Maryland leaving ACC to join Big Ten in 2014
November 19, 2012 in West Central Tribune
NEW YORK (AP) Maryland is joining the Big Ten, leaving the Atlantic Coast Conference in a shocker of a move in the world of conference realignment that was driven by the school’s budget woes. Continue Reading
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Two police officers were indicted in the beating of a University of Maryland student during a rowdy celebration that was caught on video after the school’s basketball win over Duke last year, prosecutors said.
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One month before school was to start for Ben Barnhard, 13, his mother, psychiatrist Margaret Jensvold, shot him in the head, then killed herself. Officers found their bodies Tuesday in the bedrooms of their home in Kensington, Md., an upper-middle class Washington suburb. They also found a note.
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