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The Retrievers defied preseason voting to capture their first conference crown and meet No. 1 seed Oklahoma in Friday’s NCAA regional.

Ellen T. Gale, a homemaker and volunteer, died April 11 from cancer at her Chestertown home. She was 85.

Priscilla L. Beirne, a retired Baltimore city public school educator who enjoyed reading, died Wednesday from respiratory failure at her North Homeland residence. She was 89.

Retired Baltimore County accountant fought elementary school closures and was active in the GOP

Shocking as the Shabbat massacre in Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue was, it was perhaps predictable given the tweets, insults and us-versus-them rhetoric with which Mr. Trump has deepened resentment against marginalized communities. We must take every opportunity to eliminate this intolerance.

Betty Jarratt, a former psychiatric liaison at the John Hopkins Hospoital, died Thursday from respiratoryfailure at The Cedars in Portland, Maine. She was 94.

In 1939, the Civil War motion picture epic “Gone with the Wind,” starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable, had its world premiere in Atlanta.