Jie Eun Ha, a rising senior at Seventy-First High School, recently received the Paderewski Gold Medal in the 2010 National Piano Playing Auditions.

Serena Sakura Walker of Fayetteville has been named to the dean's academic honor list for the spring semester at Baylor University.

The team of Andresa Pittman, Victor Zaragoza, Marilee Denning, and Chelsea Moore of Douglas Byrd High School in Fayetteville was awarded a Skill Point Certificate in Broadcast News Production at the SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills Conference in Kansas City, Mo.

Sarina Bell of Fayetteville has earned the 2010 Spirit of Avon Award and the Best New Performers Award.

Christopher Scott Reaves of Fayetteville has earned the rank of Eagle Scout, the highest level of recognition in the Boy Scouts of America.

The House approved a bill Friday to boost safety standards for offshore drilling, remove a federal cap on economic liability for oil spills and impose new fees on oil and gas production.

Brothers Charles and Sam Wyly, born a year apart during the Great Depression, almost always have been joined at the hip.

TransCanada Corp. has received “multiple bids from “major industry players and others” to use its proposed pipeline to transport natural gas from Alaska’s North Slope to market, a company official said Friday.

BP’s new boss says it’s time for a “scaleback” in cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Federal officials say there is no way the crude could reach the East Coast. And fishing areas are starting to reopen.

Talk about a paperwork nightmare: Tucked into the massive new health care law is a demand that nearly 40 million U.S. businesses file tax forms for every vendor that sells them more than $600 in goods.

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