WASHINGTON — Gov. Martin O’Malley is expected to attend a bill signing at the White House. President Barack Obama is scheduled to sign HR 4348, which will fund repairs for crumbling roads and bridges, and will prevent interest rates on ...

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Congress may have averted a doubling of interest rates on millions of new federal student loans, but the fix is only for a year, leaving students on edge over whether they’ll face a similar increase next summer. “It’s scary,” said ...

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Former students in career-training programs at dozens of for-profit institutions have had so much trouble paying off their loans that the schools could lose access to federal student aid if they don’t improve, new data from the U.S. Department of ...

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BELLEFONTE, Pa. — The judge overseeing Jerry Sandusky’s child sex-abuse trial says prosecutors could finish presenting their case Thursday. Judge John Cleland tells jurors that if that happens he’ll give them an updated trial schedule at the end of the ...

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After three decades as an educator, G. “Anand” Anandalingam knows how to recognize trends — and he’s identified a big one in his last several years as dean of the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. “There ...

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JOPPATOWNE — The college student suspected of killing and eating parts of a man staying at his home ranted months ago about “mass human sacrifices” on Facebook in one of several details that emerged Friday in the second gruesome case ...

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WASHINGTON — A public interest group says as many as 900 colleges are pushing students into using payment cards that carry hefty costs, sometimes even to access students’ financial aid money. The U.S. Public Interest Research Group Higher Education Fund ...

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WBAL-TV reports that Jacqueline Williams has become the first woman and the first African-American to take over the high school. Williams had been serving as interim director and was officially named to the position of director on Tuesday. Williams is ...

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One of the most challenging aspects of owning your own business can be reflecting on it. Some may call this strategic planning. As an entrepreneur, the one thing you will find is that it is much easier to look at ...

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Last Saturday I attended my daughter’s graduation at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. The sun was shining brightly as we made our way along with hundreds of family and friends of the soon-to-be-alums to the quad where the ...

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