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DeafDigest Blue – July 22, 2012Blue Edition              Barry Strassler, Editor http://deafdigest.com – updated every Monday America’s Unique Deaf Stories; subscription at no cost to you Serving the Deaf Community since 1996; ...

RICHMOND –– Forty-three (43) high school seniors and three graduate school students were among the 46 scholars honored as the VSGA-VIP Scholarship Foundation announced its 2014 scholarship award recipients today at VSGA Day at Richmond Country...

A decade ago, the U.S. Census counted 15 people living in Roanoke’s downtown. If the world knew anything about the city of 100,000 in southwest Virginia, it was likely because of the massive illuminated star beaming down from a nearby mountain, a sad...

Each year, I keep a running list of exceptional nonfiction that I encounter as I publish The Best of Journalism, an email newsletter that I curate weekly for its subscribers. This is my annual attempt to bring some of those stories to a wider audience...

“Ocian in view! Oh! The Joy!,” William Clark wrote in his journal on November 7, 1805 as he viewed what he believed was the Pacific Ocean, as the Corps of Discovery reached the broad estuary of the Columbia River, 20 miles from the coast. Clark’s exhilaration...