Civil rights marcher sues for gay marriage
On his first trip as a civil rights activist, Charles Blackburn already knew the rules: Disconnect the lights in your car so you're not an easy target for snipers. Drive down the center of the road to make it harder to be run off the side. Stick to the black neighborhoods whenever possible.
11.28.06
Standing down: A Marine returns from Iraq
In his dreams, it's always summertime. He stands by a lake. A family reunion. His cousins splash in the water while the adults talk. No one pays him any attention. They can't hear him; they don't see him. He looks down. He's wearing desert camouflage. A rifle is slung across his chest. His clothes are covered in blood.
11.08.05
Back home, only to
find 'It's gone'
PORT SULPHUR, La. - Paula Landry returned to her home yesterday to find a pile of wood scraps, an enormous tree snapped in half across her front lawn and a car buried in rubble. She also found an album filled with photos of her children, some of their baby clothes and a few pieces of her grandmother's crystal.
09.06.05
Along the border,
a land held hostage
NOGALES, Mexico -- They had made it across the border, 20 of them, through a hole in the barbed-wire fence in the dark Arizona desert. Juan Carlos Reyes Hernandez, 25, with two children at home and a third on the way, was among them. He planned to work in construction and send his earnings back home.
01.22.06
Finding faith after
mine disaster
SAGO, W.Va. -- When it happened, before dawn Monday morning, the Rev. Wease Day thought it would be a good idea to open his church to the rescue workers, to give them a warm place to get coffee and doughnuts while they searched for the 13 miners trapped under the mountain across the river.
01.08.06
Sniper jury copes with terror
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. -- On many nights in the murder trial of John Allen Muhammad, juror Elizabeth S. Young would not go directly home to her husband and three children. Instead, she would take long walks on the beach or sit in coffee shops and think about the difficult decision before her.
11.26.03
DNA uncollected, a criminal goes free
Raymont Hopewell entered the state prison system on April 11, 2004, for attempting to sell $20 worth of cocaine to an undercover police officer. Under Maryland law, authorities should have taken a sample of his DNA to compare against evidence collected from unsolved crimes.
07.16.06
The mayor and
The Great Gatsby
In Rockville yesterday morning, hours before he would officially announce for governor, Mayor Martin O'Malley was already in full campaign mode. He spoke of hope, opportunity and faith in the future. He said he wanted a state "in which no one is left behind." He said the people of Maryland "can do great things together."
09.29.05
GM workers hang on
to livelihood
Herman Trafton is napping in the van's back seat. Wanda Hopkins is wolfing down a quick McDonald's lunch one row up. Adam Falkowski is complaining about the union, again. And near the front, Delaney Bert is watching Little Man on the drop-down TV screen.
02.19.08
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