other proposals… Read More
West Virginia’s new drug czar was once addicted to opioids himself
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The new drug czar in West Virginia has a very personal reason for wanting to end the state’s opioid crisis: He was once addicted to prescription… Read More
A union rep says West Virginia’s governor is late on paying worker health insurance bills, despite denials
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice’s family is millions of dollars behind on payments to employees’ health insurance fund at their financially beleaguered hotel, putting workers’ coverage at… Read More
West Virginia’s personal income tax will drop by 4% next year, Gov. Justice says
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginians will see their personal income tax drop by 4% in the new year, Gov. Jim Justice said. The Republican governor announced Thursday that state… Read More
Judges rule that the West Virginia and North Carolina transgender care coverage policies discriminate
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s and North Carolina’s refusal to cover certain health care for transgender people with government-sponsored insurance is discriminatory, a federal appeals court ruled Monday in… Read More
A West Virginia bill that adds work search to unemployment and freezes benefits is made law without signature
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — People receiving unemployment benefits in West Virginia will need to do more to prove they are searching for jobs to collect state benefits under a new… Read More
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice vetoes the bill that would have loosened school vaccine policies
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Republican Gov. Jim Justice on Wednesday broke with West Virginia’s GOP-majority Legislature to veto a bill that would have loosened one of the country’s strictest school vaccine… Read More
West Virginia’s governor signs a vague law allowing teachers to answer questions about origin of life
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Republican Gov. Jim Justice signed a law Friday that supporters say promotes the free exchange of ideas in science classrooms, despite objections from opponents… Read More
West Virginia legislative session ends with pay raises, tax cut and failure of social issue bills
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The Republican-dominated state Legislature in West Virginia on Saturday concluded a 60-day session marked by budget disputes and controversial social issue bills that advanced but ultimately… Read More
West Virginia’s House OKs a bill to allow teachers with training to carry guns and removes local power to reject them
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s Republican-controlled House of Delegates voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to allow teachers and other school staff who undergo training to carry guns in K-12 public schools…. Read More
West Virginia advances a bill that would require age verification for internet pornography
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — People in West Virginia would need to present some form of state-sponsored age verification before accessing internet pornography under a bill that advanced Monday in the… Read More
A bill decriminalizing drug test strips in opioid-devastated West Virginia heads to the governor
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A bill that would decriminalize all dtrug test strips used to detect deadly substances in West Virginia, the state with the nation’s highest overdose rate, is headed to… Read More
West Virginia advances a bill to add photos to all SNAP cards, despite enforcement concerns
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A committee of lawmakers in West Virginia’s Republican-majority Legislature is advancing a bill that would require photo IDs to be added to the SNAP cards low-income… Read More
West Virginia’s Senate OKs a bill to allow veterans and retired police to provide armed security in schools
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — County education boards in West Virginia could contract with military veterans and retired law enforcement officers to provide armed security at K-12 public schools under a… Read More
Coal-producing West Virginia is converting an entire school system to solar power
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — An entire county school system in coal-producing West Virginia is going solar, representing what a developer and U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin’s office touted on Wednesday as… Read More
A West Virginia school system mandates religious training following a revival assembly lawsuit
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia school district has passed a policy mandating annual religious freedom training as part of a lawsuit settlement after an evangelical preacher held a… Read More
West Virginia pathologists perform twice as many autopsies as industry standard amid shortages
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Forensic pathologists in West Virginia are being asked to perform at least twice as many autopsies as the national best practice standard, resulting in significant delays,… Read More
Child care programs just lost thousands of federal dollars. Families and providers scramble to cope
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WILLIAMSON, W.Va. (AP) — Kaitlyn Adkins is studying law to help families in her community impacted by the opioid epidemic at the heart of West Virginia coal country. But to… Read More
The family of a West Virginia 13-year-old who was struck and killed by off-duty deputy demands a jury trial
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The family of a West Virginia 13-year-old who was struck and killed by an off-duty sheriff’s deputy with his marked cruiser last year has filed a civil suit… Read More