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- The Smithsonian Channel television show “America’s Hidden Stories” is scheduled to air an episode Monday night exploring the biological sex of General Casimir Pulaski.
- The University of Maryland’s football program has been under heightened scrutiny since the June death of 19-year-old offensive lineman Jordan McNair and subsequent reports of a “toxic” culture within the team. Here are the names you need to know.
- A series of events indicate some of the discord and strain building in the University of Maryland athletics department up to — and beyond — June 13, the day football player Jordan McNair died after suffering heatstroke during a team conditioning test.
- New Maryland athletic director Damon Evans said his wife, Kerri, encouraged him to join Kevin Anderson's staff four years ago after he was forced to leave Georgia in 2010.
- With football player Jordan McNair's death still hanging over College Park, Damon Evans is given long-awaited second chance as Maryland's new athletic director.
- Maryland hopes that its new AD, Damon Evans, brings what the Terps need: on-field success and the ability to generate revenue and donations.
- Damon Evans, who has served as acting athletic director since former AD Kevin Anderson went on a six-month sabbatical in October, was named to the position on a permanent basis Monday.
- Dr. James H. Kelly, former chairman of Greater Baltimore Medical Center's Department of Otolaryngology whose research centered on swallowing disorders, died Thursday from a blood clot at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. The Ruxton resident was 74.
- Preserving memory can leave us mired in the past or it can help propel us forward. As a black student of history, I’m striding toward the future, while very much aware of what’s behind me.
- Andrew C. "Andy" Helms, a popular Washington College economics professor whose somewhat quirky behavior delighted his students and friends, died Nov. 12 from undetermined causes at his Crumpton home. He was 44.
- Many African Americans are not getting flu shots because they don't trust the vaccine, while whites are more likely to think the flu is not a big deal, a new study has found.
- A prominent scholar at the University of Iowa College of Education will become the new dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Education on Aug. 1
- A two week-long winter class at Hopkins is devoted to the science of wine, beer, cheese and anything that is tasty because it has been fermented.
- It was a year of championships, near misses, changes in the Ripken Baseball presence in Harford County and an Olympic medalist, as we look back on 2016 and the year in Harford County sports.
- Boys’ Latin football coach Ritchie Schell's first take on Victor Dimukeje was that the transfer from New Town High in Owings Mills was “very, very raw.”
- According to the American Pet Products Association, Americans spent $22 billion on pet food in 2014. Consumers have never had more pet food options. So how do you choose?
- One of the key figures behind Kansas City Chiefs outside linebacker Justin Houston's blockbuster $101 million six-year contract is former Morgan State strong safety and Deer Park Middle school coach and teacher Greg Barnett.
- Alphonse "Al" Buccino, an esteemed mathematician who worked for the White House and served as a college dean, died July 6 after a brief illness at Union Memorial Hospital. The 84-year-old had dementia.
- Westminster father, son receive degrees a week apart at University of Maryland
- Rasheed Sulaimon is going to play basketball for the University of Maryland. http He is a very good basketball player and will likely help the Terps in their quest for a national championship, but he comes with a troubling cloud hanging over his head. Mr. Sulaimon was dismissed in January from Duke University's basketball program for "unspecified reasons" and had earlier been accused of sexual assault.
- The 12-part podcast about an obscure murder in Baltimore from 1999, has racked up a major award.
- Social media presents a whole new set of challenges to parents, from when children should begin to use it to how to keep kids safe online. This requires early ¿ and frequent ¿ discussions about what¿s OK for public consumption. And it fuels concerns about cyber-bullying and other damage to self-esteem and reputations, including the possibility that the ramblings of a moody teen or a photo lacking good judgment could come back to haunt a person on college applications or at the start of her career.
- 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.
- Since winning the Intel, the biggest science prize for high schoolers, almost two years ago, Jack Andraka, 16, has become a globe-trotting ambassador for medical research and science education. But for all his travels, meeting the Clintons and other world leaders, it's his family that keeps him grounded — a brother who is also a gifted young scientist, and parents who let them run experiments in the basement and bathrooms of their Crownsville MD home.
- "When you talk about it, it lifts a burden off your chest," Ravens defensive end DeAngelo Tyson says of growing up without his biological parents in his life.
- School days for many Baltimore County high school students will be significantly different next year when Superintendent Dallas Dance imposes a uniform, eight-class schedule in all schools.
- Maryland's economic future rests on rejecting two damaging changes to the biopharmaceutical industry.
- Ronald S. Coddington, an author and editor, who has spent nearly four decades collecting Civil War era cartes de viste, has given life to those African-American soldiers who served in the war with the publication of "African American Faces of the Civil War."
- Shandra Patrick is the new principal at Westowne Elementary replacing Patricia Vogel
- It was during his first few weeks in Baltimore that Smith called Jimmy Patsos at Loyola about a job. The coaching staff was filled — as were the staffs of Gary Williams at Maryland and Pat Kennedy at Towson, who Smith also went to see. Smith spent the year as a substitute teacher in Baltimore County while also helping longtime basketball coach Bill Nelson at Division III Johns Hopkins.
- Baltimore may produce fewer patents than Silicon Valley, but that doesn't mean it lacks a vibrant innovation economy.
- Vernon E. Seibert, a former athletic director and coach at Glenelg High School whose career spanned more than two decades who earlier had been an outstanding football player at the University of Maryland, died Saturday of cancer at Union Hospital in Elkton. He was 88.
- Vernon E. Seibert, a former athletic director and coach at Glenelg High School whose career spanned more than two decades who earlier had been an outstanding football player at the University of Maryland, died Saturday of cancer at Union Hospital in Elkton. He was 88.
- Ravens rookie Courtney Upshaw battled minor conditioning issues, a nagging shoulder injury and command of the playbook but he's become a reliable run stopper and a potential long-term replacement for Jarret Johnson. He has started 10 games and made 55 tackles for the Ravens who play the Denver Broncos on Saturday in an AFC divisional playoff game.
- The University of Maryland, College Park is on list of top party schools while the Naval Academy is ranked one of the most sober campuses.
- Ann M. Klingaman, a retired Baltimore County public school educator whose career spanned more than three decades, died Sunday from complications of a broken hip at Gilchrist Hospice in Columbia. She was 88.
- The methods used in a study purporting to show contamination of chickens with various chemicals and pharmaceuticals are flawed.
- Harold A. "Hal" Cohen, first chairman of Maryland's Health Services Cost Review Commission, who was a respected medical economist, died of cancer Monday at Gilchrist Hospice Care. He was 73 and lived in Pikesville.