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Baltimore-area high school football scores for Oct. 12, 2012

Fort McHenry holds its first maritime and musical education experience for city schoolchildren as the 1814 Battle of Baltimore was re-enacted Tuesday.

Baltimore-area high school football scores for Sept. 28, 2012

Loyola's Jeremy and Michael DeGraffenreidt too much for Mount St. Joseph, 3-0, in high school boys soccer

New regulations let Owings Mills couple program unmanned aerial vehicle to shoot photos

students at Charlesmont Elementary marked the 198th anniversary of the Battle of Fort McHenry Friday by unfurling a replica of the flag that flew over the fort 198 years ago to the day.

Varsity fall 2012 polls for football, boys and girls soccer, field hockey, volleyball and cross country.

Charles Carroll, who of course was a Revolutionary War era figure and signer of the Declaration of Independence, but the story also had ties to two other wars:

It's this Sunday, Sept. 9. Congratulations to all my readers who happen to be grandparents! Remember yours. Sept. 11, Tuesday, is Patriot Day and the National Day of Remembrance. Celebrate First Fridays in downtown Havre de Grace today (Friday), 5 to 9 p.m. sponsored by Havre de Grace Main Street

The Bel Air Bobcats field hockey team earned a season opening victory Friday, blanking host Perryville 1-0. C. Milton Wright, Joppatowne and Fallston also won their first games of the season, while Patterson Mill dropped its opener.

Mount Hebron starts season at No. 1 in poll, but the race to the top is wide open

The road back to respectability continues for Francis Scott Key. Following consecutive playoff appearances from 2004-06 and a near-miss in 2007, the Eagle program has fallen to the bottom of the county. ...

Assistant principal of Roland Park Elementary/Middle will be acting principal for the coming school year while the system finds a successor to Carolyn Cole, who retired.

Star-Spangled Sailabration events helped draw visitors to the historic property.

Judges spread along the parade route of the Catonsville Fourth of July Parade voted St. Mark School's entry the best float in the parade and handed out several other awards.

Claims that the U.S. was the aggressor in 1812 show a poor command of the facts and context.

America was neither innocent victim nor bloodthirsty aggressor in 1812.

The U.S. had legitimate, long-standing grievances that led to war with Britain

Once an accountant, native Caroll County resident Shane Hughes returned to his roots to found Liberty Delight Farms, an all-natural meat producer in Reisterstown.

As part of its 32nd summer season, McBride Gallery presents a solo exhibit honoring plein air impressionist painter Bill Schmidt. The exhibit, featured in the annual Annapolis Summer Salon shows, runs July 8-29. The Rockville-based artist for 25 years has displayed his work at McBride Gallery.

With limited materials, a patriotic theme and their own ingenuity, students at The Harbour School put together their ninth annual Fourth of July parade of floats Tuesday.

The conflict was an unjust war started by the Americans

Disgraced collector Barry H. Landau was sentenced to seven years in federal prison Wednesday for stealing thousands of historic documents worth as much as $2.5 million from archives along the East Coast, including Baltimore, where the scheme unraveled last summer.

On the 200th anniversary of the U.S. declaration of war on Britain and its colonies, representatives of the former belligerents gathered at Fort McHenry to sign a "declaration of peace."

The first fort to occupy what is now Fort McHenry, was the hastily constructed Fort Whetstone that rose during 1776, to repulse any possible British waterborne attack.

A dramatic air show by the Blue Angels marked the crescendo of festivities for the Star-Spangled Sailabration from Fort McHenry to Fells Point on Saturday.

Ellicott City's ShowTime Singers hit all the right notes. Baltimore's Sailabration is the latest stage for the Howard County choral group with nearly 50 members.

Several hundred who marked Flag Day in Baltimore by gathering to marry a piece of the banner Pickersgill was commissioned to make by the U.S. Army for the War of 1812 with the National 9/11 Flag.

Statewide events recall Maryland's pivotal role in the War of 1812.

Ships have begun arriving for the Star-Spangled Sailabration, Loyola lacrosse player Adam Pomper dies, Fells Point fire cleanup begins.

Old and battered Baltimore buoy gets some love before Sailabration commemoration of the War of 1812.

Breaking news in Baltimore includes I'll Have Another scratching from the Belmont, continuing fish kills in the Inner Harbor and a drought watch for most of Maryland.

The War of 1812 gave Americans a confirmed sense of national sovereignty and propelled Andrew Jackson into the presidency. It gave the Navy a motto: "Don't give up the ship." And it gave us our national anthem.

Baltimore, Toronto orchestras to premiere Philip Glass work for 1812 bicentennial

Fort McHenry expecting large crowds during Sailabration

Baltimore will launch its commemoration of the War of 1812 by land, sea and air this week, starting with parachute jumps into Camden Yards and a parade of tall ships into the harbor. The history-filled week features music, fireworks and an air show over Fort McHenry.

Amid a flurry of international flags, thunderous fireworks and rowdy pirates, Baltimore invited the world to its star-spangled salute to the bicentennial of the War of 1812 next week.

War of 1812 battlefields and other historic sites in Maryland could get a boost from legislation pending in Congress that would give the U.S. Department of Interior power to acquire the properties for preservation. Currently the federal government may do so only for Civil War battlefields.

Spring is often associated with a sense of rebirth and resurgence, and in Carroll County, no sports program has seen that come to life like Liberty High School.