IT'S another scam where people get ripped off. Unlike the "black-money" or the get-rich-quick scheme which played on the element of avarice, the latest scam involves people in real need and not those needing more than they have.

Taxes are unpleasant and unfair. We all know this. And our friends in government work hard to keep it that way. The only thing about taxes that all Americans can agree on is that someone else should pay them.

As the national economy goes, so go the regions in Virginia. Well, not always. The latest data for nonmetropolitan areas show that employment in Southwest Virginia grew 1.4 percent last year, compared with 0.9 percent in the state.

HARTFORD, Conn. , June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Governor M. Jodi Rell and the state's Connect-Ability initiative recognized eight companies as recipients of the second annual Connect-Ability Top Employer Awards at its annual employment summit, attended today b

BEIJING, China (AP) -- China is investigating whether hundreds of children, most aged between 9 and 16, were sold to factories in the southern province of Guangdong over the past five years to work as virtual slave laborers, state media said.