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After 45 years in the radio business, Ed Kiernan Friday told the staff at WBAL that he will be retiring this summer as head of radio stations WBAL-AM and WIYY-FM.

Former Terps forward, now 67 and living in Florida, looks back at becoming the first African-American to earn a scholarship in the conference

Popular outdoor concert series will officially relocate to Canton Waterfront Park in May

Nineteen is a lucky number -- at least for MICA'S XIX: An Experimental Fashion Event. Senior fiber major Heyhee Choi is one of the 19 to be featured at the weekend event, along with 18 other artists and designers who make up MICA's fiber department's multimedia event class.

Some Mount Vernon residents are concerned about the impact of the restoration of the Washington Monument.

The Ravens have now agreed to terms on a contract with the five-time Pro Bowl wide receiver, according to league sources.

South Carolina lawmakers weren't thrilled that two public universities assigned books with gay and lesbian themes as reading.

Harford County government announced it has received top ratings from the nation's three major municipal bond rating agencies in advance of a $40 million bond sale scheduled for March 11.

Baltimore is going to have a new all-news radio station. Or part of one, anyway. WNEW-FM (99.1), a CBS-owned Washington-oriented station, is repositioning itself as a Maryland station focused on Baltimore, Annapolis and Washington as of 5 a.m. Monday, according to Steve Swenson, senior vice president and market manager for CBS Radio in Washington.

Gregory P. Kane, a former Baltimore Sun columnist, died of cancer Tuesday at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was 62.

Store owner, framer and art consultant, Garry Spears, 68, weathered a recession about eight years ago and several store moves and is now marking a quarter of a century of doing business in Laurel.

Nearly six weeks after an Edgewood woman was murdered at a motel room in Edgewood, police made another arrest

Radio personality Samuel Michael Anderson -- known on-air as "Mike Roberts" -- died Feb. 17 from cancer. He was 54.

Despite the 'sins,' it counters the NFL, political and show-biz spin

The Army planned to complete numerous building projects worth in excess of $10 million in Harford County. Both Edgewood Arsenal and Aberdeen Proving Grounds would benefit from the military construction bill

Harford County officials plan to postpone by a month a planned sale of bonds to finance two key public safety-related projects and other capital improvements.

Pamela Audrey Hall, a former radio station program director who was active nationally in jazz and contemporary gospel music circles, died of cancer Jan. 21 at St. Agnes Hospital. She was 57 and lived in Ellicott City.

What is it with the Harbaugh brothers and their pants?

For more than a decade, First Thursdays, the popular monthly free concert series organized by Towson University's public radio station WTMD, has regularly filled West Mount Vernon Park with thousands of music fans of all ages.

Ruut DeMeo ¿ who goes professionally by her first name, Finnish for Ruth, pronounced "Root" ¿ spent her childhood in a house filled with music. When she went to the opera, she often saw a production composed by her grandfather, renowned composer Aulis Sallinen.

WXCY and the Community Fire Company of Perryville with Nashville recording artist Katie Armiger will have a "Salute to Heroes" benefit event concert for the David Barr Jr. Memorial Fund this Saturday at the Minker Fire Hall. Tickets are limited to the first 400 people (21 and older). Call the hall to see if tickets are still available.

Orioles radio broadcasts will remain on WBAL 1090 AM for at least the next two seasons.

Harford County is undertaking a nearly $2 million comprehensive review of county-owned and operated facilities, a review that involves 184 public buildings, including schools, libraries, Harford Community College, volunteer fire companies and general government facilities.

For the first time in 70 years, voices from World War II will be heard once again when WYPR FM will air on "Midday with Dan Rodricks" on Dec. 20, with a rebroadcast on Christmas Eve.

'Tis the season to revisit sentimental stories, and the Laurel Mill Playhouse may be earning its wings in a faithful rendition of "It's A Wonderful Life." Veteran director Michael V. Hartsfield, of Laurel, chose a fresh adaptation for the Playhouse's revival of the traditional holiday story. Written in 2006, "It's A Wonderful Life, the Radio Play" by Philip Grecian and produced here by Laurel resident Maureen Rogers, easily captures all the familiar heart-warming moments, and then some.

Mac McGarry, the avuncular TV quizmaster of ¿It¿s Academic¿ who spent a half-century pitching local teenage contestants hundreds of thousands of fastball trivia questions about topics as diverse as Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Chubby Checker and the chemical makeup of paint, died Dec. 12 at his home in Potomac, Maryland.

In the upside down world of radio and TV, where careers come and go like chunks of ice in before-Christmas storms, North Laurel's Adam Vorce is making his mark. And he is doing it the old-fashioned way, by wearing out shoe leather, by developing contacts, by staying positive.

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The campaign to change the name of Wasington's professional football team will be coming to Baltimore in "small" way Friday via ads on WBAL radio.

If her dark horse campaign is successful, Democrat Heather R. Mizeur would become the first woman and first openly gay governor of Maryland. But Mizeur, a two-term state delegate from Montgomery County, isn't running on those credentials.

Ben Roethlisberger's anger and frustration continue to grow as speculation continues to swirl around the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback.

Nielsen, which acquired Columbia-based Arbitron in September, plans to lay off 333 workers at Arbitron's former headquarters complex, state regulators said Friday.

John Wendell Compton Sr., a retired disc jockey known as Sir Johnny O, died of heart failure Oct. 29 at the University of Maryland Medical Center. The Randallstown resident was 75.

The fifth annual Heather L. Hurd 5K Run and 1 Mile Fun Walk will be held at Harford Community College Saturday, Nov. 9.

Former WYPR-FM editor and longtime journalist Sunni Khalid has been accused of stabbing his adult son, according to attorneys at a Harford County bail review Monday.

The transformation of a vacant, 12-story eyesore into a gleaming office building has brought workers, shoppers and diners to the northern edge of downtown Towson — thanks in part to a public financing package that waived repayment of millions of dollars in loans to a developer. The county grants these so-called conditional loans that do not require repayment if certain conditions, such as job creation, are met.

Wagner's great-grandson was an inspiration

After the success of his 2012 Christmas decorations, which played the hit Carly Rae Jepsen song "Call Me Maybe,"Kurtz decided to switch to a different holiday and wire his house lights to play along with "What Does the Fox Say" for Halloween.

If you want to tune into what America was like on the home front during World War II, "The 1940's Radio Hour" is a nostalgic musical revue that's bursting with songs from that era.

Joan A. Spurrier, a retired legal secretary and family matriarch, died of kidney failure Sunday at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. The Idlewylde resident was 80.

The main floor of Laurel Regional Hospital was bustling with activity Friday, Oct. 25 as people stood in lines to get a wide range of free health screenings provided by doctors and other medical specialists. "We've had a constant flow of people, which is awesome," said Laurel-based Hearing Professionals marketing representative, Mary Moeder. "I've had to tell a few people to come back because I had to give my doctors a break to eat lunch," she added as another elderly gentleman approached the

CBS radio will launch a country music station in Baltimore at noon Friday, management announced today. It will air at 106.1 FM on the dial.

More importantly, we all would do well to make safe driving a higher priority than getting to our destinations as quickly as possible.

Baltimore Orioles finish a season of contention, falling short of the playoffs but demonstrating they are built to fly high

The Cleveland Browns sent shock waves through the NFL when they traded running back Trent Richardson to the Indianapolis Colts for a 2014 first-round draft pick Wednesday.

Orioles manager Buck Showalter's dust up with Yankees skipper Joe Girardi during Baltimore's 4-2 win Monday night is being reviewed by the commissioner's office, according to an industry source, but there was no determination of any possible penalties as of late Tuesday afternoon.