Tim Prudente
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Two men were shot and wounded overnight Saturday, a 25-year-old in Poppleton of West Baltimore and 27-year-old in Howard Park of Northwest Baltimore, police said. - NASA will spend $87.5 million over the next five years to continue a research partnership with five universities including University of Maryland, Baltimore County and University of Maryland, College Park, the universities announced Thursday.
- The Today show brings a rare opportunity to elevate this mid-sized, 165-year-old Jesuit college to a national audience. Just imagine: Families across the country will watch whooping crowds of green and gray, and a segment on the Loyola tradition of midnight breakfast in the dining hall. And it arrives as Loyola stands at a crossroads; the university has struggled to attract students and sustain its liberal arts identity.
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An unknown gunman with dreadlocks walked up to a 23-year-old woman and opened fire without warning Tuesday evening in West Baltimore, police said.
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- A 19-year-old man was shot multiple times and killed early Sunday near Druid Hill Park in Northwest Baltimore, police said. Officers found the wounded man shortly after 3 a.m. at Reisterstown Road and Tioga Parkway. He died at the hospital.
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The family of a Hampden man who is charged with fatally stabbing a black man in Manhattan, in what police called a racially motivated attack, condemned the
- Baltimore City Council President Bernard C. "Jack" Young is pledging to do something not attempted in years: cut the city police budget.
- Members of the Baltimore County school board acknowledged racial inequality persists in their schools and reaffirmed Tuesday night their ongoing work to make the schools equal.
- Baltimore principals have agonized over their next budgets, cutting arts classes, tutors and librarians to prepare for an impending $130 million deficit across city schools. Now, they face more decisions: What to buy back?
- The former principal of an alternative high school in South Baltimore has been indicted on charges of stealing more than $13,000 from a school account — proceeds from the sales of school uniforms, class dues, graduation fees — and withdrawing the cash from an ATM at Maryland Live Casino, state prosecutors said.
- A man was sitting in his car outside the Airport Bar & Grill in Dundalk Sunday night when he was shot in his head and hand, police said. About three hours later, another driver was shot in his shoulder while sitting at a red light in West Baltimore.
- Dr. Kathleen Galbraith, a nursing professor in Baltimore who refused to let her students, many of them immigrants and working parents, be deterred by the barriers to an education — whether time, money or even border agents — died Tuesday at her home in Harford County.
- "People like to root for the underdog," said Kirby Runyon, a Johns Hopkins University graduate student behind renewed efforts to restore Pluto's lost title.
- "People like to root for the underdog," said Kirby Runyon, a Johns Hopkins University graduate student behind renewed efforts to restore Pluto's lost title.
- The snowfall overnight Monday likely capped a far different winter — the fifth-least snowy on record — and with few snow days to makeup, children are poised for about three full months of summer.
- Baltimore County police shot and wounded three suspected robbers late Monday night in Woodlawn as the men drove their car at the officers, police said Tuesday.
- University of Maryland University College has been designated as a military-friendly online university with nearly 70 other colleges by the nonprofit SR Education Group.
- Baltimore police have named two recent homicide vicitms and said a third man was shot in his back and wounded early Monday.
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Monsignor Robert Armstrong, the longest-serving rector at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in North Baltimore, died of heart failure March 1 at the Stella Ma
- Nearly 30 people have sued Spirit Cruises LLC over the crash last August during a midnight party ride through the Inner Harbor.
- Nearly 30 people have sued Spirit Cruises LLC over the crash last August during a midnight party ride through the Inner Harbor.
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Baltimore Police Commissioner
- Elliot Hirshman, who has run San Diego State University for the past six years, has been selected as the next president of Steveson University.
- Across Baltimore, public school principals confront lean budgets for next school year. And they have each planned their own austerity measures under a district-wide $130 million shortfall.
- More than 200 students at Eastern Technical High School in Essex held a peaceful protest in the school Thursday morning to denounce a racial slur scratched in the dirt on a baseball field, school officials said.
- A 29-year-old man was killed Wednesday morning when his Honda Pilot veered off the road and struck a tree in Ellicott City, Howard County police said.
- Attorneys building a case against Baltimore police are asking the court to force the department to name officers who shot a boy carrying a toy gun last year and arrested his mother.
- Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh, city schools CEO Sonja Santelises and members of the Baltimore delegation to Annapolis are scheduled to announce Monday afternoon results of their efforts to shrink a $130 million budget deficit facing the city school district next year.
- Ravens safety and pending free agent Matt Elam was arrested early Sunday morning in Miami, and he now faces multiple drug charges.
- But with the 2006 lawsuit back in federal court, the costs are piling up again for the Maryland Higher Education Commission. The commission has spent more than $2.2 million defending itself in the lawsuit, according to records provided to The Baltimore Sun under a Public Information Act request.
- A boisterous crowd of Baltimore students, parents and teachers crowded Lawyers Mall in Annapolis on Thursday night to press for more funding for city schools.
- Teachers at one Baltimore City School reported en mass Wednesday that they were taking sick leave, the school system said.
- Maryland's decade-long reign as the state with the greatest percentage of students to pass an Advanced Placement test has come to an end.
- Maryland's decade-long reign as the state with the greatest percentage of students to pass an Advanced Placement test has come to an end.
- Two men were shot Sunday in the parking lot of Hip Hop Fish & Chicken across from Druid Hill Park.
- Morgan and Coppin state universities and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore have joined a
- For the second day, tourists and Maryland families crowded the Inner Harbor to celebrate spring weather one month early.
- Baltimore police continue to search for a Cherry Hill mother and daughter who went missing this month under suspicious circumstances.
- Baltimore school officials are asking state and city lawmakers for $65 million to shrink their $130 million budget deficit and avert the possible layoff or more than 1,000 employees. But schools CEO Sonja Santelises said she has "no firm commitments" from Annapolis or City Hall.
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A special education teacher at Milford Mill Academy has been charged with using his cell phone to record students changing at the school,
Police have arrested and charged a 27-year-old man suspected in a shooting late last month in the parking garage of Horseshoe Casino Baltimore. The emergence of a splinter community association is not unique to the South Baltimore neighborhood. More than 800 civic associations claim to represent the city's 225 neighborhoods, and Pigtown's tussle may be just another dust-up in backyard politics. But it also reveals the rising stock of a historic neighborhood that's seen home values jump, families move in and businesses open. An inmate is suspected of killing a fellow prisoner Saturday night inside a Western Maryland prison, state police said. Alimay Kendrick, a master gardener whose artistry in the ancient Japanese styles of floral arrangements inspired students and graced her Northwest Baltimore community, died of cardiac arrest Jan. 31 at Sinai Hospital. She was 94. A Northwest Baltimore man has been arrested after police said he fired a gun to intimidate his neighbor during a fight over a parking space Friday night. In a study published last month in the journal Cell Reports, Kwon says he's discovered an answer in an unlikely place: newborn rats. Two children suffered minor injuries when their school bus crashed head-on with another car Thursday morning in Randallstown, Baltimore County officials said. After spring-like weather that shattered a record set more than half a century ago, the Baltimore area is seeing snow that could snarl Thursday’s commute. Buckle up as the next 36 hours are going to be a the wild weather swing as we'll go from spring to winter in about 12 hours on Wednesday. Albert Copp, an unassuming planner who shepherded development of the Inner Harbor, shaping a waterfront of abandoned warehouses and rotting piers into Baltimore's showpiece, died Thursday of pancreatic cancer at his home in Roland Park.
