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Appalachian Regional Commission C. F. “Catfish” Gray, Man of the Woods, from “The Mountain Photography Workshop” Documentary Survey of Appalachian Kentucky and West Virginia Photo by Will Endres CHARLESTON — The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at www.wvencyclopedia.org. March 7, 1856: Tucker County was formed from Randolph County and named for Henry St. George Tucker Sr., a Virginia...

ATLANTA – The Georgia House of Representatives and state Senate are at loggerheads over how Georgians should tell time. The House passed legislation last Friday calling for the Peach State

The Ranger RIVERTON — It’s been 234 years since the Constitutional Convention, and some Wyoming lawmakers think that’s long enough. State Senate Joint Resolution 2 is a bid to launch a new convention of states in order to amend the U.S. Constitution in ways that would limit federal power. Republican state Senators Cale Case, of Lander, and Ed Cooper, of Ten Sleep, along with State Rep. Pepper Ottman, R-Riverton, have co-sponsored the bill, which was introduced to the Senate on Fe...

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DES MOINES — When the COVID-19 pandemic first reached Iowa, Gov. Kim Reynolds assured Iowans her administration was ready.

ERIN MURPHY DES MOINES — When the COVID-19 pandemic first reached Iowa, Gov. Kim Reynolds assured Iowans her administration was ready. Monday, March 8, marks the one-year anniversary of the first confirmed cases of the new coronavirus in Iowa. In the 12 months since, the COVID-19 pandemic has claimed the lives of more than 5,500 Iowans with more than 360,000 confirmed cases, according to state public health data. Iowa’s Lee Enterprises newspapers and The Gazette in Ceda...

The school board will meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday.

By PATRICK WILSON Richmond Times-Dispatch Del. Delores McQuinn speaks in favor of her resolution to grant the Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribe state recognition. Chuck Hoskin Jr., principal chief of the Cherokee Nation urges the committee to reject state recognition of the tribe. A group of Cherokee Indians based in Henrico County wants to be recognized by Virginia. But the seven federally recognized tribes in Virginia asked the legislature to hold off, and the largest of the country’...

KINGDOM CITY - A red brick building along I-70 may look finished from afar, but inside the interior work remains undone. The shell of the Missouri Firefighter Memorial was completed in 2019. That occurred when the Firefighter Memorial Board, the planning committee for the project, raised enough funds to finish exterior work. Now the board is trying to raise somewhere from $250,000 to $300,000 to complete the interior. “We know that will happen,” Ken Hoover, Firefighter Memorial Board ...

Monday, March 8 12:30 p.m. — Dickinson Law will host Jasmine Rand to share her experience as an attorney in a virtual discussion titled “Oppression of Equality: Being the Only Women in the Room.” Rand is an attorney for the Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown families as well as an international legal and media strategist for the George Floyd legal team. Registration for the online event can be found here. 3 p.m. — “What Messed with Texas, and Could it Happen Here?” i...