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The Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association plans to announce Tuesday that it will move its popular men’s and women’s basketball tournaments to Baltimore for three years beginning in 2021, potentially providing a huge economic boost to the city.

By Meredith Cohn

Jan 8, 2019

Jacques E. Leeds, a retired lawyer who was the first African-American from Baltimore to sit on the Workers' Compensation commission, died July 1 from complications of Alzheimer's disease at Northwest Hospital Center. The Woodlawn resident was 90.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Jul 20, 2018

Julian Murray from the Aberdeen Boys & Girls Club was named the Harford County Youth of the Year by the Boys and Girls Clubs of Harford and Cecil Counties.

Nikomar Mosley, the principal at Gwynns Falls Elementary School, went viral after the member of Omega Psi Phi performed an energetic step routine for the school’s 2018 Black Heritage Program.

By Brittany Britto

Feb 28, 2018

Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association says it has signed deal with Under Armour

By Jeff Barker

Feb 2, 2018

Baltimore County high school seniors met with representatives from 14 historically black colleges and universities. Many walked away with a college acceptance.

By Talia Richman

Nov 8, 2017

Boyse F. Mosley, a media-savvy retired Baltimore city public schools principal who criticized his superiors while stressing academics and safe classrooms, died of heart failure Oct. 2

By Jacques Kelly

Oct 10, 2017

Recently in my IB History of the Americas class I held a discussion on U.S. and Canadian domestic policies during the Cold War. I listened as my students debated using textual evidence, posing as experts on the subject. On one end of the room was Carolyn, a half-Asian, half-white 17-year-old, the daughter of a doctor, who seemed ready to take on the world. And on the other end of the room was Shaiquan, a black 17-year-old boy, with gold fronts in his mouth, who had talked to me about how City

Jeannette Ruth Chilcoat, 93, who managed a family insurance business, died Dec. 24 at Mays Chapel Retirement facility.

By Jacques Kelly

Dec 28, 2016

The newest member of the Harford Community College says she has a long-standing interest in Education. A. Joyce Jackson was sworn in as a trustee on Sept. 9 and attended her first board meeting on Sept. 13. She was appointed by Gov. Larry Hogan upon the recommendation of County Executive Barry Glassman.

By David Anderson

Oct 3, 2016

After she moved to Baltimore last year to become an executive at Under Armour, Kerry Chandler discovered a link to her new hometown that stretches back to before she was born.

By Lorraine Mirabella

Apr 4, 2016

For several Calvert Hall athletes, the crowning moment of their high school careers came Wednesday afternoon.

Dr. John S. Braxton Jr., a primary care physician who practiced for 60 years, died Jan. 10 of pneumonia at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. He was 94.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Jan 26, 2016

Dr. Keiffer Mitchell Sr., a prominent West Baltimore physician and a member of a nationally recognized family of civil rights activists, died Tuesday after a brief illness. He was 73.

By Colin Campbell

Aug 18, 2015

When Thomas Briscoe was a young man -- before Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to move to the back of a segregated bus in 1955 -- he, too, told a southern bus driver that he would be sitting up front, in the area reserved for whites.

By Amanda Yeager

Jul 2, 2015

The valedictorian of Edgewood High School's 57th graduating class quoted Isaac Newton in her speech: "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

Fadojutimi and Hodge, both seniors, became the 76th and 77th recipients of the Charles Perry McCormick Scholarship. These two athletes were picked from a pool of 118 Unsung Heroes at 73 public, private, parochial and independent schools in the Baltimore area.

Dr. William M. Hall, a retired gynecologist and obstetrician who was the first African-American to head the staff of the old Lutheran Hospital, died.

By Jacques Kelly

Feb 20, 2015

Dr. Raymond L. Gray, who practiced dentistry in Baltimore for close to 40 years and was a partner in the Madison Park Medical Center, died.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Jan 31, 2015

The two candidates for the county council District A seat on the Harford County Board of Education did not face any opposition in the June primary, so their general election campaigns have started with clean slate, so to speak.

Dr. Richard G. Thomas Jr., a retired longtime Baltimore County educator who helped integrate county public schools in the 1950s, died Thursday of complications from a stroke at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 82.

Rita R. Martin, a counselor of homeless women at a Better Waverly residence, died of multiple myeloma and infection complications Monday at the University of Maryland Medical Center. The Lochearn resident was 69.

Edward Supplee Terry, Jr. former head science librarian for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a decades-long stalwart of Baltimore's Arena Players, died July 1 of leukemia. He was 77.

Havre de Grace graduate Richard Glover was recently honored on Senior Night as a member of the Lincoln University men's basketball team. Pictured, above, from left, are Bruce Marshall (father), Richard Glover and Lincoln Head Coach John Hill. At right, Glover defends against a Virginia State University player in his team's final regular season game. Glover is a criminal justice major.

Havre de Grace graduate Richard Glover was recently honored on Senior Night as a member of the Lincoln University men's basketball team. Pictured, above, from left, are Bruce Marshall (father), Richard Glover and Lincoln Head Coach John Hill. At right, Glover defends against a Virginia State University player in his team's final regular season game. Glover is a criminal justice major.

Llewellyn Washington Woolford Sr., a retired Social Security Administration attorney who was a past Howard County Human Relations Commission chairman, died of stroke complications Feb. 22 at his Columbia home. He was 81.

Harford Community College will host transfer representatives from area colleges and universities on Monday, March 12, in the Student Center. Representatives from the institutions will meet with prospective transfer students in HCC's Student Center from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown vs. Board of Education that school segregation must end, Thurgood Marshall stood with his colleagues on the court