A veteran mechanic is dead after a three-story fall at an Alpha Natural Resources coal processing plant in southern West Virginia.

Berkshire Hathaway is expected to use the $142 million purchase to create a new division, BH Media Group.

The Richmond Times-Dispatch, headquartered at 300 E. Franklin St., is among the 63 dailies and weeklies being sold to BH Media Group.

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Nine creditors of Residential Capital LLC, including the insurers American International Group Inc and Allstate Corp, were selected to join the unsecured creditors committee for the mortgage lender's bankruptcy.