Hospital ship can’t care for all
Nat Segaren drove his truck across the rubble of the city in search of a last chance, four injured people stretched on dirty blankets in the back. He found it...
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Ship’s staff: ‘This is what it’s all about’
The face of the Haitian disaster arrived aboard the Navy hospital ship Comfort on Wednesday as a procession of earthquake victims, looking lost and scared, staggered off helicopters or strained...
Master of the macabre ‘reburied’
Edgar Allan Poe, author and poet of much renown, was laid to rest at Westminster Hall on Sunday inside a simple redwood coffin, after a grand theatrical and oratorical send-off...
Stanching wounds
The U.S. Army is launching a multimillion-dollar campaign to equip all its combat troops with a futuristic bandage designed to stop massive bleeding from battlefield injuries, despite doubts about its...
Family speaks of being proud of brother, son
The frenzy surrounding the nomination of Judge John G. Roberts Jr. to the U.S. Supreme Court paid a short visit to a well-trimmed golf course suburb off Route 40 in...
British police try to trace bus suspect’s last 81 minutes
LONDON -- Police in Scotland Yard released a photograph yesterday of a man with a large backpack walking through a suburban train station July 7, saying they believe it shows...
Mason holds $830 billion of investors’ money in his hands
After the conference call to his employees, after he briefed the stock analysts and the media and watched Wall Street exult over the prospect of Legg Mason Inc. morphing into...
Some call for about-face of military shuffle plan
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon unveiled a sweeping plan to reorganize America's armed forces yesterday, a proposal that would close 33 major defense installations, shuffle more than 218,000 military and civilian...
U.S. military widening use of tourniquets
As the Pentagon begins a hurried effort to distribute modern tourniquets to every soldier and Marine in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army and the Marine Corps also have decided to...
Pope, U.S. cardinal discuss abuse scandal
With his papacy just minutes old and the faithful in St. Peter's Square still unaware of his selection, Pope Benedict XVI greeted Chicago Cardinal Francis George in English and told...