Acid rain has affected a third seriously, and 'there is no quick fix'.

PETERSBURG The toppled headstone on Joseph Bland's gravesite reads, "Gone but not forgotten." But the buried at this patch of East View Cemetery have been forsaken.

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Former U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms, who rose to national prominence as an unwavering and unapologetically controversial lion of the American right, died on the Fourth of July.

Ashland's Fourth of July Parade was about as democratic as you can get. Anybody who wanted to participate was invited to join the procession. No motorized vehicles or floats were allowed, but kids on bikes were encouraged.