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WASHINGTON - President Bush selected Judge John G. Roberts Jr. to be chief justice of the United States yesterday, elevating a well-regarded nominee who already appeared to be on a smooth path to the Supreme Court. The move, two days after the death of...

Boys Player of the Year: Mark Gober, McDonogh When the season began, Gober was not one of the favorites to win the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference title. As the season went on, however, he just kept getting better and better....

Of Redding St. Luke's School New Canaan Stanford University, Tufts, Brown, Bowdoin, Washington University, University of Virginia, University of Richmond Winner of statewide writing competition for her original play, "The Nearly Departed," which...

Michael Phelps awoke today on the other side of the world. En route to two meets next week in Australia, he stopped in New Zealand for research and development work at the University of Otago. His strokes and body specifications are being gauged in one...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. -- They seem an unlikely pair -- the courtly Richmond lawyer who can stretch his vowels into next week and the Bronx native who bottles up New York intensity in a voice often so flat and low that the judge reminds him to speak up. These...

On the second Wednesday of 2004, Michael Phelps took his first solo business trip. Taking direction from a crew filming a commercial in Malibu, he splashed in the Pacific. Then Phelps hustled back across the country for a brief stop at his Rodgers Forge...

FAIRFAX, Va. - Lawyers for teen-age sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo lost a crucial fight yesterday when a judge ruled that nearly all of his confession - in which police said he laughed as he detailed killings - can be used in his capital murder trial here....

Player of the Year: Ashley Myers, John Carroll The dominating senior ended a stellar four-year varsity career in fine fashion, scoring two goals and adding an assist in John Carroll's 3-0 win over Institute of Notre Dame that not only gave the No. 1...

SECTION: TELEGRAPH ,1A In a city where more than 20,000 children have been exposed to brain- damaging doses of lead paint in the past two decades, officials acknowledged last week that no effort has been made to track them - and that many have likely...

Four years from now, the world will scrutinize him again. His braces will be gone, and, yes, he'll have his driving license. He will have stopped growing nine inches and 60 pounds in a single year. His program will have expanded from his lone 200-meter...

As he fled a breakfast meeting in New York's World Trade Center yesterday morning, trying desperately to outrun the volcanic-like dust that was settling over him, Gary Thorpe watched America change forever. He saw papers flying through the air that...