Red ribbons adorned one city, while blue ribbons hung in another town — all to honor the National Guard members who were attacked in Washington this week.
A vigil was held on Friday for Specialist Sarah Beckstrom in Webster Springs, W.Va. Specialist Beckstrom died in a shooting while she was on duty in Washington, D.C.
The family of one of the West Virginia National Guard members was at her side before she died on Thursday. A man at the other member’s home asked for prayers for his son.
The decision was handed down by a judge in West Virginia, which has one of the country’s strictest school vaccination laws and one of the highest vaccination rates.
Senator Jim Justice, a Republican and former governor of West Virginia, agreed to pay just hours after the tax agency sued to collect unpaid taxes from 2009.
Mr. Justice, who served as West Virginia’s governor from 2017 until he took office as a senator in January, entered politics after a career in coal, running a family business that owned dozens of mines in multiple states.
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