Celebrating A New Pope And The Taste Of Mothman, This West Virginia Week
A new pope, a new effort to save pets in the Mountain State and a new potato chip -- a lot to report on this West Virginia Week.
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Documentary Filmmaker And W.Va. Native Morgan Spurlock, Who Skewered Fast Food Industry, Dies At 53
Documentary filmmaker and West Virginia native Morgan Spurlock, an Oscar nominee whose most famous works skewered America's food industry and who notably ate only at McDonald’s for a month to illustrate the dangers of a fast-food diet, has died. He was 53.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsTikTok Sensation ‘Appalachian Forager’ And Ruthie Foster Has Our Song Of The Week, This West Virginia Morning
On this West Virginia Morning, we learn about an incident at a state-run psychiatric facility, we meet a TikTok sensation who forages in Appalachia and we listen to our Mountain Stage Song of the Week.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsLawmakers Search For Answers In Elderly Patient’s Boiling Death
The commission that oversees West Virginia’s state-run hospitals questioned state officials but received few answers following the January death of a man held at a state-run psychiatric facility.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsJustice Calls For More CPS Reporting, Funding In Wake Of Child’s Death
Reports surfaced last week of the death of a 14-year-old girl leading to her mother’s arrest. Gov. Jim Justice said Tuesday that this was not a CPS case.
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Child Dies In Logan County Walking To Bus Stop
The Logan County Sheriff's Office confirmed, in a press release, that a middle school student was hit and killed by a vehicle this morning just before 7 a.m. in West Logan.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsMedal Of Honor Recipient Woody Williams Dead At 98
West Virginians are expressing their grief this morning after learning of the death of Hershel “Woody” Williams, the last surviving World War II Medal of Honor recipient in the nation and native of Quiet Dell, West Virginia.
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