NEWBERY DIVES AND BINGS UP GOLD
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Chantelle Newbery has jumped into sporting history by winning Australiaâs first Olympic diving gold medal since 1924 in the women&#39;s 10 metre platform in Athens.
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A Baltimore librarianâs classroom project is now part of publishing history. "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices From a Medieval Village," first conceived a decade ago by Laura Amy Schlitz, is this yearâs winner of the John Newbery Medal for best chil...
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American swimmer Michael Phelps grabbed a fourth gold at the Athens Olympics Thursday with a clear victory in the 200 meters medley and gold for 16-year-old gymnast Carly Patterson leveled the US with China at 14 ...
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ATHENS Capping a perfect year, Sarah Ulmer of New Zealand set a stunning world record and won Olympic gold to add to her world title in the three-kilometer pursuit on Sunday.
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American swimmer Michael Phelps grabbed  a fourth gold at the Athens Olympics Thursday with a clear  victory in the 200 meters medley and gold for 16-year-old  gymnast Carly Patterson leveled the U.S. with China at 14 each.
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Reviewer Yvonne Zipp skates through Nick Hornby's new novel and tackles fiction from Ivo Stourton, Jennifer Lee Carrell, and Missouri native Valerie Martin.
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ATHENS -- Hardened by grueling hill work in the Swiss mountains and undeterred by the punishing Athens heat, Mizuki Noguchi seized a second straight gold medal for Japan in the women's Olympic marathon yesterday.
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Comps are on the slide, as competitors appear to be gaining the upper hand.
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KELLY HOLMES&#39; last-minute gamble was rewarded with a glorious gold medal last night as she stormed to the Olympic 800m title in Athens.
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Britain's Kelly Holmes storms to a sensational Olympic 800m gold.
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Michael Phelps has proven he is the best swimmer ever -- in and out of the pool. Yesterday, the 6-ft. 5-in. 19-year-old from Baltimore won his sixth gold medal to add to his two bronze, making him the swimmer
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ATHENS -- In another era, say as far back as the pre-BALCO days, it would have been a wonderful moment. The host country's new hero, a rising star, sets an Olympic record, wins a gold medal, and lifts the emotions of an entire nation.
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Author Katherine  Paterson's Newbery Award-winning "Bridge to Terabithia," about  a pair of outsider school kids who create a vivid fantasy world  to deal with the frustrations in their young lives, has made  that tricky passage to the big screen faithfully intact.
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Sorting a story that's all about growth from a tall tale.
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"Pegasus Descending" (Simon &amp; Schuster, 356 pages, $26) &#151; James Lee Burke
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The game called Gold Rush promises to give away $100,000 in gold twice a week for seven weeks, culminating in a $1 million contest.
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CHANTELLE Newbery won Australia&#39;s first Olympic diving gold medal since 1924 in the women&#39;s 10m platform in Athens today. She finished with a score of 590.