James Wright

50 years ago -- The Petoskey High School football team started practice in anticipation of its opening game on Sept. 14 against Boyne City, the defending Northern Michigan Class C Conference champion. The Northmen returned John Smith, Warren Towns,...

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, an independent advisory panel, recently recommended that healthy men not be given PSA blood tests to detect prostate cancer. But that won't mean the end of diagnosis and treatment of the disease, the most common...

Saturday, May 5, 2012 COLLEGE SOFTBALL BALTIMORE — Hagerstown Community College defeated Chesapeake 7-4 in the Hawks’ first game of the NJCAA Region XX Final Four double-elimination tournament Saturday. HCC scored three runs in the top of...

If you listened to Danville High School faculty — or noticed the “swag” exhibited by the class of 2012 — the blazing twilight Saturday night at Admiral Stadium was an appropriate backdrop for a group that accomplished everything...

An article in the May 28, 1937 edition of The Catonsville Herald and Baltimore Countian reported on the heroic effort by an area doctor to save the life of a little boy who had fallen into a backyard goldfish pond. Charles T. Cockey, two and one-half...

Editor's note: This feature is a collaboration between the Somerset County Sheriff's Department and the Daily American to apprehend individuals who are wanted on warrants for failing to appear at court hearings. Anyone with information is asked to call...

A man was fatally shot shortly before 7 p.m. in the Franklin Square neighborhood of West Baltimore, police said. The shooting took place in the 1600 block of W. Baltimore St. Police located a second victim at a West Baltimore hospital. Homicide...

For a week, Virginia Tech was hammered in court for its actions on the day of the worst school shooting in American history.  Now the school is telling its side of the story. Families suing Virginia Tech claim that the university failed to notify their...

During Christmas it is easy to become focused on giving to children. But what about the people who helped raise us when we were kids? This year, more than two-thousand seniors will receive a gift from Home Instead Senior Care. At seventy one years old,...

In the introduction to his impishly profound new collection of poems, Thomas Lynch recalls that when he finished writing the first handful, he "field-tested them at Joe's Star Lounge on North Main Street in Ann Arbor." The event is "a kind of communion, I...

The Winchester-Clark County Parks and Recreation board has proposed to mow Stoneybrook Park twice a month for $3,000 a year through an agreement with the county. The Stoneybrook Homeowner’s Association agreed to reimburse the county at least $1,...

Did you see the devastating numbers about the wealth of minority families? Their savings have largely been wiped out. White households now have 20 times more wealth than black households and 18 times more wealth than Hispanic households. When you...