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Lawsuits show focus of abortion battle shifting to medication - Roll Call

Moves by the Biden administration to expand access to a drug first approved in 2000 have spawned multiple lawsuits.

Roll Call

Manchin on 2024 political ambitions: "Everything is on table"

"I’ve got two years ahead of me now to do the best I can for the state and for my country," Manchin said.

Axios

W.Va. bills pass on carbon sequestration, hydrogen hubs

Two bills that would make it easier for hydrogen hubs and underground carbon sequestration projects to come to historically coal-dependent West Virginia are headed to the desk of Republican Gov. Jim Justice

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Stolen hot dog statue returned to WVa restaurant owner

The owner of a West Virginia restaurant that was heavily damaged by fire has his coveted hot dog statue back

The Independent UK

WVa governor's family coal firm agrees to reclaim mines

A coal company owned by the family of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has agreed to reclaim three large surface mines in southwestern Virginia to settle a lawsuit with environmental groups

The Independent UK

W.Va. House passes bill to cut personal income tax by half

West Virginia’s Republican-dominated House of Delegates has passed a historic 50 percent reduction of the state’s personal income tax

The Independent UK

W.Va. announces $83 million opioid settlement with Walgreens

West Virginia has settled for $83 million with Walgreens for the pharmacy store chain’s role in perpetuating the opioid crisis in the U.S. state with the most per capita overdose deaths

The Independent UK

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Recapping 2022’s state legislative special sessions

Welcome to the Wednesday, January 18, Brew.

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Joe Manchin’s ties to Big Oil under renewed scrutiny after chief of staff leaves for job with lobbying group

The move by the West Virginia senator’s chief of staff has revived criticism of a ‘revolving door’ on Capitol Hill

The Independent UK

Filmmaker shares 'crazy' experience of meeting America's most inbred family

The Whittakers, who are known as America's most inbred family, live in squalor in an isolated shack in the backcountry of West Virginia

Irish Mirror

Prisoners were poisoned for days by carbon monoxide at federal prison in West Virginia, Baltimore law firm says

Carbon monoxide gas leaked into a West Virginia prison for days in August 2021, triggering alarms and, according to a federal lawsuit filed this month, poisoning people incarcerated in the facility.

Tribune News Service

Filmmaker shares what happened when he met the most inbred family in America

A documentary filmmaker has said that America's most inbred family called the Whittakers, who have no education and live in squalor in West Virginia, were 'like a scene out of Deliverance'

Daily Mirror

Kentucky Threatens To Divest From 11 Banks Over Environmental And Social Policies

Kentucky State Treasurer Allison Ball (R) notified 11 banks that their ESG policies had harmed the state’s economy.

Zenger

Kentucky threatens to divest from 11 banks over ESG policies

On January 2, Kentucky State Treasurer Allison Ball (R) issued a statement notifying 11 banks that their ESG policies amounted to energy boycotts that harmed the state’s economy according to definitions passed into law last spring. The statement says the banks have 90 days to stop what Kentucky argues are…

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Bill Gates considers W.Va. to expand nuclear energy efforts

Bill Gates is looking to West Virginia as he plans for the next phase of his effort to reboot U.S. nuclear energy technology: powering the east coast

Reason

Do Sinkholes Hate Cops?

A West Virginia police department is sinking.

Tribune News Service

No. 3 Kansas upends West Virginia for second road win in a week

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — No. 3-ranked Kansas, which won at Texas Tech on Tuesday, claimed its second Big 12 Conference road victory in a week on Saturday by beating unranked West Virginia, 76-62, at WVU Coliseum.

Reason

"Father Has Held Himself Out as 'the Father,' … But Father Has Also Referred to Himself as 'the Mother'"

Of course, as usual, the resolution of this questions turns on a question of procedure.

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The Independent UK

W.Va. journalist let go after reporting on abuse allegations

A West Virginia journalist lost her job after she reported about alleged abuse of people with disabilities in state care

The Independent UK

Ex-lawmaker who served time for Jan. 6 riot seeks House seat

A former West Virginia lawmaker who served three months in prison for his participation in the Jan. 6th Capitol riot says he's running for Congress

WEKU

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."

Reason

Federal Adoption Law Leads States To Prematurely Separate Families

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

USA Today Sports Media Group

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.

The Independent UK

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

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