New Bishop Has Existing Connections To W.Va.
Evelio Menjivar-Ayala will serve as the tenth Bishop of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston — which encompasses all of West Virginia — starting in July.
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A Capitol Mural Controversy, Chronic Absenteeism And Two Years Post-Roe, This West Virginia Week
On this West Virginia Week, we mark two years since the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which protected access to abortion nationally. We discuss how that’s changed reproductive health care in the Mountain State.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsKanawha County Textbook Controversy, 50 Years Later
Thursday marks the 50th anniversary of a Kanawha County Board of Education meeting that became inundated with controversy over new, multicultural textbooks.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsDecember 20, 1999: Newspaperman Jack Maurice Dies in Charleston at Age 86
Newspaperman Jack Maurice died in Charleston on December 20, 1999, at age 86. Maurice was born in 1913 in the McDowell County coal town of Vivian. During…
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