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RICHMOND, Va., April 26, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- At its annual awards banquet here on April 14, the Equality Virginia statewide organization dedicated to equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons awarded an "OUTstanding Virginian" honor to Nicholas F. Benton, founder, owner and editor of the Falls Church News-Press. Benton founded the News-Press in 1991 as a general interest weekly newspaper serving Northern Virginia. As the newspaper's...

FALLS CHURCH, Va., Jan. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The news this week that the board of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) voted to terminate an annual lifetime achievement award named for veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas prompted Thomas' new employer to publish a scathing statement in this week's edition of his Falls Church News-Press. Nicholas F. Benton, in his regular national affairs column, titled this week, "The Unsinkable Helen Thomas," denounced the...

NEW YORK, Nov. 11, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Scholastic, the global children's publishing, education and media company, announced today that Lori Benton has been named Vice President & Publisher, for the Scholastic Trade Publishing division. In her new role, Benton will oversee direction of the publishing program for all imprints of the division. She will assume her new responsibilities January 3, 2011, and report to Ellie Berger, President of Scholastic Trade Publishing. Benton...

BENTON HARBOR, Mich., July 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Whirlpool Corporation (NYSE: WHR) today announced it will build a new office campus as part of a consolidation of its 15 owned and leased facilities to three centralized office campuses. The changes - expected to take approximately five years to complete - will allow the company to deliver on improvements in productivity, operations, energy efficiency, and overall employee experience. (Logo:...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In the context of the White House Jobs Summit underway today, plans were announced today to re-launch a push for a decades-old, large-scale water diversion project that would create tens of thousands of new jobs, bring massive sums of fresh water to the southwestern U.S., potentially irrigate thousands of acres of arid land, increase planetary respiration to counter global warming, and yield a massive abundance of clean hydro-electric power. The...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In response to media inquiries and an apparent information blackout by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), Nicholas F. Benton, owner of the Falls Church News-Press, a Washington, D.C.-area weekly, confirmed today that his corporation, Benton Communications, Inc., had won a bid from parties that included the SBA in September to obtain the assets of the Washington Blade from its bankrupt parent company for purposes of a seamless...

FALLS CHURCH, Va., Sept. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Falls Church News-Press declared Democratic gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds the "clear winner" in a head-to-head debate with his GOP rival Bob McDonnell sponsored by the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce this morning. The News-Press, according to a statement issued today by its owner-editor Nicholas F. Benton, a witness to the debate, proclaimed Deeds the winner because "Sen. Deeds exhibited passion and empathy and articulated...

FALLS CHURCH, Va., Sept. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Falls Church News-Press, an award-winning Northern Virginia weekly in its 19th year of publication, and its parent company, Benton Communications, Inc., both solely owned by Nicholas F. Benton, were certified by the Washington, D.C.-based National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC) last month as a "LGBT Business Enterprise." "We are very proud to have qualified for this designation," Benton said in a statement. "It is the...

By Michael Biesecker, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Jul. 15--DHHS Secretary Dempsey Benton has declared a new mental hospital in Butner is ready to open and the first patients will arrive next week. In a July 9 letter to Gov. Mike Easley released this afternoon, Benton says Central Regional Hospital is safer than either of the two aging facilities it is set to replace -- John Umstead Hospital in Butner and Dorothea Dix Hospital in Raleigh. Benton also cited statements saying the new...