George Williams

While other children nearby were playing and laughing, 4-year-old Jaden Williams was quietly focused on one thought: "My daddy is coming home today," he said in a calm but resolute voice. Indeed, Marine Cpl. George Williams, 22, was among more than...

Scott Didra has resigned as Catasauqua's softball coach after one season. He led the Rough Riders to a 12-9 record, 11-7 Colonial League. ''We had a good year,'' Didra said. ''We had a stretch where we won nine out of 11 games, and it was exciting. We...

Tuesday is July 1, the start of the second half of the year. But for the Blue Mountain and Tri-County leagues, it also means the start of the stretch run. The BML season ends on July 21. The Tri-Co playoffs are set to begin on July 28. So, it isn't too...

Tony Award winner Roger Bart is stepping off stage and back into television with a pilot at ABC. Bart, who played homicidal pharmacist George Williams on ABC's "Desperate Housewives" in 2005-06, is joining David Hemingson's untitled legal drama....

Director-choreographer Susan Stroman didn't hire "Young Frankenstein" cast members to "recreate" the eccentric performances of the 1974 movie. Instead, she sought out versatile actors who could "sing, dance, act and be funny ... but they also had to...

"Ten 'Til Noon" is a triumph of ingenuity over budget, a taut, darkly comic thriller with a dart of pathos that holds attention like Super Glue from the first frame to the last. It is writer Paul Osborne's first produced screenplay and director Scott...

LAST MONTH, the state of Texas executed James Lee Clark, a plumber's assistant who raped and killed a teenage girl. Clark's lawyers argued in vain that their client, a high school dropout with a low IQ, should have been spared because of his mental...

Babylon's Argyle Hotel was a white elephant. It was built too late; the area's booming resort-hotel era was coming to an end near the turn of the century. It was built too big; its 350 rooms and 14 cottages never were more than one-third occupied....

Two men under investigation in a high-profile Los Angeles County murder were convicted Thursday in Riverside of federal drug charges related to a massive Southern California PCP distribution ring. George Williams and Rodrick Cardale "Lil Rod" Reed,...

In 1958, a speculator thought long-abandoned Fort Carroll, seven miles south of Baltimore's Inner Harbor, would make an impressive gambling den. How many casinos, after all, have 10-foot-thick granite walls and gunports? But 46 years after Benjamin N....

The wait for a House committee vote on Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s slots proposal hasn't dampened interest among casino companies in getting involved in Maryland. One major company -- which employs Maryland's former tourism director as its government...

This could be the year that Maryland tourism comes of age. The industry was the subject last week of a high-profile legislative summit. It will continue to occupy the limelight as lawmakers consider making the state's tourism department a Cabinet-level...