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Westminster High grad recognized as top honors student in four-year college in Maryland

The resolution affirms citizens private property rights, condemns the Sustainable Growth and Agricultural Preservation Act of 2012 (Senate Bill 236) AKA "The Septic Bill."

Pat Young is running for the open seat in the House of Delegates in the new District 44B, previously District 10

Holiday travelers know what Uncle Sam should — U.S. needs a creative solution to fixing its ailing and underfunded infrastructure

Navy Cmdr. James King and Lt. Cmdr. Justin Van Hoose climbed into the cockpits of the squadron's last two EA-6B Prowlers for a final flight before the squadron moves this summer from Maryland to the West Coast.

For Theresa Mills, the "most emotional day" was the day last June when the Marine Corps notification team visited her Laurel home to tell her that her older son had been killed in Afghanistan. The second most emotional day, she said, came Monday.

Based on his research and calculations, the Rev. Lewis Geigan estimates that more than 1.7 million Americans have given their lives to protect their country.

Ann K. Crane, who went to the wrong place in Dundalk to apply for a job and ended up staying there for about 25 years until retiring as personnel director, died Wednesday from heart failure at Oak Crest Village. She was 93.

For those tired of the monotony of marathons and triathlons, obstacle course runs – often filled with mud, fire and a cold cup of beer at the end – are the adventure seeker's antidote to boredom.

Daniel Baker, a retired stock broker and farmer, died May 19 from cancer at his Ruxton home. He was 82.

But even as these adrenaline-fueled races have exploded in popularity in a recent years, creating an industry with tens of millions of dollars in revenue, some racers have paid a high price.

The Johns Hopkins University has discontinued its science writing master's program because the number of applications has fallen by two-thirds, something that makes it not competitive enough, according to administrators.

Hundreds of thousands die from malaria every year, most in Africa. Dr. Eddy C. Agbo wants people to get diagnosed quickly and easily — right in their homes — so they can seek treatment.

White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough visited the Baltimore regional office of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs on Friday to discuss efforts to address the agency's persistent backlog of veterans disability claims.

Lewis E. Porter, a retired civil engineer who designed roads for the Baltimore County Department of Public Works, died May 18 from mesothelioma at his Wiltondale home. He was 75.

Transcript of President Obama's remarks to U.S. Naval Academy graduates

America's politicians say we need more students trained in STEM disciplines. So it must be easy for graduates with those skills to get jobs, right?

City's secretive $107 million tax giveaway is misguided

The Moonrise Festival, a new electronic dance event, has been canceled only weeks before the event, after organizers failed to obtain the necessary permits, city officials said.

Residents have gathered petition signatures, hired a lawyer, written to and met with public officials and plan a rally on Saturday to fight a proposal they say would crowd roads, schools and pollute water.

Howard County Briefs

A nine-year federal survey of frogs, toads, salamanders and the like found widespread precipitous declines in their populations but drew no conclusions about why.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers pressed the Obama administration on Wednesday to reduce the backlog of disability claims at the Department of Veterans Affairs by improving cooperation between the agencies that have a role in the process.

Firemen arrive too late to save building

Maryland offers everything a business needs to succeed.

Renewables cannot solve our energy needs; to seriously address climate change, nuclear energy must be in the conversation

Eric Schwaab, a longtime Marylander who's spent the last three years in the federal government overseeing fisheries and conservation efforts, is returning home to take a new post at the National Aquarium. Schwaab, currently assistant secretary for conservation and management at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, will join the aquarium July 1 as its first-ever senior vice president and chief conservation officer, the Inner Harbor nonprofit announced Wednesday.

About 20 people made passionate pleas Tuesday for and against a proposed parallel Columbia Gas Transmission pipeline which would go through a number of agricultural and residential properties and nature areas in Baltimore and Harford counties.

The Harford County Department of Inspections, Licenses and Permits (DILP), working in cooperation with the Department of Information Systems, has made technology enhancements that will now allow DILP to migrate from traditional file storage to electronic storage of construction documents. Presently, due to limited file storage space, DILP's practice is to discard a large percentage of submitted documents after 180 days from the issuance of the Certificate of Occupancy

In Tornado Alley, where a tornado killed at least 51 people in Moore, Okla., Monday, the disasters are relatively frequent when moist air from the Gulf of Mexico meets dry, cool air from the Rocky Mountains.

Stan Ber's Bits & Pieces column for the week of May 23

The Bel Air Board of Town Commissioners voted Monday to adopt a $15,075,295 budget for the 2014 fiscal year and also agreed to borrow over $750,000 for parking garage improvements and studies of the town's sewer system. Monday night's town meeting was also the annual presentation of winners of the Historic Preservation Commission's annual school poster contest.

Harford Branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) held its 4th annual Food Fight, bringing together four chefs from around the region to compete in a cooking competition

Student-run advocacy group gives high marks for training, mixed grade on access issues

Fidelity Investments: average debt of most new grads is $35,200

State's innovation economy has drawn attention; now it's time to build on that success

Harris Creek is ground zero for an ambitious $31 million experiment to see if the bay's depleted oyster population can be restored, one creek and river at a time, and perhaps help clean up and revitalize the bay.

Morgan Lane Arnold, a frail 14-year-old freshman, navigated the hallways of Mt. Hebron High School this year with a great deal of anxiety, unable because of a learning disability to decipher the social cues, jokes and angsty teenage emotions that most of her peers navigated with ease, according to her mother.

The emailed directive went out mid-morning on April 16 from a Baltimore City traffic engineer: No more speed camera tickets are to be issued from the camera in the 3900 block of The Alameda. Less than five hours later, an engineering supervisor wrote another email, stating that the city's entire speed and red-light camera network was being put on ice.

Researchers at Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore have discovered the genetic mutation that causes a rare neurologic and skin disorder called Sturge-Weber syndrome and the far more common port-wine birthmarks that don't harm the brain.

As Obama visits, the city is moving forward on education, training and infrastructure

Harford Community College officials have spent years working to improve cultural diversity on campus, leaving them well prepared to honor a state mandate to create a "plan for a program of cultural diversity."

Robert M. Douglass, who had been chief engineer of Baltimore Gas & Electric Co.'s Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant, died Monday from cancer at his Port Republic home. He was 88.

Diversity and choice key for future of city's public schools

It is well-known that the HPV virus can lead to deadly cervical cancer in women, but the virus is causing throat cancer in men as well.

Laurel city employees were recognized at the 18th annual awards ceremony and luncheon May 9 at the Partnership Activity Center. Laurel Police Chief Richard McLaughlin received the Mayor's Award, the city's highest honor for employees.

Naval Academy plebes are capping off their first year in Annapolis with a grueling, 14-hour physical and mental test known as Sea Trials.

William J. "Bill" Turcovski, a Northrop Grumman electrical engineer who enjoyed antiquing, died May 7 from pneumonia at Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis. He was 52.