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Local leaders would do well to start now, if they haven't already done so, in advocating for a major celebration during 2017 of the post's landmark anniversary.

Ride on Curlin finished a distant seventh in the Kentucky Derby, yet he was treated like a rock star Monday on his trip from BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport to Pimlico Race Course.

Rhoda Dorsey, the first woman president of Goucher College, has died, a college spokeswoman said Saturday.

Researchers find new uses for old drugs, sometimes by accident

Nolan H. Rogers, a former lacrosse star who later became a Maryland assistant attorney general and the official tour guide and historian of Oriole Park at Camden Yards and Ravens Stadium, died Friday of complications from cancer at Sinai Hospital. The longtime Mount Washington resident was 82.

Allen Dyer has had a colorful history with the Howard County Board of Education, both while serving as a member and while not.

Baltimore's 'Ban the Box' law won't help.

With NFL draft scheduled for May 8-10, Michael Campanaro is projected to be the first River Hill graduate ever picked.

A modest crowd gathered around the Keeper's House in Havre de Grace Saturday morning to hear tales from two Africans who fought side-by-side whites in the British and American armies during the War of 1812.

Every now and then a school has a sports season that sticks out a bit more than some others.

The Maryland winner of one of the largest lottery jackpots in U.S. history has come forward but wishes to remain anonymous, Maryland Lottery officials said Tuesday.

Bradley Beal scored a game-high 25 points and Trevor Ariza had 22 as the Wizards won their fourth straight road game in the playoffs and took a 1-0 lead in the best-of-seven series.

Timonium poet Ann Kolakowski writes about lost town of Warren where her grandmother grew up and which is now the site of Loch Raven Reservoir in new collection, "Persistence: Poems of Warren, Maryland."

A throng of students from Elkridge Landing Middle School swarmed across the historic Belmont property in Elkridge last week.

A few years ago, Richard Larison was leading efforts for Johns Hopkins Medicine International to expand health care access at a local hospital in Panama City when a thought popped into his head.

Alexander M. "Marty" Todd Jr., a retired Eastern Shore vegetable farmer who was a 11th-generation member of the family that settled a farm that is now Todd's Inheritance Historic Site in North Point, died Sunday of respiratory failure at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 92.

Controversial legislation intended to help ex-convicts find jobs is headed to Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake for her expected signature after the City Council gave the measure final approval Monday.

Over the past three years, Wilde Lake High School senior Daniel Ingham says he has learned something each year at the annual Student Learning Conference that has changed his life.

Seven cannons around the Patterson Park Pagoda aren't just reproductions, as many had thought, but date back hundreds of years and were likely used in the War of 1812.

Bill Stetka, a resident of Columbia who grew up in Bel Air, is a treasure trove of Orioles' baseball history. A former public relations director with the team, Stetka has been the director of Orioles Alumni since 2008 and in that role has been able to rub shoulders -- and became friends -- with several of the legends and lesser-known players who have worn the Birds' uniform.

William Voss Elder III, a retired Baltimore Museum of Art curator who assisted first lady Jacqueline Kennedy during the 1960s to bring antique furnishing to the White House, died of heart failure Thursday at Northwest Hospital Center. The Upperco resident was 82.

Historical Society of Carroll County also marks milestone in 2014

while the vice presidency historically has not been an automatic steppingstone to the Oval Office, the broadening role of the office makes most occupants today clearly qualified for the presidency by virtue of the experience gained in serving, and that certainly is the case with Joe Biden.

f you want to see a documentary made with passion and guaranteed to rock your soul at least two or three times before the final credits roll, don't miss "Muscle Shoals" at 9 tonight on WETA-TV (Channel 22), Washington's PBS outlet.

Archaeologists have uncovered a wall of that structure as they embark on a dig for more understanding of what happened when thousands of militiamen camped along the hills of southeast Baltimore during the War of 1812.

Visitors can book overnight lodging in restored lockhouses

When you read about this nation's past, it is quite obvious what the phrase "right side of history" means. In the moment, though, there are always defenders of the status quo trying to obscure what the "right side" actually is. Worse, they sometimes stoop to what Washington's professional football team is now doing by defending the use of a dictionary-defined racial slur as its team's name.

Olympic swimming legend Michael Phelps has quite predictably come to realize that living the good life isn't going to be enough to keep him entertained.

The Baxter House in Parkton is one of eight properties featured in the Baltimore County portion of the historic tour. Prince George's, Talbot, Kent and Calvert counties will also be showcased over the pilgrimage's six weekends, from April 26 to May 31.

You could pen a thick book about the traditions and history of the Maryland and Johns Hopkins men's lacrosse teams, including colorful characters like Henry Ciccarone and Frank Urso, hard-fought games, respect, mutual disdain and a nasty bench-clearing brawl in 1977.

Enjoy the outdoors at Historic Ellicott City's annual Spring Celebration on Saturday, April 19, from noon to 7:30 p.m.

The American Rosie the Riveter Association exists to recognize and preserve the history and legacy of working women during World War II. Their membership was expanded beyond the iconic Rosies that worked in shipyards and plants to include all women who contributed to the war effort by joining the workforce. Two Laurel Rosies are active members of the group, Wilma Foster and Lorraine Miller.

Legislation currently before the Baltimore City Council — Council Bill 13-301, to ban the check box that asks about a job seeker's criminal history on the employment applications of companies doing business in the city — has been held up by critics and is in danger of dying.