For his widow, a softer image
WASHINGTON - When Nancy Reagan emerges as a widow in mourning this week, she will do so with the nation's empathy - the kind of public embrace that at times...
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Richmond falls quickly under a sniper's siege
RICHMOND, Va. - It took just a day for this city to become fully initiated in the rituals of the sniper story. The Virginia capital, after thinking itself a world...
2nd gas station killing in Va.
FREDERICKSBURG, Va. - A fatal shooting at a gas station here yesterday set off a huge manhunt that brought Interstate 95 to a crawl for hours, in what police say...
World media spotlight 'Washington in Angst'
WASHINGTON - The headline in the German-language newspaper Die Welt could have easily run here. "Washington in Angst," it says, describing the sniper attacks during the past week that have...
Washingtonians wary but resolute in solidarity
WASHINGTON - The nation's capital spent much of yesterday looking over its shoulder and scanning the skies overhead. In a city that escaped last Sept. 11 without the devastation that...
Hill workers feel irritated by irradiated envelopes
WASHINGTON - Mail delivery in Sen. Patrick J. Leahy's office goes like this: Aides to the Vermont Democrat open the windows, slip on rubber gloves, sift through letters and then,...