Mixed reactions to Ehrlich’s I-95 slots plan
Local officials from Cecil to Prince George's counties had mixed reactions yesterday to a proposal by Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. to build two slot machine palaces along Interstate 95,...
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House scheduled to vote on Ehrlich vetoes today
The Democrat-controlled House of Delegates is scheduled to vote today on the override of several of Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s vetoes, an action that follows similar votes taken last...
Most voters expect terror attacks
Two out of three Maryland voters believe the United States is likely to be the target of another terrorist attack in the next few months, but most expressed satisfaction with...
Wright 1st flight re-creation grounded
KILL DEVIL HILLS, N.C. -- Clad in plastic ponchos and clutching cups of coffee, the thousands who gathered on the sand dunes near Kitty Hawk Wednesday had hoped to see...
For first flight’s centennial, reproducing the Wright idea
KILL DEVIL HILLS, N.C. - No one knows exactly what the world's first successful airplane - the Wright brothers' 1903 Flyer - looked like when it lifted off a wooden...
Wright Brothers flew into a newspaper fog
One in a series of occasional articles They may have appeared stiff and square in their starched white collars and bowler hats, but this week, the 100th anniversary of their...
Soaring on the hope of equality
One in a series of occasional articles With the luster of its potential tarnished by a century of use, it now seems odd to think of the airplane as anything...
Making Orville Wright soar again
Every presentation begins the same: Jim Spence arranges his props - an empty inner tube box, a ball of twine and a stick topped with counter-rotating propellers - on a...
Long-delayed flight to land
The whirling screech of a power drill emanating from inside the chipped white barn can mean only one thing: Andrew King is resurrecting the past. Surrounded by the husks of...
Prize lifts would-be spacefarers
One in a series of occasional articles LISSIE, Texas - On a rice farm west of Houston, in a pasture littered with cow droppings, Jim Akkerman is immersed in the...