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While those in the financial industry say that the interest rate increase the Federal Reserve announced last week – a quarter of a percentage point – might not matter much, next year and the year after could be a different story. - Elayne Cohen joins Carroll Health Group General Surgery
- If we want to make our children competitive, the best advantage we can give them is the ability to concentrate and to become deep-thinking problem-solvers, not digital drones.
- We're raising millions of kids to be smart and kind, but also fragile. And what happens when large numbers of these delicate little flowers are set free to navigate their way through life? They demand "safe spaces," "trigger warnings" and written rules for sexual relations.
- 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.
- The Rev. Richard D. Thompson Sr., a retired United Methodist minister and certified public accountant, died Saturday of complications from vascular dementia at Sunrise Assisted Living in Frederick. He was 86.
- Two Baltimore institutions will share in $11 million in new funding from the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention aimed at preventing the spread of germs, which continues to be both a deadly and costly problem in health care settings.
- The Rev. Jamal H. Bryant, the influential Baltimore pastor who announced his candidacy for Congress last week, is set to drop out of the contest on Wednesday, multiple sources with knowledge of his decision told The Baltimore Sun.
- The Rev. Jamal H. Bryant, an influential pastor of a Baltimore mega-church, said Monday he will run for the House seat currently held by Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, arguing that the city needs new leadership in Washington.
- Gov. Larry Hogan has appointed two business executives as the newest members of the Maryland Port Commission, which is charged with keeping Baltimore's port competitive within the international maritime industry, officials said Wednesday.
- Each year the Chronicle of Higher Education publishes their Almanac of Higher Education report containing interesting statistics on faculty, students, and higher education in general, along with some basic college data per state. The report has all sorts of interesting statistics about American colleges and universities.
- The Carroll Community College nursing program will soon participate in their second Duke University-led research study, which tests the best way to learn cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
- Those who know Bree Newsome — who climbed the flagpole in front of South Carolina State House to remove the Confederate flag on Saturday — aren't surprised by the young woman's bold step. Even as a student at Columbia's Oakland Mills High School, she stood out for her accomplishments and leadership, former classmates said.
- Those who know Bree Newsome — who climbed the flagpole in front of South Carolina State House to remove the Confederate flag on Saturday — aren't surprised by the young woman's bold step. Even as a student at Columbia's Oakland Mills High School, she stood out for her accomplishments and leadership, former classmates said.
- Dr. John H. "Jack" Hebb, a retired gynecologist whose practice spanned more than 40 years, died Monday of multiple-organ failure at the Brightwood retirement community in Lutherville. He was 91.
- Rasheed Sulaimon is going to play basketball for the University of Maryland. http He is a very good basketball player and will likely help the Terps in their quest for a national championship, but he comes with a troubling cloud hanging over his head. Mr. Sulaimon was dismissed in January from Duke University's basketball program for "unspecified reasons" and had earlier been accused of sexual assault.
- Eighty years after graduating from a segregated school in Oklahoma, Vivian Bailey has taken the field trip of a lifetime. The 97-year-old Columbia, Md., resident — who for more than a decade has been raising money for Howard County students — met with President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden in the Oval Office on Tuesday.
- City Councilman Nick J. Mosby visited several high schools Friday to connect the teens with a group of people he knew would get their attention: Baltimore-bred rappers.
- he maker of a web application that helps students find college scholarships has won a business competition chaired by Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank.
- John Herbert "Jack" Heller, a founding partner of Insurance Service Group and former Jewish Community Center president, died.
- Baltimore needs to provide summer opportunities for high-achievers, too.
- Nancy W. Kiehne, an artist and homemaker, died March 20 at the Edenwald retirement community of cancer. She was 90.
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- Medical school seniors in Baltimore and across the country on Friday opened envelopes or checked their email to find out whether on "Match Day" the fates and a computerized algorithm smiled on their plans for their futures as doctors in the largest year yet for medical residency applicants and positions offered.
- John H. "Jack" Somerville, a retired Baltimore attorney who had been a partner in Whiteford Taylor & Preston LLP, died.
- Dr. Cliff Ratliff Jr., a retired Baltimore internist who had been director of nuclear medicine at St. Agnes Hospital, died.
- Robert H. Chambers III, whose tenure as the seventh president of McDaniel College was marked by a renovated campus, increased enrollment, and expansion abroad, died.
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- The debate over the merits of stream restoration has taken on added significance, as such projects have become a favored tool of local governments in the Baltimore area for meeting increasingly tough federal mandates to reduce the sediment and nutrient pollution fouling the bay and its tributaries.
- Within days of arriving at Duke University for medical school, Dr. Angela Poppe Ries, now 36, found the inspiration for her career.
- Carroll Hospital Center announced the appointment of Helen W. Whitehead as the new chair of the hospital's Board of Directors and Jeffrey Wothers as the new vice chair of the board. Both began their posts Oct. 1.
- 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.
- Three campus police departments in Maryland now own surplus military gear ranging from "riot-type" shotguns to M16 rifles to an armored truck under a Defense Department program that's sparked new controversy this month.
- Dr. Steven S. Hsiao, a Johns Hopkins scientist who studied how the brain perceives the shape, size and texture of three-dimensional objects, died of lung cancer June 16 at Hopkins Hospital.
- 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.
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- Yerby R. Holman, a retired Western Maryland Railway executive and World War II veteran who had been active in civic and church affairs, died Sunday of complications from a stroke at the Fairhaven retirement community. He was 98.
- Nolan H. Rogers, a former lacrosse star who later became a Maryland assistant attorney general and the official tour guide and historian of Oriole Park at Camden Yards and Ravens Stadium, died Friday of complications from cancer at Sinai Hospital. The longtime Mount Washington resident was 82.
- A few months after adopting a kitten, David Grimm and his fiancee huddled in the waiting room of a Towson emergency vet late one evening.
- Maryland regulators are weighing some of the strictest limits in the country on shale gas drilling, but a scientist Monday suggested they still may not go far enough to protect drinking water wells from contamination by methane leaking from drilling sites.
- Children from Mills-Parole Elementary and St. Anne's School in Annapolis spent a day exploring the South River on Tuesday.
