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Obama hopes Clinton can fix what he could not JOSH LEDERMAN

ASSOCIATED PRESS Eight years ago, Barack Obama cast himself as the rare candidate who could transcend the polarizing “politics of the past” and bridge divides that had left Washington barely functioning for years. Ultimately, the gulf was too wide — if anything, the political climate in the United States worsened.

So, standing before the last, biggest audience he has left, Obama on Wednesday found a successor to carry forward the hopes and aspirations that once rallied millions to his side.

“It can be frustrating, this business of democracy. Trust me, I know,” Obama told an adoring audience as he extolled Hillary Clinton for president.

“Hillary knows, too.”

While Obama gushed over his former rival and possible successor, his

own credentials to make that argument seemed weakened by the long list of goals he tried unsuccessfully to fulfill. The mere fact that the country is considering electing Donald Trump — Obama’s opposite in so many ways — is a stark reminder that many Americans reject his approach.

Though Obama pulled the U.S. out of recession doldrums, many Americans struggling financially feel left behind.

While he secured a sweeping health overhaul and economic reforms that reshaped the American economy, the same gridlock he promised to break through stopped him from delivering new laws and policies to fix immigration, tighten gun restrictions and reduce the role of money in politics.

Those are the same priorities that Clinton is putting at the core of her own campaign. The question for

voters is whether she can do what Obama could not.

In front of thousands of die-hard, cheering Democrats, Obama could do no wrong. But heading into the fall, it’s unclear how his depiction of the country will be received by the broader voting public.

“By so many measures, our country is stronger and more prosperous than it was when we started,” Obama said. “And through every victory and every setback, I’ve insisted that change is never easy, and never quick — that we wouldn’t meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency or even in one lifetime.”

Just 19 percent of Americans said the country is heading in the right direction in an AP-GfK poll this month, a significant drop from the 39 percent who felt that way a year and a half earlier. Almost 4 in 5 voters feel the country is moving in the wrong direction this month, compared

to 3 in 5 in early 2015.

Yet like it or not, Obama’s legacy is now Clinton’s. His former secretary of state, Clinton has embraced Obama’s record and most of his policies as her own.

And her legacy is his. Should Clinton lose and Trump follow through on his promises, much of what Obama built as president could be unraveled.

With only a few months left in office, Obama is now taking stock of what the Democratic Party looks like after his two terms.

Obama’s party is better positioned than ever before to appeal to minority and women voters who increasingly drive the outcome of U.S. elections an advantage Democrats put on display this week by highlighting black, Hispanic, female and LGBT Democrats at the convention.

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President Barack Obama and Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton wave to delegates after President Obama’s speech during the third day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia Wednesday.

The story continues for the Boy Who Lived THE PARTHENON The Marshall University Bookstore will host a pre-order launch party for the release the most recent installment of J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter” book series in its store July 30 at 11 p.m.

“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” the eighth book in the series, follows the beloved wizard Harry Potter in his daily grind as a Ministry of Magic employee— 19 years after the Battle of Hogwarts —and his young son Albus Severus Potter, who struggles

coming to terms with his father’s legacy.

Courtney Vance-Joseph, general merchandise manager, said she was looking forward to carrying on the tradition of pre-sale parties for the series.

“With every Harry Potter book release, we’ve done some activities and had pre-sales on the books,” Vance-Joseph said. “All the larger stores are doing parties this year. It’s just something all our stores do.”

Vance-Joseph said she prepared three photo

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booths and various activities for those who attended.

“It’s just something fun for us to do and Harry Potter fans can come together and hang out with photo booths,” she said.

“I felt like we didn’t need to make it the entire evening because it’s summer time, but I’m still pleased and happy with the response we’re getting leading up to the release.”

Vance-Joseph said the public response to the Facebook event was overwhelming: by Thursday afternoon, 19 local fans

had registered they were attending. The event also received nearly 200 shares.

