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Dorothy E. Marvel, a retired librarian and inveterate gardener, died Nov. 19 at Stella Maris Hospice of ovarian cancer. She was 84.

The season of holiday entertainment is upon us, and nowhere in the county is this more evident than at Anne Arundel Community College, where the Robert E. Kauffman Theater is poised to host holiday entertainment from the AACC Dance Company to AACC choruses on weekends through Dec. 20.

The Indianapolis Colts worked out tight end Mike Flacco on Tuesday, according to a source.

Profile of St, Mary's Outreach Center in Hampden, a longtime resource for low-income seniors, and its director, Sandy Simmons. This will be the cover story of Nov. 27 (Share Your Blessings issue), and the peg is that the organization will be holding its Fifth Annual Friendraiser gala on Dec. 2.

Elaine L. Thorpe, a longtime church organist and choir director at the Dundalk United Methodist Church, died Oct. 16 at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson of Alzheimer's disease. She was 87.

Dunbar¿s dynamic junior quarterback Zionnez Spencer usually leaves opposing coaches frustrated.

Dr. Norman Highstein, a dentist who was a partner in McDonogh Dental Associates and whose hobby was horticulture, died Nov. 2 at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson of renal cancer. He was 88.

Baltimore County police say they took a 911 caller to a local hospital for evaluation after he reported that someone pointed a gun at him on the Essex campus of the Community College of Baltimore County, but officers could find no gunman.

The Jacksonville Jaguars cut tight end Mike Flacco from the team's practice squad Monday.

Hereford football coach Ric Evans first playoff game is one he will remember ¿ for all the wrong reasons.

Dr. Charles R. Morrison, a former Polytechnic Institute teacher who later joined the faculty of what is now the Community College of Baltimore County at Catonsville, died Nov. 2 at the Little Sisters of the Poor-St. Martins Home in Catonsville. He was 84.

After courtship with New Year's Eve bookends, the marriage countdown is over

Millennial disgruntlement about their future job prospects is palpable and substantially different from past semesters. Students worry that Maryland doesn't offer them an opportunity to work at a job where they walk away with a large enough portion of the economic pie to make their education efforts worthwhile. We call that opportunity cost in economics. The best antidote for this anguish is economic growth to expand the economic pie. The question today is what will Governor-Elect Larry Hogan do

Republican candidate for governor Larry Hogan walked up and down Frederick Road in Catonsville on Tuesday afternoon, shaking hands to win over voters and edge out his Democratic competition — Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown.

Rebecca L. Lowery, who had worked in development and alumni relations for the last decade at the Johns Hopkins University, was killed Wednesday when a tree fell on her car while driving on Falls Road. She was 52.

Candidates running for two seats representing District 42B in the House of Delegates cite rain tax, a friendly business climate and property rights of farmers as key issues in the newly redistricted district that stretches from Joppa Road to North Baltimore County.

Heartlights, an interdemominational religion class for special needs adults, has been going on for more than 50 years at Towson Presbyterian Church

On Monday, the average price per gallon in Maryland stood at $3.08, 11 cents down from a week ago and 24 cents below a month ago, according to driver advocacy group AAA Mid-Atlantic. The last time Maryland's average gas price was this low was in January 2011.

The Jacksonville Jaguars have signed tight end Mike Flacco, according to a source.

Sherlock Holmes fans from Pennsylvania to Virginia have found their way to the monthly dinner meetings of Watson's Tin Box for 25 years. The group has nearly doubled in size as younger fans and more women have joined.

On Saturday, Oct. 11, from 2 to 4 p.m., the Howard County Historical Society and Ellicott Mills Brewing Co. are hosting a free lecture, "Howard County and the Great Railroad Strike of 1877," presented by Community College of Baltimore County retired Professor Bill Barry, author of the new book, "The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 in Baltimore".

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In its second year at Pigtown¿s Carroll Park, The Shindig Music Festival is a rock show in the broad tradition of the national festival movement that provides distinctly Baltimorean.

