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West Virginia Lottery results: See winning numbers for Daily 3, Daily 4 on July 3, 2025
Are you looking to win big? The West Virginia Lottery offers a variety of games if you think it’s your lucky day. Lottery players in West Virginia can choose from popular national games like the Powerball and Mega Millions, which are available in...

West Virginia poised to thrive in lucrative heritage tourism market
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia is poised to outpace other U.S. states in lucrative heritage tourism, which is now the largest sector of the U.S. travel market, says David Sibray, historian and publisher of West Virginia Explorer. Advertisement...

Mapped: Measles Cases by State in 2025
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Hospice of Southern West Virginia and Brian’s Safehouse invites the community to Revved Up Regardless concert on July 12
Beckley, WV (WOAY) – Hospice of Southern West Virginia and Brian’s Safehouse’s annual Friends of Charity Auto Fair will be taking a hiatus this year. However, event organizers are revved up regardless and have a plan to keep the good times rolling...

Kansas, Arizona feature the best cities for renters
With rental prices having experienced a 5.1 percent year-over-year increase last year, the personal-finance website WalletHub has released its report on 2025’s Best and Worst Places to Rent in America, as well as expert commentary. To help...

4 settlements Americans must claim before July deadline to get portion of $57m – just fill out a simple form
AMERICANS have four settlements they can claim right now before deadlines hit this month. All that stands between you and potentially a series of massive payouts is a few forms you need to fill out. 1 Americans have four settlements they can claim...

Energy Innovation Center Institute (EICI) Launches First-of-Its-Kind Infrastructure Academy Regional Training (IART) Facility
The IART Facility will provide critically needed skill and resiliency training for both new and incumbent workers in the Energy, Utility, Digital/AI and other Critical Infrastructure. PITTSBURGH, July 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Today at the...

Coffee with Crawford | Athletes get paid, students get billed — welcome to college sports 2025
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- University of Louisville students have gotten the news: Their part of the growing bill for college sports' revenue-sharing era is $400 per academic year. Earlier this month, U of L announced a $167.4 million athletic...

Supreme Court to Hear Trans Sports Bans from West Virginia, Idaho
One week after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed states to ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors, the Court announced it will take on two more critical cases in its next term—this time, over transgender students’ rights in school sports....

Lobbyists spent nearly a quarter of a million dollars on West Virginia lawmakers in first half of 2025
(Graphic by Steven Allen Adams) CHARLESTON — It’s been nearly 90 days since the end of the 2025 regular session of the West Virginia Legislature, with lobbyist spending reports shedding light on how interest groups worked to get the attention of...

New West Virginia law creates a state Dementia Services Director
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS) — At the end of the week, a new law will go into effect that will allow the state to hire a full-time Dementia Services Director. Delegate Walter Hall, R-Kanawha, was the lead sponsor of the bill to create this position....

Morgan County deputy injured in officer-involved shooting
BERKELEY SPRINGS, W.Va. — A Morgan County Sheriff’s Deputy is recovering after being shot Saturday morning. Sheriff Johnnie Walter tells MetroNews deputies were called around 7 a.m. to a domestic in the Spohrs Crossroads area east of Berkeley...

College hoops' 25 best non-champs since 2000, from Cooper Flagg's Duke to Wichita State
Editor’s note: All week, The Athletic is looking back at the best of the first 25 years of the 2000s in men’s college basketball. Also read the top 25 players, top 25 coaches and top 25 teams, and submit your own picks. This March, I ranked all of...

Part II: A conversation with former South Carolina football coach Sparky Woods
Alan Piercy is the author of A Gamecock Odyssey: University of South Carolina Sports in the Independent Era (1971-1991). The following was originally published on Alan’s South By Southeast newsletter. The second and final installment – Former...

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Mary Lou Retton Arrested for DUI in West Virginia
FAIRMONT, W.Va. — Former Olympic gymnastics star Mary Lou Retton was arrested in May for driving under the influence after police discovered her in the driver’s seat of her Porsche with a bottle of wine. The police pulled over Retton, who is now...

Judges warned CPS was failing kids. West Virginia ethics officials want to silence them.
In October, Judge Tim Sweeney ordered state workers to send a severely traumatized child to out-of-state mental health treatment. Four months later the child, one of more than 6,000 in custody of the state, still wasn’t receiving that care. In a...
West Virginia, Idaho Lead Charge As Supreme Court Takes On Women’s Sports Protection
Landmark cases challenge athlete eligibility, sparking nationwide debate on fairness and biological sex in competition. The U.S. Supreme Court announced today it will hear two pivotal cases challenging state laws designed to protect women’s sports...

A century later, Scopes trial still resonates amid classroom culture clashes in Tennessee
In July 1925, the historic Rhea County Courthouse in Dayton, Tennessee, hosted what was dubbed the “trial of the century” against teacher John Scopes for violating a state law that prohibited teaching evolution in public schools. The three-story...

"I like the term Silent Assassin": Lane Kiffin's Ole Miss WR has savage response to media question at SEC Media Days
Ole Miss junior wide receiver Cayden Lee was a three-star recruit when he joined the program in 2023. He wasn’t the most talked about name in his class, which included higher-rated receivers like Ayden Williams, Tre Harris and Zakhari Franklin. At...