Virginia Union University

High on drugs and with her young son along for the ride, Denise Thomas-Brown and an accomplice were foiled in their attempt to steal batteries from a Lowe's store. She fled on foot into the woods, leaving her son behind in the getaway car. Four hours...

Back in the days before 911 -- and even before there was widely available residential telephone service -- there was this: Hulking, cast-iron call boxes, posted all over the city, into which residents or shopkeepers could insert a special key that would...

Osborne A. Payne, a former educator who became a trailblazing Baltimore businessman, entrepreneur and philanthropist, died Tuesday of Alzheimer's disease at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Columbia. He was 87. "He was one of Baltimore's great unsung heroes,...

Paul E. Smith, former head basketball coach at Dunbar High School and McDonogh School who later coached in Baltimore County public schools, died Monday of kidney failure at Maryland General Hospital. The Randallstown resident was 71. "Paul coached for...

Leontine T.C. Kelly, a daughter and wife of ministers who followed her own calling and became the first black woman bishop in a major Christian denomination when the United Methodist Church elevated her to the position in 1984, has died. She was 92....

In the crowded glass and steel lobby of the Houston school headquarters, Principal Susan Monaghan paused briefly to touch the shoulder of her boss, a man with far less experience in the education field and young enough to have been her student. "I am OK,...

S. Dallas Dance, chief middle schools officer in the Houston school district, has been chosen as the next superintendent in Baltimore County. Dance, 30, had only two years of teaching experience in public schools, and therefore needed and received a...

The Howard County school board announced Monday its two finalists for superintendent, and whoever gets the job could make county history. The candidates are S. Dallas Dance, chief middle schools officer in the Houston Independent School District, and...

As the clock ticked toward midnight Monday, school boards in Howard and Baltimore County were scrambling to make job offers to their next superintendents. The timing was not a coincidence. The school boards in the adjoining districts knew they were in an...

High school students can receive on-the-spot acceptance into colleges around the state during an on-site admissions program at Warwick High School this week. The event, at 6 p.m. Thursday, is sponsored by Newport News Public Schools but open to all local...

Three Harrisburg citizens filed a civil-rights action Thursday in United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. Civil Action No. 1:11-CV-2288 alleges that Senate Bill 1151, amending Act 47, violates their federal right to due...