The 75-year-old Rockefeller is the only high-profile elected official from the state of West Virginia to have publicly and wholeheartedly endorsed President Obama.
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In geographic terms, it spans all or portions of 25 Texas counties, covering an area roughly the size of the State of West Virginia.
The President today declared an emergency exists in the State of West Virginia and ordered federal aid to supplement state and local response efforts due to the emergency conditions resulting from Hurricane Sandy beginning on October 29, 2012, and continuing.
The President today declared a major disaster exists in the State of West Virginia and ordered Federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area affected by Hurricane Sandy during the period of October 29 to November 8, 2012.
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The black shale Marcellus Formation stretches from much of the southern half of New York State through much of Pennsylvania and into West Virginia and Eastern Ohio.
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At the time of decision, West Virginia was the last state with a Dem.
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Democrats are struggling in the bellwether state of Ohio, and may lose the tight Senate races not only in West Virginia but also in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
The idea of students at a public institution being required to stomp on the word Jesus evokes the 1943 decision in West Virginia State Board of Education v.
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The storm dumped 2 feet of snow in parts of West Virginia, closing schools in more than half the state and leaving more than 20, 000 customers without power.
The storm dumped 2 feet of snow in parts of neighboring West Virginia, closing schools in more than half the state and leaving more than 20, 000 customers without power.
Census figures show that people born in foreign countries are an increasing part of the population in every state except one, West Virginia.
But the president owes his job partly to the steel workers of West Virginia, a usually Democratic state that voted Republican in 2000.
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The destruction prompted state of emergency declarations by governors of Maryland, Ohio, West Virginia and Virginia.
Returning home to West Virginia after the war, he ran for the state House of Delegates, using his fiddle case as a briefcase, the better to stand out on the stump.
The West Virginia Department of Transportation reported accidents on three major highways in the state and said fallen trees and power lines were complicating efforts to clear roads.
Prior to the 2006 season, Indians games were locally televised by FOX Sports Ohio, which serves more than five million homes throughout the state of Ohio, as well as portions of Kentucky, Indiana, western Pennsylvania, western New York, and West Virginia.
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Over the next 17 years he had a succession of assistant coaching jobs, most notably with Syracuse, West Virginia and Ohio State, and with the NFL's Houston Oilers.
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