By A.E. Crane, National Scenic Byways Online (http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/byways/photos/55546) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Come back home for the first time A recent study revealed that people who come to West Virginia rate it higher in the areas of excitement, family…

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Mount Airy Tourism Development Authority Director Jessica Icenhour Roberts to the North Carolina Travel and Tourism Board by North Caroloina House of Rep. Speaker Thom Tillis. Roberts, director of Tourism Marketing of the Mount Airy Tourism Development Authority, was appointed…

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The exterior of the Sony Pictures Plaza building is seen in Culver City, Calif., Dec. 19, 2014. President Barack Obama says the United States is reviewing whether to put North Korea back on its list of state sponsors of terrorism…

Lynn Bassanese, director of the FDR Presidential Library and Museum, stands for a portrait on Tuesday at the Hyde Park historic site.(Photo: Darryl Bautista/Poughkeepsie Journal) HYDE PARK – The president wanted some coffee. So a staff member at the Franklin…

LAKE WALES, Fla. — It took us a while, but we finally made it. Leaving Indiana on Thursday morning, Dec. 11, was a bad decision. That was the morning the area was hit with a driving snowstorm — one of…