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.

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 ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Texas guard Tre Johnson (20) drives on Florida guard Will Richard, right, during the first half of an NCAA ...

After trekking to Nashville, JD Clayton has returned home to Fort Smith to be surrounded by family and launch his newest album, “Blue Sky Sundays,” which will be released Feb. 28. “It’s good to be ...

A shooting near Clayton State University resulted in the deaths of 18-year-old Caden Moss and 20-year-old Jerome Franklin after an argument between four young men escalated. The incident occurred ...