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Destroyed homes and businesses are piled up against each other in the Dingess Hollow area of Lorado, W.Va., after the Buffalo Creek Dam broke on Feb. 26, 1972. (Lee Bernard/The Herald-Dispatch via AP)

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Coal disaster 50 years later: WVa creek teeming with fish
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Sat,02/26/22-7:16AM , 294 Reads
MAN, W.Va. (AP) — The day before the disaster hit, Perry Harvey went fishing on Buffalo Creek for one reason.

“There was a gold trout out there I was trying to catch,” he said.

Did he get it? “Nope."
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Marshall's Andrew Taylor (0) drives to the rim against Old Dominion's Kalu Ezikpe (22) during an NCAA men's basketball game on Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, at the Cam Henderson Center in Huntington./The Herald-Dispatch via AP)

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Marshall granted restraining order in C-USA arbitration bid
By JOHN RABY - AP Sports Writer
Thu,02/24/22-1:55PM , 314 Reads
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Marshall was granted a temporary restraining order Thursday against Conference USA after the league filed a request for arbitration in the school's bid to expedite an early move to the Sun Belt.
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Sarah Kelly is shown Friday, Jan. 21, 2022, in Huntington, W.Va. After struggling with an opioid addiction most of her life, Kelly has been in recovery since October 2019. As a federal judge mulls a decision in a lawsuit filed by the city of Huntington and Cabell County over the role of three pharmaceutical companies in the local opioid crisis, Kelly said there are many recovery programs that could benefit if the plaintiffs prevail. (AP Photo/John Raby)

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An opioid-ravaged West Virginia town awaits trial verdict
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Wed,01/26/22-11:51AM , 234 Reads
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — Sarah Kelly recalls the fleeting moments when she reached out for help during a decadeslong opioid addiction, only to find out no residential treatment beds were available in an overloaded system in her corner of West Virginia.
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Roane General Hospital nurse Chania Batten is shown at a drive-thru COVID-19 vaccination clinic Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2021, in Spencer, W.Va. Batten says her job at times is overwhelming administering COVID-19 vaccines at the clinic at the only hospital in rural Roane County. She's spent months patiently answering questions, dispelling misinformation and reassuring the skeptical that the shots are the key to beating back the virus. (AP Photo/John Raby)

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At West Virginia vaccine clinic, pandemic fatigue sets in
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Sat,12/25/21-8:38AM , 232 Reads
SPENCER, W.Va. (AP) — Chania Batten has as much reason as anybody to feel pandemic fatigue.
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