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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.