Musical talent, will to live kept teen on track toward freedom

Photographers’ festival develops loyal following, keeps local vibe

Kennel Club show highlights devotion of dogs’ best friends

Mysteries of the tornado got new book off the ground

“Coming up this mountain, and then your first view of this house has to take your breath away.”

Virginia Folklife Program apprentices learn the cultures behind the skills

Danville’s Riverwalk Trail is a stroll through history

Recently Calder’s 12-foot-high stabile “Tripes” was carefully anchored in front of UVa’s Peabody Hall.

Today’s printed crossword puzzle had incorrect clues. Here is a corrected printable version.

Choosing right woods for violin will affect each step of creation

Violin maker Oded Kishony and violinst Max Rabinovitsj are collaborating on the project of a lifetime: reproducing Max’s Pietro Antonio Landolfi violin, made in about 1775.  In this installment of an occasional series in The Daily Progress, Max and Oded select spruce and maple wood for the new violin.

Maplewood ceremony is time to pause,  reflect on war

I’ve planted probably a dozen trees around my home in the past six years.

Local photographer Billy Hunt is offering free portraits for the unemployed to use on social networks or online résumés. Check out this calendar event listing.

You need it to live, and the oceans are full of it.

In July 1999, Elizabeth Doyle-Propst was 22 weeks pregnant and went in for a routine ultrasound that turned out to be anything but routine.

We don’t live in glittering palaces, but many of us do tend to think of mirrors as a tad gaudy, a bit Vegas, and not a material we can decorate with easily.
None of which need be true.

There’s a new outlook on the home-decor front for spring—a palette of fresh blues, saucy pinks and a veritable laundry line of clean whites.

Barnes said Obama is determined to pass health care legislation this year, and while he wants it to be bipartisan, he will not be deterred by obstruction from interest groups or ideological partisans.

The network’s president, its medical director and two other members are due in court Friday on charges they aided the suicide of a 58-year-old Georgia man who suffered for years from cancer of the throat and mouth.

Wary of the growing number of consumers watching TV shows online for free — and yet reluctant to upset viewers by yanking shows from the Internet — the nation’s largest cable operators are in talks with media conglomerates to take back control.

“It was cold, but nobody minded,“ said Delores Johnson, 53, of Slidell, La., who staked out a place on St. Charles Avenue with a group of friends dressed in matching green and gold shirts. They arrived on the oak-lined historic parade route just after midnight Monday.

Angelina Jolie, Kate Winslet and Sean Penn among them — went with black at Sunday’s Academy Awards, but light colors and asymmetrical gowns topped the broader fashion trends.

People joke about stuffing a mattress full of money. In the survivalist blogosphere, it’s called the Bank of Sealy.

The Corvette, which dates to 1953 and is the only remaining V-8 powered two-seater built in the United States, offers a lower-priced convertible this year, new standard features as well as a new ZR1 model that’s the fastest and most powerful production car ever from General Motors Corp.

New York Fashion Week kicked off Friday with a few concessions to the economic downturn, but for the well-heeled crowd and even better-heeled models, it was mostly fashion as usual.

The change is being mandated because digital signals are more efficient than analog ones. Ending analog broadcasts will free up valuable space in the nation’s airwaves for commercial wireless services and emergency-response networks.

The software plots a user’s location — marked by a personal picture on Google’s map — by relying on cell phone towers, global positioning systems or a Wi-Fi connection to deduce their location. The system can follow people’s travels in the United States and 26 other countries.

The tug of war for coffee drinkers has gotten hotter in recent months, with McDonald’s Corp. offering new, lower-priced specialty coffee drinks and Dunkin’ Donuts advertising value-minded deals.

The book looks as if it’s covered in silver foil with a brown sleeve imitating a paper wrapper. Inside, the full-color photos spread across nearly every page make it fun to flip through even if you never plan to pick up a whisk. It’s ready-made gift-shop material.