“We’re going to have a costume contests with shirts and robes, and we’ll pick a winner and the winner gets a prize,” Vance-Joseph said. “We have coloring sheets and different items from Scholastic and some Bertie Botts’ jelly beans so we can guess the flavors.

I’m excited.”

Books may be pre-ordered online or in-store at the bookstore while supplies last.

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DNC | CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE On the other hand, his party’s argument to white men who still make up 1 in 3 voters in presidential elections appears to have gotten muddled along the way, a trend that polls show has deepened on his watch. Vice President Joe Biden said this week that Democrats have done the right thing for them, but added, “The Democratic Party overall hasn’t spoken enough to those voters.”

For years, Democratic leaders have griped privately that Obama neglected the sometimes tedious work of building up his party and keeping it viable for the next election. This week, after the breach of Democratic National Committee emails led to the party chairwoman’s ouster, the White House rushed

to distance itself from the party’s political organization, where many of Obama’s staffers once worked.

What may be Obama’s most significant contribution to his party is the enduring power of his political brand. As he took the stage in Philadelphia, there were throwbacks to his own campaign eight years earlier, from the chants of “Yes we can” to the “Obama” signs that bobbed up and down in the crowd in an undulating sea of blue.

Democrats hope that Obama nostalgia will animate voters over the next three months as Obama clears much of his schedule to campaign for Clinton and other Democrats across the U.S. “Tonight, I ask you to do for Hillary Clinton what you did for me,” he said.

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Delegates cheer as Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton appears on the screen during the second day session of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia Tuesday.

The DNC in review:

Clinton becomes official presidential nominee, DNC chairwoman resigns

By TOM JENKINS

FOR THE PARTHENON In a week that began as unpredictable as the election, the Democratic Party faced controversy that would alienate and frustrate many supporters of Vermont Senator and former presidential contender Bernie Sanders at this year’s Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

DNC chairwomen Debbie Wasserman Schultz chose to resign from her position Sunday following Wiki Leaks which released revealing, private emails from January 2015 through May 2016.

The emails consisted of conversations between DNC

staffers and implicated there was a party bias towards the Clinton campaign.

Marybeth Beller, Ph.D. and political science program director at Marshall University, said the recent events were unfortunate, but speculated little change in the upcoming polls.

“I don’t think this will cripple the Clinton campaign… while the emails under the direction of Wasserman Schultz did benefit Clinton, they actually are distinct from the Clinton campaign,” said Beller.

On the first day of the convention, Sanders supporters made obvious efforts to hold signs that

read “E-MAILS,” aimed toward Wasserman Schultz.

On Monday, Sen. Sanders addressed his supporters by pleading to them to understand “the importance” of this election.

He attempted to pull the party closer together Tuesday, by encouraging voters to rally around the Clinton campaign.

The week continued with speeches delivered by various members of civil rights groups, such as the “Black Lives Matter” movement, with celebrities like Elizabeth Banks and Lena Dunham.

First Lady Michelle Obama, former President Bill Clinton,

were publicly promising to remain neutral during the primary campaign.

Trump’s insistence that his invitation to Russia wasn’t serious was backed up by his campaign chairman. “He was making a sarcastic point,” Paul Manafort said Wednesday on Fox News’ “The Kelly File.”

Democrats and some Republicans quickly condemned Trump’s remarks.

The Clinton campaign called Trump’s statement the “first time that a major presidential candidate has actively encouraged a foreign power to conduct espionage against a political opponent.”

At the convention, Leon Panetta, former CIA director and defense secretary, said Trump is “asking a U.S. adversary to engage in hacking or intelligence efforts against the United States of America to affect an election.”

Trump’s running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, warned of “serious consequences” if Russia interfered in the election. And Brendan

Buck, a spokesman for Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan said bluntly: “Russia is a global menace led by a devious thug. Putin should stay out of this election.”

The reality TV star turned presidential contender detonated the controversy Wednesday when he said, “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing.”

Trump was referencing emails on Clinton’s private server that she said she deleted, saying they were private, before turning other messages over to the State Department.

