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Schools across Maine confront unique challenges in ridding their water of ‘forever chemicals’
July 21, 2024
Funding and delays have kept schools on bottled water for over a year as they try to eliminate their PFAS.
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These paramedics are for more than just emergencies in North Carolina communities
July 19, 2024
As fentanyl-related overdoses increase across the state, community paramedics are administering medications to help people recover after opioid overdoses. McDowell County touted itself as one of the earlier programs in the country and among the first in rural North Carolina after launching in 2013.
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Local Ky. governments mulling ways to use opioid settlements funds to help communities
July 15, 2024
More than a year after localities began receiving shares of the state’s opioid settlement funding, several local leaders in far western Kentucky are still figuring out how best they can use those funds to tackle the opioid epidemic.
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Wyoming bans conservation bidders from oil and gas lease sales
July 15, 2024
Wyoming has narrowed its definitions for who can bid on state oil and gas lease parcels, disqualifying parties that intend to conserve the land rather than produce the mineral resources.
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‘This is going to kill us’: Oklahoma nursing homes brace for new federal staffing mandate
July 11, 2024
Oklahoma nursing homes are preparing for staffing rules finalized in April by the Biden administration, meant to improve safety and quality of care in long-term care facilities.
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Local health officials across Kentucky say they’re getting more naloxone access, training
July 11, 2024
Health officials in the eastern part of the state say access to naloxone – the nasal spray medicine that reverses opioid overdoses – has improved throughout the past couple years.
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West Virginia communities got money to help tear down abandoned buildings. It wasn’t nearly enough
July 11, 2024
A pilot program is spending $30 million to clean up the state’s abandoned buildings, but a new report to lawmakers warns that another $150 million is needed.
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What do Oklahoma grocery shoppers think of buying bananas and bullets in the same trip?
July 10, 2024
KOSU went to Noble to talk to customers and hear what they think as the machines draw national headlines.
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Short-Handed Kona Public Defender’s Office Won’t Accept New Drunken Driving Cases
July 10, 2024
Former Big Island Judge Robert Kim says DUI cases are starting to back up in Kona – a seaside town – and he worries it could affect public safety. Officials are exploring the idea of a program to provide limited license waivers to lawyers from the mainland who want to take government jobs in Hawaii to allow them to practice there.
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Yellowstone shooter approached building with 200 people inside while firing rifle, park says
July 09, 2024
Samson Fussner, 28, worked for a park concessionaire. Authorities say they’d received reports he had earlier threatened to kill a woman and carry out a mass shooting outside Yellowstone.
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GRAPHIC: Top commodity crop and CAFO states are responsible for the most nutrient pollution, USGS model shows
July 09, 2024
An estimated quarter of all phosphorus runoff in the Midwest and 40% of all nitrogen runoff from farming practices comes from just three states — Illinois, Indiana and Iowa.
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More than 100 Texas counties lack plans to curb damage from natural disasters
June 27, 2024
The plans, which are required by the federal government to access certain grants after a natural disaster, are laborious to assemble — especially for rural counties.
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In search of answers
June 24, 2024
Agricultural workers say pesticide abuses are not reaching government officials.
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Southwest Airlines flight drops unexpectedly low over Yukon, triggering safety warning
June 24, 2024
The flight, a Boeing 737-800, skimmed unexpectedly close to the ground over Yukon (pop. 25,500) – nine miles west of its intended destination at the Oklahoma City airport.
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Vermonters with hearing and vision loss fear end of a pilot program
June 23, 2024
The program helps Vermonters with hearing and vision loss run errands, attend events and socialize. But grant funding is slated to expire this fall, and clients and advocates fear the program will cease without it.
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