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Bipartisan legislation was introduced Monday to reverse the staffing cuts at a program that helps provide $4.1 billion in energy assistance to more than 6.7 million low-income households, 40% of which ...

MOREHEAD, Ky. — The summer after ninth grade, Zoey Griffith found herself in an unfamiliar setting: a dorm on the Morehead State University campus. There, she'd spend the months before her sophomore ...