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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, just announced that they will put part of their enormous wealth behind an effort to spread the University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s successful STEM honors program to two University of California colleges.

Two weeks after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished, as the search zone narrowed to the western Indian Ocean, the U.S. Navy turned to a contractor in Prince George's County — one of few organizations in the world capable of assisting.

The end came quickly for Silk Road, when federal agents crept in to nab the alleged kingpin of the secret $1.2 billion online drug marketplace as he sat at his laptop in the sci-fi section of a San Francisco public library.

Google and Facebook founders choose Hopkins researcher Bert Vogelstein for $3 million prize