The Justice Department declined to prosecute Clinton over her email practices. But FBI Director James Comey called her “extremely careless” in handling classified information as President Barack Obama’s secretary of state.

The Associated Press, which discovered the basement server’s existence in March 2015, previously

Sen. Bernie Sanders and President Barack Obama all rallied for Clinton, providing unique endorsements and pulling political weight toward her campaign.

Republican Party nominee Donald Trump, however, has received few endorsements from vital Republican party members, including Sen. Ted Cruz, former presidential candidate Mitt Romney, and the entire Bush family.

With both Democrat and Republican nominees solidified, the campaigns will move foward to the general elections in November.

Tom Jenkins can be contacted at jenkins194@ marshall.edu.

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New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton center works to set wooden borders during the team’s community park clean efforts before the start of the teams NFL football training camp in W. Va. Wednesday.

Saints aid flood recovery near W.Va. training camp ASSOCIATED PRESS The New Orleans Saints have spent much of their first full day in West Virginia helping the community where they’re opening training camp recover from disastrous flooding.

Much of the Saints’ efforts were focused on a park where there are playing fields, public tennis and basketball courts, and a playground.

Right tackle Zach Strief says, “If any organization understands

what it means to clean up from a natural disaster,” it’s the Saints, who played a significant role in helping New Orleans recover after Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005.

The Saints are in their third year holding training camp at the Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs. They’re slated to start practicing Thursday.

Flooding in late June killed 23 people in West Virginia, including 15 in Greenbrier County, while damaging numerous structures.

Trump: Comments about Russia, Clinton emails were sarcastic

By ERIC TUCKER and JACK GILLUM

ASSOCIATED PRESS Donald Trump says he was using sarcasm when he prodded Russia to unearth Hillary Clinton’s missing emails. But Democrats aren’t likely to let the Republican presidential nominee’s extraordinary comments simply fade away.

“Of course I’m being sarcastic,” Trump said Thursday on Fox News’ “Fox and Friends,” a day after his remarks at a news conference ignited fierce debate over hacking and his urging of a global adversary to meddle in American politics.

Trump’s invitation to Russia to find and reveal emails by his rival for the White House came on the third day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

It also all but overshadowed an embarrassing leak of different hacked emails, these from the Democratic National Committee, showing that party staffers supported Clinton over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders when they

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reported that it was connected to the internet in ways that made it more vulnerable to hackers. The FBI concluded it was possible hackers broke into her server but found no direct evidence.

A Trump campaign communications adviser, Jason Miller, said on Twitter that Trump never urged or invited Russia to hack Clinton’s emails. Instead, he said, Trump was “clearly saying” that if Russia or anyone else already had Clinton’s deleted emails they should share them with the FBI. Trump never mentioned the FBI in his comments.

The flap over Clinton’s emails came after Obama

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identified Russia as almost certainly responsible for hacking the Democratic National Committee in a different case.

WikiLeaks published on its website last week more than 19,000 internal emails stolen from the DNC earlier this year. The head of the DNC, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, resigned over the disclosures.

Obama traditionally avoids commenting on active FBI investigations, but told NBC News on Tuesday that outside experts have blamed Russia for the leak. Obama also appeared to embrace the notion that President Vladimir Putin might have been responsible because of what

he described as Trump’s affinity for Putin. Trump said he has no relationship with Putin.

Trump cast doubt on whether Russia was behind that hack. He said blaming Russia was deflecting attention from the embarrassing material in the emails.

“Russia has no respect for our country, if it is Russia,” Trump said. “It could be China. It could be someone sitting in his bedroom. It’s probably not Russia. Nobody knows if it’s Russia.”

In Moscow on Wednesday, Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said Russia would never interfere in another country’s election.

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New Orleans Saints open training camp in White Sulphur Springs

By JAKE GRIFFITH

THE PARTHENON WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS — The New Orleans Saints have returned to the Mountain State for year 3 of training camp at Jim Justice’s Greenbrier Resort.

