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March 12, 2018 at 8:25 am

Raises, guns, abortion highlight West Virginia session

The approval of 5 percent pay raises prompted by a nine-day teachers walkout was perhaps the top attention-getter of this year's legislative session — but...

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March 9, 2018 at 1:09 pm

Social media, networking, key to W. Va. teacher walkout

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — In a state not known as a friend to labor unions, hundreds of West Virginia teachers found a way to organize...

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March 6, 2018 at 10:59 pm

West Virginia lawmakers advance measures to address opioids

West Virginia lawmakers have advanced measures to curb the state's drug crisis while rejecting two amendments Wednesday aimed at punishing drug companies that flooded the...

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March 5, 2018 at 11:47 am

West Virginia House opposes constitutional abortion rights

West Virginia lawmakers say the main goal of a constitutional amendment they are proposing is to end Medicaid funding for abortions — but opponents say...

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Cindy Wentz of Sharon Dawes Elementary school in Kanawha County holds aloft a sign at the capitol in Charleston, W.V., on Monday, March 5, 2018; the eighth day of statewide school closures. The sign is a reference to the state senate accidentally signing a bill passed by the house for a 5% raise in educator salaries only to rescind the bill and approve their own for a 4% increase last Saturday. (Craig Hudson/Charleston Gazette-Mail via AP) WVCHG108 WVCHG108

March 5, 2018 at 3:02 am

West Virginia teacher strike headed for a 9th day VIEW

The walkout over pay and benefits shuttered classrooms Feb. 22. Since then, angry teachers have gone to the Capitol to press legislators to raise their...

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March 3, 2018 at 7:47 pm

West Virginia teachers: No raise, no school; strike goes on

Unions representing West Virginia teachers and service personnel say they will stay out on strike after the state Senate voted to cut the 5 percent...

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March 2, 2018 at 7:42 pm

Senate votes; West Virginia teachers say strike won’t end

Unions representing West Virginia teachers and service personnel said Saturday that they will stay out on strike after the state Senate voted to cut the...

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March 2, 2018 at 11:05 am

West Virginia Senate nixes vote on striking teachers’ raises

The fate of the seven-day teacher's strike in West Virginia lay in the hands of the Republican-controlled state Senate, which refused on Friday to even...

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March 1, 2018 at 7:34 pm

West Virginia teacher strike reaches 7 days without classes VIEW

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Many West Virginia public school students were at loose ends again Friday, with their classrooms closed for a seventh straight class...

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February 28, 2018 at 10:03 pm

West Virginia Senate doesn’t vote on teacher pay raise VIEW

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Facing pressure from striking, chanting teachers who filled the Capitol again Thursday, West Virginia's Senate majority refused to take up their...

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