Beluthahatchie

Late in every presidential election cycle, pundits begin to fret openly about those mysterious undecided voters: Who are they, how can they...

I have sold my first sequel, a 12,000-word novelette titled "The Dragaman's Bride," to co-editors Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann...

Charles Barkley tells CNN's Campbell Brown he plans to run for governor of his home state, Alabama, something he's been talking abo...

In case you haven't seen Ron Howard's campaign video, here's the link .

University of Maryland archaeologists have unearthed in Annapolis a 300-year-old sand-and-clay bundle of lead shot, pins and nails, with a ...

On Oct. 24, 1901, sixtysomething schoolteacher Annie Edson Taylor became the first human to ride over Niagara Falls in a barrel and live. ...

Frostburg's Main Street Hangar, a new restaurant and bar with a military-aviation theme, has a Smith Miniplane on its roof, to the delig...

The more I read the campaign statement of Ringo Nelson , write-in candidate for sheriff of Mineral County, W.Va., the more I admire it: I sa...

I wrote this letter to the editor published in the Oct. 15 Cumberland Times-News -- my first published letter in four months -- but when I...

Earlier I linked to the eloquent letter in the Oct. 12 Cumberland Times-News by my colleague John Wiseman, endorsing Barack Obama. On Oct...

Goat cheeses from FireFly Farms of Bittinger, Md., won gold, silver and bronze medals Sept. 29 at the World Cheese Awards in Dublin, says ...

My colleague John Wiseman, emeritus professor of history at Frostburg State University , has a good letter to the editor in today's Cum...

The Knight Foundation has provided startup funding for the Appalachian Independent , a fledgling online newspaper with the ambition of cove...

I admire without reservation this ad for the MAFIA, a.k.a. the Mollie A. Fearing Insurance Agency in Manteo, N.C., which we saw in Real Esta...

You can't tell from the crop in this online version of the article, but I was pleased to recognize immediately, in the May Southern Liv...

I share this ad for Claussen's pickles in case you missed it in the Sunday newspapers a few weeks ago. Once you're done wincing, sq...

I support Maryland Citizens Against State Executions (MD CASE), which opposes the death penalty, but I nevertheless was startled to receive...

I once thought that Ollie's Bargain Outlet had the most moth-eaten mascot ever seen in retail, but that was before Elmer's House o...

I recently was mailed an offer to subscribe to The Christian Century at the "professional clergy discount" of $39 for the year. ...

From my Aug. 26 "Ripley's Believe It or Not!" calendar: Henri Christophe (1767-1820) of northern Haiti ordered his guards to p...