Maryland News

EVERY few years, college presidents feel a need to go public with their concerns over the commercialization of intercollegiate athletics.

Although milk prices paid to area farmers have been on the increase, they are still below the cost of production, industry officials said.

Now you want to compare New York to Maryland? You need to get out a map and check the size of the two and the population count before you go comparing salaries.

Ports America won a contract to operate Baltimore's Seagirt Marine Terminal under a 50-year lease that commits the company to build a container berth with 50-foot water depth.

The Staten Island Chamber of Commerce recently named Geoff Kravitz as its government affairs director.

Federal prosecutors have charged more than two dozen people with scheming to steal millions from a telephone program for the deaf.

The Tobias Harris recruiting saga is humming along at about 250 rpms right now. Harris, for those who don't know, is a 6-foot-8 senior forward from Long Island and a consensus Top 10 player in the Class of 2010.

In a $5 million counter suit filed against TLC on Nov. 13, Jon Gosselin claimed his fame "makes it impossible" to find a regular job, the New York Daily News reports.

Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said the moves show that President Barack Obama 's slogan for change was deceitful and he was no different from his predecessor George W. Bush.

Prosecutors on Thursday filed a civil complaint in federal court against the Alavi Foundation, seeking the forfeiture of more than $500 million in assets.

The move to seize assets held by the New York-based Alavi Foundation will cripple the charity's work and put the government in the awkward position of potentially shutting down the houses of worship, which occupy buildings and land that Alavi owns.

Federal prosecutors are preparing to seize the Islamic Education Center, a grade school and mosque in Houston .

Federal prosecutors say two people have been sentenced to 10 years in prison for sex trafficking of minors in Maryland, New York and Washington, D.C. Twenty-five-year-old Byron Thompson and 29-year-old Lea Bell, both of Reisterstown, were also ordered at sentencing Thursday to register as sex offenders.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Ten years and $2.5 billion in research have found no cures from alternative medicine.

A former college staffer convicted of ripping off the school raised money to repay it by roping far-flung investors into funding a fictitious online fitness magazine, prosecutors said Thursday.

COOPERSTOWN _ In Otsego County Court on Monday before Judge John Lambert, three defendants pleaded innocent at their arraignments: Calvin Carroll, 45, is charged with three counts of third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance.

Fourteen people have been charged with illegally purchasing 77 million contraband cigarettes from undercover agents in Virginia and smuggling the cigarettes to New York.Two are also accused of paying an agent posing as a hit man to kill a husband and wife whom they believed had stolen from them.The indictments handed up Thursday in federal court in ...

Marlboro resident and professional dance instructor Chester Freeman of Got2Lindy Dance Studios, and his student, High Falls resident Dorrie Boice, won second place in the Pro/Am division of the American Lindy Hop Championships in Stamford, Conn., on Oct 24.

A federal health official says two deaths and 26 other illnesses may be linked to ground beef recalled by a New York meat company because it might have been contaminated with E. coli bacteria.

The current exhibition at the Katonah Museum of Art - "Bold, Cautious, True: Walt Whitman and American Art of the Civil War Era" - is a didactic sort of show, centering on representations of historical events in American art and about the literature of Walt Whitman in and around the Civil War period.