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Miners with knee pads in West Virginia, March 1938.Photograph by B. Anthony Stewart,

The Washington Times took home 14 awards from the Virginia Press Association in reporting, photography, illustration and multimedia categories, including a best-in-show recognition for investigative reporting on the hiring practices of the District ...

Savvy shopper: Arm yourself with the ACCC Shopper app. Photo: Virginia Star Walk Safely to School Day By Electronic Network Systems, walk.com.auFor Android, iPhoneGet it Google Play, iTunesCost free Don't kids just walk any more? Apparently not, ...

The Knife on stage at Primavera Sound in Barcelona last night. Photograph: Burak Cingi/Redferns/ It seems that there are two types of Kurt Vile in each set. There's the solo Vile, a gentle soul, who plays the guitar and sings songs in a voice that ...

The wedding dress Elizabeth Taylor wore for the first of her many marriages is to go under the hammer at Christie's next month. The marriage itself, though, lasted only eight months. The late Hollywood diva married hotelier Conrad Hilton on 6 May, ...

United States Attorney General Eric Holder's recent admission that the government killed four Americans in different drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan has brought the debate over the killing birds back to the fore. US President Barack Obama on Thursday defended the use of drones, saying the drones "have saved lives" by eliminating terrorists, and are a legal part of a "just war" against terror outfits. These unmanned drones, used both for reconnaissance and attack operations across the ...

Catherine B. McCormick, a Pittsburgh-born market research executive who moved around the country helping banks and other clients map out their strategies, died May 19 at Canterbury Place in Lawrenceville. She was 63. The cause of death was cancer, ...

Frederick J. Doyle, a photographic mapping specialist whose work included space photography for NASA, photo reconnaissance from spy satellites and high-resolution photographs of the Earths surface from outer space, died April 17 at his home in ...

Students from Longwood University are at Yellowstone National Park on an annual academic pilgrimage to be citizen leaders. An online multimedia journal lets anyone follow their adventure. Follow the Adventure Online at ...