One-and-a-half years working on the spectacular costumes for the "Wicked" movie was a labor of love for designer Paul Tazewell, an Akron native. He spent much of that time in London, where part ...

Billy Wagner was unhittable as a pitcher and now he’s officially a baseball immortal. The former Tazewell High School star earned enshrinement in the National Baseball Hall of Fame on Tuesday ...

Photo by Robert Anderson. Billy Wagner spent much of his youth hurling baseballs at the wall of an outbuilding at his aunt and uncle’s farm in Tazewell County. Dream met reality Tuesday when the ...

"You're down to the end and … you're hoping for this. This is a big moment." The Tazewell High School graduate would become the first native of Southwest Virginia to make it to Cooperstown.

Comprised of the first-in-class Kitty Hawk, USS Constellation, USS America, and the Kennedy, the vessels were the last group of carriers to be powered by fossil fuels, which were replaced by the ...

An Oscar nomination (Tazewell’s second, after “West Side Story”) will be well-deserved — and note that you can see his design work locally in Pacific Northwest Ballet’s “The Sleeping ...

Secretary of Navy Carlos Del Toro salutes in the rain as he arrives for the USS Richard M. McCool Jr. (LPD-29) commissioning ceremony at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Fla., in Pensacola ...

The retired USS John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier will embark on its final voyage Thursday morning after spending nearly two decades docked in Philadelphia. The retired Navy carrier is set to ...