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More shots fired in battle for Blair Mountain

SHARPLES, W.Va. - A tiny Logan County coal town, population 100, is near ground zero in a national debate on coal mining.

The debate is coal vs. environment. Soledad O’Brien of CNN explored both sides of mountaintop removal, a controversial method of coal mining. It aired on CNN at 8 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 14. It will be aired a second time Sunday, August 21.

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Last lion’s last segment

One of the last lions at CBS news has faded from view from the network’s fabled news magazine 60 minutes .

Andy Rooney, 92, and his folksy and often curmudgeonly essays have been a staple of 60 Minutes since 1978. His essays about the foibles of daily life, politics and business have been described as both insightful and irritating.

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Icon remembered for toughness

Technology icon Steve Jobs died Wednesday after a long battle with cancer. He was 56.

Jobs helped found Apple Inc. in the 1970s with Steve Wozniak and angel investor Mike Markkula in a garage on the edge of California's Silicon Valley. They designed, developed and marketed the first successful personal computer.

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Conservatives hijack original Tea Party

Today's Tea Party claims to focus on smaller government, fiscal responsibility, individual freedoms and upholding a conservative view of the U.S. Constitution.

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