Michael Cox

A Glen Burnie home was damaged in a fire early this morning that took more than 30 firefighters to bring under control, authorities said. About 2:30 a.m., a person driving by the two-story, single-family home in the 100 block of Allen Road reported the...

An unidentified man was seriously injured last night when he apparently fell from a van traveling on Interstate 97 in Crownsville and was airlifted to Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, authorities said. Police were seeking the van. State...

By Nick Owchar Why do so many monsters live in Victorian London? Was there something toxic in the Thames (Spenser probably wouldn't call it "sweet" if he could have seen it then -- or now) or in the fog that, as the Environmental Protection Agency points...

It hasn't been an easy journey, but Mary J. Blige wants her fans to know she's doing fine now. "Just Fine," the first single from her new album, "Growing Pains," out Tuesday, is the rare Blige song to proclaim confidence rather than tension or distress....

Splitting the cost of kids' healthcare Re "Stealing healthcare from babies," Opinion, Aug. 1 The explanation for President Bush's stance is simple. He thinks that the best government is no government. Expansion of a successful State Children's Health...

For Mary J. Blige, "The Breakthrough" was a smash -- with an asterisk. The 35-year-old R&B singer dominated the nominations for the 49th annual Grammy Awards by accumulating eight, including nods for song and record of the year, even though...

THE MEANING OF NIGHT: A CONFESSION, by Michael Cox. Norton, 704 pp., $25.95. Foggy London streets, baronial manors, scholarly vicars, tea by the fire: There's nothing quite like a fat Victorian novel as the days get shorter. The real ones, of course,...

The danger to truck drivers on the roads of Iraq isn't just ambushes and roadside bombs. There's also dust, bad tires and failed engines. Tires - like one of the 48 on the heavy equipment trucks that haul tanks, heavy freight boxes and military vehicles...

Complete list of winners and nominees in 105 categories for the 46th annual Grammy Awards: Winners are indicated in green. 1. Record of the year: "Crazy in Love," Beyonce featuring Jay-Z; "Where Is the Love?" Black Eyed Peas and Justin Timberlake;...

LONDON -- Testifying at a judicial inquiry, British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Thursday denied exaggerating Iraq's arsenal and defended his government's treatment of a scientist who raised questions about the need for war and later committed suicide....

Now that another orchestra — the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields — has played in the Walt Disney Concert Hall, created for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, we may venture a few secure generalizations. One, every piece sounds new. Two,...

Twenty-six people were arrested on charges they tried to scam charity money or goods meant for victims of the World Trade Center attacks, the Manhattan district attorney’s office said Wednesday. The arrests involved a variety of alleged scams,...