Coming off a disappointing 7-9 season last year, head coach Sean Payton and the rest of the team looked to start the year off on the right foot, as the Saints hope to return to the playoffs for the first time in three seasons.

On an unusually cool day in Greenbrier County, New Orleans officially kicked-off its 2016 campaign. Led by quarterback Drew Brees, the offense moved up and down the field with relative ease, as key players such as CJ Spiller and Brandin Cook returned to the fold from injury, wowing fans in attendance with flashy jukes and high speeds.

Newly added tight end Coby Fleener also dazzled in his first appearance in a Saints uniform.

Fleener, who was traded by the Indianapolis Colts earlier this offseason, looks to fill a very large gap left by the absence of All-Pro tight end Jimmy Graham, a former favorite target of the Saints starting quarterback.

Defense was also a key point of today’s practice. Coming off a season where New Orleans’ defense finished dead last in NFL defensive rankings, new defensive coordinator Dennis Allen is looking to shed the “worst defense ever” monicker and return the Black and Gold to the glory days. To do that, Allen re-tooled the front seven this offseason, signing former

St. Louis Rams defensive lineman Nick Fairley and linebacker James Laurinaitis. New Orleans also drafted safety Vonn Bell out of Ohio State University.

Bell is one of several players looking to provide a spark on defense this coming season, something he showed he is capable of Thursday.

On one of the opening drives of 7-on-7 drills, Bell picked off Brees’ pass attempt to fellow Buckeye alum Michael Thomas.

After practice, Brees was asked about Bell’s interception, a question the elicited a fake laugh from Brees.

“Well, good for him,” the 40-year old quarterback said. “It won’t happen again, though.”

While Bell’s pick may have been the highlight of the day, Thursday’s training camp was overshadowed by the Brees contract situation.

Currently, he and the Saints front office are locked in a dispute over a possible extension of Brees’ contract. After this coming season, the former-San Diego Charger could hit the free agent market for the first time since joining New Orleans.

Even players not named Drew Brees were questioned about the contract dispute.

Center Max Unger, a close friend of the quarterback, was able to provide some insight into how the team views the ordeal.

“It’s the business side of football,” said Unger.

“We all understand it.”

Even with the contract dispute looming over the Greenbrier Performance Center, Cameron Jordan, Saints defensive lineman, didn’t let that

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New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees (9) talks with head coach Sean Payton during the NFL football teams training camp in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., Thursday, July 28, 2016. stop him from staying positive.

“There was a lot of energy out there today,” said Jordan. “People were flying around. Everyone was great.”

New Orleans will take the field again Friday in another non-padded practice, starting

at 9:30 am. In the coming weeks, the Saints will travel to Foxborough, Ma. and Houston, Texas for joint practices with the Patriots and Texans respectively.

Jake Griffith can be contacted at griffith142@marshall.edu.

Football Kickoff 2016

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Head Coach Jeff Brohm

Head Coach Skip Holtz

Head Coach Rick Stockstill

Head Coach Doc Holliday

On establishing expectations at Marshall University: “Back in the 90’s, late 90’s, Mar“We learned from all our mentors shall was the winningest team in and your experiences in life. I think college football. When I took the job, just being a head coach, there’s things we wanted to get back to being where you learn that you don’t learn as an expectations and standards were assistant coach, and I think that’s one extremely high, and now we’ve got of the great things that Alcorn State them there. We’ve had three seasons in a row with 10-plus wins. That’s a that happened, to go through that standard we expect, but we know a lot for four years we were a team very work goes into it. What’s happened similar to where we were two to three the last three years has no bearing at years ago. We were at the bottom of all with what happens this season.” the conference and we fought our On being one of five teams with way up to be the conference champs. three straight 10+ win seasons: That’s something I love about this “Well we take great pride in that. I mean that’s again that’s football team - these players three what we expect to do Marshall. years ago it was zero, then one win, Expectations are extremely high, then three wins, then nine wins. This not only from our fan base and our football team has been battling and I community, but also our football think it’s just a blessing to be a part team. But we also know that you of that and our goal like every go know you can’t get complacent. team’s goal is to finish that journey.”

