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  • BOOK REVIEW: ‘You Are the Love of My Life’

    Never name a girl child Zelda. That's just asking for trouble because we know only one Zelda, and we all know what happened to her. And Zelda ("Zee") Mallory, the center of the novel if not its narrator-protagonist, is one mixed-up lady, although it takes a long time for that to become clear.

  • The runway at Grundy Municipal Airport is too short to comply with insurance standards for corporate jets, but federal regulators have refused to allow for an expansion without a mining permit because of the coal deposits below the land. (Debra McCown/Special to The Washington Times)

    ‘Coal mine’ stalls small Virginia airport runway’s takeoff

    Officials from two Southwestern Virginia counties say a project vital to the area's economic development has been held up for years because of a dispute with federal regulators over what is an airport and what is a coal mine.

  • Tiger Woods tees off on the first hole during the third round of the Deutsche Bank Championship PGA golf tournament at TPC Boston in Norton, Mass., Sunday, Sept., 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

    Tiger Woods tops $100 million in earnings

    Tiger Woods has become the first $100 million man on the PGA Tour.

  • Rory McIlroy, of Northern Ireland, holds the trophy after winning the Deutsche Bank Championship PGA golf tournament at TPC Boston in Norton, Mass., Monday, Sept. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

    Deutsche Bank Championship: Rory McIlroy roars back for 1-shot victory

    In a Labor Day finish filled with some of golf's biggest names, Rory McIlroy sent his stock soaring in the Deutsche Bank Championship.

  • Louis Oosthuizen (left) strung together seven birdies in his round of 8-under 63 that helped him take a three-stroke lead over Rory McIlroy (right). The final round of the Deutsche Bank Championship is Monday. (Associated Press)

    Deutsche Bank Championship: Louis Oosthuizen holds 3-shot lead

    Louis Oosthuizen combined one of the sweetest swings in golf with a putting stroke that was just as pure. That's all it took for him to race by Rory McIlroy, leave Tiger Woods behind and seize control Sunday in the Deutsche Bank Championship.

  • Rickie Fowler tees off on the fourth hole during the Pro Am round of the Deutsche Bank Championship golf tournament at TPC Boston in Norton, Mass., Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

    Deutsche Bank Championship: Rickie Fowler, Hunter Mahan have a different cup in mind

    Rickie Fowler set three goals for himself at the start of the year. He achieved his top priority in early May when he won for the first time on the PGA Tour with a birdie on the first playoff hole at Quail Hollow.

  • Tiger Woods waves to the crowd after make a birdie putt on the second hole during the first round of the Deutsche Bank Championship PGA golf tournament at TPC Boston in Norton, Mass., Friday, Aug. 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Stew Milne)

    Deutsche Bank Championship: Tiger Woods two shots back of lead

    Seung-yul Noh has birdied his last two holes for a 9-under 62 to take a two-shot lead in the Deutsche Bank Championship.

  • **FILE** Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee speaks to the the media on March 22, 2012, during a news conference in Sanford Fla., as city manager Norton Bonaparte Jr. (left) listens. (Associated Press)

    Police chief in Martin case remains under scrutiny

    While George Zimmerman is free on bail, the police chief criticized for not charging him after Trayvon Martin's slaying remains under scrutiny, as city commissioners want to wait for the results of a federal investigation to decide if they will accept Chief Bill Lee's resignation.

  • City State: Morning Roundup

    D.C. resident readies for city hall recall effort; Joint effort in Virginia to challenge Romney, Paul certifications; Perry files ballot suit in Va.; Some Va. Assembly bills appear ghostwritten; Norton calls for full audit of Union Station; Va. merchants push for Amazon to pay state sales tax; More speed cameras planned for Prince George's; Maryland lawmaker wants to ban Internet 'sweepstakes' gambling.

  • BOOK REVIEW: 'Caravaggio'

    His real name was Michelangelo Merisi. But the world knows him as Caravaggio, after the name of the Lombard town where he was born in 1571. He is one of Europe's great painters, ranked among Titian, Goya, Degas and Picasso, and certainly one of the most influential, both in his own time and in our own.

  • (Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times)

    Wal-Mart music, against the wind

    I spent my Black Friday at the Wal-Mart in Norton, Va.

  • Charlie Weyauvanna plays in sea foam late on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011, as a large Bering Sea storm intensifies in Nome, Alaska. (AP Photo/Anchorage Daily News, Peggy Fagerstrom)

    Snow, hurricane-force winds batter Alaskan coast

    Packing hurricane-force winds, an Alaskan storm of "epic proportions" slammed into coastal communities, sending some residents fleeing to higher ground as it tore roofs from homes and knocked out power.

  • BOOK REVIEW: 'Gun Fight'

    Anti-gun-rights books are common enough. But they never quite resonate with the public because they avoid the well-documented history. To rewrite history in this way, they fail to acknowledge that "militia," as defined in early dictionaries, included all able-bodied males; they also ignore the fact that the phrase "the people," as it is used in other parts of the U.S. Constitution, is always used in the context of "we the people."

  • Sports Briefs

    Not even cancer can keep former NFL coach Buddy Ryan from being in the stands when his twin sons coach against each other Sunday night in the prime-time opener between the Dallas Cowboys and New York Jets.

  • BOOK REVIEW: 'Nica's Dream'

    Late at night in Manhattan many years ago, while I was stopped at a light, a Rolls-Royce pulled up in the right lane. My friend, an actor and jazz drummer who normally was the personification of cool, almost lost his. "Oh my! It's the Baroness and Monk!" he exclaimed.

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