Silver Spring (Montgomery, Maryland)

How to get an American passport quickly when yours is about to expire

2013-04-14 08:00:00

Question: My passport will expire at the end of August. Because I travel for my job frequently and sometimes with little advance notice, I cannot be without a passport for the four to six weeks it will take to get a new one. Also, many visas I will be...

Inaugural fundraisers race to meet $50-million goal

2013-01-14 14:05:00

WASHINGTON — With less than a week to go before President Obama is sworn in for his second term, fundraisers for the presidential inaugural committee were still working Monday to secure their goal of $50 million in private donations to finance the...

Overpriced 'setup' houses are used to sell other nearby homes

2012-06-17 00:00:00

WASHINGTON — In the real estate brokerage field they're often known as "setups" or "pinball" homes, and this spring's improving conditions in some markets could be stimulating more of them. A setup or pinball property is a house listed with an...

Wesley Brown dies at 85; first black graduate of Naval Academy

2012-05-25 00:00:00

Retired Lt. Cmdr. Wesley Brown, the first African American graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, died Tuesday in Silver Spring, Md., the Naval Academy's alumni association announced from Annapolis, Md. He was 85 and had cancer. A 1949 graduate, Brown was...

Murray Seeger dies at 82; L.A. Times reporter led Moscow bureau

2011-08-31 00:00:00

Murray Seeger, a Los Angeles Times foreign correspondant who served as Moscow bureau chief in the early 1970s and was later director of information for the AFL-CIO, has died. He was 82. Seeger, who lived in Silver Spring, Md., died of pneumonia Monday in...

Actors unions start formally discussing merger

2011-06-19 21:34:16

Start repairing your bad credit rating now

2009-10-11 00:00:00

It is never too soon for folks who have given up their homes to start pointing to the day when they will once again decide to take the plunge. Whether you were able to persuade your lender to accept a payoff for less than what you owed and dump your...

Frank Neuhauser dies at 97; first national spelling bee winner

2011-03-24 00:00:00

The word had already baffled one contestant when Frank Neuhauser confidently spelled it right — "G-L-A-D-I-O-L-U-S" — to win the first national spelling bee in 1925. Luck was his ally. Although he had studied for months with his mill-worker...

Dagmar Wilson dies at 94; organizer of women's disarmament protesters

2011-01-30 00:00:00

In 1961, the Berlin Wall went up, the Cold War arms race was on and Dagmar Wilson, a storybook illustrator and mother of three, steamed into the national spotlight. A self-described "non-joiner," Wilson sparked a movement that on Nov. 1, 1961, drew an...

Liguori's contract gets sweetened for taking helm of OWN

2011-05-25 16:34:06

Discovery tries to bulk up with Fit and Health programming

2011-01-17 16:33:13

Antonina Pirozhkova dies at 101; common-law widow of Russian writer Isaac Babel

2010-09-23 00:00:00

Antonina Pirozhkova, who was the common-law widow of Russian literary giant Isaac Babel and wrote a well-received memoir that provided a rare glimpse of the persecuted writer's final years in the 1930s, has died. She was 101. Pirozhkova died Sept. 12...

Jeff Johns, Silver Spring high school band and orchestra teacher, hung out with Jess Reilly, University of Maryland Medical Center database analyst, Don Walizer, SoftTech Solutions computer scientist, and James Taylor, University of Maryland Medical Systems database analyst.

2013-03-21 00:00:00

Bob and Ann Terrett were married July 6, 1957, in Silver Spring, Md.

2013-03-02 13:21:00

Decades of federal education reforms have resulted in a massive reshaping of the American education system. Above: President Obama asks third and fourth graders what they are reading during their lunch period at Viers Mill Elementary School in Silver Spring, Md.

2013-01-23 17:58:09