Educational Development Corporation

Michael James Cortezi, a World War II veteran and retired member of the Baltimore sheriff's department who had been assigned to the Clarence M. Mitchell Jr. Courthouse, died Thursday of complications from Alzheimer's disease at Lifespring Hampton Meadows,...

Lewis Dickerson saw some of his friends hauled off to prison and others wounded by urban violence, and at age 18 came to want something better out of life. That's what brought him to the Urban League of Greater Hartford on Woodland Street, where he was...

Glance at Charles Y. McGaney's rap sheet, and you wonder why he wasn't in jail when police say he and two others shot and killed former City Councilman Kenneth N. Harris Sr. outside a Northeast Baltimore jazz club. •June 13: City prosecutors drop a...

Ramon R. "Ray" Baier, retired chief of the Baltimore Sun's communications room who earned a reputation during a nearly 50-year career for being an unflappable newsroom presence, died Tuesday at Franklin Square Hospital Center after he was stricken with...

A student was stabbed in the neck Wednesday as he took a break from his General Educational Development class outside the Urban League of Greater Hartford. The badly injured teen, whose identity has not been released, re-entered the building on...

Howard L. Muhl Jr., a retired lawyer and former Baltimore County magistrate who had fought in the Korean War, died of renal failure Oct. 12 at St. Agnes Hospital. The longtime Catonsville resident was 79. Mr. Muhl was born in Baltimore and raised on...

Recently, the Virginia Department of Education released "on-time" graduation rates for schools and school divisions. Put succinctly, "on-time" graduation rate is defined as the percent of a four-year "cohort" of high school students who graduate at the...

Matthew Haarhoff left jail in Anne Arundel County and headed straight for a playground in Dundalk, where he executed a perfect back-flip dismount from a swing and chased his 10-year-old nephew around the jungle gym. A 20-year-old who grew up in foster...

A national competition has cemented what Huntington residents have known all along. The town has been selected as one of the 100 Best Communities for Young People by America's Promise Alliance, a national organization founded by General Colin Powell. "I...

If you're in Alhambra and ask Shawn Chen what his job is, the 46-year-old Chinese American will probably tell you he runs a 60-room Best Western next to a drugstore and a burger stand on Main Street. But if you pose the same question standing here in...

As a small circle of friends celebrated his freedom at a barbecue in July, Joshua Komisarjevsky brooded, burying himself in a bottle of whiskey. State probation officers had removed an electronic monitoring bracelet less than 24 hours earlier, bringing...

He loved music and playing the guitar, but military service is where Eric Matthew Kavanagh found his calling, family and friends said. "Behind that happy, huggy, gentle guitar player, there was grit and determination," said the Rev. W. Terry Schoener...