Mike Gravel joins Libertarian Party

Libertarians are no Right-wingers!

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Raytracing ioquake3

Stephan Reiter has developed a renderer for the open source Quake 3 engine called ioquake3. This renderer doesn't just add fancy graphics, it turns the entire game into a real time raytraced landscape.

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Washington's Starting Rotation Set

In two consecutive starts, the Washington Nationals' young left-handers John Lannan and Matt Chico showed anyone who may have wondered, why the Nationals were willing to part with John Patterson, and enter the '08 season with the one of the two second-year pros and in the starting rotation.

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Prince George's Firms Get Tiny Piece of Harbor Pie

Of the 361 contracts issued to build the massive National Harbor development, only 12 went to minority-owned businesses in Prince George's County, despite an agreement aimed at bringing more business to county firms.

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Huge Catfish Caught in Potomac Sets State Record

Ron Lewis of Point of Rocks, Md., landed a 67.1-pound blue catfish in the Potomac River Sunday. "When we brought the catfish alongside the boat we quickly realized that we needed a larger landing net; so we had to haul the fish into the boat by hand," said Lewis.

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