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Alphonso David was named Tuesday as the new president of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ-rights organization in the U.S.

McDaniel College seniors Jack Del Nunzio, of Sykesville, and Andrew Richards, of Westminster, presented at the Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society

People in Maryland should celebrate that the state is going to abandon the PARCC standardized test. But it will not improve public education or satisfy critics of standardized testing. The only way to improve public education in Maryland is to replace the Common Core standards.

In the 200 years since Frederick Douglass’ birth, we have has seen the growth of interracial marriages and mixed-race “multiracial” identity. Nevertheless, my own exhaustive review of discrimination cases show that racially-mixed persons continue to experience discrimination today.

Commander August M. Wildberger dies

John G. Bowling, a longtime Boys' Latin School educator, died Feb. 1. He was 76.

Alvin Ailey II dancers Jessica Pinkett and Courtney Spears return to their Baltimore roots for performance at Towson University.

The Rev. Father Edward Glynn, a Jesuit priest who headed three of his order's universities as well as its Maryland Province, died of cardiac disease Saturday at the St. Claude la Colombiere Jesuit Community in North Roland Park. He was 80.

John O'Malley knows what he does helps ease the suffering of his patients and the burdens of their families. It wasn't long ago he was on the receiving end. He was inspired to become a nurse when his wife died in 2010 in hospice.

Two Carroll players will be playing for the Maryland team this year — junior pitchers Brandon Martin (Westminster) and Wes Martin (Winters Mill).

Whether it's dancers, musicians or actors, these young up-and-coming artists in the Baltimore region are eager to make their mark in the world. Here's a look at five local talented young performers rising to the top.

Howard Magazine profiles three up-and-comers in the arts: Courtney Spears, a member of elite dance company Ailey II; Sola Fadiran, winner of Howard County Arts Council¿s Rising Stars competition; and Amanda Yuan, a musical theater actress who, at 16, has multiple TV appearances under her belt.

Some of the 185 members of The John Carroll School's Class of 2015 have future plans that will take them hundreds or thousands of miles from the Bel Air campus they have called home for the past four years, but as one parent put it, they will always have a family at John Carroll.

Johns Hopkins University on Sunday sent 294 erroneous acceptance emails to students that had previously been told they were denied admission, school officials said on Wednesday.

Goucher College sent congratulatory emails to the parents of 60 applicants on March 12 telling them their children were admitted.

Some in Congress are considering whether overhead costs that totaled $172 million at Johns Hopkins University are source of cuts to spare scientific research.

Retired Carroll County Circuit Court Judge Luke K. Burns Jr., who during his years on the bench developed a reputation for being even-keeled and fair-minded and had a special affection for adoption cases, died Sunday of renal failure at Carroll Hospital Center. He was 79.

Anthony Day, who served for five years as principal at Loyola Blakefield in Towson before a short tenure as interim president, was named Wednesday as the school's president.

Parishioners of St. Nicholas Church bid farewell to the Rev. Frank Gignac, S.J. on his retirement

The Calvert School, a private day school with a nationally recognized homeschooling curriculum, will welcome a new headmaster in July, the school announced Thursday.

Petitions and similar online campaigns represent a huge shift in consumer empowerment.

Adopted by his cousin, offered a scholarship by a school he'd never heard of and plucked by the Ravens, cornerback found his way

University program under fire for pursuing pollution case

Dr. Joseph Vincent Brady, an internationally known behavioral neuroscientist and pioneer in human space research who established the department of behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, died Friday of multiple organ failure at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 89.

Dr. Joseph Vincent Brady, an internationally known behavioral neuroscientist and pioneer in human space research who established the department of behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, died Friday of multiple organ failure at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 89.

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