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Towson community leaders have seen a sharp decease in community disturbances related to Towson University's annual Tigerfest in recent years, and hope that trend continues when the annual end-of-year celebration takes over campus this weekend.

Sun repeatedly fails to stand up for First Amendment rights

Maryland comptroller says Loeschke misled public, tarnished school's reputation in handling of sports cuts

Dong Hwan Lee, a securities salesman who began his career in Baltimore and rose to become a Wall Street sales director, died of cancer April 11 at his Lower Manhattan home. The former Lutherville resident was 37.

A Towson preschool teacher is in intensive care after her family was caught in the Monday explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.

The uproar over Towson University's attempt to cut men's soccer and baseball reflects a lack of perspective on college athletics.

When he learned that the drunk driver who killed his son might be paroled after less than a year in prison, Christopher Cheswick turned to Facebook to post his outrage and heartbreak.

Police swarmed Towson University Friday after a report of gunfire on campus, but university officials soon said the report appeared to be false.

Frances H. Mueller, a retired educator who had chaired the Bryn Mawr School's English department and had also taught at Towson University, died March 24 from complications from dementia at Roland Park Place. She was 94.

Towson is wrong to deny recognition to a White Students Union, and Johns Hopkins is wrong to do the same to an anti-abortion group.

The members of the Harford Community College Board of Trustees voted unanimously Tuesday to reject all bids offered for the construction of the campus' Nursing and Allied Health building.

Towson University alumnus and Catonsville resident Matt Kaiser is teaching his outlet of comedy to other adults with autism at the Towson University Hussman Center for Adults with Autism.

The anti-abortion group Voice for Life at the Johns Hopkins University won its battle to become a fully recognized club that will conduct "sidewalk counseling" sessions outside clinics and be eligible for funding.

During awareness month, focus should be on what people with autism share with the rest of us

River Hill's Meg Sterling tops list of standout Howard County girls basketball players

A group of students at Johns Hopkins is reviving a campus anti-abortion group that members say will perform "sidewalk counseling" — attempting to discourage pregnant women entering clinics from going through with the procedure.

The Redbird full-motion flight simulator owned by Middle River Aviation, the only one of its kind in Maryland, helps trim the cost of getting a pilot's certificate, can assist lapsed pilots trying to regain skills, or train those looking for a license upgrade.

Amanda Burnham, a Hampden resident and an associate professor at Towson University, has spent the past week installing a full-sized drawing installation on a wall in the Crate & Barrel Court of the mall, using images from downtown Towson to populate her painting.

Howard Community College student Katie Dunklee doesn't name the four-year school of her choice that turned her down for admission out of high school, but she doesn't lament the rejection either

To meet the federal Title IX law's goal of providing equal opportunities for athletes of both genders, schools have often eliminated men's teams to keep their overall rosters in line with the number of women playing sports. But a growing chorus is crying foul.

Last September, Van Brooks walked for the first time in eight years. A wobbly video, filmed by a smart phone and posted on Facebook, shows the lower body of an undeterrable young man.

State lawmakers have crafted deals that could send Towson University not only $300,000 to save its men's baseball program, but also $2 million to build a new women's softball field.

Residents of the Gunpowder Pointe subdivision in the Joppa area, who were under the impression they had a say in how a parcel abutting their community could be developed, received a rude awakening this year when meeting with developers who are seeking Harford County approval to build 66 townhomes at Pulaski Highway and Enfield Road.

Preakness 2013: Towson University student Gaudet to replace Carulli at Pimlico, Laurel

Gov. Martin O'Malley's plan to put up $300,000 in taxpayer's money to save Towson University's baseball team came under fire Wednesday by some legislators and key Maryland fiscal policymakers for being unprecedented, unfair to other college sports programs and inappropriate.

Towson University's campus community wants the world to know the school is more than just a place where a student advocates for racial segregation and plans nighttime patrols to fight a perceived wave of crime by black people.

Towson University students rallied on Tuesday afternoon in an effort to change the growing reputation of their campus from one that harbors a White Student Union to one that instead promotes peace, diversity and tolerance.

O'Malley's effort to save Towson's baseball team may achieve a welcome result, but it sets a damaging precedent.

Towson University baseball could live to fight another year after Gov. Martin O'Malley included an additional $300,000 in his 2014 budget to help the university sort through difficulties with its athletic funding. The baseball program had been slated for elimination after this season until O'Malley became interested in its fate.