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Two of the up-and-coming prospects in the Orioles organization, Double-A Bowie outfielder Dariel Alvarez and first baseman Christian Walker, are both likely to be promoted to Triple-A Norfolk following the Eastern League All-Star break this week.

John H. "Jack" Zink Jr., a retired mechanical engineer and contractor, died July 3 of an apparent heart attack at the Greenspring Club. He was 95.

68th annual parade had large turnout despite rumors that the parade was canceled

Two-hour service marked the end of the historically black denomination's weeklong general conference in Baltimore.

Two-hour service marked the end of the historically black denomination's week-long general conference in Baltimore.

Scores of Carroll County residents achieve Carroll Community College's spring semester dean's list

There aren't too many dominant football players and wrestlers that are as carefree as St. Vincent Pallotti senior Antonio Santoro.

Two candidates for Anne Arundel's County Council have been named to a list of extremist candidates compiled by a national civil rights organization.

On June 19 and 20, thousands of spectators are expected to attend the third annual Shootout for Soldiers, a 24-hour lacrosse event benefiting wounded American soldiers.

Doris M. Jones, a retired social worker's aide and longtime West Baltimore resident, died June 11 of lung cancer at the University of Maryland Medical Center. She was 73.

William E. Mosley, a retired Maryland Mass Transit Administration subway motorman and World War II veteran, died June 8 of undetermined causes at Manor Care Health Services Woodbridge Valley in Catonsville. He was 90.

Gulay U. Lannon, a homemaker who enjoyed playing the piano and singing, died June 7 of cancer at her daughter's Rodgers Forge home. She was 75.

Ann Kemp Thomas, a homemaker who was a founder of Beautiful Baltimore, died of heart failure May 28 at the Keswick Multi-Care Center. She was 84 and lived in Roland Park.

The group battling with Carroll County commissioners over Christian prayers at their meetings asked a judge Tuesday to order a "permanent injunction" on the practice, which they say alienates some community members.

Harold H. Hogg, founder of a Central Maryland and Southern Pennsylvania commercial construction company who endowed the Hogg Family Chair at Duke University, his alma mater, died June 3 of leukemia at the Moorings Park retirement community in Naples, Fla.

Darlingston Johnson says his membership included lots of African immigrants, a group he says has never had a seat at the table of power.

Baltimore police plan to deploy officers around city schools until the school year ends to ensure student safety amid recent racial tensions, while school officials joined civil rights leaders to urge students of different races to peacefully resolve differences.

Towson High School's 2014 commencement ceremony was held at Towson University's SECU Arena on Saturday, May 31.

Bob Hieronimus' Charles North mural gets a facelift — and includes more symbolism

Harford Christian School administrators, parents and supporters bid farewell to the second-largest graduating class in the school's 48-year history Friday night.

Class of 2014 graduates from Oakland Mills High School

Thomas D. Washburne, a partner in the Baltimore law firm of Ober/Kaler whose legal specialty was estate planning, died Tuesday, May20, of an unknown neurological disorder at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was 86.

Each Saturday during racing season at Pimlico — including this week's Preakness — Monterrey gathers the riders for a brief service. He recites a Bible verse, then offers a prayer and God's blessing. A jockey from Venezuela who has won 740 races, Monterrey, 30, is also a youth pastor at Iglesia Cristiana Maranatha in Laurel.

Carroll County Commissioner Robin Frazier invoked the name of Jesus Christ in prayer Tuesday morning in the first meeting of the Board of County Commissioners since an injunction against sectarian prayer was lifted.

Mary Bracken Neale, a retired natal intensive care nurse and ocean sailor, died of cancer May 10 at Gilchrist Hospice Care. The Towson resident was 74.

Christopher Doyle says he doesn't think there is anything wrong with being gay. He also says people with same-sex attractions, including children, can rid themselves of those attractions through therapy, from him, on a couch in a tidy suburban home in Bowie.

If you are a mom or a grandmother, you hopefully will celebrate Sunday surrounded by loved ones

In a unanimous vote, the Carroll County Board of Commissioners on Thursday revoked an April resolution banning sectarian prayer before its meetings, and said they'll renew their practice next week allowing each commissioner a turn to open meetings with a prayer of choice.

The Supreme Court ruling on Christian prayer before local government meetings was wrongly decided; councils should stick with non-sectarian invocations anyway.