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W.Va. Lawmakers Advance Bill To Enhance Voter Fraud Penalty 1 TexasTowelie Feb 2022 Feb 2022 1 1501
A judge's ruling is a major step for LGBTQ West Virginians' rights, but some lawmakers are still 0 TexasTowelie Feb 2022 Feb 2022 1 2326
Dunbar, WVa.: Journalist Hit By Car Continues Live TV Report 0 appalachiablue Jan 2022 Jan 2022 4 1422
'Rushed' WVU report could have overstated economic benefits of Nucor deal 1 TexasTowelie Jan 2022 Jan 2022 1 1786
WV Sports Stars Urge Manchin To Support Voting Rights Legislation; Jerry West, Nick Saban... 1 appalachiablue Jan 2022 Jan 2022 6 2994
WV Ethics Commission tightens legislative rules on nepotism in government jobs 1 TexasTowelie Jan 2022 Jan 2022 2 1336
Despite years of devastating floods, state still hasn't implemented plan to protect West Virginians 4 TexasTowelie Jan 2022 Jan 2022 0 2005
As leaders eye changes to the state's unemployment system, there's lots of potential to hurt West 0 TexasTowelie Jan 2022 Jan 2022 1 2220
West Virginia COVID Cases Rise 72 Percent, Hospitalizations up 29 Percent Since Christmas 0 left-of-center2012 Jan 2022 Jan 2022 3 1233
Winter storm warning issued for several inches of wet snow in Roanoke/NRV area early Monday 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2022 Jan 2022 1 1814
State regulators, utilities cling to coal 1 TexasTowelie Jan 2022 Jan 2022 0 1487
Joe Manchin: Rich and Shameless & Senator For Sale, Don Winslow Films 0 appalachiablue Dec 2021 Dec 2021 2 1377
Manchin takes aim at Build Back Better, but his real focus is on West Virginia 2 TexasTowelie Dec 2021 Dec 2021 3 2198
West Virginians Say Joe Manchin Betrayed Them and Still Have Hope Build Back Better Will Pass 2 appalachiablue Dec 2021 Dec 2021 10 1922
WV: Black Communities Become 'Sacrifice Zones' For Industrial Pollution, Ken Ward Jr., ProPublica 0 appalachiablue Dec 2021 Dec 2021 5 1440
Bette Midler Apologizes To 'Poor, Illiterate & Strung Out' People Of WV After Joe Manchin Outburst 16 appalachiablue Dec 2021 Dec 2021 32 4480
Big Pharma's Greed Is Fueling Inflation: Troy N. Miller 0 appalachiablue Dec 2021 Dec 2021 6 1282
WV: Billboard Campaign Calls On Manchin to Lower Drug Prices by Voting for Build Back Better Act 4 appalachiablue Dec 2021 Dec 2021 13 2796
"Nevermind Antifa. Have You Heard About Antigov? Its Members Occupy Statehouses Across The Country" 1 appalachiablue Dec 2021 Dec 2021 12 1650
Debate over teaching books by Black authors has roots in violent 1974 clash in West Virginia 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2021 Dec 2021 5 1216
Area fitness centers supporting youth in foster care 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2021 Dec 2021 0 1061
Morgantown, West Virginia, businessman accused in Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol rioting might go on trial in 2 TexasTowelie Dec 2021 Dec 2021 6 1507
US Attorneys seek prison sentence for Hurricane woman convicted in Jan. 6 riot 6 TexasTowelie Dec 2021 Dec 2021 10 1644
WV temporarily reduces bus driver applicant requirements; another Fayette school will close 3 TexasTowelie Dec 2021 Dec 2021 0 1178
Florida man sentenced in $5M fraud scheme involving W.Va. churches, pastors 3 TexasTowelie Dec 2021 Dec 2021 1 1183
Glenville State College (West Virginia) gets green light for university status, approval to offer 0 TexasTowelie Dec 2021 Dec 2021 2 1047
Gov. Justice, Hoyer warn cold weather, variants, flu threaten W.Va. hospitals 2 TexasTowelie Dec 2021 Dec 2021 0 1007
Judge rules Gov. Justice's coal companies owe feds, Ala. and Tenn. $2.54 million in environmental 1 TexasTowelie Dec 2021 Dec 2021 3 997
Gazette-Mail editorial: WV must aim higher in abuse, neglect cases 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2021 Dec 2021 1 1067
Cabell-Huntington Hospital Strike Continues: Union Members' Healthcare Benefits Cut, RX's Declined 0 appalachiablue Nov 2021 Nov 2021 2 1107

West Virginia Continued...

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Huntington Steelworkers Dig In for Multi-Month Strike at Warren Buffett's Special Metals 0 appalachiablue Nov 2021 Nov 2021 5 1218
Gov. Justice gave COVID-19 help to WV hospitals and nursing homes. But emergency services agencies 1 TexasTowelie Nov 2021 Nov 2021 6 1757
51 Years Ago Today; Southern Airways Flight 932 crashes in WV. "We Are Marshall" 4 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2021 Nov 2021 9 1696
3 Maryland Counties Have Asked To Join West Virginia. Here's How They Could Do It. 2 appalachiablue Oct 2021 Oct 2021 0 1590
Mountainous West Virginia Leads the Nation In Crippling Flash Floods Risk From Climate Change 3 appalachiablue Oct 2021 Oct 2021 2 1458
Exploring West Virginia's Native American History 4 appalachiablue Oct 2021 Oct 2021 7 1716
LGBTQ Keyser High student talks about bullying; superintendent releases statement 0 TexasTowelie Oct 2021 Oct 2021 7 1814
WV redistricting update: Senate delays vote again, as controversy swirls over map that came out of 3 TexasTowelie Oct 2021 Oct 2021 3 1450
Gov. Justice, family company agree to Monroe County stream restoration stipulations after feds say 1 TexasTowelie Oct 2021 Oct 2021 0 1058
COVID-19 canceled many fall fairs and festivals. Here's what that means for WV communities. 0 TexasTowelie Oct 2021 Oct 2021 7 1097
COVID-19 vaccine exemption passes West Virginia House 1 TexasTowelie Oct 2021 Oct 2021 5 1235
Manchin slams Sanders after OpEd in W.Va. newspaper urging him to support major spending package 11 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2021 Oct 2021 5 2187
Meet The People Getting Paid $10,000 For Moving To West Virginia 5 appalachiablue Oct 2021 Oct 2021 11 2422
Cancelled fairs and festivals hit communities hard 2 Tanuki Oct 2021 Oct 2021 6 1272
Drug distributors persuaded a judge to exclude a key report from WV trial 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2021 Oct 2021 4 1422
Justice family companies offer $300 million, half of Bluestone value to repay Swiss loans 2 TexasTowelie Oct 2021 Oct 2021 2 1378
More monoclonal antibodies needed immediately, say West Virginia hospital & health department 7 TexasTowelie Oct 2021 Oct 2021 2 1296
Lawsuit filed to challenge charter schools in West Virginia unless county voters are given chance to 0 TexasTowelie Oct 2021 Oct 2021 7 1100
How Gov. Justice's massive transfer of pandemic aid to a jobless trust fund didn't do much for some 0 TexasTowelie Oct 2021 Oct 2021 2 1061
Kentucky seeks action against WVa gov's coal companies 1 TexasTowelie Oct 2021 Oct 2021 3 1053
In Deep Red West Virginia, Biden's $3.5tn Spending Proposal Is Immensely Popular 7 appalachiablue Sep 2021 Sep 2021 9 2060
West Virginia: 85% of people hospitalized for the coronavirus are unvaccinated 1 left-of-center2012 Sep 2021 Sep 2021 3 1525
Justice family companies offer $300 million, half of Bluestone value to repay Swiss loans 1 Lasher Sep 2021 Sep 2021 4 1222
West Virginia's reliance on out-of-state group homes leaves some foster kids in unsafe, abusive 2 TexasTowelie Sep 2021 Sep 2021 2 1225
