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A breakdown in values

A Towson University student was stabbed multiple times Sunday night near the school¿s campus, Baltimore County Police said Monday.

The longtime Maryland tradition of Senior Week, in which high school graduates swarm to the beach for sun and not entirely legal fun, is in the spotlight after Maryland attorney general and gubernatorial candidate Doug Gansler was photographed in the middle of a party where underage kids were drinking.

The lives of the Baltimore teens are among the thousands influenced by George Soros, a billionaire philanthropist who decided 15 years ago that the city, with severe crime and poverty and just enough potential, was ripe for an experiment unlike any other. The Open Society Institute field office in Baltimore was designed as a social justice laboratory to keep students engaged in school, confront drug addiction, reduce incarceration and grow an army of advocates.

On Thursday afternoon, a crowd of business leaders, academics and local politicians met to celebrate the renaming of the Higher Education and Conference center to the University Center.

DMS Development will bring its plans for 101 York, a 571-bed student housing project, to a wide audience at a post-submission planned unit development or PUD public meeting Wednesday.

Capt. Richard Howard might be warning the community that the upcoming holiday season could lead to a spike in crime in Towson, but to this point, Howard and his officers have been fighting back Towson's crime rate without the three additional officers promised by the department in May. The first of the three is due to start Nov. 1.

It's easy enough to lose a campaign based on faux-gaffes; commit a real mistake, and you're sure to pay.

Closing or transferring academic programs will not integrate Maryland's historically black colleges.

Q&A with Towson University's first director of entrepreneurship

There is a debate raging on the campus of Towson University over a nationally ranked team.

One of the first things that needed changing was the hard floor

Communities are right to question the health impact of development decisions

Towson Chamber of Commerce, GTCCA, Towson University sponsor community cleanup throughout Towson on Oct. 19.

Communities are right to question the health impact of development decisions

The hometown Orioles missed the playoffs, but Baltimore-based Ashton Design still has a rooting interest in this year¿s Major League Baseball postseason. The firm created graphics for both Dodger Stadium and Fenway Park.

Parking and environmental issues are among the GTCCA's concerns after the PUD proposal for 101 York was submitted last Monday.

Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler introduced Del. Jolene Ivey of Prince George's County as his running mate Monday. She says she hopes to be Maryland's first African-American lieutenant governor.

Courtney Rollins to wed Andrew Goldbeck

New garage built for Assistance Center of Towson Churches a Builders Squad, Blessing of the Animals takes place at Church of the Immaculate Conception, fifth-graders from Halstead Academy and Pleasant Plains Elementary begin mentorships with Randallstown High students, Calvert Hall College High School starts Cyber Security Club

UMES is the most integrated of any of the state's historically black schools, because of an alliance with nearby Salisbury University.

J. George Kropp, a retired educator whose career at Calvert Hall College High School teaching social studies spanned more than 50 years, died Sunday of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center. He was 76.

Harry H. Boublitz, a retired Enoch Pratt Free Library librarian who was also a bibliophile, died Saturday of Parkinson's disease at Manor Care Ruxton. He was 83.

The members of Harford Community College's Board of Trustees unanimously approved a $164,420 contract Tuesday to build a right-hand turn lane from Schucks Road onto Route 22 (East Churchville Road).

James Patterson, a well-known, best-selling author of mysteries, has decided to underwrite eight $6,000 scholarships a year to Towson University students who are planning to become teachers.

Presidents of the state's historically black colleges and universities were cautiously optimistic Tuesday that a recent federal court ruling ordering remedies for persistent segregative policies in Maryland higher education would result in new opportunities and resources for their campuses

Howard County datebook

Groundbreaking ceremony for Phase I of park for skateboarders, partially funded by the Tony Hawk Foundation. The facility, funded partly by Baltimore City, will be built in Roosevelt Park in Hampden. The community of skateboarders in the area is expected to turn out in force to celebrate the start of the park, which is spearheaded by Stephanie Murdock, coincidentally an aide to City Council member Mary Pat Clarke.

Todd Butler was 10 years old when he got his older brother's trumpet out and decided to give it a try. By the time he was a teenager, Butler knew he was going to make a career with that instrument.

A one-day license was approved 4-0 for the Harford County Wine Festival at Rockfield Manor noon to 6 p.m. Sept. 28. This is the eighth wine festival held in the bowl next to the manor house; the event has grown from 1,000 people three to four years ago to 3,000 last year, said Mark Welsh of the Rockfield Foundation