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Residents in rural Marion County likened Internet service to “a dead turtle” while offering officials feedback on the state of broadband in the region. The input was gathered as part of a six-county listening session.

FARMINGTON — When asked to describe his internet access as an animal, Farmington resident Fred Priester called his broadband, “a dead turtle.”

Joe Manchin suddenly seems to influence everything Washington does. The West Virginia senator says he wants to make Congress ‘work again’ Ledyard King, USA TODAY © BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI, AFP via Getty Images U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin speaks on the phone before a meeting with Senate Democrats on Capitol Hill in January 2018. FARMINGTON, W.Va. – For more than nine hours, Joe Manchin wouldnt budge and the fate of President Joe Bidens $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill hung in th...

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., has been given many labels: an obstacle to progress, defender of the status quo. So who is he?: "Not those people," he says.