Tim Prudente

Baltimore school district officials plan to deploy a team trained in counseling methods across the city Thursday to layoff teachers for the first time in a decade.

Herbert Michael Sr., a Navy veteran and insurance agent who found his passion in retirement volunteering with Howard County police, died of dementia last Monday in hospice care in Southern Maryland.

A 15-year old boy was arrested while leaving school Friday and charged in a series of armed robberies this month in Federal Hill, police said.

Three top jobs in special eduction for Baltimore city schools have been vacant for months, drawing concern from disability activists.

Two decades of University of Maryland, Baltimore County commencements at Royal Farms Arena ended Thursday with 1,300 students receiving their degrees.

Some 1,500 Hopkins students graduated Wednesday at Royal Farms Arena in Baltimore, and Bruni urged them in his commencement speech to hold fast to their friends and families.

It's a long journey from the Upper West bushland of Ghana to the campus of Johns Hopkins University, and the path was neither straight nor certain for the boy whose name meant "beloved by his ancestors." They called him Kpiemenongme Mwinnyaa.

Members of the city school board voted unanimously Tuesday to approve a budget for next school year that cuts $30 million from schools, $10 million from the central office and would layoff as many as 300 people district-wide.

A bail review hearing is set for Monday afternoon for the University of Maryland student charged with killing a Bowie State student Saturday in College Park.

Five Baltimore principals will be honored Monday night in the second annual "Heart of the School Awards" for their work serving students and strengthening school communities.

William C. Newman Jr., a longtime auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Baltimore, who oversaw the Catholic schools and chose the priesthood over a chance to play professional baseball, died Saturday of heart failure at Mercy Ridge retirement community in Timonium. He was 88 years old.

Hopkins announces 3.5 percent tuition hike for fifth straight year

Howard County school board members voted unanimously Thursday to extend a contract with their new superintendent Michael Martirano through next school year.

Johns Hopkins University and the Community College of Baltimore County have been awarded a combined $1.725 million to partner on humanities education, the community college announced Thursday.

A man was shot in his lower body in Parkville Thursday night, county police said.

Two adults and a young child were seriously injured in a crash during the Thursday evening commute in Essex, authorities said.

Police said they don't know if a Baltimore man intended to photograph himself on a stolen iPad. But when the computer automatically sent his photo to an internet storage program, officers were able to identify the suspected thief.

As City Council members consider ways to divert more money to Baltimore schools, district officials said Tuesday it's too late to prevent layoffs for as many as 300 teachers and administrators.

After 14 months of negotiations, Baltimore's school board and teachers union are at an impass in negotiations and have asked that a mediator take over.

City Council members say they want to know more about plans by Baltimore school administrators to lay off as many as 300 people to balance a $1.31 billion budget next year.

James Stevens Jr., a financial planner in Baltimore known as "Big Jim" for his 6 foot 5 bearing, and who became the content old guard of the Homeland neighborhood, died Thursday of cancer.

Baltimore city schools CEO Sonja Santelises proposed cutting more than 300 jobs from teachers to central office administrators in her budget plan released Friday.

Baltimore city schools CEO Sonja Santelises is scheduled to announce this evening a $1.31 billion budget proposal for next year that represents a 2.6 percent annual decrease and includes $30 million in cuts to schools.

Baltimore city school officials say continued discussions with union leaders has caused them to push back until Friday the release of their full budget proposal for next year.

And four months later, on Sunday morning, nearly 2,000 people walked through Southeast Baltimore, raising an estimated $625,000 for research into premature births and infant mortality.

Programs to help traumatized, needy and disabled children make up more than one-quarter of the $1.3 billion budget for the Baltimore city school district, consultants found.

The Howard County school board has agreed to pay its new acting superintendent a prorated salary equal to $270,000 a year at least through June. The board also agreed Thursday to reimburse Michael Martirano up to $120 a day for temporary housing, give him an $800 monthly car allowance, and pay reasonable expenses for his computer and cellphone, according to the contract.

Determined to see their superintendent step down, the Howard County school board has agreed to pay the salary of retiring superintendent Renee Foose for the next three years.

Christine O'Connor said she resigned Wednesday from the Howard County school board, one day after the seven-member panel brought about the departure of superintendent Renee Foose.

Embattled Howard County schools superintendent Renee Foose has told some principals and executive staff that she will resign immediately, sources told The Baltimore Sun on Tuesday.

Students at the Baltimore School for the Arts walked out of class Monday in protest of a $400,000 budget cut handed down by Baltimore city public schools.

A crowd of amateur photographers and painters lingered Sunday morning within this oasis of Baltimore street art, a highlight on a new walking tour of the city's public art.

The treatment, a complex combination of immunology and engineering, earned Tostanoski, 26, a prestigious Lemelson-MIT Student Prize this month. She won $15,000 for her medical invention to reverse symptoms of debilitating autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis. Her novel approach has shown promise of elevating the field toward treatments that have long eluded researchers.

Maryland high schools have been ranked the best in the nation for the third year in a row by U.S. News and World Report.

Five months later, the superintendent and school board are locked in a costly lawsuit. The rivals have reached an impasse over nearly $150,000 in heavily redacted legal bills. And the escalating tension has widened a rift between central office staff and elected board members in Howard County.

The sixth-generation farmer sold her pork Sunday morning to open the market's 40th season, just as her great-grandfather sold beans on the market's first day in July 1977. Back then, a dozen farmers sold tomatoes, corn and greens to fewer than 2,000 people on opening day.

Since cybersecurity courses emerged more than a decade ago, Maryland colleges have led the nation in this burgeoning field of academia. The techie groundswell has given rise to novel courses, cybersecurity dorms in College Park and plans for network-insulated classrooms in Annapolis.

A Baltimore County middle school teacher is charged with sexually abusing a minor after police say he performed sexual acts with a 13-year-old female student in his classroom.

A 30-year-old man was stabbed to death by a fellow inmate Saturday afternoon in a recreation area at an Allegany County prison, state police said.

One man was killed and two others wounded in separate shootings in Baltimore early Sunday, police said.

Large health care providers and teaching hospitals face greater risk of having their medical records stolen by hackers, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Democrats are asking state elections officials to investigate whether an appointee of Gov. Larry Hogan broke campaign laws by fundraising for the governor during the General Assembly session.

A 26-year-old coach and hall monitor at an East Baltimore school has been charged with the second-degree rape of a 13-year-old student, Baltimore Police said Wednesday.

Baltimore police said they will increase patrols in Federal Hill after a 61-year-old woman was assaulted by a teenage girl after dismissal last week at Digital Harbor High School.

Federal investigators have identified "deficiencies" in the way Baltimore and Maryland school officials vet school bus operators and are urging reforms in light of a deadly 2016 crash involving a driver who suffered an apparent seizure.

In its second year, Light City extended over nine days that challenged artists and organizers with maintaining an electric festival in the rain.

A city firefighter was met with gunshots after stopping to help a driver who crashed Saturday afternoon in South Baltimore, police said.

Baltimore City schools chief Sonja Santelises said Tuesday she will have to lay off employees despite commitments by state and city leaders to help fill a

A 16-year-old boy at an East Baltimore high school was charged Tuesday with child pornography and a surveillance charge after police said he shared video of himself having sex with a girl in the bathroom.

W. Byron Forbush II, the longest-serving headmaster of Baltimore's Friends School, whose tenure oversaw the social unrest of the 1960s, the school's enrollment double and the budget increase twenty-fold, died Thursday after an illness at his home in Lutherville.