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Coal Miners Struggle to Survive in an Industry Battered by Layoffs and Bankruptcy
Shrinking exports and America’s growing reliance on hydraulic fracturing and renewable energy have left coal producers in deep trouble. By Clifford Krauss.
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Recovering the Lost Lessons of West Virginia’s Historic Labor Struggles
When looking back at the mine battles of the early 1900s, West Virginia officials are as guilty of misrepresenting the state's rich history as any outsider. By Mark Hand.
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Welcome to Beautiful Parkersburg, West Virginia
Home to one of the most brazen, deadly corporate gambits in U.S. history. By Mariah Blake.
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Watch the Seasons Change in America's Oldest River Valley
In this short film, Harun Mehmedinovic shines his lens on one of Earth's oldest rivers and the famous bridge that runs over it.
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W.Va. House OKs Bill Letting People Carry Concealed Guns Without a Permit
The only concealed-carry permits needed would be for people who are 18-21 years old, if West Virginia enacts new gun legislation.
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Former U.S. coal CEO gets prison time for blast that killed 29
Former Massey Energy Chief Executive Don Blankenship was sentenced to a year in prison and fined $250,000 on Wednesday for his role in a 2010 West Virginia coal mine explosion that killed 29 workers.
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A Portrait of a Coal Town on the Brink of Death
A failing coal industry has left many residents of West Virginia with few options: move away, die, or try to scrape out a future in an unforgiving economic climate. By Jacob S. Knabb.
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Four Dead, Young Boy Swept Away in West Virginia Floods
Four people were killed and a toddler remained missing after powerful flash floods swamped West Virginia on Thursday night.
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West Virginia Floods Cause 23 Deaths and Vast Wreckage
Record flooding in West Virginia killed at least 23 people, stranded thousands, left thousands more without utilities, and washed away houses, roads and vehicles after a band of thunderstorms battered the region on Thursday. With boats, helicopters and ropes, firefighters, law enforcement officers and National Guard troops rescued people from roofs of flooded houses, cars and trucks, and from mounds that had become temporary islands. Freight barges on the Kanawha River broke loose and slammed into bridges just west of Charleston, forcing them to close until inspectors determined that they were undamaged.
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West Virginia’s mine wars, 1920-1921
A short historical account and background of the often violent conflict between workers and employers in West Virginia's mines in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, compiled by the West Virginia State Archives.
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Drug maker thwarted plan to limit OxyContin prescriptions
A STAT investigation shows that Purdue Pharma paid rebates to a pharmacy benefit manager to thwart a West Virginia plan to limit prescriptions of OxyContin. By David Armstrong.
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Pharma Execs Arrested in Shockingly Organized Scheme to Overprescribe Notorious Opioid
federal prosecutors in Massachusetts announced the arrest of six former employees, including a former CEO and two former vice presidents, of the Phoenix-based and NASDAQ-traded fentanyl producer Insys Therapeutics… By Ben Mathis-Lilley.
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West Virginia is going to legalise marijuana
A bill to legalise marijuana for medical purposes is expected to passed in West Virginia, which will make it the 29th state in the US to decriminalise the drug. Senate Bill 386 passed both chambers of the state government and is expected to be signed into law by Governor Jim Justice, a proponent of decriminalising marijuana. The passing of the bill will be welcome news for those suffering from PTSD, chronic pain and brain injury.
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West Virginia journalist arrested after asking HHS Secretary Tom Price a question
Dan Heyman “was causing a disturbance by yelling questions” at HHS Secretary Tom Price and Kellyanne Conway, according to a criminal complaint. By Samantha Schmidt.
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How West Virginia Lost the Workers’ Revolution
“I had only been in West Virginia for a day when Josh Sword, the head of the state AFL-CIO, told me casually that a revolution is coming. He is not a particularly radical guy…” By Hamilton Nolan.
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West Virginia Supreme Court Rules Anti-Gay Assaults Are Not Hate Crimes
The Mountain State won’t protect LGBTQ people from bias-motivated violence. By Mark Joseph Stern.
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'Dear murderer': With a letter a day, West Virginian tried to remind coal executive of his role in 29 deaths
He was the highest-paid and best-known person in the U.S. coal industry, but his career ended in disgrace. In May 2016, Don Blankenship, the former chief executive of Massey Energy Co., began a one-year sentence in federal prison for his role in an explosion six years earlier in West Virginia that killed 29 coal miners. To Ann Bybee-Finley, a 27-year-old West Virginia native and graduate student and activist at Cornell University, the sentence seemed trivial compared with the suffering that had occurred on his watch.
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The Addicts Next Door
West Virginia has the highest overdose death rate in the country. Locals are fighting to save their neighbors—and their towns—from destruction. By Margaret Talbot,
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Disgraced coal baron Don Blankenship, fresh out of prison, is mulling a senate bid in West Virginia
Fresh off a one-year stint in federal prison, disgraced former coal baron Don Blankenship just might run for Senate. The former Massey Energy CEO and conservative mega-donor was convicted last year of conspiring to commit mine safety violations in the run-up to the deadly 2010 explosion at West Virginia’s Upper Big Branch mine, which killed 29 people.
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Prosecutor: Man killed inmate after Bible verse dispute
A West Virginia man has pleaded guilty to killing a fellow prison inmate after a dispute over a Bible verse. WCHS-TV reports Timothy Parsons pleaded guilty to the stabbing death of Eugene Anderson. Prosecutors say Parsons defeated Anderson in a game of Bible knowledge at the Mount Olive Correctional Institute.
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