This is a developing story first published by Ohio Valley ReSource and may be updated. College administrators around the region are weighing their options as the novel coronavirus pandemic makes the lectures, events and dormitories of campus life potential means of transmission of the highly infectious virus. Several schools are […]
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Health professionals say the reduced person-to-person contact in rural areas will help buffer them from the virus. But everyone should still prepare. Urban residents are more at risk for person-to-person spread of the coronavirus, but those in rural areas aren’t off the hood, a global health researcher said. “Overcrowding and high […]
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The Easterlings live in the central Appalachian coalfields and much of the land has been mined for miles in every direction. Water runs through the collapsed network of former mines, which may house industrial waste, as well as byproducts from the gas wells that tapped into the methane associated with […]
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Soledad Estrada-Castrejon felt self-conscious about her rosary. It wasn’t that anyone had said anything negative. Still, she wasn’t entirely comfortable clutching her beads and praying around people she didn’t know. Maria Alejandra Combs understood and offered Estrada-Castrejon reassurance. Estrada-Castrejon was born in Mexico; Combs in Venezuela– different cultures in many […]
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This article was originally published by Ohio Valley ReSource. Just three bankruptcies of American coal companies have added more than $800 million in costs to a federal government program that funds health care for disabled coal miners, the Government Accountability said in a report released Wednesday. The report comes after […]
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This article was originally published by Ohio Valley ReSource Lynn Estel Stanley was the kind of coal mine foreman who wanted to know if there was a safety problem, and would always be the one to go fix it himself. He was also the kind of miner who refused to […]
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