OUR CITY sits only about 60 miles from the Atlantic Ocean, even closer to the Delaware Bay, and our river port is one of the busiest on the East Coast. While you wouldn't exactly call Philadelphia "maritime" (as one might call Baltimore), the sea certainly isn't a foreign concept.

Voice of Russia radio called me today, asking for a comment about the Americans burning the Quran in Afghanistan, an action that generated mass protests in that Muslim country against the Americans. In the corky mood, I asked the radio producer: Why are you asking me about blasphemy by Americans in Afghanistan instead of the blasphemy by Russians in Russia? That’s covered by another program, I ...

British music will dominate the closing ceremony of this summer's Olympic Games.

Back when he was a self-described friendless recluse, Craig Carey spent hours sitting in a chair doing nothing or driving around in his car, alone. Then a fitness program for people with serious mental illness turned his life around.

ATTALLA, Ala. (AP) — Roger Simpson said he looked down the road and saw a little girl running outside her home but didn't give it another thought. Police, however, said the man witnessed a murder in progress.