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Karl Fleming, a former Newsweek reporter who helped draw national attention to the civil rights movement in the 1960s — and risked his life covering it with perceptive stories about its major figures and the inequalities that fueled it —...

TUSCALOOSA, Alabama -- Police say a man who opened fire outside a popular college hangout surrendered without incident at a FedEx store. "He walked in and he made eye contact and he said, 'Yep that's me. I'm the one that shot the people in Tuscaloosa...

George A. Miller, an iconoclastic psychologist who played a crucial role in shifting his field from the study of behaviors to the direct examination of thought processes, died July 22 at his home in Plainsboro, N.J. He was 92 and died of complications...

Two days before the deadline to approve it's budget, the Waynesboro School Board Friday night approved a $50.7 million spending plan for 2012-13 that includes a 1-mill real-estate tax increase. The increase brings the district’s mill rate to 86.5....

The Smithsburg Lions Club honored two 2012 graduates with scholarships May 23 at Mountain Gate Restaurant in Waynesboro, Pa. Club President Jeff Weaver introduced the recipients and their families to the audience and presented the scholarships.  The...

Patrick Henry Community College in Martinsville has named its successor to President Max Wingett. The school announced Tuesday that Angeline Godwin will become the school's third president, effective July 1. Wingett is retiring after serving as the...

As the sea of 190 graduates made its way to Kaley Field for their commencement Saturday, Megan Misiak stood out as the embodiment of strength and perseverance in Greencastle-Antrim Senior High School’s Class of 2012. With the look of...

Dr. Solbert "Sol" Permutt, a retired physiologist and teacher who helped expand the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine's division of pulmonary and critical care medicine, died of esophageal cancer May 23 at Roland Park Place. The longtime Mount...

The University of Oregon marching band is no stranger to prime-time shows — its student musicians have accompanied their football team to a series of back-to-back bowl appearances, including the Bowl Championship Series title game last year. But...

WASHINGTON — Nicholas Katzenbach, the Kennedy administration lawyer who faced down Gov. George Wallace to enroll the first black students at the University of Alabama and who helped write the landmark civil rights and voting rights acts of the...

Thirty years ago, they were virtually unheard of. Now, for most professional athletes, particularly golfers, having a sports psychologist or mental coach is as important as the driver or putter that's in their bags. Greg Ortman is well known locally...

Gene Bartow, the successor to John Wooden as UCLA basketball coach who became the architect of a new and successful athletics program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, died Tuesday evening. He was 81. Bartow, who was diagnosed with stomach...