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Unpacking Future Packers: No. 20, West Virginia DL Dante Stills

Up next in the Unpacking Future Packers draft preview series is West Virginia DL Dante Stills.

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US Supreme Court lets trans girl stay on track team

WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court has let a 12-year-old transgender girl continue competing on her middle school track team, acting for the first time on a wave of new state restrictions on athletic participation.

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State supreme courts issued 131 opinions between March 27 and April 2

State supreme courts issued 131 opinions between March 27 and April 2. The North Dakota Supreme Court 17 opinions, the most of any state, followed by Texas (court of criminal appeals) with 14 and West Virginia with nine.

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US Supreme Court rules in favour of transgender track runner

The decision comes amid a proliferation of anti-trans rights bills promoted by Republican lawmakers across the country.

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Supreme Court says 12-year-old transgender girl may compete against girls in West Virginia

WASHINGTON — In its first decision involving transgender students and sports, the Supreme Court on Thursday refused West Virginia’s bid to bar a 12-year-old transgender girl from competing on the girl’s track team at her middle school.

Los Angeles Times

High court: Trans girl can run girls track in West Virginia

The Supreme Court is allowing a 12-year-old transgender girl in West Virginia to continue competing on her middle school’s girls sports teams while a lawsuit over a state ban continues

The Independent UK

Supreme Court says West Virginia trans girl can continue playing sports during challenge to state ban

The high court rejects the state’s attempt to kick Becky Pepper-Jackson off her middle school track and field team while legal challenges to a state ban on trans athletes continue

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Supreme Court won't enforce West Virginia law banning trans athletes from girls' teams

The state's law was challenged by a 12-year-old transgender girl named Becky Pepper-Jackson, who has lived as a girl since fourth grade, according to court papers.

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Court says trans girl can run girls track in West Virginia

The Supreme Court is allowing a 12-year-old transgender girl in West Virginia to continue competing on her middle school’s girls sports teams while a lawsuit over a state ban continues

The Independent UK

America's most inbred family who can only 'grunt' and 'bark' began with identical twin brothers

The Whittaker clan from West Virginia, US have been left with a number of heartbreaking genetic defects as a result of a long family history of inbreeding.

Daily Record

Terrified teen suffers lung collapse and is scarred for life after starting vaping at 13

Teenager Draven Hatfield, from Harts, West Virginia, was forced to have a bullectomy surgery to remove air pockets from his lung after it collapsed for the fourth time

Daily Mirror

Don Blankenship Loses Libel Lawsuit Against Donald Trump, Jr., Who Called Blankenship a "Felon"

Coal baron and later Senate candidate Blankenship had been convicted of a misdemeanor, and served a year in prison for it; a federal judge has concluded that Blankenship hadn't introduced enough evidence that Trump, Jr. knew that he had erred in calling Blankenship a "felon."

Reason

Kentucky and West Virginia move to limit transgender therapies

At least 11 US states have placed restrictions or outright bans on gender-affirming treatments for children.

Al Jazeera

Kentucky and West Virginia the latest states to step up anti-trans push

W.V. moved to ban gender-affirming care for trans youth and Kentucky GOP lawmakers voted to override the Dem governor's bill veto.

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West Virginia Legislature Enacts RFRA, With Abortion Carveout

WV is looking to get ahead of RFRA-challenges to post-Dobbs litigation.

The Independent UK

New Maryland clinic opening in post-Roe 'abortion desert'

A new Maryland abortion provider is opening next to deeply conservative West Virginia, where state lawmakers recently passed a near-total abortion ban

The Independent UK

Mother of British rugby star found dead in US ‘distraught’ after body found yards from home

Former British rugby league player was reported missing in West Virginia more than a year ago

The Independent UK

Puzzling highway death part of West Virginia police probe

State police in West Virginia say a trooper used a Taser on a man who walked onto a highway and later died

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The Independent UK

West Virginia state police superintendent resigns amid probe

West Virginia's governor has ordered a sweeping investigation of the State Police after he accepted the resignation of the agency’s superintendent

The Independent UK

Body of missing rugby player Bryn Hargreaves found after he went missing in US

Hargreaves vanished without trace from his apartment in West Virginia on January 3 2022.

Liverpool Echo

Body of Bryn Hargreaves found 14 months after going missing

The ex-Wigan Warriors and St Helens player went missing in West Virginia

The Guardian - US

Families of 14 inmates who died in West Virginia jail allege negligence

Families demand federal investigation amid reports of deplorable conditions, rampant violence and inadequate medical services

Tribune News Service

No. 8 seed Maryland outlasts No. 9 seed West Virginia, 67-65, in NCAA Tournament opener

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Coach Kevin Willard guided the Maryland men’s basketball team back to the NCAA Tournament. The players repaid the favor by giving Willard his first NCAA postseason win in more than five years.

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Three more states withdraw from voter data organization

Missouri, Florida, and West Virginia withdrew from the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) on March 6. Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft (R) said the state was withdrawing because ERIC would not “require member states to participate in addressing multi-state voter fraud.” West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner (R)…

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WV House OKs transgender care ban mental health exemption

West Virginia’s Republican supermajority House of Delegates swiftly OK’d a proposal to add mental health exemptions to a bill that would ban certain health care for transgender youth

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