Lynn Anderson

Joe South, a versatile singer-songwriter who penned "Games People Play," "Down in the Boondocks" and other pop-rock hits in the 1960s and '70s, has died. He was 72. South died Wednesday at his home in Buford, Ga., northeast of Atlanta, said Butch Lowery,...

Brittany Tietz, a freshman nursing major at Bemidji State (Minn.) University was among students awarded the $1,000 Campus Honors Scholarship for the 2011-12 academic year. The scholarship is a one-time award available to high school graduates who rank...

Property transfers for the week of Jan. 9 to Jan. 13. — Rhonda C. Green and Nathan Green to Brandy J. Nelson and John P. Nelson, tract 4, Pilot View, Ruckerville, $151,000. — Faye H. Durbin to Shannon R. Oldfield, lot 221, Colby Ridge, love...

Bernard G. Sarnat Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, research scientist Dr. Bernard G. Sarnat, 99, a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon and research scientist who advanced the study of facial deformities, died of respiratory failure Oct. 21 in Los Angeles, his...

Construction projects are not fun for anyone, but businesses in Lower Greenville said a current project on Greenville Avenue has greatly affected their bottom line. The project will turn two blocks of Greenville Avenue into a more pedestrian friendly...

BOYLE DISTRICT COURT Cases handled recently in Boyle District Court, listed by name, charge, fine and jail sentence, where applicable, include the following. Court costs also were assessed in most cases. Ages and addresses are listed if available....

Casey Joe Seelye, 18, Frederick, exhibition driving, fined $120 and sentenced to 10 days in jail with all of the jail sentence suspended; violation of promise to appear, fined $145 and sentenced to 30 days in jail with all of the jail sentence suspended....

As Pope John Paul II clung to life at his Vatican apartment in Rome, his followers in Maryland waited and watched for word of his passing. It was a roller-coaster ride for many, who cried, prayed and rejoiced as they listened to news updates and shared...

A longtime campaign operative of Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. resigned his state job yesterday after admitting he had been spreading rumors on the Internet about the personal life of Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley. Joseph Steffen, 45, said he gave the...

The man at the center of an emerging controversy over Internet postings about Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley's personal life is a Baltimore County native, longtime political operative of Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. and unpublished novelist who writes...

Sept. 19, 2001 Still more Maryland residents are dead or missing in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Amelia Fields Amelia Fields, 38, a clerical worker who had been transferred to the Pentagon on Sept. 10, is listed as missing. Mrs. Fields grew up...

For the past five months, the Baltimore Department of Social Services has been regularly housing children overnight at a downtown office building - allowing them to sleep upright in hard plastic chairs or on thin mattresses on the floor. The practice...