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Baltimore County’s top watchdog is getting more support amid scrutiny from the county council. We’ll take a deep dive into the job of the county’s inspector general’s office. As students return to school in the coming weeks there might not be enough teachers in the classroom so schools are looking to recruit thousands of substitutes. Baltimore prosecutor Marilyn Mosby faces a $1,500 fine after a judge ruled she violated a gag order and a new look is on the way for downtown Essex.
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Mosby is barred from swaying public opinion about Keith Davis Jr. who is facing his fifth murder trial.
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More resources were allocated to the county office tasked to curb fraud, waste and abuse in government.
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Surges of COVID19 continue across the US and the BA.5 variant remains the driving factor. Maryland universities examine what their COVID protocols will or won’t be in the fall. Anne Arundel County has a new Superintendent of Public Schools and he’s tackling the mammoth task of filling vacancies and a federal court has ruled in a discrimination case against Baltimore’s Catholic Relief Services.
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As coronavirus pandemic rules loosen, officials warn about the monkeypox virus on campus this fall.
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After a two-year legal battle, a judge ruled that the Baltimore-based humanitarian organization can’t discriminate against its employees.
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The family of Anton Black has reached a five million dollar settlement in his police custody death lawsuit that continues. A child playing with a loaded gun led to the tragic death of a 15-year old in Baltimore. City School officials plan to spend 25-million dollars on a tutoring program to help offset summer and remote learning loss. Maryland’s COVID positivity rate still hovers over 12-percent and a report from Annie E. Casey Foundation takes a deep national dive into the mental health of young people.
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More than 14-million dollars in ARPA funds will go toward an initiative to help clean up Baltimore neighborhoods. Baltimore County school officials are hoping a new app will help ease the chaos created by the continuing school bus driver shortage. Parents have been notified that the free meal program in Baltimore County Public Schools is ending. A summer youth initiative is giving some inner-city students a taste of the aviation field and a plan by the The U.S. Naval Academy for a golf course across the Severn River is drawing criticism from some environmentalists.
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Students soared above the city for the first time from a different perspective.
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Only historically disinvested neighborhoods across the city are eligible for the program.
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The technology offers real-time tracking for yellow school buses.
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The Naval Academy tried to fast-track building a second 18-hole course on the peninsula but local environmentalists oppose the plan.