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West Virginia Coal Festival teen beauty pageant winner Ava Johnson, 16, collects small pieces of coal left behind at the former Kay Moor coal town and camp in the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve near Fayetteville, W.Va., Thursday, April 17, 2025
Politics

Teen pageant winner supports Trump’s coal push— ‘It’s not just coal, it’s our way of life’

By Leah Willingham, John Raby and The Associated Press
April 27, 2025
While Utah, 2023’s happiest state, lost to Hawaii in WalletHub’s 2024 Happiest States in America rankings, it maintained its reign atop the work environment and community and environment categories.
Life

Utah has the best work environment in America, including the fewest hours on the clock. Here’s where your state ranks

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September 11, 2024
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Tech

Dentist charged after police find hidden camera in employee bathroom

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August 13, 2024
Jim Justice at podium
Politics

A luxury resort owned by West Virginia’s millionaire governor is being auctioned over unpaid debts

By Leah Willingham and The Associated Press
August 1, 2024
Jim Justice
Politics

West Virginia’s former billionaire governor is moonlighting as a high school girl’s basketball coach while running for Senate

By John Raby and The Associated Press
March 12, 2024
West Virginia
Politics

America’s smoking-est state considers banning cigarette use in vehicles with kids present

By John Raby and The Associated Press
March 7, 2024
Young women are pranking their dads by saying they’re going to work on oil rigs. The responses are heartwarming: ‘Money can’t bring your life back.’
Lifestyle

Young women are pranking their dads by saying they’re going to work on oil rigs. The responses are heartwarming: ‘Money can’t bring your life back.’

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February 27, 2024
Bank delays plan to auction West Virginia governor’s posh resort property to recoup over $300 million of bad loans held by his family
Politics

Bank delays plan to auction West Virginia governor’s posh resort property to recoup over $300 million of bad loans held by his family

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February 20, 2024
Jim Justice
Politics

West Virginia’s ex-billionaire governor is trying to stop a bank from auctioning off his resort property to recoup over $300 million of bad loans

By John Raby and The Associated Press
February 9, 2024
RaeQuan Battle
Success

‘Let the kids play’: After bombshell NCAA transfer athlete ruling, movement builds to ease up on rule—for now

By John Raby and The Associated Press
December 18, 2023
Joe Manchin, Democratic senator in deep-red West Virginia, says he won’t seek reelection next year
Politics

Joe Manchin, Democratic senator in deep-red West Virginia, says he won’t seek reelection next year

By John Raby and The Associated Press
November 9, 2023
West Virginia University students
Success

West Virginia University wants to cut 32 majors because enrollment is down 10% and it’s got a $45 million hole in its budget

By Leah Willingham, John Raby and The Associated Press
August 21, 2023
Olivia Melo
Lifestyle

Rare books curator in West Virginia returns 119-years overdue library book to Massachusetts: ‘This came back in extremely good condition’

By Steve LeBlanc and The Associated Press
July 8, 2023
A sunrise view of Monongahela National Forest in the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia
Personal Finance

West Virginia is close to giving $25,000 to ex-residents to move back

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February 28, 2023
Don Blankenship
Politics

3 reporters claim their newspaper fired them for protesting an interview with ‘Trumpier than Trump’ ex-convict coal baron Don Blankenship

By John Raby and The Associated Press
December 14, 2022

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