Thomas L. Kitchner Jr., a recently retired Baltimore Sun employee who earlier had worked at Westinghouse Electric Corp., died Sunday at Maryland Shock Trauma of complications from a fall. He was 66.

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Robert Gately Keenan Sr., a retired Baltimore County public schools agriculture teacher who was a Roman Catholic deacon, died of a brain tumor Tuesday at Stella Maris Hospice. The Parkville resident was 77.

The two men accused by police of killing a rival gang member and a bystander in downtown Baltimore were ordered held without bond.

Elizabeth M. Solter, an accomplished equestrian and horse trainer who had been a member of the U.S. Equestrian Team, died Sept. 12 at her Berlin farm of breast cancer. She was 47.

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News and events from around Baltimore County

On Tuesday her acrobatic gymnastics crew, AcroArmy, was scheduled to compete as one of the final 12 teams on the NBC prime time television show "America's Got Talent." Three of the 18 AcroArmy team members reign from the Baltimore area: Twenty-year-old Emily Ruppert, 18-year-old Chrissy Antoniades of Sykesville and 15-year-old Hannah Silverman of Clarksville.

This week on Crime Scene Matt Jablow looks at the murder of Devin Cook, a young man who was a leader in the classroom and on the lacrosse field at the Community College of Baltimore County in Catonsville.

On Tuesday her acrobatic gymnastics crew, AcroArmy, was scheduled to compete as one of the final 12 teams on the NBC prime time television show "America's Got Talent." Three of the 18 AcroArmy team members reign from the Baltimore area: Twenty-year-old Emily Ruppert of Arbutus, 18-year-old Chrissy Antoniades of Sykesville and 15-year-old Hannah Silverman of Clarksville.

The Towson branch of the Baltimore County Public Library has issued an invitation to Meet the Author during a continuing speaker series geared to senior citizens this fall. The four, hour-long programs sponsored by the Friends of Towson Library will feature former Sun writers Rafael Alvarez and Michael Olesker; Master bugler and "Taps" historian Jari Villaneuva and Ruxton writer Evan L. Balkan, lover of all things Baltimore and a writing teacher.

The Rev. Dr. L. Carroll Yingling Jr., a retired United Methodist Church minster and former superintendent of the Baltimore Northwest District, died Aug. 23 at the Charlestown retirement community of cancer. He was 87.

Robert J. Lyden Jr., a retired Baltimore water technician and volunteer, died Friday at Stella Maris Hospice of pancreatic cancer. He was 64.

The Fifth District Volunteer Fire Department begins a new season of country breakfasts on Sept. 14, from 8 a.m. until noon, in the Ten Oaks Ballroom.

Val Jean Slowinski, a retired Towson University professor who had been active in Cockpit in Court Theater in Essex for more than two decades, died Wednesday at Atlantic General Hospital in Berlin of a stroke. She was 78.

The San Diego Chargers are cutting tight end Mike Flacco, according to a source.

United Way of Central Maryland announced the addition of 11 new members to its board of directors and 10 new members to its local community partnership boards.

Events and activities going on around Baltimore County.

Dunbar Brooks, who was the first African-American president of the Baltimore County school board and later served as the president of the Maryland State Board of Education, died Sunday. Mr. Brooks was 63. His daughter, Cheryl Brooks, confirmed his death.

Chaos wins with pitching and defense

Baltimore police officials have replaced the commander of the homicide unit as two high-profile cases remain unsolved amid a recent spate of violence that saw a murder a day.

More than from any other school district in the state, Baltimore students' test scores have pushed them into noncredit remedial courses that they must take before college-level classes, according to new data from the Maryland Higher Education Commission.

Matthew T. Kellermann, a computer systems analyst and a lifelong baseball fan, died Aug. 1 of a heart attack at his Ellicott City home. He was 53.

Devin Cook's community college lacrosse coach said that the 20-year-old, a business major who was active in lacrosse leagues around the city, wanted to use sports as a way of getting a scholarship and completing college.