PHOTO ESSAY On the move
Michael Cole is hard to keep up with.
The 46-year-old is constantly moving from one activity to another. Based on his agenda, it is hard to imagine that he is mentally disabled.
Cole’s busy routine that allows him to sustain a fulfilling and satisfying life begins every morning with breakfast, a cup of coffee and the morning news.
STAFFORD — Tracy Cloninger found it oddly amusing that it all came down to the balance beam. Amusing in a scared out of her wits kind of way. “It was me and the beam,” Cloninger said, marveling at the concept. If someone had told her two months ago that winning a Northwest Region championship would…
Click here for audio interviews with survivors of Beirut bombing, Oct. 23, 1983. Whenever he was out at sea, Staff Sgt. Mike Leiphart liked to test his men’s navigational skills. “What direction are we sailing in?” he asked the Marines in his platoon. By checking the time on their watches against the sun’s position on…
WASHINGTON — The government yesterday announced the arrests of 103 alleged members of MS-13, a street gang rooted in Central America where members have been known to behead enemies and attack with grenades and machetes.
OCCOQUAN — Many know that the town of Occoquan is historic. Fewer people, however, probably could pinpoint specific sites and explain why they are. Occoquan officials took steps last week to make that information more readily available to the public when they erected six historic markers throughout the town. “Occoquan is a historic town but…
Can you believe that the Presidential primary cycle is in high gear almost two years before the 2004 elections? It seems that year after year the election cycle comes earlier and earlier. With a war going on, a bad economy and everything else going on around the world, it looks like the news cycle will…
A power outage at the Virginia Beach courthouse has delayed the trial of sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad for a day. A faulty underground cable leading to a transformer failed, damaging the transformer, Dominion Virginia Power spokesman Chuck Penn said. Only the courthouse was affected by the outage. The jail and other buildings in Virginia…