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Dr. Raymond Seltser, former associate dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health who was the author of seminal articles on smoking, stroke and radiation, died Feb. 16 of pneumonia at Sibley Hospital in Washington. He was 90.

Implementing the Common Core State Standards in Prince George's County and Laurel schools.

Dr. Alan Ross, a longtime faculty member of Johns Hopkins University whose love of numbers fed his career and also an enjoyment of baseball, died Sept. 7 at Roland Park Place. He was 87.

Two men have been charged with murdering a Wheeling Jesuit men's lacrosse player early Saturday morning, according to multiple reports.

Tisha Edwards takes the helm of Baltimore City schools on July 1 as interim CEO.

Congratulations to my niece and god-daughter, Kelsey Glatts, on her graduation from Sun Valley High School. Kelsey was also senior class secretary. She was a member of the honor society and the National Spanish Honor Society. She received the following honors: Pennsylvania State Representative Stephen Barrar Service Award; Brookhaven American Legion Albert Merlino Memorial Post 94 Citizenship Award, Coebourn Elementary PTL award – Jerry Achuff Award; Van "Guard" Color Guard and Class of

Dr. Frederick L. Brancati, an internationally known expert on the epidemiology and prevention of type 2 diabetes, died Tuesday from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, at his Lutherville home. He was 53.

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Over the past 17 years, a rare disease, Friedereich Ataxia, has sapped Lauren Williams' mobility. She has learned to use adaptive sports to reclaim her sense of direction.

At the Johns Hopkins and University of Maryland schools of medicine, Match Day was a moment for joy, and passion for various medical specialties.

Yes, our sports teams are better than theirs, but Lionel Foster says Pittsburgh holds lesson for Baltimore about post-industrial transformation

A Pennsylvania woman will be one of the first amputees to replace a lost limb using thought-powered technology capable of humanlike dexterity, developed at Johns Hopkins.

Howard County's Christine Jenkins, a senior at Howard University, is winning national recognition for her work on the school's dance team

The Big Ten Council of Presidents has approved Maryland's application for admission.

Michael Boland, M.D., Ph.D., an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at the Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Medicine, is now seeing patients at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Bel Air

Maryland Black Ice 18-U coach Keith Calta certainly welcomes the stiff competition for the dozen or so high-profile tournaments they have played in over the past couple of months.

Monkton, Baldwin, Parkton, Monkton, Freeland, Sparks, Phoenix students named to deans lists, honored with degrees, awards.

Johns Hopkins Hospital lost its coveted spot as the top-ranked hospital in the country for the first time in 22 years, getting edged out by Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital in the latest analysis by U.S. News & World Report to be released Tuesday.

Under federal program, University of Maryland, Baltimore to address pain management in curriculum

Any job, except teaching positions, that came open in the Harford County public school system, had to be advertised before they were filled, the school board voted 25 years ago this week.

Today's attacks on intellectuals have their origin in Maryland's own Spiro Agnew

Mr. and Mrs. Eric M. Faudree,

Brian Roberts said he had just experienced his first pain-free two weeks since the concussion. Friends were telling him he looks completely different from the way he did as recently as September. He and his doctors say he'll be recovered by spring and in the Oriole lineup for 2012.