nobel prize awards

Carbon fees are our payback to ourselves

It's past time for another presidential initiative to consider ways to improve conditions in Central America, address the challenges of drugs and migration, and work with all responsible actors in the region. In the spirit of President John Kennedy's Alliance for Progress, this should not be a purely North American venture. Frankly, given our recent perceived indifference, that wouldn't be taken seriously by many of our neighbors in any event.

The United States Constitution prohibits the president from re-engaging the United States military in Iraq to counter the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) without new congressional authorization. Further, the struggle for sectarian power there is irrelevant to our national security. Without the justification of self-defense, United States intervention would additionally create a precedent that would invite intervention by Russia or China in their neighboring countries.

A quarter of a century after buying his first horse, the now 43-year-old Ron Sanchez will achieve another longtime goal when Social Inclusion goes to the starting gate in the 139th Preakness Stakes Saturday.

Dr. M. Daniel Lane, a retired Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine researcher, biochemist and esteemed teacher who made studies of the body's chemical processes that affect hunger, died of myeloma April 10 at the Charlestown Retirement Community. The former Mount Washington resident was 83.

Dr. M. Daniel Lane, a retired Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine researcher, biochemist and esteemed teacher who made studies of the body's chemical processes that affect hunger, died of myeloma April 10 at the Charlestown Retirement Community. The former Mount Washington resident was 83.

Medal won by Argentine foreign minister only the second peace prize to be sold at auction

University of Maryland President Wallace Loh says proposals to connect innovation with commerce play to the state's strengths.

To be our best as a nation, we must continue to attract the best brainpower from around the world, but we also need a renewed effort to help American children from all backgrounds excel.

Unlike Mandela, whose route to iconic stature was built on his single-minded quest for racial justice and equality, Mr. Obama established a reputation beyond identification by race.

Bala Ambati graduated from Baltimore City College High School at age 11. Now 36, he is an eye surgeon in Utah and says he has no regrets about his warp-speed path through life.

In a cosmos filled with darkness, scientists say they've discovered the first elusive neutrinos to come from outside our solar system in a quarter-century.

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons already won the Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to strip Syria of its stockpile of chemical weapons. But carrying out the process is a complex feat of chemistry – one that could require the help of a team of scientists at Aberdeen Proving Ground.

Tonight (Friday) is a first Fridays celebration, 5 to 9 p.m. at the merchants and restaurants in downtown Havre de Grace.

When the Nobel Prize committee announced on Oct. 11 that the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons had won the 2013 Peace Prize, members of a Harford County laboratory rejoiced.

Smith, 55, has lived in the city with his girlfriend, Patricia X, since 2006. A native of Carroll County and 30-year resident of Baltimore city, Smith is a photographer by trade and said he has photographed over 1,000 celebrities including 25 Nobel Peace Prize winners.

Today's Nobel Prize for Literature, awarded to Canadian Alice Munro, is a departure from recent prizes. More often the judges have appeared intent on raising awareness of authors who have toiled largely outside the American media marketing machine.

Britain's Peter Higgs and Francois Englert of Belgium won the Nobel Prize for physics on Tuesday for predicting the existence of the Higgs boson particle that explains how elementary matter attained the mass to form stars and planets.

If you like sci-fi, mixed in with surreal choreography and a complicated father-daughter relationship, you're going to love "Gift of Forgotten Tongues," on stage at Venus Theatre on C Street through Sept. 28.

Count Syria among Obama's mounting list of failures

The Maryland man who fought alongside the Libyan resistance criticizes President Barack Obama's policy in Syria as weak and emboldening to our enemies.