ANNAPOLIS, MD—Governor Larry Hogan on Wednesday announced that he is introducing the Universal School Start Act of 2020 requiring Maryland public schools to start after Labor Day, and ending the confusion of having Maryland’s counties each starting on different dates. This confusion was created by the General Assembly’s actions in 2019, when it overturned Hogan’s executive order requiring that school […]
BALTIMORE, MD—Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh on Wednesday joined a coalition of 15 attorneys general and the City of Philadelphia in filing suit against the Environmental Protection Agency for gutting safeguards to prevent and limit harms from chemical accidents. The coalition is challenging the EPA’s rollback of Obama-era amendments to its Risk Management Program regulations, referred to as the […]
ANNAPOLIS, MD—At this week’s Board of Public Works meeting, Governor Larry Hogan detailed the steps that Maryland officials are taking to respond to the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak in Asia. While there have been no confirmed cases of coronavirus in Maryland, one individual has met the criteria for testing by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The individual […]
PARKVILLE, MD—Three brothers-in-law, all in their early 30s, are celebrating after winning $100,000 on the new 50X The Cash scratch-off game. The new business owners are grateful because this win will help kick-start their endeavor. Dolendra Paudel, Dipak Rijal, and Jeevan Sharma, all from Glen Burnie, have done many things together. They all married sisters and traveled to the United […]
NOTTINGHAM, MD—The son of two Baltimore County police officers was killed on Tuesday. A deadly shooting at a South Carolina nightclub claimed the life of 18-year-old Garrett Bakhsh. Bakhsh died at 8 p.m. Tuesday night from injuries he sustained in the shooting. Police responded to the deadly shooting at Mac’s Lounge on Camden Avenue at around 2 a.m. on Sunday, […]
BALTIMORE, MD—A Baltimore County Sheriff’s Office employee has been indicted by a grand jury on one count of second degree rape. Police initiated an investigation after being notified of the allegation of a sexual assault on November 30, 2018. The investigation was conducted in consultation with the Office of the State’s Attorney for Carroll County after the Office of the […]
UPDATE: All funding has now been secured for the playground. Original story below… —— PERRY HALL, MD—Local officials are organizing a project to build a new playground at a local school in order to honor a fallen hero. Councilman David Marks announced this week that he and other elected officials had initiated a new playground at Gunpowder Elementary School in […]
NOTTINGHAM, MD—Police are investigating several local crimes that were reported over the past week. Sometime between 2 p.m. on Friday, January 24, and 8 a.m. on Monday, January 27, an individual removed a master lock from a shed in the rear of the Lawn Crew business, located in the 3300-block of E. Joppa Road in Carney (21234). The suspect stole […]