The $3.8 trillion budget blueprint President Obama plans to submit to Congress on Monday calls for billions of dollars in new spending to combat persistently high unemployment and bolster a battered middle class. But it also would slash funding for hundreds of programs and raise taxes on banks an…

Super Bowl XLIV kicks off in Miami next Sunday, and Howard County resident David Silverstein is in South Florida, working for the city’s host committee on the zillion off-the-field details that go into making the huge event a success.

PONTIAC, MICH. — Once this city had its own car, 23,000 busy factory workers and the $55.7 million Silverdome, a storied Teflon-coated stadium where the Detroit Lions played, Elvis Presley sang, WrestleMania’s Hulk Hogan stalked and Pope John Paul II prayed.