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One of the slain in the Virginia Tech massacre this week was teacher and artist Christopher James "Jamie" Bishop, son of our frien...

A reader who identifies herself as Anne writes: Thank you for posting your experience by the Meyersdale wind farm that has driven many peop...

Paulina Porizkova tells People magazine about her first novel, A Model Summer : I'm way too old and fat to model now. But for a write...

The Maryland woman who says her golden retriever, Toby, saved her life -- by performing the Heimlich maneuver -- now is in the April 16 iss...

I was pleased to read that the newest United Steelworkers local is No. 2911, a reference to Jeremiah 29:11. In Today's New Internation...

The International Club at Garrett College in McHenry, Md., sent the Times-News this photo to publicize this year's International Dinner...

While taking the scenic route recently from Frostburg, Md., to Meyersdale, Pa., for the Pennsylvania Maple Festival , Sydney and I blundered...

This afternoon, on the drive home from Scott Edelman and Irene Vartanoff's place in West Virginia, we stopped at the Sideling Hill Exhib...

My family owns about 80 acres of woodland in Saluda County, S.C., acreage on which -- I grew up being told -- U.S. Army troops performed bat...

Paul Akers, editorial page editor of The Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, Va., has a fine column about the news that Circuit City is lay...

Debbie Parkhurst of Calvert, Md., tells her beautifully named local newspaper, the Cecil Whig, that her golden retriever, Toby, saved her l...

I am pleased to read in today's Cumberland Times-News that first-place winners in this year's Allegany County History Day competiti...

The company that printed the misspelled "West Virgina" T-shirts that the NIT champions wore in Madison Square Garden after Thursda...

In a recent news release about the Make It Shine cleanup programs, the state of West Virginia printed not the Make It Shine number, but the...

Sydney's paper at this year's International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts was titled "Lost Girl: The Diminution of Do...

I was pleased to see Nick DiChario at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Nick was in the audience to root for Rick ...

Fortune cookies frequently criticize me, directly or indirectly. Here's a fortune I got this month in Florida: "Cleverness is serv...

Some Shakespeare plays I've seen three or four times too many and don't care to see again -- The Merchant of Venice comes to mind -...

In Washington, D.C., on a business trip earlier in March, I explored the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial at the foot of Capitol Hill. The larges...