Us-pulitzers

NEW YORK - When the Pulitzer board handed out the most important prizes in journalism, The New York Times and The Washington Post topped the list of winners- and finalists - as usual.

NEW YORK - The Bristol Herald Courier, a small paper in the coalfields of Appalachia, beat out journalism's powerhouses to win the Pulitzer Prize for public service Monday for uncovering a scandal in which Virginia landowners were deprived of millions in natural gas royalties.