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From soccer to rugby to hockey, women’s sports in Pittsburgh are thriving
WESA - Pennsylvania
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July 8, 2025
Pittsburgh’s newest women’s soccer team, the Riveters, just wrapped up their inaugural season with the USLW league after clinching the Great Forest Division. The team is the latest to join a slate of women’s sports leagues, which many players say...
Kansas football could practice inside its home stadium in fall camp
Salina Journal - Kansas
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LAWRENCE — The anticipation surrounding Kansas football’s return to David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium this year has continued to build, as the Jayhawks’ regular-season opener has drawn closer. KU didn’t play any games in Lawrence last year due...
Gassaway Days announces Rubber Duck Race winners
The Braxton Citizen - West Virginia
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July 8, 2025
In 2024, the Gassaway Days Committee started selling tickets for a Rubber Duck Race as a fundraiser. Approximately 500 toy rubber ducks were numbered and then launched from the Dairy Queen Bridge into the Elk River to float to the finish line. The...
Powerhouse Black-Owned Digital Marketing Agencies Changing the Game
Blavity
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July 23, 2025
Despite making up nearly 14% of the U.S. population, Black professionals account for only about 7% of the marketing and advertising workforce—and just 5% of leadership roles. That disparity hasn’t slowed the rise of Black-led agencies that fuse...
Tax-free weekend: what are the dates for each state and what products are included?
El País
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July 25, 2025
Tax-free weekends are periods that usually last a few days, during which participating states exempt certain categories of items from state sales tax. These “tax holidays,” as they are also called, are usually scheduled at the end of summer,...
Raleigh Co. Judge Grants Preliminary Injunction Blocking Enforcement Of School-Age Vaccine Law
The Intelligencer - West Virginia
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Photo by Steven Allen Adams Raleigh County Circuit Court Judge Michael Froble agreed with three parents Thursday in issuing a preliminary injunction against county and state education officials from refusing to honor the religious exemption to...
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...
Mason County man sentenced to decades in prison for sexual abuse of children
WCHS - West Virginia
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MASON COUNTY, W.Va. (WCHS) — A Mason County man will spend decades behind bars after multiple instances of child abuse were reported. Owen Christopher Johnson, 28, of Ashton has been sentenced to 30-to-60 years in prison after being convicted on...
Raleigh County judge upholds Morrisey’s executive order on vaccination exemptions
WVVA - West Virginia
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July 24, 2025
BECKLEY, W.Va. (WVVA) - Exemptions from the West Virginia School Board’s vaccination requirements for some students in Raleigh County have been granted. A Raleigh County judge issued a preliminary injunction today upholding Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s...
Supreme Court agrees to hear our women’s sports cases
Fox News
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Former NCAA athletes Lainey Armistead and Madison Kenyon talk to Fox News Digital about how they ended up in a lawsuit to protect women's sports in a case that's now going all the way to the Supreme Court. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News...
Lexington 1 superintendent retires after 50-year career in public education
Lexington County Chronicle - South Carolina
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After serving as Lexington County School District One superintendent for three years, marking over 50 years in public education, Gerrita Postlewait retired June 30. Originally from West Virginia, Postlewait received her bachelor’s, master’s and...
Preliminary injunction issued in vaccine lawsuit
The Register-Herald - West Virginia
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BECKLEY — A Raleigh County Circuit Court judge Thursday granted a preliminary injunction in a religious exemption vaccination case involving both the West Virginia and Raleigh County boards of education. Raleigh County Circuit Judge Michael E....
RELIGION HEADLINES SUN 6-29-25
SRN News
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June 29, 2025
Audio By Carbonatix (SRN NEWS) Charities received 593 billion dollars in donations in 2024, a 3.3 percent increase over 2023, after adjusting for inflation. That’s according to the latest Giving USA report, which takes a comprehensive look at U.S....
WalletHub ranks states with best, worst schools. How did MS score?
Hattiesburg American - Mississippi
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Parents want to give their kids the best chance of success, which involves picking the right school for many families. How students learn in K-12 education gives them a bedrock to build on later in life. It's not just how much a child learns but...
Community Tidbits: Mini cheer camp, job recruitment event and more
Kanawha Valley Update - West Virginia
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Tidbits The latest updates from communities around Kanawha County. Kanawha County, W.Va. Y oung cheerleaders are invited to a one-day mini camp, and a local business is holding a recruiting event. Here’s the 411 from communities around the region,...
Women’s Tennis Announces Signing Of Nel Van Hout
BVM Sports
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June 28, 2025
MILWAUKEE – Head coach Mark Goldin has announced a new addition to the roster of the Milwaukee women's tennis team with the signing of Nel Van Hout. Van Hout comes to Milwaukee following a successful freshman campaign at Marshall University in...
The Mom Whose Out-of-State Abortion Made a Healthy Pregnancy Possible By April Daniels Hussar
New York Mag
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July 24, 2025
Illustration: Palesa Monareng Because no two paths to parenthood look the same, “How I Got This Baby” is a series that invites parents to share their stories. In 2021, Kailey, a stay-at-home mom with three kids — ages 6 months, 4, and 7 — living...
Trump eyes involuntary commitment to end homelessness
STAT - Massachusetts
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July 25, 2025
Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Saturday marks the 35th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Some folks in the disability community are spending it...
Reciprocal license agreement with Kentucky should be reinstated soon
MetroNews - West Virginia
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July 24, 2025
FRANKFORT, Ky. — The reciprocal agreement on fishing and hunting license between the state of West Virginia and the state of Kentucky for the Tug Fork and Big Sandy Rivers will be reinstated no later than the end of this year. That’s the word from...
Standing Up For W.Va. Children
The Intelligencer - West Virginia
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In an era when too many in state and federal government seem more bent on protecting themselves than those they are meant to serve, it is encouraging to hear from someone as esteemed as former Justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals...