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I can't find the item online, but according to the Christmas Eve edition of the Cumberland Times-News , Dave Christopher of Cumberland, ...

Check out the upside-down Christmas tree in the home of Patty and Joe Hess of Augusta, W.Va. "This is my hardest tree to decorate,...

Are schoolchildren in Maryland taught about the exploits of Allied spy Virginia Hall in occupied France during World War II? I hope so, an...

From Teddy Roosevelt's message to Congress , Dec. 3, 1906: I feel that in the near future our national legislators should enact a law pr...

That the election of a Muslim to Congress -- a Muslim who, naturally enough, wants to swear his oath on the Quran, not the Bible -- should ...

A year's supply of butterbeer to the Georgia Board of Education, which sided with the Gwinnett County school board against anti-Harry P...

Another reason to have voted against Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich in November: According to The Washington Post, he introduced inflatable ...

A fellow tourist snapped this photo of me at Notre Dame in 1991, on my first visit to Paris.

As far as I know, I have no family connection to Duncan's Bar & Grill in Frostburg, so I'm not to blame for this flier, which ap...

Those who care about newspapers should read this Jack Shafer article in Slate : A good three decades before the newspaper industry began bla...

Fans of futures past will love this marvelous website devoted to the Atomium, built as the astonishing centerpiece of the 1958 World's ...

I've always loved ghost stories and the folklore of hauntings, and the parapsychology buffs who lug equipment into old cemeteries and pr...

As a kid, I uncritically devoured dozens of books and TV shows on all paranormal topics, especially cryptozoology. My favorite legendary cr...

Here's another reason to love the Web: a 234-page pdf of Jap Herron , the short 1917 novel that Emily Grant Hutchings claimed was dicta...

I enjoyed this Seattle Post-Intelligencer article on physicist John Cramer of the University of Washington, who plans to test whether phot...

My apologies for the long absence. Sydney and I rushed home to South Carolina on Tuesday, Dec. 12, because my mother, age 83, had taken a t...

The Seminole Tribe of Florida is buying the Hard Rock Cafe -- all 124 restaurants, plus the Hard Rock hotels, casinos and concert venues, ...

I was started to read that one of the teams competing Saturday for the state 1A football championship is the Poets. The fighting Poets? La...

In abruptly leaving the Christian Coalition, which he was to have led as president beginning Jan. 1, the Rev. Joel Hunter says he's more...

Jim Goldsworthy's Dec. 3 column in the Cumberland Times-News is about battlefield ghosts. He cites an unnamed friend, a Civil War re-e...