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As a teenager attending a Catholic school in Hong Kong in the 1960s, Carolyn Y. Woo never imagined that her studies were helping prepare her to one day lead Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services, one of the world's largest international humanitarian...

Hundreds of thousands of high school student athletes compete every day on the field and in the gym, but to get noticed and move on to the next level has become a difficult challenge for most.  One North Texas man has helped many athletes get noticed...

Published: December 8, 2000 As people across the country celebrated Pearl Harbor Day Thursday, Gov. Bill Janklow took the opportunity to promote the state's under-construction World War II Memorial. Speaking at the Aberdeen Area Chamber of Commerce's...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Democrats in the Michigan Senate said Wednesday they're developing a proposal that would allow Michigan high school graduates to get grants of up to roughly $9,500 a year for attending college by ending some business tax...

TV SPORTS Men's College Basketball-Northwestern at Michigan, 5:30 p.m. (Big 10 Network); Wake Forest at Maryland, 6 p.m. (FXSP); Syracuse at Villanova, 6 p.m. (ESPN2); St. John's at Marquette, 6 p.m. (ESPNU); Penn State at Nebraska, 7:30 p.m. (Big 10...

[Editor's note: This blog post initially included Joshua Davis as one of six Dunbar football players signing national letters of intent to play football on scholarship. Davis, who will play at Morgan State, is not receiving an athletic scholarship. He...

Scientists, economists, politicians, educators and even an artist gathered Monday in Annapolis to mark the launch of an unusual University of Maryland think tank that aims to bring academic disciplines together to tackle thorny environmental issues....

SOUTH BEND – It has been seven years and $70 million in the making and now a world class recreational facility for South Bend's west side has finished. Tens of millions of dollars was donated by Joan Kroc, the wife of the founder of McDonald's. But...