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News Articles: West Virginia

Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on March 16, 2022. Lawsuits have been filed in West Virginia and North Carolina challenging the states' restrictions on the use of abortion pills.

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New lawsuits target state restrictions on abortion pills

Supporters of abortion rights have filed separate lawsuits challenging abortion pill restrictions in North Carolina and West Virginia. The lawsuits were filed Wednesday.

January 26, 2023
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  • Associated Press
Dr. Eckart Rolshoven examines a patient at his clinic in Püttlingen, a small town in Germany's Saarland region. Although Germany has a largely private health care system, patients pay nothing out-of-pocket when they come to see him.

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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.

December 14, 2022
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  • Noam Levey
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) at a Senate hearing last week.

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Sen. Joe Manchin has tested positive for COVID-19

Manchin announced he had contracted the virus and was experiencing mild symptoms Monday morning.

July 25, 2022
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
Woody Williams assists with the coin toss before Super Bowl 52 in February 2018 in Minneapolis. Williams, the last remaining Medal of Honor recipient from World War II, died Wednesday at 98, at the Veterans Affairs medical center bearing his name in Huntington, W.Va.

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Woody Williams, the last surviving WWII Medal of Honor recipient dies at 98

As a young Marine corporal, Williams went ahead of his unit during the Battle of Iwo Jima in the Pacific Ocean in February 1945 and eliminated a series of Japanese machine gun positions.

June 29, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Huntington High School senior Max Nibert holds signs he planned to use during a walkout students were to stage at Huntington High School in Huntington, W. Va., on Wednesday. The protest followed an evangelistic Christian revival assembly last week that some students at Huntington High were mandated by teachers to attend.

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Students walk out at West Virginia school after Christian revival

A religious service held in a public school ignites a debate about the separation of church and state.

February 09, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice gives his State of the State speech in the House Chambers in January.

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Coal-dependent West Virginia eliminates ban on nuclear power

The state's ban on nuclear plants was enacted in 1996, but nuclear power has gained support as a tool to keep climate change under control and other states are transitioning away from fossil fuels.

February 08, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
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West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice 'extremely unwell' after testing positive for COVID-19

Results from the governor's rapid test Tuesday morning came back negative. However, results from his PCR test came back positive, according to a statement.

January 12, 2022
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  • Jonathan Franklin
A bipartisanship group of senators — (from left) Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., Republican leader Howard Baker of Tennessee, Democratic leader Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, and Birch Bayh, D-Ind. — hold a news conference in 1980.

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You're Going To Hear A Lot About The 'Byrd Rule' Soon — Who Is This Byrd Man?

As Democrats try to pass their massive multi-trillion-dollar spending bill with a simple majority vote, lots of things might be included but other things might not. And it all goes back to one man.

August 08, 2021
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  • Ron Elving
A pedestrian walks past a mural in Huntington, W.Va., on March 18. Huntington was once ground zero for the U.S. opioid epidemic.

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Was It 'Reasonable' To Ship 81 Million Opioid Pills To This Small West Virginia City?

As a landmark federal opioid trial nears completion, West Virginia communities are demanding $2.5 billion in compensation. Drug firms say they acted responsibly in shipping millions of pills.

July 30, 2021
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  • Brian Mann
West Virginians who get the COVID-19 vaccine could get more than stickers and buttons. On Tuesday, Gov. Jim Justice announced a lottery incentive program to encourage more residents to get vaccinated.

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  • National

Guns, Trucks And Trips: West Virginia Expands Prizes For Vaccinated Residents

Several states — including Ohio, California, Colorado and Maryland — have created vaccination incentive programs to get more teens and adults fully immunized against the coronavirus.

June 02, 2021
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
The federal opioid trial involving drug distributors AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson is taking place in the Robert C. Byrd Courthouse in Charleston, W.Va. The trial is expected to establish whether the drug distributors, accused of failing to curb the flow of prescription painkillers, face liability nationwide.

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Opioid Trial In West Virginia Comes Amid A National Reckoning For Big Pharma

Drug distributors have faced embarrassing revelations about their internal practices. One email shared by corporate executives described rural Americans addicted to opioids as "pillbillies."

May 26, 2021
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  • Brian Mann
A photo released in 2020 by the West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority shows Reta Mays, a former nursing assistant at the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center in Clarksburg, W.V. Mays was sentenced to multiple life terms after pleading guilty to intentionally using fatal doses of insulin to kill several patients.

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Woman Who Murdered 7 Veterans In VA Hospital Gets Multiple Life Sentences

The former nursing assistant pleaded guilty to intentionally using lethal doses of insulin to kill the elderly veterans who ranged in age from 81 to 96.

May 11, 2021
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  • Dave Mistich and
  • Scott Neuman
A young man receives a COVID-19 vaccine in Charleston earlier this month while overlooking the West Virginia Capitol building.

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  • National

West Virginia Will Pay Young People $100 To Get Vaccinated Against COVID-19

The Republican-led state will offer savings bonds to residents between the ages of 16 and 35 in an effort to tackle vaccine hesitancy among its younger population.

April 27, 2021
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  • Rachel Treisman
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice announced in late December that residents older than 80 would be able to receive doses of the vaccine from their county health departments.

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West Virginia's Vaccination Rate Ranks Among Highest In World

How did West Virginia become one of the world's leaders in delivering COVID-19 vaccines? One piece of the story starts with a striking photograph in the local paper.

February 22, 2021
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  • Simone Popperl,
  • Noel King,
  • and 1 more
Retired Army Sgt. Felix McDermott is buried in Pennsylvania's Westmoreland County. His death is one of seven that Reta Mays has been charged with.

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Former VA Medical Worker Pleads Guilty To Murdering 7 Patients In West Virginia

Reta Mays was charged with killing seven patients by injecting them with insulin. She worked as a nursing assistant on the night shift at a Veterans Affairs medical center in Clarksburg.

July 14, 2020
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By:
  • Merrit Kennedy and
  • Matthew S. Schwartz

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