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![Kyra Higgins (left) rehearses “Blackademics” with co-star Savanah Jackson (right).](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/IMG_1316-scaled-e1611075540803-900x422.jpeg)
Black Lives In Red States: Art And Life Converge For Two Women In A Tumultuous Year
By: Sydney Boles | Ohio Valley ReSource
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GEORGETOWN, Ky. (OVR) — Jessalyn Brown met Kyra Higgins through theater. “I saw her on stage and I was just like, ‘This girl is so good!’ She was just amazing.”… Read More
![The vehicle driven by one of the SHARK members, forced off the road and crashed into a ditch.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Crash-e1610486416468-900x422.png)
Driven Off The Road And Assaulted: Animal Rights Group Confronts Alleged Cockfighting In Southeastern Ohio
By: Liam Niemeyer | Ohio Valley ReSource
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LAWRENCE COUNTY, Ohio (OVR) — Members of an Illinois-based animal protection group say one of their members was assaulted and another was driven off the road recently after confronting a… Read More
![Vaccination process on Monday, December 14, 2020.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Ohio-Vaccine-Twitter-e1609172385897-900x422.jpg)
Answering Your Questions About The COVID-19 Vaccines
By: Corinne Boyer | Ohio Valley ReSource
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FRANKFURT, Ky. (OVR) — The arrival of the first doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine was met with cheers around the Ohio Valley as the first doses were administered to front-line… Read More
![A pharmacist labels syringes in a clean room where doses of COVID-19 vaccines will be handled, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020, at Mount Sinai Queens hospital in New York.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/AP20344826468449-e1607641704427-900x422.jpg)
Do You Have Questions About The Covid-19 Vaccine?
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (OVR) — The coronavirus vaccines are coming. After a year dominated by quarantine, lockdowns and far too many deaths and illnesses, the arrival of vaccines produced by two… Read More
![Jacksonville, Ohio- Voters cast in their ballots.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Swensen_voting-1-2-e1492966382495-900x422.jpg)
Despite Voting Restoration Thousands Are Still Disenfranchised In The Ohio Valley
By: Alana Watson | Ohio Valley ReSource
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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (OVR) — After more than a decade, Kentucky resident Guy Hamilton-Smith voted this year for the first time in the state. Even though he didn’t vote in person… Read More
![Protesting miners blocked the tracks in the morning fog.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/blackjewel-miners-on-track-e1564575779614-900x422.jpg)
Blackjewel Coal Moves To Liquidate, Leaving Millions Unpaid To Workers And Regulators
By: Sydney Boles | Ohio Valley ReSource
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WHITESBURGH, Ky. (OVR) — The convoluted bankruptcy of coal company Blackjewel has hit another turn of events as the company’s former CEO moved to liquidate the company. A federal judge… Read More
![The waiting room at Jefferson Day Report Center in West Virginia.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/aca-sud-waiting-e1571433297659-900x422.jpg)
“Diseases Of Despair” Deaths Drop Slightly But Still Higher In Appalachia
By: Alana Watson | Ohio Valley ReSource
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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (OVR) — New research shows that deaths due to the mix of substance use disorder and suicides known as “diseases of despair” declined slightly in 2018. But… Read More
![Voters cast their ballots on Election Day in McArthur, Ohio.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/3-e1524771260692-900x422.jpg)
Ohio Valley Divide: Vote Analysis Shows Bluer Cities, Deeper Red Rural Places
By: Suhail Bhat | Ohio Valley ReSource
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (OVR) — President-elect Joe Biden received a bigger turnout in the Ohio Valley in 2020 than Hillary Clinton did in 2016. So did his opponent Donald Trump. In… Read More
![Rural Hospital Sign](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Rural-Hospital-Sign1-900x422.jpg)
Sicker Staff, Fewer Beds For Rural Hospitals As COVID-19 Spreads Through Ohio Valley
By: Corinne Boyer | Ohio Valley ReSource
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CHILLICOTHE, Ohio (OVR) — Dr. Kirk Tucker, chief clinical officer of Adena Health Systems in Chillicothe, Ohio, said a week before Thanksgiving that the health system’s three hospitals in southern Ohio… Read More
![West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin with miners on Capitol Hill.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Manchin-e1557424684732-900x422.png)
Lawmakers, Union Urge Mine Safety Regulators to Act on Silica Dust
By: Sydney Boles | Ohio Valley ReSource
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (OVR) — A group of Ohio Valley senators says a watchdog agency’s recent report shows that federal regulators must do more to protect coal miners from silica dust, an… Read More
![Unemployment Office sign](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-09-at-9.34.06-AM-e1587054581642-900x422.png)
Ohio Valley Economic Outlook Grim As COVID Aid Programs End
WHITESBURG, Ky. (OVR) — With hundreds of thousands across the Ohio Valley struggling to make ends meet, a suite of coronavirus aid packages, including rent and utility relief funding, eviction… Read More
![Chickens are carried through a poultry slaughterhouse on mechanical arms.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/7087371881_bd7eb31647_o-e1586547318358-900x422.jpg)
Study Links Increased COVID-19 Transmission To Poultry Plants Allowed To Operate Faster
By: Liam Niemeyer | Ohio Valley ReSource
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HENDERSON COUNTY, Ky. (OVR) — A study published Thursday in a prestigious scientific journal links significant increases in COVID-19 transmission rates to meatpacking plants, especially those facilities that the federal… Read More
![An X-ray image of an Appalachian coal miner with black lung lesions.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Forehand-Lung-with-opacities-outlined-1-e1518216430607-900x422.jpg)
