Picture a quiet weekend at a rural bed and breakfast inn -- sinking into a plush antique bed, reading in a quiet room without telephones and TVs, walking along tree-shaded lanes, enjoying a generous country ...

This is not your father's coal boom. Record high coal prices suggest, and industry analysts and executives confirm, that demand for Appalachian coal is at an all-time high.

The doors of a Canton Township bar were padlocked Friday afternoon for at least the next week as the Washington County district attorney's office tries to have it declared a public nuisance.