It's easy to mock our Victorian forbears, with their formal manners and blind spots on race and gender. But they kept silent about their personal transgressions, even in the face of salacious reporting about them. And we could all stand to learn from that. Consider the first sex scandal in presidential politics, involving Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings.

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.

Looking for Maryland's highest-paid state employees? You'll find them in University of Maryland locker rooms in College Park and its medical school in Baltimore.

Although the members of Big Ups ¿ a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based four-piece that blends punk, post-punk, noise and metal influences ¿ met at New York University, Baltimore influences are at their core.

Havre de Grace native and New York University senior Ben Getz has been acting in various productions since he was a child, but he recently got a major break in his career when he shared two scenes with veteran Emmy-winning television actor Tom Selleck for an episode of the CBS police drama "Blue Bloods."

Researchers at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital's Curtis National Hand Center want to show that indocyanine green laser angiography can replace less sensitive, or more expensive and potentially harmful, diagnostic tools before and after hand surgeries and even in assessing cold weather scourges such as Raynaud's phenomenon and frostbite.

Offensive futility a high priority for Maryland men's lacrosse after Saturday's loss at Yale

In a time of widespread bank consolidation and a shrinking number of minority-owned banks, the bank Joseph Haskins Jr. helped found 33 years ago is becoming rarer.

Ed and Ann Berlin's professional lives took a fresh turn when they took over as owners of the 10-year-old Ivy Bookshop in January, 2012. She had years of experience as a book publishing executive, he had devoted much of his professional life to the technical side of finance, but neither had run a retail store. The work has been harder than Ed Berlin thought at first, but he said they've maintained 8-to-10 percent sales growth every year and stuck to their commitment to high literary quality.

Robert C. Klein, a retired insurance executive and World War II veteran who had participated in the liberation of the Landsberg concentration camp, died.

Natalie L. "Toby" Mendeloff, a community activist and volunteer, died.

Compass Rose Theater is showing off its innovative play selection in its third offering of the season in famed 20th century poet T.S. Eliot's probing drama, "Murder in the Cathedral."

When Joseph I. Cassilly was sworn in 32 years ago to his first term as Harford County State's Attorney he was 32 years old, the youngest person to ever hold the position. Taking the oath Monday to begin his ninth consecutive term, he is the longest serving state's attorney in Maryland.

Maryland charities Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland and U.S. Naval Academy all report offshore investment accounts

Dr. Donald C. Chambers, a retired obstetrician-gynecologist who delivered thousands of babies and was a national educational examiner in his field, died of complications from Alzheimer's disease Nov. 26 at the Broadmead retirement community. He was 78 and had lived in Timonium and Pikesville.

Before President Obama does anything else in the lame-duck Congress or the new one in January, he needs forthrightly to seek an update or new authorization for the new war he's fighting against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.

Deborah Willis led a presentation attended by about 100 people on Saturday at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture about the African American experience before, during and after emancipation.

Lucille M. "Doonie" Brooks, a former longtime city music teacher who was also a well-known church organist, died Oct. 9 at her daughter's Catonsville home of congestive heart failure. She was a 102.

Every politician wants a legacy — an issue or institution that evolves far beyond the official's time in public office. Sometimes, unexpected events intervene and the intended legacy items do not go according to plan. My experience is a good example of such an unplanned legacy.

Perra S. Bell, a former Towson University history teacher who was a lifelong crusader for civil rights, died Sept. 26 at Physicians Regional Medical Center in Naples, Fla., of complications of a fractured hip. She was 95.

Most war re-enactors are law-abiding citizens holding down solidly middle-class jobs. And unlike the kooks of Internet caricature, they're fully capable of separating fantasy from fact.

Helena E. Wright, a retired city elementary school teacher who was an active member of Heritage United Church of Christ, died Aug. 18 at her Lochearn home of complications from heart disease. She was 93.

The quest for a pain-free mechanism of capital punishment is a fool's errand. As Amherst professor Austin Sarat shows in a terrific new book, "When the State Kills," we have spent two centuries trying to put people to death without putting them in discomfort. And it hasn't worked.

Animal rights group says Hopkins among only four medical schools using animals for training

Dr. Garfield D. Kington, an inner city physician who was a familiar and comforting presence to his West Baltimore patients for decades, died Aug. 3 of multiple myeloma at his Northwest Baltimore home. He was 91.

The potential medical properties of psychedelics are vast.

After a long hiatus, researchers are again studying psychedelic substances like LSD to see if they fill a medical need

Burton J. "Burt" Shapiro, who was associated with WBJC-FM for more than 30 years and was an acknowledged jazz and film expert, died July 20 of respiratory failure at Sinai hospital. He was 68.

Hereford High's Annie Seamon will attend college in China at New York University's Shanghai campus

Kaylyn Clark, Meera Kesavan, Hannah Matecko-Conti and Shiza Tanveer earn a diploma from Catonsville High and an associate degree diploma from the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) Catonsville campus.

Popular culture may suggest relationships are the key to happiness, but reality says otherwise.

On June 6 and 7, tots in tiny tutus and pony tails will dance on the Laurel High School stage in concert with more than 200 other sublimely costumed "Pop Stars" from Stars Studio in North Laurel.

In the United States, weathercasters serve as our goofy national soothsayers, but they should sober up and start talking about climate change.

Neil Meyerhoff turns his lens to destinations near and far.