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Dave Brubeck - Live at the Blue Note on Sunday Night Jazz Showcase

By • 4 hours ago
The New York Times

Sunday Night Jazz Showcase

Program #206 (May 27 at 8:00pm)

Dave Brubeck – Late Night Brubeck: Live at the Blue Note

Pianist Dave Brubeck teams up with saxophonist Bobby Militello (alto, tenor and flute), bassist Jack Six and drummer Randy Jones for a set that emphasizes ballads and slower tempos.

Oral History Project Aims to Capture Coal Stories of the People

By Jessica Lilly • 4 hours ago

Researchers across different disciplines at Duke University hope to find a sustainable energy system. Part of the initiative is to find out how using more sustainable energy sources like wind or solar will effect the people in traditionally coal dependent communities.

Memoir Looks at Appalachia Through a Photojournalist's Eyes

By • 4 hours ago

Nancy Abrams is the author of a new memoir The climb from Salt Lick published by WVU press. The book is about her experience as a young photojournalist from the Midwest moving to Preston County to live and work. Abrams documents how she came to love West Virginia and the people who live here. Kara Lofton spoke with Abrams about the new book and what it means to write honestly about one's own life. 

Conservation officers patrolling waterways Memorial Day holiday

By • 4 hours ago
Kentucky Department of Fish & Wildlife Resources

Boaters can feel safer during the Memorial Weekend holiday as conservation officers with the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources join other law enforcement agencies.

More than 100 conservation officers will patrol Kentucky’s waterways this weekend to watch for dangerous boaters.

Eagle Baseball bests EKU and TTU to force winner-take-all OVC Championship Game

By • 4 hours ago
MSU Athletics

It all comes down to this.

Morehead State baseball knocked off Eastern Kentucky 5-2 to reach the 2018 OVC Tournament Championship game and then ousted No. 18 Tennessee Tech 11-6 Saturday to force a winner-take-all game on Sunday at 1 p.m. ET.

MSU is now 36-24 overall and is the only league team to hand the nationally-ranked Golden Eagles two losses this season.

MSU 5, EKU 2

Doc Watson

By • May 25, 2018
NPR

Muddy Bottom Blues

Program #140 (May 25 at 8:00pm and May 26 at 3:00pm)

Doc Watson – Live at Club 47

Yep Roc Records and the Southern Folklife Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries announce the release of Doc Watson, Live at Club 47, set for a February 9 release on CD and digital, nearly 55 years to the date of the original recording.

MSU included in USVM’s Top Veteran-Friendly schools

By • May 25, 2018
Morehead State University

Morehead State University has been included in U.S. Veterans Magazine’s Best of the Best Top Veteran-Friendly school rankings.

State Delivering Hepatitis A Vaccine Doses To Most Affected Counties

By Josh James • May 25, 2018

The Kentucky Department of Public Health is handing out 10,000 hepatitis A vaccinations to the 10 counties hardest hit by the multi-state outbreak.

Gestational Diabetes May Put Women at Risk for Kidney Disease

By • May 25, 2018

color:#444444">A new study from the National Institues of Health has found that gestational diabetes may put women at a higher risk of developing early-stage kidney disease. 

More Medical Professionals to Serve Rural Areas Thanks to State Grant

By Liz McCormick • May 25, 2018

Seventeen health science graduate students from across West Virginia are getting money to help pay for their education.

Why? Because the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission has awarded some health sciences grad students a chunk of cash to help pay for their college education – so long as they commit to practicing medicine in a rural or underserved community in West Virginia following graduation.

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