Federal Watchdog Finds Coal Safety Regulator Not Protecting Miners From Silica Dust
By: Sydney Boles | Ohio Valley ReSource
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (OVR) — The Mine Safety and Health Administration is not doing enough to protect coal miners from deadly silica dust, according to a new report from the Department of… Read More
![BarbiAnn Maynard drives 45 minutes from her home in Martin County, Kentucky, to a spring at the Mingo-Logan county line in West Virginia to fill containers with fresh water.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/100Days_Water_70-e1605542109130-900x422.jpg)
What Biden’s Plan For “Building Back Better” Could Mean For The Ohio Valley
By: Liam Niemeyer | Ohio Valley ReSource
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BARLOW, Ky. (OVR) — David Meinschein’s teachers, staff and students have sacrificed a lot this year amid the staggering challenges of the coronavirus pandemic. He opens the door heading inside… Read More
![A Kentucky home displays green lights in memory of those lost to COVID-19.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/IMG_20200712_213225-scaled-e1595271581991-900x422.jpg)
Older Veterans Face New Fight As Coronavirus Surges In Region
By: Corinne Boyer | Ohio Valley ReSource
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (OVR) — On Monday, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear delivered his daily briefing on coronavirus, which is surging across the Ohio Valley. Eleven more Kentuckians had died that day…. Read More
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Ohio Valley ReSource Adds Important Measures To Ohio COVID Data Tracker
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (OVR) — The Ohio Valley ReSource has expanded its COVID Data Tracker to include more measures to help you better understand the spread of coronavirus in Ohio, including the… Read More
![Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/AP_17255704038973-e1505822709481-900x422.jpg)
Ohio Valley Lawmakers React to Trump’s False Statements Undermining The Election
By: Sydney Boles | Ohio Valley ReSource
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (OVR) — Polls had barely closed in the U.S. when President Donald Trump falsely alleged voter fraud and claimed prematurely to have won the election, saying “We will… Read More
![Don Blankenship](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/AP_365902088031-900x422.jpg)
Ex-Massey Energy CEO Draws Thousands of Votes For President In Closely Contested States
By: Brittany Patterson | Ohio Valley ReSource
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (OVR) — Former coal executive Don Blankenship, who went to prison for his role in the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster in West Virginia, drew about 55,000 votes… Read More
![A voting sign points into a polling location](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/voting_sign_-_credit_kasler-e1584631408482-900x422.jpg)
Are You Having Trouble Voting? Tell Us.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (OVR) — The Ohio Valley ReSource has partnered with ProPublica’s Electionland, a collaborative project among local and national newsrooms around the country to report on voting problems. We’d… Read More
![Jacksonville, Ohio- Voters cast in their ballots.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Swensen_voting-1-2-e1492966382495-900x422.jpg)
The Missing Voters: The Ohio Valley Has Some Of The Nation’s Lowest Voter Turnout. What Could Change That?
By: Suhail Bhat | Sydney Boles | Alana Watson | Jeff Young | Ohio Valley ReSource
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (OVR) — This fall, Lexington, Kentucky, activist and artist Devine Carama launched a different kind of road trip across his home state. He visited a dozen cities and… Read More
![Kentucky mail-in ballot.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/PXL_20200930_145212642.PORTRAIT-scaled-e1604090234764-900x422.jpg)
Last-Minute Voting Questions In The Election Home Stretch
By: Alana Watson | Ohio Valley ReSource
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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (OVR) — The conclusion of this most unusual general election is only a few days away. On Tuesday, November 3, people will make their way to polls,… Read More
![A coal silo near the old Marsh Fork Elementary School.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/coalriver-mnt-watch-silo-e1603921445226-900x422.jpeg)
Advocates Say Citizen Mining Complaint Process Weakened By Rule Change
By: Brittany Patterson | Ohio Valley ReSource
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MORGANTOWN, W. Va. (OVR) — Environmental and community advocates in Appalachian coal communities are concerned about a new federal rule, finalized this week, that is changing the process that allows citizens… Read More
![Murray Energy CEO Bob Murray speaks at the EnVision Forum](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/IMG_0131-e1571761099309-900x422.jpg)
Ohio Valley Coal Mine Executive Bob Murray Dead at 80
By: Brittany Patterson | Ohio Valley ReSource
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ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio (OVR) — Robert E. Murray, the founder and former president and CEO of Murray Energy Corp., formerly the largest privately-held underground coal company in the country, has… Read More
![Murray Energy CEO Bob Murray speaks at the EnVision Forum](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/IMG_0131-e1571761099309-900x422.jpg)
Bob Murray Announces Retirement From Coal Company He Founded
By: Brittany Patterson | Ohio Valley ReSource
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ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio (OVR) — After applying for black lung benefits, Robert Murray, founder and former president of the now-bankrupt coal company Murray Energy Corp., announced Monday he was leaving the… Read More
![Piles of coal](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Coal-900x422.jpg)
ARC Investing Over 15 Million In Ohio Valley Economic Projects
By: Alana Watson | Ohio Valley ReSource
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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (OVR) — The Appalachian Regional Commission is investing another $43.3 million in communities affected by the downturn of the coal industry. The latest POWER grants from the ARC will support 51 projects… Read More
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