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U.S. Supreme Court takes up trans athlete ban in Idaho, West Virginia
Idaho Capital Sun
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July 3, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to consider a challenge to Idaho’s ban on transgender athletes in girl’s and women’s sports. The court will also take up a lawsuit related to a similar ban in West Virginia. Idaho in 2020 became the first...
SCOTUS to hear case on transgender athletes competing in West Virginia sports
Spirit of Jefferson - West Virginia
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On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it will take up two cases regarding transgender athletes competing in sanctioned school sports, including a challenge to West Virginia’s Save Women’s Sports Act. Regarding State of West Virginia...
Supreme Court to hear West Virginia’s Save Women’s Sports Case
Lootpress - West Virginia
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July 3, 2025
CHARLESTON, WV (LOOTPRESS) – West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey announced today that the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear State of West Virginia v. B.P.J.This case involves a challenge to West Virginia’s Save Women’s Sports Act, which...
Supreme Court to take up West Virginia case focused on transgender athletes
MetroNews - West Virginia
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July 3, 2025
A prominent West Virginia case about transgender athletes participating in school sports will get hearing from the U.S. Supreme Court. The high court has agreed to hear State of West Virginia v. B.P.J., which involves a challenge to West...
13-year-old girl drowns trying to save cousin who was swept away by sudden current in West Virginia river
The Independent
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July 3, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Three high school sports takeaways, including commitments to Duke, West Virginia, and Providence
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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Team Massachusetts is helmed by Braintree coach Bill O’Connell and assisted by BC High’s Steve Healy, Walpole’s Chris Costello, and Blackstone Valley Tech’s Mike Denise. The roster: Mac Bianchi (Nobles), Matt Blanusa (Dexter Southfield), Max Boehm...
West Virginia Counties Set the Rules for Opioid Funds — with No One Watching
The Record Delta - West Virginia
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For two hours every Thursday and Friday, Randall Brown gathers a handful of people in front of a whiteboard. They sit on a couch or armchairs on either side — the walls filled with colorful drawings while coffee brews in a nearby pot. These are...
The Supreme Court Can Save Women's Sports | Opinion
Newsweek
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July 9, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear two cases related to the protection—and the preservation—of women's sports. This news should gladden the hearts of female athletes across the country. The Court's decision promises a legal reckoning that...
The Quiet Renewable Race: Private Equity’s Bid For Prime Energy Land
Forbes
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WHITEWATER, CALIFORNIA - DECEMBER 05 : Wind turbines produce energy at Whitewater Energy's Wind ... More Turbine Farm, December 5, 1997 in Whitewater, California near Palm Springs. (Photo by Getty Images/Bob Riha, Jr.)Getty Images Private equity...
Survey finds West Virginians eager to declare independence from higher electric rates
Parkersburg News & Sentinel - West Virginia
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A live reading of the West Virginia Ratepayers Bill of Rights was held by a town crier Wednesday afternoon on the front steps of the State Capitol Building. (Photo by Steven Allen Adams) CHARLESTON — Results from a new survey show that West...
State BOE discusses religious vaccine exemption lawsuit
The Inter-Mountain - West Virginia
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July 9, 2025
Photo by Steven Allen Adams West Virginia Board of Education Vice President Victor Gabriel, center, chairs a special meeting of the state board Wednesday, as board member Gregory Wooten, left, and State Superintendent of Schools Michele Blatt,...
Area Woman who Spent Nearly Two Decades Serving as an Educator, Erin Lynn Bunner, Passes at 48
Connect Bridgeport - West Virginia
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July 10, 2025
Erin Lynn Bunner, 48, of Fairmont, West Virginia, passed away unexpectedly on Thursday, June 26, 2025. Born on August 9, 1976, she was the cherished daughter of Danny and Mary Weikle, also of Fairmont. Erin’s mother-in-law, Beverly Bunner;...
Irish Man Detained In US For Months After Overstaying Visa By 3 Days: 'Treated Less Than Human'
News18
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July 15, 2025
Last Updated:July 15, 2025, 16:58 IST Thomas was briefly unable to fly back to Ireland in December due to a health issue. He was detained by ICE authorities for months after overstaying his visa by three days. ICE raids have ramped up after Donald...
Arizona joins states suing Trump admin over frozen after-school program funding
KGUN - Arizona
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July 14, 2025
More than 20 states have sued President Donald Trump's administration over billions of dollars in frozen funding for after-school and summer programs and other programs. Arizona Attorney General Mayes said in a press release the state would be...
Two Mexican citizens in West Virginia sentenced for illegal reentry into the United States
Lootpress - West Virginia
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July 2, 2025
HUNTINGTON, WV (LOOTPRESS) – Two Mexican nationals living illegally in Huntington pleaded guilty and were sentenced on Monday, June 30, 2025, for immigration-related offenses, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of...
Man pleads guilty to fentanyl distribution in West Virginia
Lootpress - West Virginia
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July 2, 2025
CHARLESTON, WV (LOOTPRESS) – A Detroit man pleaded guilty Monday, June 30, 2025, to three counts of fentanyl distribution in West Virginia, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of West Virginia. Rafael Cee-Erwin...
Physicians call for health care for all West Virginians
The Register-Herald - West Virginia
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We are members of the WV chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program. We treat West Virginians of all income levels: low, middle, and upper income. Low and middle income people are struggling to find a stable and financially secure home...
Travel time after Dobbs spiked in states that curbed abortion access, with Arizona seeing surge from Texas
Cronkite News - Arizona
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July 14, 2025
Abortion rights activists and opponents face off at the U.S. Supreme Court on June 24, 2024. (File photo by Morgan Kubasko/Cronkite News) WASHINGTON – In 14 states that made abortion all but impossible to obtain after the Supreme Court overturned...
The Trilogy Redefining Women’s Boxing
Saturday Evening Post - Texas
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July 8, 2025
Weekly Newsletter The best of The Saturday Evening Post in your inbox! No sport celebrates a trilogy quite the way boxing does. Ali–Frazier. Gatti–Ward. Fury–Wilder. What makes these matches special are the combatants; their rivalry and their...
America's Most Beautiful Amtrak Station Is In A Surprising City
The Travel
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July 14, 2025
When booking Amtrak tickets to venture from one city to the next, it's not likely that "train station aesthetic" is the first or even second priority for the traveler. After all, why would it matter that a train station looks like a work of art...