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1988 is more than a year around here. Just like it's more than David Fulcher's wife has multiple sclerosis.

Judy Fulcher, who vowed she wouldn't get married until she could walk well enough again to go down the aisle, now occasionally walks into walls and it's a joke instead of a surprise. So David Fulcher likes to say he has multiple sclerosis, too.

Just like 1988 in Cincinnati...

MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan — Sollars Elementary School students can gaze up at Maine's moose, California's grizzly bear and Maryland's coat of arms while eating tater treats and gabbing with friends.

Fifty state flags were hung in the school cafeteria Thursday along with a U.S. flag, the culmination of a two-year project organized by second-grade teacher Elise Henderson to collect a flag f...

Ted Johnson worked 35 years for a DuPont Co. chemical plant and believed what company officials said about the safety of the operation. Now, he's not so sure.

Johnson and his wife, Barbara, are among more than 43,000 people in the mid-Ohio Valley who have signed up for tests to find out if a chemical used to make Teflon might harm their health.

"At first I thought 'What I don't k...

Effective Dec. 1, the region's biggest maternity hospital will not allow children to visit unless they've had flu shots. TriHealth, which runs Good Samaritan Hospital (the area's largest maternity service) in University Heights and Bethesda North Hospital in Montgomery, announced the flu season restrictions Friday. All youths aged 14 and under must have flu shots at least two weeks before vi...

Saturday, November 12, 2005 Democrats had access to same prewar intelligence, he says

President Bush, battling a long slide in the polls and growing public doubts about the war in Iraq, fired back yesterday at Democratic critics who say he misused prewar intelligence to justify the invasion in March 2003.

"It is deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how the war began," Bus...

— When UConn returned to the practice field this week after being dismantled by No. 16 West Virginia, coach Randy Edsall sensed his team was pressing a bit.

"I had to get them to laugh," said Edsall, who wouldn't disclose the subject, other than saying "I'm going to keep my day job.

"But I'm just looking at them and it's almost like they're too serious. I s...

J.P. Giglio, Staff Writer The bowl system is a lot like NASA -- no one knows exactly what purpose it serves, but it involves an exorbitant amount of money. With the help of Tang and tea leaves, staff writer J.P. Giglio leaps in with some predictions about the bowl futures for ACC teams. The conference officially has six bowl tie-ins, but there are 10 teams with a chance at getting the six wins ...

If the Big East wasn't the best conference in the country last season, it was second to the ACC. Now with a new look, the Big East is the deepest and strongest league in the land.

The chase for football dollars drove Miami, Virginia Tech and now Boston College off to the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Big East retains such powers as Connecticut, Syracuse and Villanova, but the new blood...

WARRENTON — It was the kind of weather the Lewis and Clark expedition would have recognized. The rain pounded down, and a chilling wind whipped through a crowd that had come to this site on the Pacific coast Friday as Oregon and Washington state marked the bicentennial of the explorers' arrival.

The Corps of Discovery began building Fort Clatsop, just south of modern-day Astoria, on Dec....

WASHINGTON - Congressional incumbents and Capitol Hill alumni rallied 'round in the final week of the fight against California's redistricting overhaul.

The well-placed Proposition 77 opponents came from many states, and with their checkbooks wide open. Amid California's most expensive election ever, the far-flung lawmakers helped pump up the forces defeating Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger...