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As he prepares for his second season playing in the Japan National Basketball League with Link Tochigi Brex, Tommy Brenton sits down to talk about the thrills and challenges of playing professionally overseas.

Ravens rookie guard John Urschel distinguished himself in college on the field and in the classroom--including as a teacher.

Patrick DeGroodt, who oversaw the development of a communications system for the Army that allows soldiers on the battlefield to communicate with the same ease that the rest of us have with cellphones, has been named a finalist for the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal.

Hereford High's Annie Seamon will attend college in China at New York University's Shanghai campus

The electronic eavesdropping and other revelations of spying should be the focus of concern

Col. Valledor sent his daughter an email Wednesday evening saying how sorry he was to be in Afghanistan on such an important day. Several hours later, they held each other close.

If you want to feel good again about what's possible for public television, don't miss 'Coming Back with Wes Moore,' which airs Tuesday night on Maryland Public Television.

Eugenie Anne "Jane" Connall, a longtime Howard County psychologist who was also an animal lover, died April 5 of breast cancer at her Columbia home. She was 58.

Bel Air residents, say hello to your new sister city: Narva, Estonia. The "friendly exchange relationship" with Narva, a first for The town of Bel Air, got under way Wednesday morning at Town Hall with a little high-tech help.

Controversial plan to develop Hampden townhouses on site of former home for unwed mothers goes before Baltimore City zoning board. Neighbors and City Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke oppose developer John Brooks' proposal.

It what could be truly considered a tourism manager's dream, Havre de Grace has made Smithsonian Magazine's list of "The Best 20 Small Towns to Visit in 2014."

Ukraine's future worries Peace Corps volunteer and Clarksville resident Peggy Walton.

On Sept. 12, 2001 senior managers and technical experts crammed into the narrow and stuffy conference room of the National Security Agency's Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) director. Each was trying to make sense of what had just happened the previous morning when two jets slammed into the World Trade Center in New York. The obvious questions were: Who had done this? How could we lift the spirits of the demoralized counterterrorism division? And more importantly, how could we find and track the

"Looking for a Plus-One" is brimming with restless energy, with characters' anxiety spilling into the screen.

Morgan Lane Arnold's bedroom at her mother's house was painted pink and lilac, with white unicorns prancing in a border that ran along the walls. Even at 14, she still believed in unicorns, her mother said.

A 20-year-old Ellicott City man on Friday pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the stabbing death of a prominent Howard County businessman and blogger.

Next fall, Baltimore County will be the first large school system in the state to plunge into an ambitious and potentially risky initiative to give 113,000 students from kindergarten through 12th grade their own tablets or laptops.

Ravens coach John Harbaugh took a half-hour out of his overseas trip Thursday to Skype with a group of St. Paul's School for Girls students that has been collecting coffee and tea donations to send to the Candahar air base he was visiting.

Gilman 3rd grade teacher Jen Reiter is this year's national Teacher on the Trail for the annual Iditarod dog sled race in Alaska. She will ride along and report to school kids from the trail as well as doing other educational activities. Now, she is using the upcoming race as a teaching tool for her own students. Her last day at Gilman is Feb. 13. The race starts March 1.

Legal and undocumented immigrants already pay "fees" via the taxes and fees associated with these remittances, not to mention the fees paid for calling cards, Internet access (for Skype-type communication), and text message sent to family and friends overseas. These so-called deported monies are used to purchase products, services, and to support local infrastructure.

Wednesday night, the channel introduces another new series starring a Baltimore area college grad, and it looks like Comedy Central has another winner.

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra commissioned concerto by Towson University faculty member Jonathan Leshnoff, who dedicated it to classical guitarist and Peabody faculty member Manuel Barrueco.

Scrabble at the Bain Center perfect way for seniors to scrabble their brains.

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Scrabble at the Bain Center perfect way for seniors to scrabble their brains.

Columbia Digest

Perryville residents could be seeing an increase in their water and sewer rates sometime soon.

Joshua Brown, Jeanine Reyes and others started a Filipino club at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, and are helping to raise funds for Typhoon Haiyan recovery in the Philippines.

When Annmarie Chiarini's ex-boyfriend posted 88 naked pictures of her on a website designed to shame, humiliate and destroy lives, she went straight to the police. She was shocked when the officers informed her no law had been broken.

Rodgers Forge membership campaign extended through Thanksgiving, homeowners who make qualifying home repairs may be elegible for historic district tax credits, Dumbarton Middle School class uses Skype to talk to Cairo resident, Naval Academy Band Brass Ensemble performs Nov. 24 at Sundays at Central concert series, "27 pieces: Hilary Hahn Encores" CD now out

Democracy made simple

A recap of the Oct. 21 episode of "The Real Housewives of Miami," as we discover some of Lea's backstory

When 15-year-old Chris Monaghan, of Fallston, is not traveling to "Music City" for gigs at Nashville's legendary Bluebird Cafe, he is preforming at countless venues in his hometown.

Howard County's Choose Civility program explores the generational divide in how we connect with one another.

It's getting a bit crowded in the Ducketts Lane Elementary School media center.

This summer, Linda and Steve Alpern took the trip of a lifetime, a two-week journey to Africa where they saw mountain gorillas, elephants and hippos in the wild, the aptly named Impenetrable Forest in Bwindi National Park, and — best of all and for the first time — their 22-year-old African son, Joseph.

American inconsistency on the use of chemical weapons makes it difficult to convince a bunch of teenagers — much less Congress — that we must act.

Housesitting as an alternative way of traveling

Former Dulaney star Ida Bernstein is hoping to make the U.S. bobsled team for Sochi in 2014 and rugby team for Rio in 2016.