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After being kicked off the Virginia Tech football team in 2012, Telvion Clark leads the FCS title game-bound Tigers in tackles with 139, solo tackles with 83 and forced fumbles with five.

A Maryland legislator has filed a complaint with the Baltimore County school board's ethics panel, saying he wants them to rule on whether Superintendent Dallas Dance violated board policy when he took a part-time job with a company doing business with the school system.

Deana Parris, a trampolinist from Burtonsville, Maryland, who attends the University of Maryland, hopes hard work takes her to the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro

The State Department of Assessments and Taxation will send notices today to about 750,000 property owners whose properties were assessed for tax purposes in 2013. Statewide, residential values held steady at 1.3 percent, while commercial assessments climbed 16.3 percent compared to 2010, when this group of properties was last considered.

Shreya Nalubola collected wins at the Howard County Championship, 3A East regionals and states, on her way to a stellar junior season.

A clear case of conflict of interest

Superintendent's missteps show why county needs an elected school board

As a player in the Black Power and civil rights movements of the 1960s, even at only 25 years old, Maulana Karenga was concerned about legacy. He wanted to leave behind something that would both celebrate the accomplishments of his people and challenge them to go even further.

Tuesday night, as I was cycling through the nightly newscasts, I came upon something even I couldn't remember seeing: A last half hour of the "NewsHour" that consisted of two stories that had already aired somewhere else and one interview segment that I would be generous in describing as an infomercial for PBS.

Archbishop Spalding junior Jacob Parker is a true three-sport athlete and an old-school gamer.

Baltimore County Superintendent Dallas Dance did the right thing to quit his outside job, but his explanation for it is problematic.

Eugene Monroe is assigned the critical job each week of protecting quarterback Joe Flacco's blindside. He's graded out the highest of any Ravens offensive lineman this season and has allowed four sacks and 10 quarterback hurries in eight starts, according to Pro Football Focus.

Md.'s ruinous welfare-state mentality

Animal advocacy group PETA wants to stop federally funded research it calls "sick animal sex experiments," including Johns Hopkins studies of erectile dysfunction using rodents.

Three years after touting his medical background as he campaigned for Congress, Rep. Andy Harris is emerging as a top spokesman in opposition to Obamacare — and taking on other health policy issues as well.

Perhaps the harshness of the commission's concluding that "imprudent actions" constitute unethical behavior is part of the reason the judge found the commission's reprimand lacking in common sense.

A Harford County Circuit Court judge has overturned the Aberdeen ethics commission's ruling against city Mayor Mike Bennett for his trip to Georgia to promote the IronBirds baseball team.

Solid political satire from Garry Trudeau makes for impressive Amazon launch.

A self-described "tough old broad" with a commanding presence exceeding her 5-foot-1 frame, Carolyn Jacobi has traveled the country in response to reports of neglected burial grounds and fraudulent business practices.

I will leave it to the political reporters and analysts at The Sun to judge how Maryland Congressman Andy Harris did on CNN's "Crossfire" Monday night.

Even though Rep. Andy Harris comes from one of the bluest states in the nation, his vote against the budget deal shows he is firmly at home with the conservatives.

Hereford High students win electric car competition

There were no surprises Monday when the Laurel Board of Election Supervisors finalized the ballot for the November City Council race. The candidates on the ballot for the Nov. 5 City Council elections are John Matthews Smith and current Council members Edward Ricks and Valerie Nicholas in the Ward 1 race; Thomas Matthews and current Council members Fred Smalls and Donna Crary in the Ward 2 race; and Adrian Rousseau and current Council member Mike Leszcz in the at-large race. Voters will elect a

Impeach this Congress

The three challengers in the eight-person city council race, John Smith (Ward 1),Thomas Matthews (Ward 2) and Adrian Rousseau (at-large), were required to resubmit their financial disclosure forms by the city's Board of Elections Supervisors after the ethics commission found ommissions on their original submissions.

Currie, censured in 2012, gets Senate challenge

The Laurel City Council's monthly work session scheduled for Oct. 2 has been changed to Wednesday, Oct. 9 to accommodate a special meeting of the Laurel Ethics Commission.

All three challengers in the Laurel City Council race required to resubmit campaign forms have done so prior to the extended deadline of 5 p.m. Thursday, according to clerk of the city council Kimberly Rau.

According to board chairman John Kish, the forms for all three candidates, who were the only three of the eight council candidates to not attend the commission's meeting, lacked basic information like address, place of employment, income and debts.

Among the establishments scheduled for hearings are Canton's Portside Tavern, Phillips Seafood, The Chesapeake

American debate over intervention in Syria is curiously divorced from the desires of the people we're trying to help.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's cousin locked up a one-year contract for $65,400 to work as project manager in Baltimore's Department of General Services last week. The city's spending panel – controlled by the mayor – approved the contract for Babila Lima on Wednesday without discussion. Rawlings-Blake abstained, but city ethics policy doesn't recognize a cousin in its nepotism rules.

Auditors claims Frostburg State University broke rules in development deal

The Baltimore County Ethics Commission will not file a complaint against a Dundalk councilman who didn't disclose his outside employment – including a stint with a county schools contractor — for years, saying he took the necessary steps to correct his omissions.

Josh Pons, president of the Maryland Horse Breeders Association and a two-time Eclipse Award winning writer, shares his remarks delivered at Monday's funeral in Havre de Grace for his fellow horseman and Harford County resident Allen Murray.

An ethics complaint against Del. Joseph Vallario rises above the usual gripes about his stewardship of the House Judiciary Committee.

Henrietta Lacks had no say when Johns Hopkins doctors used her cells 60 years ago in research that led to groundbreaking medical advances, but now her descendants will.

Shirley D. Patterson, a retired chemist who earlier had taught at what is now the Community College of Baltimore County at Essex, died July 15 from a heart attack at her Chattanooga, Tenn., home. She was 68.

Life coaching isn't a new profession, but it is a growing one. The number of coaches nationwide has nearly tripled in the past 10 years, according to the International Coach Federation, the leading professional association for coaches.

The House Ethics Committee disclosed Friday it had investigated a trip to Turkey taken by an aide to Baltimore County Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger but concluded the staff member had acted in good faith and will take no further action.

The Board of Carroll County Commissioners voted unanimously Thursday to send another proposed draft of its ethics policy required by state law to the Maryland State Ethics Commission.

Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler's ideas for government transparency are a welcome start; his fellow candidates for governor should adopt them as well.

A Harford County Circuit Court judge heard arguments Tuesday from the attorneys for Aberdeen Mayor Mike Bennett and the city's ethics commission over a disputed unfavorable ruling the panel issued against the mayor in 2011.

Opponents of a major housing development proposed for Kent Island have opened a new front in their battle to stop the project — questioning the ethics of a county commissioner who supports the proposal.

Chris Wondolowski, the reigning MLS MVP, has scored five goals through three Gold Cup matches for the United States.