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Rita Sloan Berndt, a neurology professor at the University of Maryland Medical School for 25 years who studied people who suffered from the loss of speech, known as aphasia, died June 17 of lymphoma at her home in Roland Park. She was 70.

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Several players with local ties who were picked in baseball's first-year player draft last month have started their professional careers.

At the Glenwood Library, during the month of July, there will be sessions on science for children, opportunities to knit and crochet for beginners and experts of any age, and music in the café by local music students.

Esther McCready and Larry Gibson exemplify the University of Maryland Baltimore's civil rights history.

The lackluster economy prompted Gov. Martin O'Malley to propose erasing $84 million in planned spending for next year.

Henry F. Cerny, a dentist who had a practice in Westminster for nearly 30 years, died June 28 at the Golden Living Center in Westminster. He was 94 and died of complications from a fall.

Congratulations to Linden-Linthicum United Methodist Church member Tatyana McFadden on being nominated for the prestigious ESPY Award-Best Athlete with a Disability.

How far can President Obama involve the U.S. in Iraq without taking ownership of a war he opposed and supposedly ended?

Grace Macatee, a recent graduate of North Harford High School, has been named the Harford County winner in the 12th annual Northrop Grumman Engineering Scholars competition

A couple hundred alums, administrators and fans came to the Under Armour Brand House in Harbor East to celebrate Maryland officially joining the Big Ten.

Tuesday, the University of Maryland officially joins the Big Ten athletic conference. This is a winning moment for both athletics and academics at Maryland.

When Sarah Suskind, 18, stopped by Long Reach High School with her mother Thursday morning, she thought they were there to pick up a copy of her high school transcript.

Sister Dorothy Mary Epple, a member of the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia for 66 years, died Tuesday of a heart attack at Assisi House in Aston, Pa. She was 86.

This was the promise: No longer would African-Americans be forced to pick up their meals from the back door of restaurants. No longer would they need to fear being unable to find lodgings on their way home from a trip.

On Tuesday, the University of Maryland officially leaves the North Carolina-based Atlantic Coast Conference for the more prosperous Big Ten Conference, a Midwest-oriented league known for its football heritage and expanding television network.

The University of Maryland, College Park's football and men's and women's basketball coaches were the state's three highest-paid public employees last year, continuing a long-standing trend.

Silicon Valley's deals for two Columbia firms — the proposed Micros Systems acquisition last week and Sourcefire last year — strike local entrepreneurs as wins rather than losses. They want more California tech giants doing business here, more billion-dollar-plus acquisitions, more companies spinning off with the money from those deals.

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Morgan State University was warned earlier this year that it had "serious performance and financial deficiencies" in its administration of the largest federal research program in its history.

Turnout was low for Tuesday's primary election at polling places in Laurel, as expected. With so few contested races, and what experts say is the usual apathy found in a nonpresidential election cycle, the turnout wasn't a surprise.

The GI Bill, signed 70 years ago today, provided opportunity for veterans and transformed post-war America.

Michael Pecht feels like Sherlock Holmes sometimes, and not just because he plays violin on the side. He runs a 120-person engineering team at the University of Maryland where he and others get to figure out why something is going wrong — from windshield wipers to highly technical parts.

The Nurses' Clinic at Paul's Place, a collaboration between Paul's Place in Pigtown and the University of Maryland School of Nursing, is open every Wednesday.

Ruth E. Eger, former executive director of the Joseph Richey Hospice who lectured widely on death and dying, died June 9 of pneumonia at St. Agnes Hospital. She had just celebrated her 80th birthday.

Two of Maryland's teacher preparation programs were ranked among the best in the country in the second annual report by a national research advocacy group.

Laurel's Bond Mill Elementary fifth graders celebrated their transition to middle school with a ceremony featuring Sen. Jim Rosapepe as guest speaker, recollection of memories of their years at Bond Mill and musical selections.

Jeanne G. Clapp, a retired educator who was a founding faculty member of the Odyssey School, died Thursday of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center. She was 70.

Fights between small groups of black and Latino students are recent events – but inclusiveness, tolerance and a positive climate are present daily in classrooms at Digital Harbor. In my 44 years in Baltimore City Schools, I have not experienced a more diverse or vibrant school. Judge us by our long-term record, not by isolated incidents.

Robert L. Karwacki, a retired Maryland Court of Appeals judge who was president of the Baltimore City School Board Commissioners during the troubled early 1970s, died of kidney failure Monday at his Chester home. The former Mount Vernon resident was 80.

John Travisano's rise to high school lacrosse stardom was probably pretty different from his other future Division I counterparts.

The Big Ten will be coming to Baltimore and Washington as part of Maryland joining the league on July 1.

An attorney once called the "political pope of Baltimore" will chair a search committee to find the next chancellor of the University System of Maryland.

Dr. Jay N. Karpa, a retired Baltimore surgeon who was also certified in chronic wound care, died Friday of prostate cancer at his Pikesville home. He was 79.

Nearly 12 years after he completed his previous term on the Howard County Board of Education, Dan Furman is seeking to return.

Claude L. Callegary, a Baltimore lawyer and World War II veteran who had advised five U.S. presidents on veterans' affairs, died June 3 in his sleep at the Loch Raven Veterans Administration Living and Rehabilitation Center. He was 92.

The members of Aberdeen High School's graduation Class of 2014 were lauded by their principal Thursday for bringing what he called "national attention to this institution."

Mays Chapel University of Maryland college student going on medical mission to Guatemala with A Broader View service organization. Roger Lin said he is passionate about combining is interests in medicine and Hispanics and the service trip perfectly fits that bill.

Maryland developers are once again digging into plans to build near rail stations, a sign that the appetite for development projects focused on transit may be starting to return.