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- Leading Howard County in goals and points, Marriotts Ridge's Victoria Hensh closes high school career as Player of Year to headline the 2019 all-county team.
- Baltimore's favorite son Kurt L. Schmoke is still as humble, cerebral and education-minded as ever.
- As Glenelg principal, David Burton believes it’s his calling to make sure everybody feels a sense of belonging at Howard County’s least diverse high school.
- The SAT will score students on challenges they face in their life, but does that go far enough?
- With "Hamilton" coming to Baltimore this June, some Maryland history related to Alexander Hamilton, founder of the nation’s financial system and its first Secretary of the Treasury.
- Dr. Paul Talalay, a noted molecular pharmacologist who headed a Johns Hopkins School of Medicine research team that found a chemical in broccoli that boosted the cancer-fighting abilities of humans and animal cells, died Sunday of heart failure at his Roland Park home. He was 95.
- Kurt Schmoke: If we’re serious about improving our city’s public safety, we should allow Johns Hopkins to establish a police department while also directing additional funds to community development and youth engagement programs in the city.
- For the second time in three years, Howard County rushing king Glenelg senior running back Wande Owens is the football Offensive Player of the Year.
- W. James Price IV was a decorated World War II veteran who later became an investment banker.
- Norman K. Carlberg, a noted sculptor who had been director of the Maryland Institute College pf Art's Rinehart School Sculpture, died Nov. 11 from colon cancer at Gilchrist Center Towson. The Roland Springs resident was 90.
- Mike Elias has impressed his mentors and colleagues during his rapid rise from Yale to his new job as executive vice president of the Orioles.
- Sexual assault is not merely a chance byproduct of an uninhibited, inebriated moment. Decades of research show that perpetrating sexual assault reflects a man’s beliefs about women at the time of the assault, regardless of whether alcohol is involved.
- Dr. Peter J. Fagan, a former Roman Catholic priest who became a medical psychologist and was director of Research and Clinical Outcomes for Johns Hopkins HealthCare LLC, died Saturday of multiple myeloma at his Fulton home. He was 77.
- Mke Bowler, a newspaper man for over 30 years, most of them with The Baltimore Sun, died the other day. There were tributes galore, especially for his work on education. I remember, though, a less-known tale: Mike Bowler saved a man from a lonely death in prison.
- In this harried, overburdened, self-absorbed culture we have cultivated, our value system is out of whack, inconsiderate behavior is running rampant, and kindness seems to be in dangerously short supply.
- George B. McCeney, a longtime Baltimore County public schools social studies teacher and accomplished bluegrass musician, died Saturday from Parkinson's disease at his Timonium home. He was 79.
- Carroll Health Group welcomes new providers banham eckel
- Former Washington County school board official Justin M. Hartings was unanimously elected Tuesday as the board’s president.
- Get to know Brett Cavanaugh. The Marylander is the president's selection to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy.
- A former Obama adviser raised more than $430,000 to unseat one of the incumbents in Southeast Baltimore's District 46 legislative election.
- Democrat and first time candidate Krish Vignarajah pitches herself as the woman best position to become Maryland's first female governor.
- William Griffin Morrel Jr., a banker who established the old Maryland National Bank’s international operations, died Wednesday at the age of 84.
- In recent years, a consensus has emerged that mandatory minimum sentences do much more harm than good. More than 30 states — from New York to Louisiana — have rolled back mandatory minimums for a host of crimes. Unfortunately, Maryland is considering moving in the other direction.
- A handful of Maryland colleges have joined a chorus of universities in assuring high school students that they won’t be penalized during the admissions process should they protest gun violence.
- Johns Hopkins University joined a growing number of among universities and colleges around the country in publicly assuring high school students that their admissions chances won’t be hurt if they protest gun violence.
- Historically African-American community gets a new history
- Robert G. Levy, who pursued careers in law and academia and was an accomplished sailor, died Jan 29 from pancreatic cancer at his Roland Park home. He was 85.
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- Winter, spring or fall, it didn't matter what season, as Harford County's high school athletes excelled once again in 2017.
- Judge Alexander Harvey II, who served on the Maryland federal bench and was a World War II veteran, died of prostate cancer Monday at his Woodbrook home. He was 94.
- Just over two years ago, Kurt Rawlings, a then John Carroll senior quarterback, was celebrating with his team, an MIAA B Conference football championship and an undefeated football season.
- Dean Pappas, an anti-war and civil rights activist who assisted in the planning of the 1968 Catonsville Nine draft board raid, died Saturday from pancreatic cancer at his Mount Washington home. He was 78.
- Halloween should be fun, not 'politically correct'
- Patients with breast cancer often find themselves dealing with financial hardship as they worry about their health.
- Less than a week before children and adults all over the country will be donning costumes meant to transform them into someone (or something) else, the debate over what constitutes an offensive Halloween costume, and how much people should care, rages on.
- ith the exciting news that Carroll Community College was going to begin offering intercollegiate athletics by the start of the fall 2019 semester, the college also needs to pick a mascot.
- On the standarized PARCC test, Lakeland reported school-wide gains of 7.4 percent in math for third through eighth grade.
- William K.S. Tobin, former dean of the National Cryptologic School,, died Saturday of heart failure at his Ellicott City home. He was 79.
- Johns Hopkins researchers are building a network of air monitors to improve data and understanding of pollution around Baltimore.
- Wednesday’s Alexandria shooting provides yet another opportunity to commit ourselves in public life to an articulation of common ground. And baseball gives us the perfect setting in which to do so.
- Wallace Loh, president of the University of Maryland College Park, commissioned a bias-response team to address instances of hateful speech and actions. Driven in part by their restive student bodies, many college administrations around the country have introduced speech codes to their universities. While UMD and Mr. Loh have long refused them, Mr. Loh's other efforts could nevertheless end up restricting free speech on campus.
- Wilde Lake's Trea Keys, Glenelg Country's Anthony Longpre headline Howard County all-county selections as Players of Year
- Gilbert O. Ogonji, a former longtime Coppin State University professor and department head, died on March 13. He was 77.
- Hundreds of students who have just about finished their medical degrees at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland will join with thousands around the county to learn where they will transform into practicing doctors during their three- to seven-year residencies.
- Elliot Hirshman, who has run San Diego State University for the past six years, has been selected as the next president of Steveson University.
- Researchers at Johns Hopkins University are working to engineer single-cell organisms that will seek out and eat bacteria that are deadly to humans.
- Health officials have relied on the overdose drug naloxone to heroin-related deaths, but price increases may make programs unsustainable
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There was a committee appointed by local government two years ago to create the "Monocacy Scenic River Management Plan." They have prepared a Proposed Plan
- President Trump is something of a paradox. He roots himself in nostalgia for yesteryear — "Make America great again!" — but is remarkably unconcerned with history. He ransacks the past for rhetorical baubles but declines to carry their historical baggage too.
- Elizabeth Ruffin, 87, a retired Enoch Pratt Free Library staff member for more than 40 years who fought racial segregation in Baltimore, died of heart failure Nov. 12 at Union Memorial Hospital.