By Leann Ray | Editor-in-chief
“It might be a bigger message for some children that have been through this, that have had to go to a new home and have not been cared for. It could help other children be empathetic to children that have gone through that.” — Amy Summers, a former delegate on her children’s book “Courageous Kitty”
Former Del. Amy Summers speaks on the final day of the West Virginia legislative session on March 9, 2024 in the House of Delegates Chamber in Charleston, West Virginia. (Photo by Perry Bennett/West Virginia Legislative Photography)
By Amelia Ferrell Knisely
Amy Summers, a former member of West Virginia House leadership, released a children’s book that draws on her personal life on the farm along with her time as a lawmaker trying to reform the state’s troubled foster care system.
NATIONAL
Defense attorney Kevin Reddington is surrounded by the press as he leaves the courthouse earlier this month following the conclusion of deliberations for the sixth day in the trial of Lindsay Clancy in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Clancy pleaded not guilty to murdering her three young children, with her attorneys arguing she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and did not receive adequate mental health care despite seeking treatment and support. (Photo by CJ Gunther/Getty Images)
By Sofia Resnick
The mistrial in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial earlier this month places her future in doubt, three years after she killed her three children in Duxbury, Massachusetts.
But one potential outcome is a state legislative push to boost mental health support for new mothers.
By Ariana Figueroa
WASHINGTON — A vast and growing network of artificial intelligence-driven Flock cameras could violate constitutional privacy rights, U.S. senators on a Judiciary Committee subcommittee said during a Wednesday hearing.
By Jennifer Shutt
WASHINGTON — U.S. District Court Judge Timothy J. Kelly indicated during a Wednesday hearing he may order the Trump administration to reinstate White House press passes for reporters from three news organizations who had their credentials revoked this weekend.
By Shauneen Miranda
WASHINGTON — Republicans on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee used a hearing Wednesday to continue voicing opposition to transgender athletes competing in women’s sports, which the top Democrat on the panel called a distraction from cost-of-living issues voters are more concerned about.
COMMENTARY
Across the country, women make up about 61% of family caregivers. (Photo by Halfpoint Images/Getty Stock photo)
By Ellen Allen
West Virginians know what it means to get up early, drive a long way to a job, work a second shift, care for a child or aging parent, go to school, volunteer in their community or keep working when they don't feel their best because the bills still have to be paid.
ICYMI
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