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In this March 12, 2009 file photo, John Walsh, host of the television show "America's Most Wanted," is photographed in New York. Fox is cancelling "America's Most Wanted," the Saturday night show that has profiled criminals on the lam since 1988, and replacing it on the network's regular schedule with reruns.

Campaigns start to keep 'America's Most Wanted'

Last updated Tuesday, May 17, 2011 - 4:42pm

RICHMOND, Va. -- Hours after "America's Most Wanted" was canceled, a small, passionate campaign emerged online to save the Saturday night staple that allowed anyone with a television set to become part of a nationwide manhunt.

The show has been rescued before. In 1996, an outpouring of support from fans, politicians and law enforcement compelled Fox executives to reconsider after they announced they were taking the show off the air, and a handful of Facebook pages aim to recapture that groundswell of support.

"Criminals all over America will be rejoicing if AMW is cancelled," said Jim Sitton, who credits the show for catching the man suspected of killing his 6-year-old daughter and three other relatives on Thanksgiving 2009.

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Feds: Va. Tech broke law in shooting response

Dena Potter, The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, December 10, 2010 - 11:01am

RICHMOND, Va. -- Federal education officials have found Virginia Tech broke the law when it waited two hours to warn the campus that a gunman was on the loose, too late to save 30 students and faculty who went to class and were killed in the 2007 rampage.

The U.S. Department of Education issued a report Thursday rejecting the university's defense of its conduct and confirming that the school violated the Clery Act, which requires that students and employees be notified of on-campus threats.

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Coal Miners group together in front of the Marsh Fork elementary school in Montcoal, W.Va. on Thursday, March 8, 2010. Rescuers running on adrenaline waited Thursday for a massive drill to vent noxious gas so they could safely resume the underground search for four coal miners missing in an explosion that killed 25 colleagues.(AP Photo/The Register-Herald, Rick Barbero)

Smoke, fear of fire push rescuers from W.Va. mine

Dena Potter, Tom Breen The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, April 9, 2010 - 7:51am

MONTCOAL, W.Va. — Rescue teams trekked far enough into a ruined coal mine early Friday to see that no one had used a chamber where four missing miners could have sought refuge, further dimming hopes of anyone else surviving an explosion that killed 25.

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Gov. Joe Manchin and his wife Gayle Manchin, left, give a state certificate to the family of deceased coal miner Josh Napper, seated is his mother, Pam Napper with his daughter Jenna Leigh Napper, 20 months, his father Scott Napper and the mother of his child, Jennifer Ziegler, in red, Wednesday, April 7, 2010 at a candlelight vigil in Cabin Creek, W.Va. Napper was among the 25 miners killed on Monday including his uncle Timmy Davis Sr. and his cousin Cory Davis at an explosion at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch Coal Mine in Montcoal, W.Va. (AP Photo/Jeff Gentner)

W.Va. mine rescue teams eager to resume search

Dena Potter, Lawrence Messina, Vicki Smith The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, April 8, 2010 - 3:54pm

MONTCOAL, W.Va. — Rescuers running on adrenaline waited Thursday for a massive drill to vent noxious gas so they could safely resume the underground search for four coal miners missing in an explosion that killed 25 colleagues.

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(BOB BIRD/The Associated Press) A coal miner who would only identify himself as Chris speaks about the miners who died in a Monday evening explosion at Massey Energy Co.'s sprawling Upper Big Branch mine in Montcoal, W.Va., on Wednesday.

W.Va. congressman: 3 miners complain of safety

Dena Potter, Lawrence Messina The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, April 7, 2010 - 4:26pm

MONTCOAL, W.Va. -- Congressman Nick Rahall says at least three workers from a West Virginia mine wrecked by an explosion have come to him complaining of unsafe working conditions since the blast.

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West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin briefs reporters on the latest mine rescue operations, Wednesday morning, April 7, 2010, in Montcoal, W. Va. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

No response yet from any coal mine survivors

Dena Potter, Lawrence Messina The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, April 7, 2010 - 8:13am

MONTCOAL, W.Va. -- Rescuers have gotten no response from possible survivors to sound signals sent deep into a West Virginia coal mine where a blast killed 25 people and left four miners missing in the worst U.S. mining accident in over two decades.

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