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West Virginia can keep its ban against transgender school athletes, a judge says

The judge said he recognized that being transgender is "natural" and "not a choice." But he said one's sex is also natural and "dictates physical characteristics that are relevant to athletics."

WEKU

Federal Adoption Law Leads States To Prematurely Separate Families

For 25 years, the law has been giving states kickbacks when they finalize adoptions quickly.

Reason

Boston’s Marcus Smart gets a West Virginia player T’d up from the stands of an Oklahoma State game

Veteran Boston Celtics point guard Marcus Smart is so good at getting under the skin of opposing players, he can evidently do it without being on the floor -- or even on the roster -- of his collegiate alma mater.

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West Virginia plant to make batteries for US energy grid

A company that plans to make batteries for the U.S. energy grid will locate its first full-scale manufacturing plant in a former steel town in West Virginia

The Independent UK

States contend with short timeline to correct broadband map

States are racing against a deadline to challenge the map federal officials will use to divvy up the nation’s largest-ever investment in high-speed internet

The Independent UK

How child welfare law destroys families

A law aimed at speeding up adoptions of kids in foster care stripped parental rights for hundreds of thousands

Salon

How Germany saved coal miners' health

In the Saarland, medical debt is practically nonexistent

Salon

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Golfweek’s Best 2022: Top public and private courses in West Virginia

The mountains of West Virginia offer several of the top golf courses in the U.S.

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Michigan man sentenced for gun crime in WVa bar shooting

A Michigan man who was thrown out of a West Virginia bar during a New Year’s Eve party was sentenced to eight years in prison stemming from a shooting that wounded seven

The Independent UK

HIV outbreak in West Virginia

Political winds in the state blow against efforts to control an expanding HIV outbreak

Salon

What Germany’s coal miners can teach America about medical debt

PÜTTLINGEN, Germany — Almost every day, Dr. Eckart Rolshoven sees the long shadow of coal mining in his clinic near the big brownstone church that dominates this small town in Germany’s Saarland.

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SKOL Search: Bryce Ford-Wheaton scouting report

The West Virginia product has a very appealing size profile. How does he stack up?

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LIV Golf announces stops in Arizona, Oklahoma and West Virginia for 2023 schedule

Seven of LIV's 14 events for 2023 have now been announced.

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Lessons from Germany to help solve the U.S. medical debt crisis

What would a world without medical debt look like? In Germany's former coal-mining region medical debt is almost unknown, despite economic challenges and health problems. Here's why.

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Bureaucratic incompetence among federal prison officials led to mob boss Whitey Bulger’s beating death in 2018, IG report says

HARTFORD, Conn. — The Justice Department’s inspector general has concluded that it wasn’t “malicious intent,” but rather “bureaucratic incompetence” that was responsible for mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger’s brutal beating death when prison officials transferred him to a violent West Virginia prison and housed him with rival gangsters in 2018.

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US Justice Department finds ‘incompetence’ in Whitey Bulger death

A report issued Wednesday recommends disciplinary action for prison workers in connection to the famed mobster’s murder.

The Independent UK

‘Serious’ prison failures led to Whitey Bulger’s murder, bombshell DOJ report finds

Bombshell findings come more than four years after Bulger was savagely beaten to death inside US Penitentiary Hazelton in West Virginia and just months after three other inmates were charged with his murder

The Independent UK

EPA head visits WVa city that had 10-year water advisory

The head of the federal Environmental Protection Agency is scheduled to visit a West Virginia county where some residents recently got access to clean water after years of having to boil it before drinking

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The Independent UK

Unmarked graves, an 'ugly history': W.Va. weighs mine safety

The unmarked graves in a forgotten West Virginia burial ground known locally as Little Egypt contain the remains of dozens of coal mine workers who died in a 1912 mine explosion

The Independent UK

West Virginia cash-for-worker program adds 4th destination

A program offering cash and free outdoor adventures to remote workers to move to West Virginia with the hope of offsetting population losses has welcomed 143 new residents since its launch

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West Virginia vs Oklahoma State Prediction Game Preview

West Virginia vs Oklahoma State game preview, prediction, and breakdown for the Week 13 game on Saturday, November 26

WEKU

West Virginians fight state officials to route highway around their towns

Tribune News Service

Five takeaways from Kansas State’s 48-31 shootout victory over West Virginia

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The Kansas State football team took care of business against West Virginia and defeated the Mountaineers, 48-31, for an important road victory on Saturday at Milan Puskar Stadium.

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Former Georgia quarterback JT Daniels loses role as starter at WVU

Former UGA football quarterback JT Daniels has lost the job as starting quarterback for the West Virginia Mountaineers

The Independent UK

Texas man arrested for 2007 cold case murder of man who vanished after going to buy a car

Charles Kessinger, 38, of San Antonio, Texas, was charged with the 2007 robbery and first-degree

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