By Leann Ray | Editor-in-chief
“There’s no way to prove that anybody is doing anything nefarious with school vouchers, because it all comes off the same EBT card.” – Del. Vince Deeds, R-Greenbrier
Sen. Eric Tarr, R-Putnam, questions how the Morrisey administration calculated data about families using the school clothing allowance program amid fraud concerns during the Legislative Oversight Committee on Health & Human Resources Administration meeting in Charleston, West Virginia, on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026. (Photo by Perry Bennett/West Virginia Legislative Photography)
By Amelia Ferrell Knisely
New Human Services Secretary Carl Ayers appeared before lawmakers for the first time Tuesday to field questions about the Morrisey administration’s handling of the school clothing allowance program for low-income children.
Information from the West Virginia Department of Education shows that half of the state's homeless students were suspended as a result of behavior during the 2025-2026 school year. (Photo by Spenser Heaps/Utah News Dispatch)
By Amelia Ferrell Knisely
Half of West Virginia's homeless students were suspended as a result of behavior last school year, according to new data from the state education department.
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U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche appears at his confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill last month. A group of leading anti-abortion organizations sent a letter to Blanche urging him to consider using a 150-year-old anti-obscenity law to prevent people from obtaining abortion medication or other related materials through the mail. (Photo by Eric Lee/Getty Images)
By Kelcie Moseley-Morris
A group of leading anti-abortion organizations sent a letter to newly confirmed U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche urging him to review the U.S. Department of Justice’s authority to use a 150-year-old anti-obscenity law to prevent people from obtaining abortion medication or other related materials through the mail.
By Ashley Murray
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump covertly traveled across Europe in a military plane in July after Iran threatened his life, according to a bombshell report Monday night by The Washington Post that revealed press and White House officials remained on a decoy Air Force One.
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