Takoma Park (Montgomery, Maryland)

Idaho plutonium case: At least 2 workers suffer internal exposure

2011-11-09 16:37:09

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Eugene Allen dies at 90; White House butler from Truman through Reagan

2010-04-04 00:00:00

Eugene Allen, a White House butler who served presidents from Harry S. Truman through Ronald Reagan, has died. He was 90. Allen died of renal failure Wednesday at a hospital in Takoma Park, Md., the Washington Post reported. Allen, who was black,...

Hey, great-looking grab bar!

2010-02-16 15:17:59

IN this youth-obsessed culture, looking to the AARP crowd for style cues is a highly subversive act. But a growing number of companies directed to the needs of seniors are fomenting just such rebellion, insisting that home design doesn't stop at...

Tom Braden dies at 92; former CIA operative became columnist and talk show co-host

2009-04-04 00:00:00

Tom Braden, a former CIA operative who became a syndicated newspaper columnist, liberal co-host of the CNN talk show "Crossfire" and author of "Eight Is Enough," a 1975 memoir that spawned the popular television series, died of natural causes Friday at...

Nicholas Maw, British composer, dies at 73

2009-05-21 00:00:00

Nicholas Maw, a British composer who bucked the fads of modern classical music to return to more traditional melody and who brought William Styron's wrenching novel "Sophie's Choice" to the opera stage, has died. He was 73. Maw died Tuesday at his home...

OPINION: Is 18 years too long to wait to vote?

2013-05-19 01:34:01

If everything goes according to plan, at lunchtime today my church will vote on a new pastor. Every member of every age will fill out a paper ballot with an aye or nay. I've been one for only a dozen years, but I'm told this kind of democracy is the...

Md. suburb of Washington lowers voting age for city elections to age 16

2013-05-14 16:41:03

TAKOMA PARK, Md. (AP) — A small Maryland city just outside the Washington, D.C., city limits has voted to lower the voting age for city elections to 16. The Takoma Park City Council voted 6-1 on Monday to allow 16- and 17-year-olds to vote in...

GOP ramps up criticism of Perez

2013-05-07 10:21:00

WASHINGTON -- Congressional Republicans, including Maryland Rep. Andy Harris, stepped up their criticism of Labor Secretary nominee Tom Perez on Tuesday, amplifying their concerns a day before the former state official faces a Senate committee vote on his...

Volunteers help veterans, and others, get their house in order

2013-05-02 15:05:47

The first troops showed up on a Saturday morning at the four-bedroom house in Columbia heavily armed: saws, hammers, crowbars, drills. They've returned three times since and are expected back again next week in hopes of making repairs upstairs and down,...

Paul Rowan Weiler, 56

2013-05-01 10:54:00

Paul Rowan Weiler, 56, of Science Hill, passed away Sunday, April 28, at his residence. Born Sept. 24, 1956, in Harlan, Paul was a son of the late Sandford Logan Weiler Sr., M.D. and Betty Fulton Weiler. He attended Frankliin County High School and...

News of the Weird: Chocolate Toothpaste and 'Holy Crap' Cereal!

2013-04-30 09:20:00

The Precocious Tots of Finland: A University of Kansas professor and two co-authors, in research in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Finance, found that children age 10 and under substantially outperformed their parents in earnings from stock trading...

Labor nominee Perez faces sharp questions from GOP senators

2013-04-18 17:30:13

Thomas E. Perez, the former Maryland labor secretary nominated to lead the U.S. Department of Labor, faced pointed questions at his Senate confirmation hearing Thursday about whether politics influenced his decisions as the top civil rights attorney in...

Tyrus Fleetwood, a senior at St. Maria Goretti, has signed a letter-of-intent to play basketball at Washington Adventist University (formerly Columbia Union), an NCAA Division II school in Takoma Park, Md.

2013-04-19 00:00:00

William Feasley of Takoma Park, Md., rides his bike through a creek during a cyclocross race Sunday morning at Poor House Farm Park near Martinsburg, W.Va. The event benefited the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

2012-10-22 06:44:00