W. W. Jacobs, remembered today almost exclusively for his horror story "The Monkey's Paw" (The Lady of the Barge, 1902), was one of the most popular English humorists of the early twentieth century. His stories, many of them amusing tales of life along t...
Police charged a Lancaster Township woman Tuesday with a Christmas Eve 2003 bank robbery in which the suspect fled in a taxi. Police said the woman confessed to the crime Sunday while in prison for violating probation. Terissa Danette Potts, 32, was arraigned Tuesday...
BRITAIN'S top restaurants have been accused of trading on their famous chef s and accolades to make diners pay over the odds for champagne. Award-winning venues such as Heston Blumenthal's The Fat Duck and Raymond Blanc's Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons have...
Today is Thursday, Oct. 25, the 298th day of 2007. There are 67 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Oct. 25, 1854, the "Charge of the Light Brigade" took place during the Crimean War as an English brigade of more than 600 men,...
