Early American penny fetches $1.175 million at Baltimore auction
A handful of copper Birch Cents would have bought a meal of cold meat and a pint of beer at an early 19th-century American tavern. At an auction in Baltimore...
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Bomb plot suspect drew inspiration from radicals, Web
The suspect in the attempted bombing of the Army recruiting center in Catonsville apparently drew inspiration from an array of websites and radical Islamic leaders, including a U.S.-born cleric who...
Baker executed for 1991 killing
Thirteen years after he was convicted of shooting a woman to death at a Baltimore County mall while two of her grandchildren looked on, Wesley Eugene Baker was executed last...
As England’s second trial begins, questions linger
The last scheduled court-martial of an Army reservist arising from the Abu Ghraib prison investigations begins today in Fort Hood, Texas, with the trial of Pfc. Lynndie R. England, who...
Teams in New Orleans begin their grisly search
NEW ORLEANS -- Rescue teams searched swamped street after street, house to house yesterday for those still living in this devastated city, as the U.S. health and human services secretary...
Protesters, 5 blocks and a world apart
Fred A. Romano's silver Grand Cherokee looked like a graffitti-ed subway car with all these anguished yellow daubings: "JUDGEMENT DAY IS HERE - OKEN MUST GO!" "JUSTICE HAS BEEN 17...
Common thread
The sports fan itching for a fight can always stroll into Pickles Pub across from Oriole Park at Camden Yards some game night and loudly declare support for keeping that...
TV dinners began with load of turkey
A visionary knows how it is to be misunderstood. Just ask the guys who created the original TV dinner. "The idea wasn't that you sit and watch TV and eat...
Now pitching, Elrod Hendricks?
The best lifetime ERA in the Orioles' bullpen belongs to a man who never drew a paycheck as a pitcher, who took the mound in one game, who blanked the...