Just because you’ve done that in the past, you get complacent that’s not gonna happen in the future.

On the type of players he preferes to coach: So we try to go to work every day “I like players who are more concerned with letters than numbers, and give me to get better as a football team, as a player that wants a “W” instead of you know 4,000 yards passing or you know 25 the staff and every day we just go sacks whatever, you know and that’s what those guys are they want letters they aren’t to work to try to do it again.” concerned about numbers.”

On winning C-USA title last year: “It was an exciting journey for us.

It’s something that we work extremely hard at and our players had a great attitude all year. They played with a chip on their shoulder and really we just took it week by week and we tried to get a win and move on to the next one. Our players bought into that and we were able to maintain consistency and even at the end of the year, we were able to come back down twice in two important games and find a way to win. So that shows that the character and the makeup of our team, but really was proud of the year we had.”

On how coaching staff sets goals for each season: “We set goals as we get into camp.

We don’t just sit down every year and say ‘here are the goals.’ We’ll talk a little bit more with our leadership committee, our seniors and our upperclassmen about what we want to do and accomplish. As we get through camp and get a little bit better an idea of who we are, then we’ll sit down and try to set some realistic goals for our football team.

But when you talk the standards been set, by having the opportunity to compete for division championships, conference championships and win two bowl games the past two years, I think the bar has been set pretty high. I know when we sit down and talk about all these things, these football players are going to have some lofty goals in mind for this team. I’m excited to start accomplishing them this fall.”

Head Coach Jay Hopson

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Adventure seeking Marshall graduate takes teaching job in Saudi Arabia

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By KARIMA NEGHMOUCHE

THE PARTHENON After receiving her B.A. in English Literature from Marshall University, Kendra Mohammed realized it was time for her to take the next step in her life—even though she wasn’t exactly sure what that next step was.

“On my graduation day I felt that there were no limits anymore. I’m young, I’m dangerously adventurous, I have finally obtained a piece of paper saying that I’m educated, so I can do anything,” Mohammed said. “The next morning I

proceeded to wake up, watch Garfield on Cartoon Network, and stuff my face with a tin of Christmas cookies.”

Mohammed searched for jobs all over the area, and could not seem to find any options that fulfilled her desire for adventure—until she received a job offer in Saudi Arabia.

“Saudi offered me a job, and I jumped on the offer. The relaxed environment was a lot better than I expected it to be.

Teaching in America is very stressful, but in Saudi, everyone’s relaxed attitude makes

the job fun,” Mohammed said.

Although Mohammed enjoyed teaching and adapting to the environment, she said the divide between men and women in the country, especially in the educational aspect, was worse than she expected.

“The men’s branch had a nice, new university, and the females had a really run-down facility,” Mohammed said.

“Every-time it rained, our electricity went out. One time, my students had to take an exam in a cold building without electricity in the middle of winter.

When we asked the men’s side for permission to delay it they refused, stating the men had no reason to cancel… Universities are a lot different there."

Mohammed also said that she was faced with a lot of resistance before she went to travel overseas for the first time in Kuwait.

“I live in West Virginia, a state plagued by ignorance and an unwillingness to change and accept the different,” Mohammed said.

Mohammed was harassed for her decision by both strangers and her loved ones,

and has an entire article on her blog on the ridiculous things people said to her before she left for her overseas travels.

“A former friend told me that she was removing herself from my life because she couldn’t deal with the pain of losing me because I was 100% going to get murdered when I went to Afghanistan,” Mohammed said. “For the record, Kuwait and Afghanistan are two separate countries. I still haven’t gone to Afghanistan, and I have no intention of going.”

Mohammed said one of the biggest questions she’s faced with by others is, “Why Saudi Arabia?”

“Every time I get asked this, there is a part of me that wants to say, 'Why not Saudi Arabia?' and prance away like a gazelle,” Mohammed said.

