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NEW YORK, May 16 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks added to declines late in the session on Thursday after a Federal Reserve official's comments that the central bank could begin dialing back its bond-buying program as early as this summer. John Williams,...

The annual Alpert Awards in the Arts give a $75,000 boost to midcareer artists who often aren’t well known but have earned respect in their fields. Among the higher-profile winners of this year's awards, funded by the Herb Alpert Foundation and...

* MSCI share index at highest since 2008; DAX at record high * German data lifts euro, possible ECB action caps gains * Aussie dollar falls on RBA rate cut By Rodrigo Campos NEW YORK, May 7 (Reuters) - Major stock indexes in Germany and the United...

Three UMBC women’s players were named to the All-America East conference teams, including defender Jamie Fahey, who was honored for the third straight year. Fahey (Loch Raven) and midfielder Kirsten Bilney (Mount Hebron) made the first team...

Princeton’s Erin McMunn, a Winters Mill graduate, was named Ivy League Attacker of the Year and teammate Sarah Lloyd, a Severna Park graduate, made first team when the conference’s postseason awards were announced Wednesday. McMunn was the...

April 30 (Reuters) - Republic Airways Holdings said on Tuesday it still plans to shed its Frontier unit by June or July, depending on whether a sales agreement is reached. Indianapolis-based Republic, which operates regional carriers Republic Airlines...

Richie Havens, the New York City folk singer thrust by circumstance onto center stage as the opening act of Woodstock, the legendary 1969 music festival, has died. He was 72. He died Monday of a heart attack at his home in Jersey City, N.J., according...

Helen B. Wolfe, an outspoken advocate of women's rights who also had been a member of the faculty of McDaniel College for more than a decade, died March 5 from cancer at Carroll Hospice Center's Dove House in Westminster. She was 79. With a head of thick...

Mothers of Bedford March 17, 6:30 p.m., $5-$10, Ridgefield Playhouse, 80 East Ridge Ave., Ridgefield, (203) 438-5795, ridgefieldplayhouse.org   Women are the most rapidly growing population behind bars in the U.S., and 80 percent of those women...

A New York man has been charged with sending sexually explicit messages to a person who he believed to be a young Bedford County girl. Moses Kahn of Forest Hills, N.Y., has been charged with 13 counts of using a communications system to “...

Tom Kitt remembers seeing punk-pop group Green Day for the first time. He was a student at New York's Columbia University in the '90s and saw them in concert on MTV. "I just knew they were special," he says over a lunch interview in Manhattan recently....

Jean Harris, the onetime headmistress of an elite girls' school whose trial in the fatal 1980 shooting of the celebrity diet doctor who jilted her generated front-page headlines and national debates about whether she was a feminist martyr or vengeful...