Charleston

Ruby Katherine Miller, 5, of Hamilton Boulevard, Hagerstown, Md., died Saturday, May 18, 2013, at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Born July 19, 2007, in Charleston, W.Va., she was the daughter of Mary Helen Leatherman...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Shipwrecks lying deep off America's coasts are more often historical artifacts than present-day threats from leaking old oil tanks, a new federal report says. While 87 of the ships — most sunk during World War II by German...

WASHINGTON — President Obama said Friday he wanted to put more Americans to work by slashing the amount of time it takes to grant federal approval for big job-creating projects. But Obama's choice of venue for his remarks — a Baltimore...

WASHINGTON — President Obama said Friday he wanted to put more Americans back to work by slashing the amount of time it takes to grant federal approval for big job-creating projects. But Obama’s choice of venue for his remarks of a...

The Port of Virginia has outdone itself, when it comes to handling big container ships. The Virginia Port Authority announced that the port complex topped its own East Coast record on Saturday when a fully loaded Mediterranean Shipping Co. vessel set...

No one who met George Motz on the afternoon of April 19, 2003, as he bit into his first double cheeseburger in the subterranean Billy Goat Tavern on Hubbard Street — “It is incredible, everything I had heard it was. The taste is distinctive...

>> 50 Years Ago — The business committee of the Quechan Tribal Council has protested recent action by the State Boundary Commission which altered the California-Arizona border. The Quechan tribe owns land along the disputed border. The tribes-...

>> 50 Years Ago — The business committee of the Quechan Tribal Council has protested recent action by the State Boundary Commission which altered the California-Arizona border. The Quechan tribe owns land along the disputed border. The tribes-...

You can help a child at the same time you book a hotel stay — without an added price hike. Name: Rooomr.com What it does: Rooomr is a hotel booking site that also seeks to improve the lives of homeless youth by donating 5% of its gross income to...

A long line of storms stretching from the deep South to upstate New York continued to roll across the nation on Wednesday, with reports of two fatalities in separate tornadoes. It's the traditional dead season for tornadoes, but northern Georgia was...

He pulls to the curb in his dented sedan, grabs a bag containing the extra-large pepperoni and strides to the front of a dilapidated-looking rowhouse. Pizza deliveryman Shakeel Anjum knows too well that criminals have attacked people in his line of...

John Vander Horst Jr., a former hardware store executive, died Sept. 8 in Charleston, S.C., where he was recuperating from triple bypass surgery. The former Owings Mills and Roland Park resident was 69. The son of the Episcopal bishop of Tennessee and a...