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• Obituaries

Robert R. Timberg, Sun reporter and Marine who wrote about Vietnam War, dies

Robert R. "Bob" Timberg, a former Evening Sun and Baltimore Sun reporter and Marine Corps veteran whose 1995 book "The Nightingale's Song" about five Naval Academy graduates who served in the Vietnam War earned him wide acclaim, died Tuesday from respiratory failure at Anne Arundel Medical Center. He was 76.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Sep 8, 2016

• Obituaries

Rebecca Polen 'Becky' Hartman, longtime Baltimore area social worker, dies

Rebecca Polen "Becky" Hartman Obituary

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Sep 4, 2016

• Opinion

Clinton denounces the alt-right when Republicans won't

Why should it take Hillary Clinton to defend the GOP from the alt-right?

• Maryland

Facts in case have yet to be determined [Letter]

• Howard County

Miller Library welcomes symposium for sport, civility [Bits & Pieces]

This past week, my wife read The Source and found out about a symposium called "Choose Civility" that caught her attention. The title of the program was "The Ball's In Your Court: Can Civility and Sports Coexist?" It happens to be a subject of great interest to me and I immediately signed up to attend at the Miller Library on Oct. 9 starting at 6:30 p.m.

• Educators

New dean aims to strike proper tone at Peabody

New dean aims to strike proper tone at Peabody

• Sun Investigates

Doug Donovan

• Baltimore City Paper

Stuff White People Like to Write About

• Music

NPR veteran Ben Roe to be executive director of Heifetz Institute

Benjamin K. Roe, a Grammy and Peabody Award winner, to helm Heifetz International Music Institute at Mary Baldwin College in Virginia.

• Baltimore City Paper

A Slimy Recess

• Opinion

'The poor door' -- symbol of a truth we all know [Commentary]

Leonard Pitts Jr. takes on a NYC developer, who plans to add a separate entrance to an apartment building for residents of modest means.

• Opinion

The SAT is execrable (look it up) [Commentary]

The SAT is a 225-minute race to the finish line encompassing everything schools have been trying to prepare students for since pre-school. It doesn't really test math, writing and reading, but mainly test-taking strategies like process of elimination or lucky guessing.

• Opinion

Iron Dome is a failure [Letter]

The Sun should challenge claims of Iron Dome's effectiveness.

• Opinion

Start a conversation on Capitol Hill [Letter]

Lobbying (and praying for) Congress can be a job for ordinary citizens

• Maryland

Advocacy group forms to improve elder care in Carroll

• Maryland

Advocacy group forms to improve elder care in Carroll

• Baltimore City Paper

WYPR radio staff files for union representation

• Maryland

Horsin' Around: Another lonely voice for sanity

• Maryland

Another lonely voice for sanity

• Howard County

Pitiful Earthlings — bow to 'Intergalactic Nemesis'!

If you're in the mood for some science fiction silliness, "The Intergalactic Nemesis: A Live-Action Graphic Novel" promises to keep you laughing on Friday, June 20, at 8 p.m. in the Jim Rouse Theatre at Wilde Lake.

• Music Industry

Throwback Thursday: The top 10 songs this week in 1985 [Videos]

More proof that the mid-'80s were awesome, via Billboard's Hot 100 Chart archive.

• NPR

WYPR staff decides to form union

The editorial staff at WYPR voted to form a union and have asked management of the NPR affiliate in Baltimore to recognize their representation by SAG-AFTRA.

• Opinion

Single-sex schooling cultivates confidence in girls [Commentary]

An all-girls experience, be it the Girl Scouts, a girls' athletic team, a girls' camp or a girls' school can be a spring board to achievement and a sense of self-worth for girls, who are too quick to underestimate their abilities.

• Baltimore City Paper

Chicken Out

• Baltimore City Paper

Living Legends: George Strait, Reba, and Lee Ann Womack at First Mariner Arena, Jan. 22

• Baltimore City Paper

Stream Wye Oak's new album "Shriek"

• Baltimore City Paper

Erin Schwartz/NPR

• Baltimore City Paper

Future Islands Rein It in for NPR Tiny Desk Concert

• Baltimore City Paper

Dan Deacon on Scoring Francis Ford Coppola's New Film

• Baltimore City Paper

Stormtroopers Raid the BSO as BSO Goes to the Windup Space

• Baltimore City Paper

New Wye Oak Album Streaming at NPR

• Baltimore City Paper

Burger Bracket: Round Two Results

• Baltimore City Paper

Burger Bracket: Final Four Results

• Baltimore City Paper

Burger Bracket: Round One Results

• Baltimore City Paper

Roomrunner nabs Baywatch babes, Billy Mays (not really) for awesome new video

• Baltimore City Paper

Dr. Horrible: Triumphant

• Baltimore City Paper

News Hole

• Baltimore City Paper

Hard-Boiled Anniversary

• Baltimore City Paper

Beyond the Beltway

• Baltimore City Paper

Beyond the Beltway

• Baltimore City Paper

Beyond the Beltway

• Baltimore City Paper

Told You So

• Baltimore City Paper

From Elsewhere

• Baltimore City Paper

From Elsewhere

• Baltimore City Paper

SXSW: Fuzzy, Buzzy Bands and Cheesy, Beefy, Cheese

• Baltimore City Paper

More departures from the Sun newsroom, including Sessa, Siegel, and Kilar

• Baltimore City Paper

Kerry Says Newspapers "Endangered"

• Baltimore City Paper

Beyond the Beltway

• Baltimore City Paper

All the Money in the World-and Then Some

• Baltimore City Paper

Bangers and Thrash's 12 best moments of SXSW