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Class A all-state football list

2025 WVSWA Class A All-State football
First team offense
QB     Colton Roberson (c) Pendleton County                    So.      5-11      181
QB     Corey Coen                             Clay-Battelle                            Jr.        5-8       150
RB     Reezin Stitt                             Wahama                                 Jr.       5-10      150
RB     Kade Koroneos Wheeling Central                     Sr.      5-10      185
RB     Caleb Hall

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Appeals judges review whether state Medicaid policies discriminate against transgender people

Appeals judges on the circuit that covers West Virginia heard arguments today about whether West Virginia has violated constitutionally guaranteed equal protections by declining to cover surgical treatments for gender dysphoria.
The federal appeals case also focused on whether West Virginia violated the Medicaid Act and the Affordable Care Act by declining to cover surgical treatments for gender dysphoria.
This is the second time the case has gone before appeals judges.
A little more than a year

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All but one of 82 defendants now sentenced in Eastern Panhandle drug ring

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WVDOT plans to overhaul flood response after February and June events

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – After devastating floods damaged large swaths of West Virginia earlier this year, the state Department of Transportation decided that it needed to change the way it responds to high-water events.
DOT Secretary Stephen Todd Rumbaugh was forced to act quickly when significant flooding struck the southern coalfield counties less than one month after he was appointed by Governor Patrick Morrisey.
“What was done in February was what had always been done in the past. When that

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Monument Construction Committee picks design for monument honoring West Virginians killed in U.S. War on Terror

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MetroNews This Morning 12-9-25

Today on MetroNews This Morning:
–PSC Chairman Charlotte Lane says she’s firm in her belief coal will have a place in the state’s energy portfolio
–Lawmakers hear some options to the PEIA spousal surcharge
–The National Weather Service says we’re in a lull between winter storms
–In Sports; the final Tudors Biscuit World MetroNews Power Rankings in high school football are published
Listen to “MetroNews This Morning 12-9-25” on Spreaker.

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Football championships a win for high school athletics

In sports, there’s an adage that “winning fixes everything.” Following the 2024 football season, the West Virginia Secondary Schools Activities Commission, along with high school athletics—particularly football—was in need of a win.
During the 2023 season, there were discussions about blowouts, and lawmakers expressed concerns about competitive balance. As a result, state lawmakers pledged to revise the transfer rule that had been approved just months earlier.
Last academic year was the first

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West Virginia registers season-high point total in 109-40 victory over Texas Southern

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Legislative committee hears presentation on youth homelessness during interims

CHARLESTON, W.Va. –State lawmakers had the opportunity to learn about youth homelessness in the state and the importance of having a homeless facilitator within the school system during interim meetings on Monday.
Rodd Monts, Director of State Policy for SchoolHouse Connection, a national nonprofit working to overcome youth homelessness through early care and education, and Kathleen Allen, Homeless Facilitator for Kanawha County Schools, provided the Joint Committee on Children and Families with

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