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Beekeepers lost 38% of their colonies in the U.S. last winter, the most researchers have seen amid threats to honeybees from parasites and pesticides.

Dr. Byron Maas surveys a supply of marijuana products for dogs that lines a shelf in his veterinary clinic. They're selling well.

Q & A with Extension’s new Master Gardener Coordinator Courtney Coddington

This year, Lisa Snowden-McCray and I attended two days of Writers in Baltimore Schools’ Summer Writers’ Studio (aka camp) outside Frederick to work with...

After claiming national title, Calvert Hall marching band tackles Sugar Bowl parade

Daniel B. "Bix" Wheeler, former associate superintendent of physical facilities for Baltimore County public schools, who enjoyed refinishing antique furniture, died Feb. 16 of a brain hemorrhage at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. He was 93.

David W. Andrews, dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Education, has been tapped to head a private nonprofit university in California that caters to nontraditional students.

Plank today kicked off the annual Cupid's Cup Entrepreneurship Competition and is accepting applications from undergraduate and graduate students or recent alumni who are 30 or younger.

From the Glenelg social column: "Lee Day, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Day is spending 30 days furlough at the home of his parents, after returning from a tour of duty from Vietnam. After his furlough he will return to Fort Carlson, Colorado.

A riot that destroys local businesses sends a loud and clear message: "Your investment and businesses are not protected here."

Catherine L. "Cathy" McAuliffe, who had been an executive assistant to three St. Paul's School for Boys headmasters, died of a brain aneurysm.

Democrats have made Md. a national laughingstock

Edward H. Hooper, a retired electrical engineer and model railroader, died July 8 at St. Agnes Hospital from complications of Parkinson's disease. He was 81.

Four presidents at public research universities made a collective $9.2 million in fiscal year 2012, with the top earner of the group making much of his money because he was fired, according to a report released Sunday by the Chronicle of Higher Education.

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Morgan State University's board of regents has voted not to renew President David Wilson's contract, a board member said.

Educator had been registrar and dean at Mount St. Agnes College and later was dean of the graduate school of Loyola University Maryland

The new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau seeks input on private education loans as it prepares to write a report on them for Congress.

Fifteen months into his tenure as Morgan State president, David Wilson has already steered the university into some highly visible research partnerships. But he says the university is held back by dilapidated facilities, which can only be updated with heavier investments by the state.