Bigfoot Legends NY | radioNOVO News WV News Roundup for July 1, 2026

Good morning. Turning to news from across the Mountain State.The United States Supreme Court has issued a landmark ruling upholding West Virginia’s law barring athletes born male from competing on girls' sports teams. In a six-to-three decision, the justices ruled that educational institutions maintain the legal right under Title IX to define athletic eligibility based strictly on biological sex. State Attorney General J-B McCuskey praised the decision as a monumental victory for female sports across the state. The legal battle originally began following a twenty-twenty-one constitutional challenge brought on behalf of Bridgeport teenager Becky Pepper-Jackson, who had continued to compete in track events while the case worked its way through the federal court system.Meanwhile, a dangerous multi-day heat wave has settled directly over the region, prompting the National Weather Service to issue widespread Heat Advisories and Extreme Heat Warnings across the state. Meteorological officials warn that a punishing dome of high pressure is bringing a mix of intense humidity and afternoon temperatures climbing into the upper nineties. Forecasters warn that the local heat index could safely surpass one hundred five degrees by Thursday afternoon, prompting emergency management officials to open multiple cooling centers and urge residents to check in on their vulnerable neighbors.In gaming news, the West Virginia Lottery Commission held an emergency meeting to grant a last-minute gaming license renewal for the historic Greenbrier Resort casino, narrowly avoiding a mandatory midnight shutdown. State regulators previously delayed the standard five-year renewal due to the resort failing to supply mandatory audited financial statements on time, a delay company attorneys blamed on widespread staffing turnover in their accounting department. While the casino remains highly profitable, state officials have placed the facility on an official financial watch list requiring mandatory quarterly reporting due to the resort's overall liabilities swelling to two hundred sixty million dollars.And a wave of persistent public service disruptions has triggered an intervention by local lawmakers in the Cheat Lake area. Following reports that hundreds of households went over two weeks without any local trash collection, representatives confirmed that the private utility company is actively flying in out-of-state crews to catch up on delayed neighborhood routes.For more news from across the state, download the radioNOVO app. I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News.