Delivering bad news one of medicine’s great difficulties
The anguished mother pounded the floor at Johns Hopkins Hospital, screaming, "Why, why, why?" Dr. John Wogan had just told her as gently as he knew how that her teenage...
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Pontiff’s unprecedented attention won loyalty of many congregants
SOWETO, South Africa - At yesterday's generally somber Mass, hymn-singing members of the Regina Mundi Catholic Church choir danced a stutter-step down the aisle as congregants slapped hymnbooks to the...
More than work drew him to Iraq
Nick Berg was a big-hearted risk-taker - intent on making the world a better place, willing to do the heavy lifting to make that happen and daring enough to go...
Around Fort Bragg, loyalty to troops outweighs scandal
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - On Wednesday, Spc. Phil McIlroy came home from Iraq. Yesterday, the 22-year-old visited a stone marker here bearing the name of a friend in the 82nd Airborne...
City’s space transformed
They have spent $62 million of public and private money to transform the Hippodrome Theater from a decrepit hulk on downtown Baltimore's west side into the region's sparkling showcase for...
Md. marinas hard hit by tropical storm
Charles Cao has good reason to feel awful. The pleasantly ramshackle South Baltimore boatyard he owns, Middle Branch Marina, took a huge hit from Tropical Storm Isabel. The wind and...
Disorder reigns in streets of Baghdad
BAGHDAD, Iraq - At first, it seems like a bad driver's worst nightmare. At busy Andalus Square, no fewer than 17 on-duty traffic police stand in sight of the 12...
Inside the private prison of Odai Hussein
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The room is 15 feet by 35 feet. It is dark and foreboding but feels spacious, until you consider the humanity once crammed inside its nearly windowless...
A Baghdad street steeped in the past
BAGHDAD, Iraq - The white-haired barber, elegant and still on the job, loses himself in long tales about his stint as hairdresser for Faisal II, Iraq's last king, nearly 60...
For one of three Bonnells, the worry is about a fourth — Mom
Sgt. 1st Class Brad Bonnell isn't worried about his two brothers in Iraq. His brother Bryon is a major and, because he's an aide to the commanding general of the...