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On Anniversary of Coal Mine Disaster, Families Still Waiting for Answers
By Laura Parker - AOL NewsAs a minister in Appalachian coal country, the Rev. Dennis Sparks knows more than he wants to about grief. He serves as executive director of the West Virginia Council of Churches and has consoled countless families of coal miners who've lost husbands, fathers and brothers in an industry that annually kills 30 to 40 miners and injures hundreds more every year. Sparks counseled families after the mine disaster in Sago, W.Va., claimed a dozen men in 2006, and he was there for the long wait when an explosion one year ago today at the Upper Big Branch mine killed 29 miners and seriously injured ...
April Could Shower Some of US With More Snow
By Paul Yeager - AOL NewsLate-season snow has been fairly common from the western mountains to parts of the East Coast this year, and a persistent weather pattern of cooler-than-average temperatures and an active storm track means that more of the same is likely in the coming weeks. In other words, it might be April snow -- not showers -- that brings May flowers for some of us. A couple of late-season snow producers will be on the weather map this week alone, with the greatest threat being in interior parts of the mid-Atlantic and Northeast from Thursday night through Friday. A storm moving northward through this ...
Last WWI Vet Buckles Will Lie in Basement at Arlington, Not Capitol Rotunda
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The last American doughboy from World War I will lie in honor in a basement chapel of the amphitheater of Arlington National Cemetery -- not the U.S. Capitol rotunda -- and then be interred on Tuesday. In a brief announcement, the cemetery said Army Cpl. Frank Buckles, who died at 110 on Feb. 27, will be "memorialized" and will "lie in honor" at Arlington's Memorial Amphitheater Chapel from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m. for the public to pay their last respects. There is no ceremony planned in the amphitheater, even though congressional leaders said they had asked the Pentagon to allow a ...
Amid Buckles Ruckus, Sgt. York's Grandson Says Family Turned Down Capitol Rotunda
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- In stark contrast to the wishes of the last American World War I veteran, the family of one of the most highly decorated soldiers of that conflict turned down offers to have Sgt. Alvin York's body lie in the U.S. Capitol and be buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Word leaked Thursday that House and Senate leaders had turned down a request from West Virginia lawmakers that the body of Frank Buckles lie in the Capitol Rotunda. Buckles died Sunday at the age of 110. U.S. Army / AP Sgt. Alvin York, shown in a 1919 photo, was arguably the most famous soldier of World ...
Frank Buckles, Last Living US WWI Vet, Dies at 110
By not in system - AOL NewsMORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- Frank Buckles was repeatedly rejected by military recruiters and got into uniform at 16 after lying about his age. He would later become the last surviving U.S. veteran of World War I. Buckles, who also survived being a civilian POW in the Philippines in World War II, died of natural causes Sunday at his home in Charles Town, biographer and family spokesman David DeJonge said. He was 110. Getty Images / AP At left is Frank Buckles, then 107, after receiving the French Legion d'Honneur in 2008 during an award ceremony at the French Embassy in Washington. At ...
Gunman Dead After Killing 1 US Marshal, Wounding 2 Others
By Lisa Flam - AOL NewsA man opened fire on authorities trying to serve a warrant in West Virginia this morning, fatally wounding one deputy U.S. marshal and injuring two others before being shot dead by law enforcement officials, authorities said. Several marshals went to the home in Elkins around 8:30 a.m. to serve a warrant for the arrest of Charles Smith, 50, who was wanted on drug charges, the U.S. Marshals Service said. U.S. Marshals Service Deputy U.S. Marshal Derek Hotsinpiller, who was killed Wednesday in the line of duty, had worked for the U.S. Marshals Service for a little over a ...
Major Winter Storm Moves Up East Coast
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW YORK -- Schools closed, governments sent workers home early and planes were grounded Wednesday in an all-too-familiar routine along the East Coast as another snowstorm swept over a region already beaten down by a winter not even half over. "I fell three times trying to get off the steps," commuter Elliott Self said after leaving an elevated train in Philadelphia. "I just want the snow to stop. I want the sun again. I want to feel just a little bit of warmth." Millions of people got that oh-no-not-again feeling as the wet and sloppy storm engulfed the Northeast, where snowbanks in some ...
School Closings From Boston to Virginia Ahead of Snow 'Emergency'
By David Knowles - AOL NewsNo doubt about it, Wednesday will be yet another snow day. Officials in several states are facing down the latest major snowstorm of the season and have ordered schools closed in several states along the East Coast. Schools in several counties in Virginia, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, West Virginia, New Hampshire and Massachusetts have canceled classes as the winter nor'easter prepared to dump several inches across a wide swath of the country. As the storm has pushed eastward, schools have been closed in Alabama, Georgia, Missouri, Tennessee, Kentucky, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, ...
By the Numbers: 10 Random Facts From Statistical Abstract of the US
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- New Hampshire has the smallest percentage of poor people of any state, and West Virginia does the best job of raking in lottery revenue. Those are just two of the superlatives scattered inside the federal government's brand-new compendium of information -- both vital and trivial -- released today in the form of the 130th edition of the Statistical Abstract of the United States. This year's abstract, published by the Census Bureau, contains 1,407 tables of the latest available social, political and economic facts about the nation and the world. New this year: statistics on U.S. ...
Our Year of Zombie Politics
By James Grady - Politics DailyWait: Even in politics, 2010 was the year of zombies? Sure, the hot new wonky tome "Zombie Economics" tells how "dead" economic theories walk among us to shape our paychecks, and sure, zombies lumber out of our TVs almost no matter what channel we click to, and sure, my fellow fantasy prose-slingers are flinging new novels about the undead at the dust of Stephen King and George Romero, but zombies as a metaphor for 2010's politics? Come on! What happened to vampires? Vampires are a great political metaphor! Bloodsuckers. Say no more. But zombies? Who are they in America's 2010 ...
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