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Government Maria Young, About 19 hours ago

25 Years Later: W.Va. Remembers 9/11

An economics professor from WVU, Tom Witt, was at Ground Zero when two planes hit the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.

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Arts & Culture Bill Lynch +, About 13 hours ago

Encore: Willie Carver Jr. And Marina Waters, Inside Appalachia

This week, in author Willie Carver, Jr.’s new book, he reconsiders a negative childhood experience with a neighborhood girl who might have just been looking for a friend. Also, a southwestern Virginia community rang the alarm after more and more of its children were diagnosed with cancer. A local journalist is trying to unravel the cause. And, the city of Asheville has a new crusading reporter. He’s a puppet.

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Energy & Environment Chris Schulz, About 14 hours ago

PSC Staff Submit Further Evidence Against Need For MARL Transmission Line

A staff engineer testified that there is little evidence of the project’s benefit to West Virginians and the most likely outcome of the MARL project not being built is the energizing of fewer data centers in Virginia.

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Government Maria Young, About 15 hours ago

Operation Coal Country Nets Noncompliant Sex Offenders, Violent Fugitives

Dozens of felony suspects in southern West Virginia have been arrested as part of Operation Coal County, which targeted noncompliant sex offenders, suspects wanted for sex crimes and violent fugitives.

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Arts & Culture Abby Neff, About 16 hours ago

Author Spent Nearly A Decade Researching Dolly Parton’s Songwriting

Lydia Hamessley is a professor of music at Hamilton College in New York and the author of "Unlikely Angel, The Songs of Dolly Parton." She spent nearly a decade researching Dolly's music catalog. Inside Appalachia Associate Producer Abby Neff talked with Hamessley.

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Arts & Culture Bill Lynch, About 18 hours ago

Willie Carver On Dolly Parton, Queerness And Being Mortal

Dolly meant a lot to educator, author and poet Willie Edward Taylor Carver, Jr. from east Kentucky. Inside Appalachia Producer Bill Lynch spoke with Carver about the loss of Dolly Parton.

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