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Science The Conversation How did cockroaches survive the asteroid that led to the extinction of dinosaurs?
Yahoo News
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Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. How did cockroaches survive the asteroid that led to the extinction of dinosaurs? – Kinjal, age...
West Virginia Explorer celebrates 25th anniversary with redesigned website, travel guide
West Virginia Explorer
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July 1, 2025
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia’s premier online magazine for travel, history, and outdoor adventure, West Virginia Explorer is celebrating its 25th anniversary by unveiling a series of new logos and a fully redesigned website, including an...
ACLU says 'Big, Beautiful Bill' could close 7 West Virginia hospitals
WOWK - West Virginia
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July 3, 2025
Video: House continues debate on big, beautiful bill WEST VIRGINIA (WBOY) — Following Tuesday’s passage of the Budget Reconciliation Bill, aka the “One Big, Beautiful Bill,” in the U.S. Senate, the American Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia...
Three high school sports takeaways, including commitments to Duke, West Virginia, and Providence
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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Team Massachusetts is helmed by Braintree coach Bill O’Connell and assisted by BC High’s Steve Healy, Walpole’s Chris Costello, and Blackstone Valley Tech’s Mike Denise. The roster: Mac Bianchi (Nobles), Matt Blanusa (Dexter Southfield), Max Boehm...
Supreme Court takes up Idaho, West Virginia transgender sports bans
Angelus News - California
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July 3, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court said July 3 that it would take up two cases concerning state laws requiring student athletes to compete on sports teams that correspond to their biological sex rather than their gender identity. The attorneys general of West...
West Virginia Counties Set the Rules for Opioid Funds — with No One Watching
The Record Delta - West Virginia
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For two hours every Thursday and Friday, Randall Brown gathers a handful of people in front of a whiteboard. They sit on a couch or armchairs on either side — the walls filled with colorful drawings while coffee brews in a nearby pot. These are...
Trump’s digital equity cuts make it harder for West Virginians to use the internet
Mountain State Spotlight - West Virginia
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July 1, 2025
For about a decade at the Burnsville Public Library, Beth Anderson has taught seniors and young adults how to set up email accounts, write resumes and book online doctors’ appointments. Anderson, the library’s director, wrote her own curriculum to...
West Virginia Lawmakers Weigh Limits on Local Government-Owned Broadband Networks
Huntington News - West Virginia
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June 28, 2025
As West Virginia pushes forward with expanding broadband access, lawmakers are now debating whether city and county governments should be limited in their ability to own and operate public broadband networks. During a legislative interim session...
As Senate continues 'Big, Beautiful' debate, West Virginia hospitals call provisions 'detrimental'
MetroNews - West Virginia
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June 30, 2025
As members of the U.S. Senate continued to consider amendments to the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” healthcare officials in West Virginia continued to warn about the potential effects. Senators spent hours on Monday considering amendments in a process...
Playtech Expands Into West Virginia Online Casinos
Casino Beats
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June 30, 2025
Written by Adam Roarty Adam Roarty Adam is an experienced writer with years of experience in the gambling industry. He has worked as a content writer and editor for five years on sites such as Oddschecker, CoinTelegraph and Gambling Industry...
Research on Larry Gibson dedicated to the West Virginia & Regional History Center
Appalachian Voice
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June 27, 2025
Larry Gibson at a prayer breakfast in the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., featuring honored guest Wendell Berry, in April 2012. Photo by Mark Schmerling. By Joe Severino As a child in the 1950s, Larry Gibson fell in love with his...
GradLife 601: Research and Beyond
The Daily Athenaeum - West Virginia
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In this episode of GradLife 601, host Dr. Nancy Caronia speaks to Weirton, West Virginia native Mia Antinone, a fourth-year medical student at WVU’s School of Medicine. Mia talks about why she chose medical school at WVU, her studies abroad, and...
West Virginia man sentenced to life for rape, child pornography charges
FOX 5 Atlanta - Georgia
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Dalton Ramsey is being charged with with rape, kidnapping, aggravated assault with a weapon, and possession of a knife during the commission of a crime. (Coweta County Sheriff's Office) COWETA COUNTY, Ga. - A 31-year-old West Virginia man was...
Guest column: Improving health outcomes for West Virginia’s veterans
Weirton Daily Times - West Virginia
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Mesothelioma is a rare malignancy affecting people exposed to asbestos. Each year, across all cancer diagnoses, mesothelioma accounts for fewer than 3,000 cases. As a result, research interest in this condition is limited, with dire consequences...
West Virginia Lawmakers Mull Limits on City, County Public Broadband Network Ownership
The Intelligencer - West Virginia
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photo by: W.Va. Legislative Photography Garner Marks, general counsel for the West Virginia Department of Commerce, provided lawmakers Monday with an overview of broadband preemption laws during legislative interim meetings in Lewis County....
West Virginia lawmakers consider limits on city, county public broadband network ownership
Parkersburg News & Sentinel - West Virginia
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Garner Marks, general counsel for the West Virginia Department of Commerce, provided lawmakers Monday with an overview of broadband preemption laws during legislative interim meetings in Lewis County. (Photo courtesy of WV Legislative Photography)...
Toxic mine runoff cleanup revives West Virginia waterways and extracts rare earth elements
Environmental Health News
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June 27, 2025
Once-lifeless streams across West Virginia are being revived by community-led efforts to treat coal mine pollution, which is now also yielding valuable rare earth metals. Mira Rojanasakul reports for The New York Times. In short: Decades of coal...
RTX Stock In Spotlight After Workers Apply To Unionize At West Virginia Pratt & Whitney
Asianet Newsable
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June 27, 2025
Raytheon Technologies (RTX) stock drew retail attention after the top labor union for the aerospace industry in the U.S. applied with the National Labor Relations Board to represent workers at a Pratt & Whitney engine repair shop in West Virginia....
New West Virginia State Lab Facility on Track for 2028 Opening
Huntington News - West Virginia
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June 27, 2025
West Virginia’s ambitious plan to consolidate most of its state laboratory services into a single, modern facility is moving forward on schedule, with a tentative opening expected in 2028. State lawmakers got an update Tuesday during the Joint...
West Virginia’s deadliest tornado
WHSV-TV - Virginia
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June 23, 2025
SHINNSTON, WVa. (WHSV) - It was June 23, 1944 This was the day of West Virginia’s deadliest tornado In fact it was a tornado outbreak in areas you would not expect powerful, long lived tornadoes. Just after sunset, a tornado started at...