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• Three former runners for Mount Tabor - Amy DiBianca ('03), Carly Matthews ('02) and Ginger Wheeler ('01) - had strong performances in NCAA cross-country regionals last weekend, and two helped their teams win championships.

DiBianca, a junior, finished second in the Division III South/Southeast Regional in Conway, Ark., covering a 6-kilometer course in 22:18.9 and leading Emory ...

UPPER MARLBORO, Md., Nov. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The NAHB Research Center today announced the National Housing Quality (NHQ) Certification of KB Home South Bay. Headquarted in Pleasanton, Calif., KB Home South Bay is a division of the publicly-held builder KB Home . KB Home South Bay was recently awarded the quality assurance certification following a rigorous NAHB Research Center audit of the impl...

BALTIMORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 15, 2005--The Mid-Atlantic All Hazards Forum, a conference and exhibition for state and local leaders in homeland security, emergency management and disaster response, drew over 1,000 people to the Baltimore Convention Center October 25-27, 2005. States represented at the conference were Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, North Carolina, New Jersey, P...

Pittsburgh's players are talking a good game after not playing an especially good one.

The theme is a familiar one for the Panthers: They want to upset West Virginia on Thanksgiving night and scramble what appears to be a locked-up Big East Conference race.

"Everybody is talking about it," linebacker H.B. Blades said. "It's going to be a dirty, physical game. They don't like us a...

PITTSBURGH -- Pittsburgh's players are talking a good game after not playing an especially good one.

The theme is a familiar one for the Panthers: They want to upset West Virginia on Thanksgiving night and scramble what appears to be a locked-up Big East Conference race.

"Everybody is talking about it," linebacker H.B. Blades said. "It's going to be a dirty, physical game. They do...

DEDHAM -- Police arrested a Boston woman on a past warrant after stopping her at 8:28 a.m., Thursday. Leonie Hyatt, 23, of 485 Metropolitan Ave., Hyde Park, was stopped and arrested in front of 853 Washington St.

DEDHAM -- Police picked up a Boston man at 10:14 a.m., Thursday, on a warrant. Joseph McKeon, 58, of 25 Virginia St., Dorchester, was arrested at Riverside Deli at 7 Needham St.<...

And then there were two -- Southern California and Texas.

The only unbeaten Division I-A football teams in the country, if they stay that way through the end of the season, will play for the national championship on Jan. 4 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif.

Left for the Trojans, who are seeking their third straight national title, are Fresno State this Saturday and UCLA on Dec. 3....

The Trojans and Longhorns held the top two spots Monday, and are both unbeaten with three weeks left in the regular season. With two more victories each, they'll lock up spots in the Rose Bowl for a matchup that has appeared inevitable for months.

USC is in first with a BCS average of .9829 and Texas is second at .9771.

Miami is in third place with one loss, needing a misstep by th...

BEDFORD - It only took about 11 minutes Monday for police to respond to a bank robbery, chase down the suspect and subdue him with a Taser. At 11:47 a.m., police received a call about a robbery at the First National Exchange Bank on Blue Ridge Avenue.

At 11:58 a.m., they arrested William Louis Holland Jr., 20, of Bedford County. He was charged with armed robbery and using a firearm in the...