memorial day

Nearly 300 teams participated in the Park Quest Rendezvous this year, the largest turnout for the event so far, said Steve McCoy, acting park manager at Patapsco Valley State Park.

Nearly 300 teams participated in the Park Quest Rendezvous this year, the largest turnout for the event so far, said Steve McCoy, acting park manager at Patapsco Valley State Park.

The 2014 NCAA men's lacrosse Championship Weekend at M&T Bank Stadium will have some competition right next door.

Ulman, Howard County Council honor National POW/MIA recognition day

911 attacks didn't put an end to disagreement, and that's a good thing.

Towson resident Roy Sommerhof wears many hats for the Baltimore Ravens

Though she knew more than most people about Howard County's history, Joetta Cramm always considered herself to be an amateur historian.

Forecasts of sunny skies are combining with falling gas prices and an apparent "pent-up demand" for a getaway to put Maryland on a course for its busiest Labor Day weekend for travel since the end of the recession.

Chris Tillman's performance Saturday afternoon would have been enough to earn his 15th win of the season on most days.

Half a century ago this Wednesday, as a bright sun climbed the sky above downtown Washington, Douglas B. Sands, then 29, stood a few hundred feet from the Lincoln Memorial and looked out over the National Mall in wonder.

In response to a downturn in attendance at recent NCAA men's lacrosse championship weekends, the organization is now open to allowing non-NFL stadiums to serve as hosts in upcoming years.

SUNY Cortland men's lacrosse player Jonathon T. Foltz has been charged with second-degree gang assault in an early-morning attack during Memorial Day weekend in Auburn, N.Y., according to the Auburn Citizen.

Ocean City began the summer with high hopes for a blockbuster season, fueled by a newly rebuilt fishing pier, the return of the Dew Tour and the possibility of an influx of tourists from northern beaches ravaged by superstorm Sandy. But nature had a different vision: rain and lots of it.

Nearly two months after announcing it would convene a panel to study what it called a "disturbing trend" of declining attendance at NCAA Division I men's lacrosse Championship Weekend, the Intercollegiate Men's Lacrosse Coaches Association has issued a paper with recommendations for solving the problem.

More than 75 lifeguards from Maryland's state parks converged on Sandy Point State Park near Annapolis on Tuesday to compete for bragging rights in events that tested their swimming, running and rescue skills.

The last man believed to be involved in the fatal shooting of a 1-year-old in May has been apprehended in Louisiana, Baltimore police announced Saturday.

Couple celebrates with an "urban chic" wedding at the AVAM

Lawyers for John Norman Huffington, a Bel Air man who was twice convicted of killing a young man and young woman in Harford County in 1981, will argue for his release from prison on Thursday while Huffington awaits a new trial, granted this spring on the basis of discredited hair evidence presented at his two earlier trials.

21-year-old driver leads IndyCar second-tier division heading into Saturday's event in Toronto

A 7-year-old boy who died during Annapolis' Fourth of July parade was stepping off a moving trailer when he fell and was run over, city police said.

A tidal wave of violence — about 40 people shot and 16 killed in 10 days — seems to have shaken Baltimore.

On Thursday morning, I read a Page 1 article in The Baltimore Sun that featured Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake saying how sad she was about the ¿state of our community.¿ She was referring to the shocking run of 29 shootings and 10 deaths in a six-day span in Baltimore. The article also included quotes from Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts saying the department¿s initial ¿messaging¿ about the crimes had been ¿terrible.¿

A woman, 18, was killed, and three women and a man injured; man killed in another incident.

A Bel Air day care center was still embroiled in legal action 25 years ago this week, when local police executed a search and seizure warrant

It's time for the 135th St. Louis Parish Clarksville Picnic on the church grounds June 28 from noon until 9 p.m. The popular family-style chicken and ham dinner with all the trimmings begins at noon under the big tent.

Just after the last of the buses with horns blaring and frantically waving students inside pulled out of Towson High on the last day of school Friday, principal Jane Barranger, save for a small tiara she wore, showed no sign that she just waved goodbye to students for the last time.

Rawlings-Blake has forgotten that appearances matter to her constituents

The mayor and the lobbyist

Mayor Rawlings-Blake stayed at Harris Jones' beach house over Memorial Day weekend

Our view: A high-powered friendship is diminishing Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's standing

Rawlings-Blake says she didn't discuss city business on trip

Chris Ray's baseball career ended last year, in the minor leagues. But the former Orioles closer has wasted little time turning another passion – craft-brewed beer – into his next occupation. Among Ray's products is an IPA, aged on maple from Louisville Slugger bats and sold to raise money for emergency assistance to military veterans.

Steve Otten does not think about qualifying for the Ironman World Championship in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.

Fortune telling outlawed; drivers license testing location shifted [50 years ago]

Howard County rec sports for the week of June 6

Dusty Ritter has seen plenty of drunk people peeing on his street off O'Donnell Square. They've peed on his house and his Honda Civic, too. In fact, over the busiest bar nights last December, he said, he counted 54 different incidents of people urinating outside near his house.

An hour before the memorial service at First Apostolic Faith Church on Monday, a woman walked down the center aisle and stared into the 3-foot white casket surrounded by white flowers. She spent a full minute, head slightly cocked, before she wheeled and walked back, angrily shaking her head.

Cub Scout Pack 809 from Jarrettsville celebrated Memorial Day by placing more than 200 miniature American flags on the veterans' gravesites at Highview Memorial Gardens in Fallston.

New Covenant Christian School kindergartner Logan Cavey, 6, recites a portion of the Gettysburg Address to Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett on Memorial Day at the monument on the Gettysburg Battlefield, commemorating the delivery in November 1863 of President Abraham Lincoln's famous battlefield address. Corbett and Logan crossed paths as the governor was waiting to participate in the official 3 p.m. battlefield memorial service. Logan was visiting the Gettysburg Battlefield with his parents, Scott

Throughout my 25-plus years living in the Laurel area, I have always wondered why the community's Memorial Day service is not held on Memorial Day.

With 12 shootings in Baltimore over the Memorial Day weekend, residents and police seek to tamp down the violence and prevent it from spilling over into the summer

The former Senate leader's rhetoric reflects shades of appeasement.