A woman accepted $50 from a West Virginia police chief so he could rape her 17-year-old relative ... 17 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2021 Sep 2021 17 2814
As hospitals run out of space, health administrator asks for Bridge Day re-consideration 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2021 Sep 2021 4 1415
Deadly 1921 coal miner revolt in West Virginia remembered 3 TexasTowelie Sep 2021 Sep 2021 8 1444
Centennial: Battle of Blair Mountain, WV, Largest US Labor Uprising, Aug -Sept 3, 1921, Anniv Events 7 appalachiablue Aug 2021 Sep 2021 5 1767
West Virginia Creates Jobs Farming Lavender at Former Coal Mines 1 question everything Aug 2021 Aug 2021 11 1570
A copper-infused COVID-19 mask is making its way out of a WVU lab 9 TexasTowelie Aug 2021 Aug 2021 5 2564

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How Mylan's closure of its West Virginia plant was years in the making 0 TexasTowelie Aug 2021 Aug 2021 1 1175
West Virginia is Where Republicans' Congressional-Redistricting Edge Ends 1 question everything Aug 2021 Aug 2021 3 1273
Was a Roane County deputy's latest shooting justified? WV State Police investigation doesn't say. 0 TexasTowelie Aug 2021 Aug 2021 1 1576
Opioids: Decision coming soon in suit against drug distributors, including Cardinal Health 0 TexasTowelie Aug 2021 Aug 2021 1 954
1400 Union Workers Beg Manchin To Save WV Pharma Plant Outsourcing, Daughter Got $31 Mill Deal 5 appalachiablue Jul 2021 Jul 2021 8 2089
A Hip-Hop Artist In West Virginia Takes The DIY Approach To Get His Breakthrough 0 appalachiablue Jul 2021 Jul 2021 5 1687
Kentucky Regulators: West Virginia Coal Plant Should Close in 2028 3 TexasTowelie Jul 2021 Jul 2021 0 1030
Virginia bank's attorneys say Justices are using lawsuit as a "delay tactic" to avoid paying back 0 TexasTowelie Jul 2021 Jul 2021 6 2098
West Virginia commission punts on Confederate memorials 1 TexasTowelie Jul 2021 Jul 2021 3 886
Clarksburg fined for not sending notice of lead water lines 1 TexasTowelie Jul 2021 Jul 2021 1 1132
Judge rules law restricting West Virginia needle exchange programs can stand 0 TexasTowelie Jul 2021 Jul 2021 0 1067
Biden To Pick Former West Virginia Health Official As Nation's Drug Czar 1 appalachiablue Jul 2021 Jul 2021 5 1149
Former delegate Evans faces one new charge in indictment related to 1/6 insurrection 1 TexasTowelie Jul 2021 Jul 2021 5 1795
W.Va. delegate stripped of committee position over sexually explicit TikTok 8 Lasher Jul 2021 Jul 2021 11 2390
Joe Manchin's Bipartisanship Obsession Is Misguided, Young West Virginians Say 3 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2021 Jul 2021 10 1750
WV: Vaccine Hesitant Are In 'Death Lottery,' Governor Says 1 appalachiablue Jul 2021 Jul 2021 6 1536
Union, ex-Mylan plant leaders reach severance deal 0 TexasTowelie Jul 2021 Jul 2021 0 900
What's happened so far in West Virginia's historic opioid trial 3 TexasTowelie Jul 2021 Jul 2021 9 1471
Jesse Jackson, Wm. Barber Arrested At DC Filibuster, Manchin Protest; Pam Garrison, WV Represented 0 appalachiablue Jun 2021 Jun 2021 13 2091
Winter in summer: West Virginia weather station plummets to freezing. 1 elleng Jun 2021 Jun 2021 3 1320
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