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Neighbors are angry about Roland Park Country School's plans for stormwater management, which was necessary because construction from 2001 and 2008 caused erosion in woods behind the school, near houses on Deepdene Road. The new plan also involved the cutting down of 29 trees, which also upset neighbors. - Detectives investigating if Kevin Simpson, 20, is also linked to murder of Oscar Torres, 15, police say
- As Ocean City braces for the annual migration of graduating high school students to the beaches known as senior week, thousands more young partyers are expected to join them this weekend.
- The Centennial volleyball team asembled to honor one of its fallen alumna last week in the most appropriate way: with a volleyball tournament. The first annual Centennial Alumni Volleyball Tournament was held last weekend at the Ellicott City high school. The event was a fundraiser for Catholic Charities in memory of Leanna Kelly ('04), who died tragically in a helicopter accident in Pennsylvania last year with her father, Bernard, and three others.
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- Rodgers Forge Elementary School students complete Patriots and Defenders program on American History and visit the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
- When Maryland Black Ice Softball Club coaches Bob Stephenson and Tony Canami recruit players for their Cockeysville-based 18U team, they are looking for ¿young stars.¿
- Students and staff need to begin the hard work of reconciliation at Baltimore's Digital Harbor High School
- Digital Harbor High staff and school police met with parents on Tuesday evening at the school to reassure the community that they are taking steps to ensure their children are safe inside the school and on their way home.
- The NCAA is going to lower prices for men¿s lacrosse championship weekend starting next year, according to Inside Lacrosse
- Popular culture may suggest relationships are the key to happiness, but reality says otherwise.
- As a bugle played "To the Colors", members of Boy Scout Troop 72 raised the American flag at Crestlawn Memorial Gardens in Marriottsville May 23 to start the Memorial Day weekend.
- Baltimore police plan to deploy officers around city schools until the school year ends to ensure student safety amid recent racial tensions, while school officials joined civil rights leaders to urge students of different races to peacefully resolve differences.
- Two people were killed and another person was shot in Baltimore Sunday night, police said.
- Baltimore is seeing live, multi-day sports events on the two weekends that kick off and close summer — Memorial Day (lacrosse) and Labor Day (the Baltimore Grand Prix) — dissolve right before our eyes. If the city and sports community can't find a way to do for sports championships what Omaha has done for college baseball, it will lose out on a significant revenue stream and a chance to show off our city to thousands.
- 'Game of Thrones' recap: 'The Mountain and the Viper'
- The Park Service's decision to close a parking lot off Jones Road in Gunpowder Falls State Park in Maryland to curb overuse of natural resources draws criticism.
- Scott Studds, the general manager of Seacrets, has seen the video and read the various media reports about what happened to a few Ravens at his Ocean City bar over Memorial Day weekend and he said that he wanted to set the record straight.
- A television documentary that in part focuses on the 1981 John Huffington double murder case in Harford County will air this Sunday and Wednesday on Al Jazeera America.
- The memorial complex is a tribute to heroic sacrifice in one of America's darkest hours, but it also is a permanent reminder of national vulnerability.
- The officers of VFW Post 8185 held two wreath-laying services Sunday in celebration of Memorial Day
- Ravens coach John Harbaugh said Thursday after the second day of OTAs that he¿s ¿very concerned¿ and ¿disappointed in some of the silliness that¿s gone on,¿ in response to his players multiple arrests and off-field issues this offseason.
- Griffith's Dulaney career ends at state meet, but her legacy will help future Lions
- Carla Williams, an accomplished cyclist and triathlete from Baltimore, led the field in the second annual Anytime Fitness Duathlon in Forest Hill Saturday.
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- A Howard County police officer saved a drowning nine-year-old girl whose foot was trapped under a rock in the Little Patuxent River near the Savage Mill Trail last weekend, police said Wednesday.
- Memorial Day ceremonies pose no conflict with Muslim faith
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