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What if Baltimore-Washington area had landed the 2012 Summer Games? - Maryland defense contractors are asking lawmakers for details on the so-called sequester — deep budget cuts, including $800 billion to defense spending, due to strike Jan. 2 because the congressional supercommittee failed last year to reach a deficit-reduction agreement.
- Mount St. Joseph guard Phil Booth has offers from 10 schools, including Maryland, Indiana, Georgetown and Villanova.
- Maryland lost 11,000 jobs in June, the fourth straight month of employment declines, the U.S. Department of Labor said Friday.
- The 6th Annual Rockfish Tournament was held last month in Port and the winners for the biggest fish were Randy Wilson, first prize of $1,125; Ed Haile, second prize of $562.50; and Lee Haile, third prize of $281.25
- The first large-scale music festival in Dover history, Firefly's inaugural lineup has something for everyone.
- A NASA animation created in Maryland shows the massive derecho storm tearing across the country July 29, while other images show the magnitude of power outages.
- A NASA animation created in Maryland shows the massive derecho storm tearing across the country July 29, while other images show the magnitude of power outages.
- Why do smart students take dumb chances when it comes to investing scenarios?
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- From having full-time careers to a jumble of part-time jobs, local actors do whatever they can to support themselves in their true vocation ¿ acting.
- One year after arriving as Maryland's men's basketball coach, Mark Turgeon says the nonconference schedule "is not where I want it to be" and that he hopes to toughen it by adding more marquee games in future seasons — perhaps including some in Baltimore.
- Jeff Barker, Don Markus and Matt Bracken discuss the biggest topics in the past week of Maryland Terps basketball and football.
- Maryland nonconference basketball schedule includes Kentucky, Northwestern
- Maryland is one of the best states in the country for positive economic mobility, a new study says.
- Two Laurel students were selected as National Youth delegates for conference on the environment at George Mason University.
- Besides Van Halen, here are the concert news of the day: High Zero, Dierks Bentley, Kelly Clarkson, Wye Oak, Zac Brown Band, Loaded Festival
- 2012 Girls lacrosse previews
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- Writer Jon Meoli will make a six-hour drive to see his alma mater play in the NCAA tournament
- Constitutional lawyers said a recent federal court decision, overturning a portion of Maryland's gun-control law, is likely to be upheld on appeal and called the ruling groundbreaking given its liberal home base.
- Former coaches and athletes at Laurel High, St. Vincent Pallotti High and Laurel Boys and Girls Club are now on teams gearing up for March Madness, the NCAA Division 1 men's tournament.
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- Bridget K. Healy, a student at George Mason University who had also been a member of the Special Olympics, died Thursday of a pulmonary thromboembolism at St. Joseph Medical Center. She was 24.
- A bipartisan group of Congressmen from Virginia is seeking to overturn an obscure IRS rule that is precluding cheaper, market-based options for school renovation.
- Despite his father's initial reservations, Murray has found success as an assistant coach with a knack for recruiting
- InsideMDSports: Terps in the mix with Philly point guard Rysheed Jordan
- Towson crumbles late to extend record losing streak. Tigers go scoreless for a almost eight minutes as William & Mary pulls away for 66-49 victory.
- Coachspeak: Glenelg Country boys basketball's Kevin Quinlan
- Recruiting Report: Weekly Terps basketball and football recruiting roundup
- Several high-major schools after guard Daxter Miles. Maryland is one of many programs pursuing the Baltimore native and IMG Academy junior
- Stephen J. Richard, formerly of Arena Stage, joins Baltimore theater
- Terps recruiting weekend wrap: Brock Dean comes up big in title game
- Anthony O. "Tony" Miller, a retired reporter and foreign correspondent, died Nov. 23 of prostate cancer at his home in Cuernavaca, Mexico. The former Ellicott City resident was 68.
- Anthony O. "Tony" Miller, a retired reporter and foreign correspondent, died Nov. 23 of prostate cancer at his home in Cuernavaca, Mexico. The former Ellicott City resident was 68.
- Recruiting Report: St. Frances' Tevon Saddler has high-major hopes
- An otherwise harmonious Board of Public Works meeting hit a dissonant note Wednesday as Comptroller Peter Franchot objected to a $553,264 purchase of Steinway-designed pianos for a new performing arts center scheduled to open next year at Bowie State University.
- Jo Anne Schneider studies marginalized groups: refugees, the poor, people with disabilities — and lately, Americans who have been unemployed for months and months, which includes a lot of people who never would have considered themselves marginalized before.
- Federal spending in Maryland dropped by nearly $1.4 billion last fiscal year, the largest decline in 14 years, new Census Bureau figures show.
- In the 10 years since 9/11 the world is a different place, even if it's not only because of 9/11. People point to the fracturing of a nation that once was, however briefly, united in the face of the terrorist attacks.
- War on terror and Sept. 11 attacks mean more business opportunities in Maryland
