James Wright

W.S. Merwin is green as U.S. poet laureate

2010-08-29 00:00:00

Reporting from Maui — We've been batting our way through W.S. Merwin's yard for a couple hours, swatting mosquitoes in the streambed under the dark wet canopy of towering, philodendron-draped mangoes and looking at some 700 species of palm trees,...

'The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind' by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer

2009-11-29 00:00:00

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer William Morrow: 348 pp., $25.99 William Kamkwamba grew up in Malawi, the son of a maize and tobacco farmer. Their house had no electricity or plumbing. In William's village, high costs...

Novel writing is a good gig for Joe Pernice

2009-09-22 00:00:00

The narrator abandons his marriage on the first day of his honeymoon. His friends -- aimless, stunted or waiting for their lives to begin -- drink alone or together, but mostly joylessly. One young woman guzzles canned beers to absorb the memory of a...

Looking back: Northmen prep to open �62 season against powerful Boyne City

2012-07-20 12:07:00

50 years ago -- The Petoskey High School football team started practice in anticipation of its opening game on Sept. 14 against Boyne City, the defending Northern Michigan Class C Conference champion. The Northmen returned John Smith, Warren Towns,...

Understanding the new prostate cancer screening recommendations

2011-10-19 14:40:00

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, an independent advisory panel, recently recommended that healthy men not be given PSA blood tests to detect prostate cancer. But that won't mean the end of diagnosis and treatment of the disease, the most common...

HCC opens with win in Region XX Final Four

2012-05-05 20:53:00

Saturday, May 5, 2012 COLLEGE SOFTBALL BALTIMORE — Hagerstown Community College defeated Chesapeake 7-4 in the Hawks’ first game of the NJCAA Region XX Final Four double-elimination tournament Saturday. HCC scored three runs in the top of...

Danville seniors strut their swag

2012-05-21 09:20:00

If you listened to Danville High School faculty — or noticed the “swag” exhibited by the class of 2012 — the blazing twilight Saturday night at Admiral Stadium was an appropriate backdrop for a group that accomplished everything...

Pages from the Past: Determined efforts by Catonsville physician save toddler who nearly drowned in goldfish pond

2012-05-29 13:16:00

An article in the May 28, 1937 edition of The Catonsville Herald and Baltimore Countian reported on the heroic effort by an area doctor to save the life of a little boy who had fallen into a backyard goldfish pond. Charles T. Cockey, two and one-half...

Wanted on Warrants: April 22

2012-04-21 20:28:00

Editor's note: This feature is a collaboration between the Somerset County Sheriff's Department and the Daily American to apprehend individuals who are wanted on warrants for failing to appear at court hearings. Anyone with information is asked to call...

Man fatally shot in West Baltimore

2012-01-20 19:24:00

A man was fatally shot shortly before 7 p.m. in the Franklin Square neighborhood of West Baltimore, police said. The shooting took place in the 1600 block of W. Baltimore St. Police located a second victim at a West Baltimore hospital. Homicide...

DAY 6: Several Blacksburg police officers, security experts testify in Virginia Tech shootings lawsuit

2012-03-12 13:54:00

For a week, Virginia Tech was hammered in court for its actions on the day of the worst school shooting in American history.� Now the school is telling its side of the story. Families suing Virginia Tech claim that the university failed to notify their...

Lynchburg seniors get their very own Santa Claus

2011-12-22 13:42:00

During Christmas it is easy to become focused on giving to children. But what about the people who helped raise us when we were kids? This year, more than two-thousand seniors will receive a gift from Home Instead Senior Care. At seventy one years old,...

Brian James Wright

2012-04-21 20:35:00

In this 2008 file photo, Senior Chief James Wright (left) and Command Master Chief Dominic Musso place a wreath on a Virginia War Museum's memorial during Sunday's Pearl Harbor Day ceremony.

2008-12-08 00:00:00

Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz stands as Cpl. James Wright salutes Reagan.

2004-06-10 00:00:00