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Economist Anirban Basu seems like he's everywhere, his advice shaping local governments, big companies, educational institutions and now, as a member of Gov.-elect Republican Larry Hogan's transition team, the state's future.

Robert M. Levine, the founder of the Fire & Ice mineral and jewelry retail shops who was an original 1980 Harborplace merchant, died of cancer Nov. 19 at his North Baltimore home. He was 74.

In the pious Har Nof neighborhood in the hills of West Jerusalem, early morning prayers at a landmark synagogue are an integral part of the rhythm of daily religious life.

For house concert impresarios like Daniel Weiser and Wendy Shuford, there's no place like home. Weiser, an accomplished pianist, is trying to build a network of house concerts in north Baltimore, including at his own house in Guilford. And Shuford, who doesn't pay a musical instrument, regularly invites people to her small apartment in Cross Keys for concerts by musicians, such as one Nov. 7 by a couple from Maine who play Celtic folk music.

Gabriel Koo, a senior at Centennial High School, notched a perfect score on the ACT when he took it in June, one week after he had taken the SAT.

Western Howard County's own Ingrid Melber of Westwood Unique Furnishings has decorated the office space at the historic Meriwether Farm with her usual eclectic pastiche of rustic and primitive antiques.

Claims that 20 to 25 percent of women will be sexually assaulted are greatly exaggerated

William A. Fogle Jr., who had been Mayor William Donald Schaefer's executive assistant and all-purpose trouble shooter and later was secretary of the Maryland Department of Licensing and Regulation, died Wednesday at his Glen Rock, Pa., farm of complications of a stroke. He was 79.

Walkers and tourists paused in their perambulations to read the personal and emotionally wrenching messages that number in the thousands from survivors of rape and sexual abuse across the country that are written on squares that are sewn into the multi-colored and textured quilt on display at Federal Hill.

In Chennai, India, children are running against an unforgiving clock.

John W. Dorsey, former chancellor of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, who later returned to the classroom where he taught economics, died Monday of respiratory failure at his Laurel home. He was 78.

Richard W. "Dick" Bourne, a colorful longtime law professor who retired earlier this year from the University of Baltimore School of Law, died Saturday of pancreatic cancer at his Pylesville farm. He was 71.

Allen Grossman, a prize-winning poet who spent 15 years teaching his craft to students at the Johns Hopkins University, died June 27 at his home in Chelsea, Mass. He was 82 and had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

The U.S. Department of Education opened an investigation last week into Morgan State University's handling of a reported sexual assault, as the number of colleges nationwide facing scrutiny for their response to sexual violence claims grows.

Anne Arundel County voters will chose between Republican Steve Schuh and Democrat George F. Johnson IV for their next county executive.

Johns Hopkins University scientists are building a telescope meant to look at the sky in a way no one has before, hoping to probe the blackness between planets, stars, galaxies, into deep time and the mystery of how it all began.

Ever since Patrick Mikulis met the student member of the Howard County Board of Education while a student at Triadelphia Ridge Elementary School, he knew that one day he wanted to hold the same position.

"Marshlands" is praised by such literary power-brokers as the New York Times and Booker Prize-winning author Julian Barnes

The murder of another teen — the third Baltimore teenager killed in just over a week — reverberated from City Hall to the narrow Cherry Hill street where Najee Thomas lived, with officials promising to address the recent violence against the city's youths.

William A. Hubbard, a retired chemical engineer who headed a Baltimore business that created the orange-color coatings for Howard Johnson restaurant roofs, died of heart failure Monday at his Towson home. He was 92.

Robert Lenox Dwight, retired engineer who founded the National Electronics Museum and was active in the Assateague Coastal Trust and the Cylburn Arboretum, died of pneumonia.

Two Towson University students edged out 170 other teams to win a national debate championship held in Indiana this week, the second time in recent years a Towson team has netted national debate honors.

Johns Hopkins University plans to build a $2 million temporary child care facility on the Homewood campus for its staff and grad students in 2015, and then a permanent facility of at least $8 million in 2020 on University Parkway.

Baltimore officials Friday warned residents that someone was posing as Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake on the social network Instagram.

Youthful playing comes naturally for George Li, because the pianist is only 18 years old. This precocious talent performs for the Candlelight Concert Society on Saturday, March 22, at 8 p.m., at Howard Community College's Smith Theatre.

U.S. News and World Report ranked the Johns Hopkins University's School of Education No. 1 in the nation for graduate education programs, above University of Maryland, College Park at No. 26 and Towson University at No. 116.

Despite regular success and appearance at national-level competition, the It's Academic team at Oakland Mills High School had never won a tournament. That changed last month, as they took first place at the Central Maryland Regional Tournament.

George B. Brosan, a career law enforcement officer who had been Maryland State Police superintendent, died Thursday of cancer at his Annapolis home. He was 78.

Dr. William A. Edelstein, a pioneer in the field of magnetic resonance imaging and the primary inventor of the "spin wrap" imaging technique, died Feb. 10 of lung cancer at his Original Northwood home. He was 69.

Opera about two Supreme Court justices by Derrick Wang, a Baltimore-born composer and graduate of University of Maryland Carey School of Law, gets its first full reading.

Dr. Peter C. Maloney, professor of physiology and associate dean for graduate students at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, died Dec. 12 of cancer at his Bare Hills home. He was 72.