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Local students have been named to the fall 2017 semester president's list at Clemson University, in South Carolina: Caitlin L. Darling, of Mount Airy,

Robert Joseph Weber, who chaired the political science department at McDaniel College for more than a decade, and inspired future lawyers, judges and politicians while seldom giving them A's, died Nov. 12 of cardiac arrest at his Westminster home. He was 79.

The Johns Hopkins University announced Monday morning that Alanna W. Shanahan has been hired as the institution's athletic director.

Killings in Baltimore, which has the fifth-highest homicide rate of major U.S. cities, have left behind thousands of grieving families. Like the children exposed to violence, or the caregivers tending sons disabled by shootings, the grieving relatives of the murdered are little noticed after the funerals and the candlelight vigils. But their suffering is part of the devastating domino effect of violence in the city.

Michael Stebbins, artistic director since 2005 of Rep Stage, a professional Equity company in Columbia, , has resigned. He intends to return to his freelance acting and directing.