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"Picturing Mary" includes Old Masters but no contemporary artworks

"Images of a Vanished Baltimore: The Art of Jacob Glushakow" runs through March at the Maryland Historical Society.

Bidding at Boston auction house for 3-inch square fragments began at $10,000

Exploding cannon fire lit the sky and reflected off the water as rain poured down on American soldiers struggling to defend Fort McHenry against a British attack. It was September 1814 and during what's now known as the Battle of Baltimore, Francis Scott Key penned the work that became out national anthem, "Star Spangled Banner." It's been the job of Annapolis-based artist Greg Harlin to bring that scene to life ... on a postage stamp.

Paul Mincarelli has not given up his online search for a federal job, even after three fruitless years of trying to get into foreign service work.

George W. Collins, a pioneering WMAR-TV broadcaster who earlier had been editor-in-chief of the Afro-American newspaper, died Thursday of renal failure at Union Memorial Hospital. He was 88.

Go to the rear of Mary Martin's shop in Havre de Grace, and you'll discover a vast history of the world — of nearby small towns but also farflung foreign cities — being collated in an assortment of 3x5 postcards.

In an unprecedented move, Albany¿s Miles and Lyle Thompson won the 2014 Tewaaraton Award, becoming the first players to share the honor.

Maryland¿s Taylor Cummings was named a Tewaaraton Award winner Thursday night at the 14th annual ceremony honoring the top male and top female player in the college game at the Smithsonian Institution¿s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.

Charles C. "Chas" Stieff, former executive vice president of the Kirk-Stieff Co. who had been active in civic affairs, died Saturday of heart failure at the Broadmead retirement community in Cockeysville. He was 92.

The National Aquarium is evaluating whether to continue to keep dolphins as part of the Inner Harbor attraction, the institution announced Wednesday.

A throng of students from Elkridge Landing Middle School swarmed across the historic Belmont property in Elkridge last week.

Laurel senior centers and other organizations are offering variety of trips, workshops and other events for older adults during May.

William Voss Elder III, a retired Baltimore Museum of Art curator who assisted first lady Jacqueline Kennedy during the 1960s to bring antique furnishing to the White House, died of heart failure Thursday at Northwest Hospital Center. The Upperco resident was 82.

In Harford County Saturday, you could spend your day hunting Easter eggs, flying kites buying the first locally grown produce of the spring or, if your interests lean toward custom, super stock and classic vehicles, you could visit the third annual Romancing the Chrome show in Jarrettsville.

Jeanne Kelly founded Encore Chorale, a singing group for seniors ages 55 and up, in 2006-2007. The chorale operates under the aegis of Encore Creativity for Older Adults, a nonprofit organization headquartered in Deale, Md. Locally the chorale meets at Myerberg Senior Center, 3101 Fallstaff Road, Baltimore, Md.

The Tewaaraton Foundation has named former Navy lacrosse star and National Lacrosse Hall of Famer James C. "Jimmy" Lewis as the recipient of the fourth annual Tewaaraton Legends Award.

this summer, the original manuscript of "The Star-Spangled Banner," the poem Francis Scott Key wrote about a certain inspiring morning in September of 1814, will be the centerpiece of a sprawling, multimillion-dollar statewide celebration.

Exhibit timed to bicentennial of Battle of Baltimore

Show chronicles African-American history from the 1600s to the present and includes rare copy of the Emancipation Proclamation

Edward C. Papenfuse, 70, retired Thursday as state archivist after a career spanning nearly four decades. During that time he brought Maryland's public records from the era of the index card to the Digital Age and put hundreds of millions of state documents as close as the nearest computer.

Dorothy Beksinski Higdon, a homemaker and former secretary once active in scouting, died of heart disease Friday at her Mays Chapel home. She was 89.

As owner of the Laurel production company Breasia Studios, Jamal Lee has worked with award-winning musicians, large corporations and major film studios. On Friday, he met with another notable client: President Barack Obama.

Government employees and local businesses won't be the only ones affected by the looming federal government shutdown. Students at Harford County Schools may lose the most fun part of their educational enrichment — field trips to Washington, D.C., landmarks and other places owned by the federal government.

Congress has brought the nation once again up against a deadline to fund the federal government or shut it down. Unless lawmakers strike a deal, federal employees will be sent home when they arrive at work on Tuesday and government services will be suspended. Here's a look at how shutdown would affect you:

Maryland Historical Society invited public to come in and help sew reproduction of Star Spangled Banner

Hoping to save what's left of Maryland's dwindling wild ginseng population, the state has banned collection of the sought-after herbal plant from all state-owned lands.

On his first trip to Washington, Austin Jarvis most wanted to visit the Lincoln Memorial, so the 11-year-old from Georgia was displeased that he and his family had to settle for an obstructed view.

Rosa Bonheur is said to be the first cemetery in the U.S. to allow people and their pets to be buried side by side. The Howard County Council votes this Thursday, July 25, on whether to grant a developer's request to re-zone the property for commercial use.

3D printing is featured this week at the American Alliance of Museums conference in Baltimore

Katie Schwarzmann became the third two-time winner of the Tewaaraton Award as the Maryland senior midfielder and Cornell's Rob Pannell were honored as the top players in collegiate lacrosse Thursday night at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.

Guests will first enjoy tasting foods from the antebellum North and South and conversing with the Grants at a reception at the Havre de Grace library beginning at 6:30 p.m. The Grants will then escort guests at 7 p.m. next door to St. John's, home of the Maryland Conservatory of Music, where they will be treated to a rare glimpse of Lincoln's musical side

Maryland's Katie Schwarzmann, Alex Aust named women's Tewaaraton Award finalists

The Tewaaraton Foundation today announced the Tewaaraton Award men's and women's nominees, including 2012 winners Katie Schwarzmann (Maryland) and Peter Baum (Colgate).

Loss of $41 million due to sequestration forces closures beginning May 1

Harford County Public Library is hosting Civil War 150, a series of events including visits from bestselling authors of books about the Civil War, book discussion groups, a special musical performance and exhibitions

Carol G. Hjortsberg, former head of Grace Episcopal Day School and author of a history of St. Anne's Episcopal Church in Annapolis, died March 27 from complications of diabetes at Baltimore Washington Medical Center. She was 69.

Monologue combines story about the performer's battle with prostate cancer with reflections on his own mortality

Ginseng, one of the most sought-after medicinal herbs in the world, once flourished across much of Maryland. It has nearly vanished now, though, from all but the westernmost counties of the state.

Ephrem Kouakou prefers to work while the world sleeps. In the dead of night, absent the sound of any human voice or music, the artist says he can best hear the "spirits" talking.

Cats kill up to 3.7 billion birds, 15 billion small mammals each year, according to study

The Tewaaraton Foundation has named former Johns Hopkins lacrosse star and U.S. Lacrosse National Hall of Famer Joe Cowan as the recipient of the third annual Tewaaraton Legends Award.