WASHINGTON - Barack Obama raked in $40 million in March, leaving Hillary Rodham Clinton and her $20 million in the fundraising dust and stuffing his campaign treasury so he can outspend her in the crucial Pennsylvania primary.His haul in new donations also buttressed his argument to Democratic superdelegates that he has built a vast network [...]

BOSTON - They may be pushing 40, but the New Kids are returning to the block.
The boy band New Kids on the Block, which sold 70 million albums in the 1980s and early ’90s, has reunited and plans to release a new album and go on tour. The reunion comes 20 years after the release [...]

BEIJING - More than 1,000 people have been arrested or surrendered after deadly rioting last month in the Tibetan capital, and trials will be held before May, the city’s deputy Communist Party secretary said.
The statement is an apparent sign of the government’s determination to close the book on the violence well ahead of the Beijing [...]

%26bull; R.E.M.: June 11 at Merriweather Post Pavilion
On Sale: April 4 at 10 a.m.; $40-$75
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On Sale: April 4 at noon; $49.50-$59.50

John McCain, promoting his life story with a “service to America” campaign tour, stopped yesterday at the place that service began more than half a century ago, the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s weeklong swing is designed to publicize aspects of McCain’s biography that, his strategists hope, will work to his [...]

Now that Carrie Underwood is no longer an unknown singer from Oklahoma — now that the American Idol winner has two multiplatinum albums and two Grammy awards to her name, one of the questions she gets most is:
“What does it feel like to be famous?”
How do you answer that?
“It’s just awkward,” Underwood said. “I don’t [...]

ROCKVILLE - A Maryland jury found a former Army Ranger guilty of second-degree murder yesterday in the shooting death of a fellow Ranger he had served with in Afghanistan.
Gary Smith, 25, was accused of killing Michael McQueen, 22, with a gunshot to the head in the apartment the two shared in Gaithersburg in September 2006.
Smith [...]

The kings of chess
The University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s Retrievers may have been kicked out of the NCAA’s “Big Dance” early, but they’ve made it all the way to the Final Four in chess, a feat that’s become old hat to them.
The seven-time Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess champion hosts main rival University of Texas, Dallas; [...]

ActivitiesEvents32nd Street Farmers’ Market // Open year-round, 7 a.m.-noon Saturdays at 32nd Street in Waverly. Shoppers will find fresh produce, plants, breads, ethnic foods and more. Go to 32ndstreetmarket.org.
Carroll County Home Show // More than 125 displays of home- and garden-related products and services. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday at the [...]

Playing in the Egg Babies Orchestra is like taking a crash course in Covers 101.
Once every couple of months, a core group of musicians from different Baltimore indie rock bands gets together and comes up with a list of songs to cover in a live show. Then, the musicians spend the five days before the [...]