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Johns Hopkins University's President's Day of Service took hundreds of students from their Homewood campus Saturday and onto the streets of Baltimore and farm fields of rural Maryland.

E. Michael Packenham, former Baltimore Sun book editor whose newspaper career spanned nearly a half-century, died May 9 of a cardiac arrest at Homewood at Plum Creek in Hanover, Pa. he was 85.

The Johns Hopkins University wants its own police department to address rising concerns about crime around its campuses. It would become the first private school in the state to have such a force and the idea is meeting with opposition.

Howard County police are investigating a head-on collision that put four people in the hospital Wednesday afternoon.

Artists Rebecca Nagle and Hannah Brancato are the FORCE behind the group FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture, which has started the Monument Quilt project to draw attention to the issue of rape and sexual violence. The quilt was scheduled to be on display April 14-15 at Towson University and April 29 at the Homewood campus of Johns Hopkins University.