A CNN analysis found that all of the 15 states that relied most heavily on federal support for their public schools in 2022 ...

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Hazard depicts the opioid crisis ravaging rural America with a raw and unflinching lens. Writer and director Eddie Mensore ...

Basso, who can currently be seen in season two of hit Netflix series The Night Agent, is the latest Hillbilly Elegy actor to ...

Glenn Close has hit out at JD Vance after starring in the film about his life, Hillbilly Elegy. Since he was announced as Donald Trump ’s running mate, Vance has been criticised for comments that saw ...

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One current program that has helped many in West Virginia is the AmeriCorps program. AmeriCorps has six areas of impact: disaster services, economic opportunity, education, environmental stewardship, ...

Dolly Parton chats with Rick Bragg on her Tennessee childhood, the real Jolene, and Dollywood's 40th anniversary.

Wagner spent his summers as a teenager working on a farm, baling hay in the fields. He grew up in poverty near the base of the Appalachian Mountains, where reaching the major leagues was not even a ...