ANNAPOLIS — Gov. Martin O’Malley will call for more than $6 million to spin research conducted at university labs into new companies, aides said Tuesday. The proposal seeks to address the gulf between the state’s strong track record in attracting ...

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COLLEGE PARK — Officials have contained a fire that broke out in an electrical room of a building on the campus of the University of Maryland in College Park. Fire department spokesman Mark Brady says firefighters were called at about ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Comptroller Peter Franchot criticized the University of Maryland’s College Park Foundation’s use of $7.2 million to rebuild the university president’s on-campus residence and cast the sole vote opposing the demolition of the current home at Wednesday’s Board of ...

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Wallace Loh has been the president of the University of Maryland, College Park for a little more than a year, and now the school wants to knock his house down. He’ll get another house, sure. But the decades old President’s ...

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COLLEGE PARK — Karen DeSha clutched the bench in front of her and began to shake, letting out short yelps as the man in shackles and an orange jumpsuit shuffled into the Prince George’s County courtroom. DeSha had driven eight ...

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COLLEGE PARK — Maryland football coach Randy Edsall has hired Mike Locksley as his offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. Locksley takes over for Gary Crowton, who lasted only one season. The 41-year-old Locksley returns to Maryland after previously serving as ...

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COLLEGE PARK — The eight athletic teams slated for elimination at the University of Maryland, College Park, have launched fundraising efforts to help save their teams from the chopping block. “This is the hand we’ve been dealt, we can either ...

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Last spring, as the 2011 General Assembly was passing its last few bills, state Senate President Thomas V Mike Miller Jr. was smiling over his latest power play. Wouldn’t it be grand, Miller had said, if Maryland pulled its two ...

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The University System of Maryland Board of Regents made the right call in endorsing a strategic alliance between the University of Maryland, College Park and the University of Maryland, Baltimore rather than a merger of the two campuses. We had ...

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COLLEGE PARK – The University System of Maryland Board of Regents unanimously voted against recommending a merger of the system’s Baltimore school and its flagship campus here in Prince George’s County on Friday. The panel did, however, outline steps the ...

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