Matt Bush
News DirectorMatt Bush spent 14 years in public radio prior to coming to WYPR as news director in October 2022. From 2008 to 2016, he worked at Washington D.C.’s NPR affiliate, WAMU, where he was the station’s Maryland reporter. He covered the Maryland General Assembly for six years (alongside several WYPR reporters in the statehouse radio bullpen) as well as both Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties.
From 2016 until March 2022, Matt was the news director at Blue Ridge Public Radio (BPR) in Asheville, North Carolina. He and his team won 21 Radio Television Digital News Association of the Carolinas awards in his last four years at BPR. Those were the station’s first such awards in its more than 40-year history. He also produced the station’s three podcasts, The Porch, The Waters & Harvey Show and Going Deep: Sports in the 21st Century. @MattBushMD
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Jurors reached verdict after a little less than a day of deliberations. -
Pedro Argote was accused of shooting Circuit Court Judge Andrew Wilkinson to death just hours after the judge ruled against him in a divorce hearing.
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The teen, now 16, shot Timothy Reynolds in July 2022 after Reynolds approached him and other squeegee workers wielding a baseball bat.
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Circuit Court Judge Andrew Wilkinson was shot in the driveway of his Hagerstown home.
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Both teams feature strong offenses in what looks like a very evenly matched series.
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Classes for the rest of the week have also been canceled following shooting that wounded five, including four students
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Rye whiskey must be distilled from at least 51% rye wheat, which many farmers stopped growing due to Prohibition.
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As the number of concealed carry permit holders skyrockets in Maryland, the state set limits as to where they can take their guns
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The 17-year-old male faces four charges, but police have not identified him as a shooter.
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Governor says the end of race-based admissions in higher education would be easier for state to do something about than student debt relief.
