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Gun Victim Gets Full Face Transplant

Matt Cantor — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:17:12 CDT

A Virginia man who suffered a gun accident has undergone a face transplant at the University of Maryland, and doctors say it's the most extensive such operation yet. The surgery required input from 300 health workers and took more than a day to complete, the Baltimore Sun reports. Doctors used...

College Student Busted in Rampage Threat

Mary Papenfuss — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:22:22 CDT

A University of Maryland student has been busted after he threatened on the Internet to go on a shooting rampage at the College Park campus and "kill enough people to make national news," said law enforcement authorities. Alexander Song, 19, of Maryland, also warned people reading his site to "stay...

College Uniforms Now a Fashion Battleground

John Johnson — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:50:34 CDT

College sports uniforms are getting seriously funky as outfitters such as Nike and Under Armor shell out big money to schools only too happy to take it, report the New York Times and Washington Post in similar stories on the trend. Both see the University of Maryland (with 32 possible...

Fox News Viewers 'Most Misinformed,' Study Finds

Nick McMaster — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 17:00:05 CST

University of Maryland researchers have deemed Fox News viewers the "most misinformed," Mediaite reports. The researchers, who asked a number of questions about hot-button issues in the 2010 election, found Fox News viewers—regardless of political affiliation—were more likely than viewers of other networks to believe, for example, that...

We Just Moved Closer to Teleportation

Mary Papenfuss — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 12:50:00 CDT

It's a tongue-twister, and it can get messy, but "quantum entanglement" may one day make it possible to teleport people across the galaxy faster than the speed of light. And it won't happen like Star Trek, with people beaming from one place to another. Rather, it involves quantum mechanics in...

Cops Probed After Beating Maryland Student

Mary Papenfuss — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 07:00:00 CDT

Three Maryland cops are being probed after they were caught on video using their batons to repeatedly beat an unarmed, apparently unthreatening University of Maryland student. The attack occurred as the student was celebrating a basketball game victory on a College Park street with several other students last month. At...

Cornell Shocks Wisconsin, Gains Sweet 16

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:34:45 CDT

Louis Dale scored 26 points, Ryan Wittman added 24, and No. 12 seed Cornell upset fourth-seeded Wisconsin, 87-69, today in Jacksonville, becoming the first Ivy League team since Penn in 1979 to advance to the round of 16.The Big Red (27-8) will play top-seeded Kentucky in the East Regional...

Sports Teams Fall Victim to Congress' Petty Feuds

Nick McMaster — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:16:00 CDT

Health care reform? Congress has trouble enough honoring sports teams. A resolution to formally salute Maryland's basketball team for making the NCAA tournament nearly fell victim to a feud between congressmen today. Maryland Democrat Steny Hoyer proposed the seemingly noncontroversial measure, which should have zipped by in a voice vote....

Defying Pols, Maryland Students to Screen Porno

Harry Kimball — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:18:09 CDT

University of Maryland students plan to take in some porn tonight after a heated battle with school officials and state lawmakers, the Baltimore Sun reports. The school slated a screening of Pirates II: Stagnetti’s Revenge —which recently showed at a University of California campus—last week, until legislators threatened to...