On this West Virginia Morning, every Nov. 14, Marshall University and the Huntington community have remembered and honored the 1970 football team, and all of the 75 who perished that year in a plane crash. For more than half a century, these annual memorial events have honored revered memories, but they have also inspired a legacy of positive personal and physical growth.
Also, in this show, PEIA continues to hold hearings across the state over proposed price increases that would take effect next summer, the state Supreme Court rules on football playoffs and an Elkins residential facility for children in foster care is slated to close by the end of the year.
We also have stories on a continued fall in West Virginia's drug overdose death rate, a pollution lawsuit ends in a hung jury and a land grant university gets an agricultural laboratory.
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Maria Young produced this episode.
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