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Specter of 'Big Brother' hovers over Redskins name protest

Patent office decision to redefine 'Redskins' as a racial slur brings PC to new level

Mitch Edelman: Name change for team is overdue

Decision denying trademark to Redskins underscores the need to rename an NFL franchise that so many find offensive

Republican gubernatorial candidate Larry Hogan condemned a federal agency's decision Wednesday to cancels several trademarks of Washington's National Football League team on the basis that the nickname Redskins is offensive to native Americans.

Efforts to force the Washington Redskins to change their name gained new momentum Wednesday when the U.S. Patent Office canceled the team's trademark on the name, terming it "disparaging of Native Americans."

Pikesville's Akiva Schmidman invents BeActive Brace to help relieve lower back pain to be marketed by Top Dog Direct.

genealogy is the fastest growing hobby in the country, says Dennis Ayers, who lives in Ellicott City and is president of the Howard County Genealogical Society

This year, the House Judiciary Committee, the Commerce Department, the Copyright Office and others are looking at potential changes to the Copyright Act. The newspaper industry applauds these efforts to ensure that copyright law is best suited for the digital age. We hope that any changes to the Copyright Act will continue to ensure that content creators — including those who invest in journalism — receive fair compensation.

Daughter of a New York fashion model

Laurel mother knows what's best for her daughter as each opens business on the same street

University of Maryland, College Park President Wallace Loh has made it his top priority to remake the college into a hub of innovation and entrepreneurship, pushing the strategy not just in the business school but in almost every corner.

While blind people can browse the Internet through a variety of means, there is often one thing that stops them cold – a security feature known as a CAPTCHA that's designed to separate human users from robots.

The hit television show "House of Cards" will stay in Maryland, even though state incentives offered to keep the Netflix series here came up millions short of what the producers wanted.

When you read about this nation's past, it is quite obvious what the phrase "right side of history" means. In the moment, though, there are always defenders of the status quo trying to obscure what the "right side" actually is. Worse, they sometimes stoop to what Washington's professional football team is now doing by defending the use of a dictionary-defined racial slur as its team's name.

Loss of popular TV series would be a big blow to Maryland

The breakdown in Annapolis over boosting incentives for films and television series shot in Maryland has left the state without enough money to give Netflix's "House of Cards" what it was seeking to produce its next season here, officials acknowledged Tuesday.

Dan McCall sells a lot of T-shirts, coffee cups and other gear that tweak the government, so his products parodying the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security were pretty typical fare. Until the cease-and-desist letters hit.

Educational institutions are increasingly becoming the targets of hackers seeking sensitive or otherwise valuable data, prompting academics to reconsider what data to keep, for how long and where.

Melvin Mowrey Jr., a retired Sweetheart Cup operations manager, died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder on March 6 at Dove House in Westminster. The Reisterstown resident was 76.

Greg Cangialosi's personal hashtag is #neverstop. It may not have been created by the 40-year-old Baltimore techie, but it's one he's used for years.

About 80 people attended a forum, held by the PTA Council of Howard County and the Howard County Education Association, on the Common Core State Standards Initiative

Israeli police Sunday shot dead a prisoner who was a native of Maryland after he wounded three guards with a pistol at a jail near Tel Aviv, police said.

A leading Democratic lawmaker says the O'Malley administration isn't doing enough to keep the popular Netflix drama "House of Cards" in Maryland.

The Abell Foundation has invested $25 million in Paice, a Baltimore firm that invented a way to improve the performance of combined gas/electric engines, and has spent years fighting automakers in court over the use of what its alleges is its technology.

Howard Friedman has heard the chatter, from his own community to Capitol Hill: sometimes questions, sometimes complaints about the federal workforce, its size and its cost.

Under Armour and Nike Inc. have agreed to settle a trademark infringement lawsuit in which the Baltimore-based sports apparel brand accused its rival of illegally using versions of the ¿I Will¿ slogan.

Adidas filed suit Tuesday against Under Armour and subsidiary MapMyFitness, alleging that the companies deliberately and wilfully" infringed on patents for mobile fitness products.