“In reality it is a pretty good question. Why would an independent girl from the heart of Appalachia choose to pack up and move to not only one of the hottest regions of the world, but a place that would ban her from driving?”

Her reasons included— but were not limited to— the great pay, her love for the Middle East, the fact she’s Muslim and the fact that they hired her.

Mohammed just recently took a vacation in the United States, and said it was a very liberating experience, and she was able to do all the regular things she used to do that she can no longer do in a Middle Eastern country: drive, watch a movie in a cinema and go out to eat in a restaurant.

“Now that I’m back in Buraidah I feel like I am suffocating,” Mohammed said. “I have a few new things that will keep me entertained inside my homeadult coloring books, stronger Wi-Fi connection, an oven.. but it will never replace the freedom and independence I have in Western countries.”

Mohammed plans on staying in the Middle East until her husband finishes his residency, and she recently took a job in Riyadh.

Mohammed’s journey, which she refers to on her blog as “The adventures of an American expat in Saudia Arabia,” can be followed on her website,. www.kendrainksa. com.

Karima Neghmouche can be contacted at neghmouche2@marshall.edu.

Local woman battles cancer and for title of Mrs. West Virginia All-Star United States

By KARIMA NEGHMOUCHE

THE PARTHENON Sarah White was diagnosed with triple negative, stage two cancer in May 2013, six months after her son Benjamin was born.

White had a double mastectomy with reconstruction, five months of chemotherapy and twenty-eight treatments of radiation. In October 2015, White was diagnosed with a recurrence, this time, unfortunately, it had moved to her lung and is now stage four.

White said the news of her cancer diagnosis was even harder to hear the second time around.

“My thoughts at that exact moment of being rediagnosed were different than my first,” White said. “I was over-whelmed the first time, and ready to fight, but knowing the statistics with triple negative breast cancer, the second diagnosis completely scared me.”

White said one of her first thoughts was that she wouldn’t live to see 40.

“It took several weeks to change my life. I fell into a depression because I thought I wouldn’t see my kids grow up, or be able to grow old with my husband. Depression can set in quickly,” White said.

White then realized she needed something other than her diagnosis to focus on, and decided to get involved with pageants.

“My friend Angela was Mrs. Ohio All-Star United States 2014. She saw me in the slump I was in after being diagnosed and said I needed something to focus on. She recommended the pageant, so I went for it and snowballed it from there,” White said.

Her snowballing approach worked, because White won the Mrs. West Virginia AllStar 2016 United States pageant.

This isn’t the first time White has jumped at a crazy opportunity. She participated in a Dancing with the Stars fundraiser by Ebenezer Medical outreach in 2013.

“Unfortunately, I was going through treatment in 2013, so I was bald… but that did not stop me! I threw off my wig at the end of the routine,” White said. “I have danced and been on stage since I was three so I have never been scared being in the public eye.”

White said not much scares her, and her only fear is not seeing her children grow up.

“Does cancer scare me?

Yes, it does. But, I try to find the humor in the bad,” White said.

White said that God and her family get her through the tough times.

“I have learned from each experience that you learn who your true friends and family are. Always rely on God because he can work miracles, and always believe in yourself. No matter what you are going through, cancer, death in the family, drugs, addiction, loss of a job, you can always fight back with joy. That’s what I do; fight back with joy,”

White said.

White said if she could give advice to others battling cancer, that she would not sugarcoat anything.

“That’s not what they need,” White said. “They need to know the truth and what’s ahead.”

White said during her pageant journey she is most excited about seeing Savannah, Georgia for Nationals this week and meeting all of the contestants. She is hopeful to bring home the title of Mrs. All-Star United States.

Karima Neghmouche can be contacted at neghmouche2@marshall.edu.

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Sarah White will be competing for the title of Mrs. West Virginia All-Star United States. White was diagnosed with breast cancer for the second time in 2015 that had spread to her lung. Despite the circumstances at hand, White said she "fights back with joy" when faced with hardships.

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