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Arkansas 4-H forestry team wins first place at National 4-H Forestry Invitational
Stuttgart Daily Leader - Arkansas
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August 6, 2025
Eli McDowell, Serena Grey, Ariel Murphy and Nathaniel Huitt with their coach Ty Huitt hold their winning plaques for the National 4-H Forestry Invitational. (Photo by National 4-H Forestry Invitational.) WESTON, W.Va. — The Arkansas competitor who...
House of Delegates member reacts to West Virginia leading the way on food dye ban
WCHS Network - West Virginia
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July 15, 2025
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia is leading the way with its ban on several artificial food dyes and preservatives. On Monday, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that 90% of ice cream manufacturers have...
Radio Reaches for the Heavens in West Virginia
Radio World
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July 15, 2025
Alex Mackensen shares a stunning pic of an EMF tower Radio World loves to receive photographs that capture the allure of radio. Want to share your own pics? Email them to [email protected]. Alex Mackensen is the southeast regional engineering...
West Virginia Rent Increase Laws 2025: What Tenants Should Know
The Smithville Herald
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July 10, 2025
As rental markets continue to evolve, it’s important for tenants to understand their rights, especially when it comes to rent increases. In West Virginia, rent prices can change, but there are specific rules landlords must follow to make sure...
Appeals court upholds West Virginia’s law relating to medication abortion drug
MetroNews - West Virginia
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July 15, 2025
Judges on a federal appeals court upheld West Virginia’s near-total abortion ban in a case that focused on access to the medication abortion drug mifepristone. The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers the region that includes West Virginia,...
Gov. Morrisey announces next step in ‘Grow West Virginia’ plan
WSAZ - West Virginia
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July 15, 2025
MINERAL WELLS, W.Va. (WSAZ) - West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey announced the next step in his ‘Grow West Virginia’ economic plan to leverage the Ready Sites Program, according to the Governor’s Press Office. “Speed is critically important...
Governor Patrick Morrisey Announces Next Step in Grow West Virginia Plan, Awards Wood County with Funding for Economic Development
Lootpress - West Virginia
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July 15, 2025
MINERAL WELLS, WV (LOOTPRESS) – Today, Governor Patrick Morrisey announced his plan to leverage the Ready Sites Program as the next step of his Grow West Virginia economic plan. The program will assist communities with site selection and...
How many H-1B petitions were made by West Virginia employers during 2024?
Mountain State Times - West Virginia
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July 14, 2025
West Virginia University Educational Services 62 96.8% 3.2% Marshall University Educational Services, Health Care and Social Assistance 26 100% 0% Mahantech Corporation Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services 25 100% 0% University...
Following the USDA's food and farm funding
Voice of Alexandria - Minnesota
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Seattle, WA (Grist) In the first seven months of President Donald Trump's second administration, the federal funding landscape has been radically changed -- especially for the people who grow, harvest, and distribute food. Thousands of government...
More states ban certain people from buying junk food... is YOURS one of them?
Daily Mail
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August 5, 2025
Soda and candy have now been made off-limits to certain Americans in six more states as officials continue to clamp down on what people can buy with food stamps. Low-income residents in West Virginia, Florida, Colorado, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and...
WVSOM’s Drema Hill appointed to West Virginia Health Care Authority board
Lootpress - West Virginia
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July 15, 2025
LEWISBURG, WV (LOOTPRESS) – West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey has appointed Drema Hill, Ph.D., vice president for community engagement and chief operations officer of the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine (WVSOM), to the West Virginia...
Amid changes in West Virginia business recruitment, top economic development official is departing
MetroNews - West Virginia
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July 15, 2025
Mike Graney, whose tenure as a leader of the state’s economic development efforts has spanned two administrations, is departing the role. Mike Graney Graney was the Economic Development secretary toward the end of then-Gov. Jim Justice’s second...
North Central West Virginia Man Talks How Vision was Saved Thanks to Doctors at WVU Eye Institute
Connect Bridgeport - West Virginia
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July 15, 2025
Bob Burdette hoped it wasn’t too late. As he rushed to the WVU Eye Institute, the vision in one corner of his left eye slowly faded away. “It was like looking at a photograph and watching a corner of it burn off,” Burdette, 79, of Morgantown,...
Superintendent ready to turn things around
The Pocahontas Times - West Virginia
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August 6, 2025
Pocahontas County SCHOOLS Superintendent Dr. Leatha Williams. S. Stewart photo Suzanne Stewart Staff Writer When she was growing up in Neola, Dr. Leatha Williams experienced many moments throughout her education that ignited a spark in her. All...
Digging In: Why a West Virginia factory’s pollution could trouble Louisville’s drinking water
WFPL - Kentucky
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July 15, 2025
About 400 miles upstream from Louisville, the Chemours Co.’s Washington Works operation has been releasing higher-than-permitted amounts of a forever chemical into the Ohio River. In recent court filings, Louisville Water Co. – the utility that...
Legendary Coach Bob Pruett to Headline WVU Tech Fundraising Event at Glade Springs on August 23
Lootpress - West Virginia
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August 6, 2025
BECKLEY, WV (LOOTPRESS) – West Virginia University Institute of Technology (WVU Tech) is proud to announce a special fundraising event featuring legendary football coach and Beckley native Bob Pruett, taking place on Friday, August 23, 2025, at...
WVU Tech Hosts High Schoolers at Science, Tech Summer Camp
Government Technology
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July 25, 2025
(TNS) — High school sophomores from across West Virginia are getting first-hand experience in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine at WVU Tech. Students joined Golden Bear faculty, staff, and volunteers for the 31st annual...
New Hampshire Enacts Protections for Minors From Gender Transition Surgeries, Hormones
The Patriot Post
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By Joshua Arnold New Hampshire became the first New England state to protect minors from all gender transition procedures when Governor Kelly Ayotte (R) on Friday signed into law two bills that expanded on the state’s previous protections. In...
WiFi now permitted at Green Bank school inside Quiet Zone
Lootpress - West Virginia
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August 6, 2025
GREEN BANK, WV (LOOTPRESS) – For the first time, students at Green Bank Elementary and Middle School (GBEMS) will have access to WiFi, thanks to a policy change by the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Observatory (NSF GBO). The...
MEET THE TEACHER: Wolle looks forward to teaching 4th-grade math, science at ACCS
The Natchez Democrat - Mississippi
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July 25, 2025
Published 5:12 pm Friday, July 25, 2025 NATCHEZ — Wendy Wolle is new in the 4th-grade classroom for this upcoming school year, but not new to Adams County Christian School. Last school year, she started teaching 5th and 6th-grade science at ACCS....