West Virginia

The Five Most Stressed Out U.S. States

Surely this is an honor New York State deserves, to make up for the fact that Miss New York never seems to win enough national pageants. But nooo! The five most stressed out states, according to a new survey, happen to be: West Virginia, Rhode Island, Kentucky, Utah, and Massachusetts. How can th ... More >>

DECEMBER MADNESS

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Reno Air Crash Kills 3; States Oppose AT&T Merger; UAW and GM Reach Agreement

​At least three people died yesterday when a plane at an air race in Reno, Nevada crashed near a grandstand. Jimmy Leeward was piloting a P-51 Mustang at the National Championship Air Races and Air Show when he lost control of the aircraft. Witnesses say he managed to pull up before impact, pr ... More >>

Dirty Coal: The Last Mountain on an Industry Run Amok

ABC Fires the Last Shot in Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution

​After much fanfare, controversy, and analysis, it's come to this: ABC has pulled Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution from its line-up due to low ratings. Adding insult to injury, the network is replacing the show with Dancing With the Stars recaps. As Huntington, West Virginia could have told us, ... More >>

West Virginia Man Celebrates Osama Bin Laden Death With ATV, Gun and American Flag

Brooklyners failed, but Matty G of West Virginia, also known as YouTube user mAtG727, most certainly did not. In the above clip entitled "Osama's dead, baby. Osama's dead," the proud patriot does donuts in his American flag-adorned ATV on a freshly mowed lawn, all while firing a handgun and shouting ... More >>

Looking for Something to Do? How About the "Do Something Reel" Film Festival

​Dinner and a movie are a prescription for a fun time, but sometimes a movie about dinner is even better. Which is why the Whole Foods-sponsored "Do Something Reel" Film Festival at City Cinemas Village East next week is shaping up to be a great event.

How New Yorkers Describe Themselves in Their Online Dating Profiles

The "shy" map.​Ooh, infographics! Dating infographics! According to these enlightening maps by R. Luke DuBois, which appear today on Fast Company's Co.Design blog, America is quite diverse with regard to how we like to describe ourselves on our online dating profiles. In certain places (like W ... More >>

Top Ten Fattest States: Is Yours on the List, Fatty?

​Americans are the most obese people in the world. Big whoop, if Swedes had the option of eating a Baconzilla at 2a.m. from Checkers' late-night drive-in, those furniture-building fjord jockeys would have some extra winter weight too. Behind eating, Americans' second favorite pastime is readin ... More >>

The Week in Food Blogs: Restaurant Romance Gone Awry; Best V-Day Candy

This week in food blogs... Eater rounded up 12 of the city's most extreme pizzerias. And, yes, one of the Artichoke pies makes the list. Grub Street posted 14 tales of restaurant romance gone awry. And one involves a naked redhead (which might be hot if it weren't a man). Diner's Journal was shoc ... More >>

Lady-Part Stench Leads to Amusing Antics All Around

Here she is, fellas.​Today is a day for crazy, apparently. Which is good. We like crazy. Crazy is kind of a gift, really. Especially when it happens in West Virginia. In this instance...a 41-year-old woman with three names (Melissa Lee Williams) who lives in a room at the 77 Motor Inn (conveni ... More >>

HOLY ROLLING

Snakes in a church

Americans Getting Fatter, More Honest

​Surprise, surprise: Americans have not conquered that unfortunate weight problem that doctors are always harassing us about. According to a government study released today that surveyed adults about their weight by telephone (great way to encourage exercise!), the obesity rate is at nearly 27 ... More >>

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Robert Byrd (RIP), John Paul Stevens (Retirement) Bow Out on Same Day

Two Washington nonagenarians are leaving their positions of power today -- one is doing so voluntarily, while the other is leaving this world altogether. After announcing verdicts in several controversial cases, Justice John Paul Stevens will step down from the Supreme Court after nearly 35 years. ... More >>

Nerds and the American Dream in Whiz Kids

Good Morning! Some Links With Your Coffee?

​What's going on in the world, both near and far? We'll tell you. Here's your morning update of things to talk about on Tuesday:

Jamie Oliver Thinks Bloomberg Is "Sensible," and Those Concerned About the Food Police Are "Just Whingers"

Jamie Oliver opens wide.​Jamie Oliver's exhaustively chronicled reality show, Food Revolution, finally premieres tonight. Grub Street shot the breeze with Oliver about everything from getting West Virginians to eat vegetables to his new barbecue restaurant with Adam Perry Lang. They also asked ... More >>

David Letterman Tells Jamie Oliver His "Food Revolution" Is Hopeless

David Letterman didn't let up for the duration of his interview with Naked Chef Jamie Oliver last night, when the two discussed Oliver's show, Food Revolution, in which the chef tries to change the eating habits of America's fattest town: Huntington, West Virginia. No tears were shed, but Letterma ... More >>

Late-Life and Times with Bill Withers in Still Bill

Death Crib for Cutie: 1.2 Million Cribs That Suffocate Babies Recalled

​The biblical plague begun by The Strollers That Chopped Off Fingers continues with the Cribs That Suffocate Babies. Four infants have been killed by Stork Craft cribs, the side panels of which apparently and unexpectedly drop by themselves sometimes and suffocate their inhabitants. The U.S. ... More >>

Naked Chef in America's Fattest City; Heston Blumenthal Serves Shite

​Jerry Seinfeld's wife, Jessica Seinfeld, has won her plagiarism case against author Missy Chase Lapine, who claimed that Deceptively Delicious was a ripoff of her book, The Sneaky Chef. [NY Daily News] The Greenwich Village restaurant Commerce has stopped accepting cash and will only accept ... More >>

Sriracha, Spotted Everywhere

While eating with my in-laws at a stodgy fish restaurant in suburban Massachusetts, I asked the waiter for Sriracha, almost just to see what he would say. But he nodded knowingly, and brought out a dish of the red, garlicky hot sauce. That's when you know that Sriracha has hit the mainstream. That, ... More >>

CDC: New Yorkers' Sadness Only Mediocre

The Centers for Disease Control did a phone survey which they say reveals the state-by-state sadness levels of citizens, and surprise, New York did not win, place, or show. Kentucky -- yes, the home of bourbon and jes' settin' on the porch -- is the winner, with a frequent mental distress (FMD) occ ... More >>

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Thin Ice

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Few Answers as Sago Mine Reopens

Mine Safety: Digging for Answers

Early probe of the Sago disaster raises explosive questions

Stickler's for the Rules

18 miners killed this year, and safety nominee says the laws are fine

At Mines and Stores, Dying to Work

Mine Safety a Matter of Politics

Lax enforcement from Washington is no accident

Morning Report 1/28/05
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Game On!

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A Robert Byrd in Hand Is Worth Two Bushes

Going Like 90 Against the War

Positively 4th Street

Dorothy Allison Gets Adapted; Phillips Gets Searched

Beyond the Threshold

Marriage Programs Preview What Bush Has in Store

The Plagues

NY Mirror

Girl From the North Country

Busting a Dam

Scare Yourself Shiftless

In a 24-Hour mountain bike race, life begins at 4 a.m.

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