FAYETTEVILLE, W.Va. -- He walks along a gravel path at Class VI River Runners, flip-flops smacking against his heels.
There could be as many as six presidential candidates on West Virginia's ballot this fall, the most state officials can recall.
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It's been 30 years since the worst construction accident in U.S. history claimed 51 lives in Pleasants County. Look back on the disaster, the investigation and the people left behind.
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December marked the 100th anniversary of the Monongah mining disaster, which took the lives of at least 362 men. Read the Gazette's coverage of the Monongah disaster: 100 years later.
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Poisonings -- mostly drug overdoses -- now kill more Americans than guns. The fastest growing killers aren't cocaine or heroin, they're prescription pain drugs -- and West Virginians are more likely to die of overdoses than people in any other state.
Read about this dilemma in a joint Gazette/West Virginia Public Broadcasting investigation.
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Read about this dilemma in a joint Gazette/West Virginia Public Broadcasting investigation.
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