Emily Rice

Emily has been with WVPB since December 2022 and is the Appalachia Health News Reporter, based in Charleston. She has worked in several areas of journalism since her graduation from Marshall University in 2016, including work as a reporter, photographer, videographer and managing editor for newsprint and magazines. Before coming to WVPB, she worked as the features editor of the Bluefield Daily Telegraph, the managing editor of West Virginia Executive Magazine and as an education reporter for The Cortez Journal in Cortez, Colorado.

Morrisey Promises Religious Exemption To Vaccination On Day One

On his first day as Governor, Patrick Morrisey promised West Virginia would allow religious exemptions to school-entry vaccines.

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Charleston Drug Summit Aims To Connect Families To Resources

More than a dozen organizations are partnering to hold a summit for West Virginians affected by Substance Use Disorder to connect and share information.

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Local Healthcare Advocates Ask U.S. Senators To Reject RFK Jr.’s Nomination

Local health care advocates asked Senator Shelley Moore Capito and incoming Senator Jim Justice to vote against President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of health and human services, RFK Jr.

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Two Nurses Charged With Criminal Neglect In Patient’s Boiling Death

Criminal neglect charges have been filed against two Hopemont Hospital nurses in connection with the January 2024 death of an elderly nonverbal patient in long-term state care.

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