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    Maryland sees drop in Hispanic graduations as immigration raids ramp up
    A precipitous drop in the number of Hispanic students and foreign students learning English has fueled a 1 percentage point decline in the state’s graduation rate for 2025.
    A student walks past lockers in the hallway outside Damien Ford’s Baltimore School for The Arts classroom on Dec. 21, 2022. Ford teaches an African American Literature class where shows his students comparisons between Lauryn Hill lyrics and the work of Zora Neal Hurston.
    Moore proposes another $100M in energy rebates, renewable incentives
    Gov. Wes Moore's bill is expected to compete this session with a host of proposals from Maryland lawmakers, advocates and power companies hoping to steer a response to the region's mounting energy concerns.
    Gov. Wes Moore at an energy announcement last year. Moore unveiled a $200 million energy plan Tuesday, about half of which will go to rebates on power bills.
    Montgomery County public schools will be closed Wednesday and Thursday
    MCPS announced Tuesday that schools will be closed Wednesday and Thursday. School officials will announce on Thursday whether they will close on Friday.
    Cynthia Ferguson, left, and Joni Kayne sled down a hill on Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026, during a snowstorm  in Silver Spring, Md. at Pinecrest Park.
    List: School closings and delays for Wednesday
    Here’s what we know about Maryland school and college closures as cold weather and ice persist.
    MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2025 — Ava Funk, 5, boards her school bus to Davidsonville Elementary School in Riva, MD.
    65-year-old man dies in Upton rowhouse blaze, officials say
    Baltimore City fire officials are investigating after a 65-year-old man died in an Upton rowhouse blaze Tuesday morning, the first fire fatality of the year.
    Truck 55 sits in the Baltimore City Fire Department station in Pigtown on Thursday, June 29, 2023.
    Investigator describes intense air traffic at time of deadly midair collision near DC
    A daylong hearing should make clear what factors played the biggest role in causing last January’s midair collision near Washington, D.C., that killed 67 people.
    FILE - Rescue and salvage crews pull up a part of a Army Black Hawk helicopter that collided midair with an American Airlines jet, at a wreckage site in the Potomac River from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Feb. 6, 2025, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
    All Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go stores to close, including 5 in Maryland
    Amazon will close all of its Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go stores in Maryland on Feb. 1 to focus on its same-day delivery services, the company announced on Tuesday.
    Amazon fresh market sign is seen in Naperville, Ill., Thursday, June 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
    Spirit contractor at BWI had no written heat illness prevention plan, state finds
    State officials issued five citations against a contractor that provides ground crew services for Spirit Airlines at BWI airport. The state’s investigation found that contractor AGI Ground did not have a written heat illness prevention plan.
    Tyrone Daniels, an AGI ground crew employee, speaks at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport
    Bitter cold grips Maryland as forecasters eye another winter storm
    Frigid temperatures, brutal windchills and possibly another storm lie ahead for Maryland.
    After a major winter storm over the weekend, Maryland could see more snow soon.
    What travelers at BWI and other airports can expect as Southwest introduces assigned seats
    Southwest Airlines passengers made their final boarding-time scrambles for seats on Monday as the carrier prepared to end the open-seating system that distinguished it from other airlines for more than half a century.
    Southwest first announced plans to switch to assigned seating back in 2024.
    Bethesda’s José Andrés sends food donations to local shelters amid snowstorm
    José Andrés’ World Central Kitchen partnered with local restaurants to provide meals to shelters in Montgomery County and the greater D.C. area.
    Caruso's Grocery chef Matthew Adler helps the Bread and Water Company team load food donation boxes for delivery to local homeless shelters.
    Stretch of I-695 reopens hours after tanker truck rolled over, leaking fuel near Halethorpe
    A tanker truck rolled over and leaked fuel onto Interstate 695 at Washington Boulevard in Baltimore County on Tuesday morning, according to the Baltimore County Fire Department.
    TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2026 - Crews remain on scene of a fuel tanker rollover on I695 inner loop near Washington Blvd.
    ‘Completely unacceptable’: Moore’s office chides Trump over Baltimore ICE facility video
    Gov. Wes Moore’s office slammed the Trump administration for the conditions depicted in a widely circulated video showing an overcrowded holding cell at the downtown Baltimore field office for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
    Gov. Wes Moore’s office called out the Trump administration on Tuesday.
    Third Maryland prisoner is killed this month after record year
    A prisoner was killed inside the Jessup Correctional Institution on Monday, representing the third prison homicide this month, state officials said.
    Barbed wire is seen outside the Maryland Correctional Institution in Hagerstown on Wednesday, August 7, 2024.
    Predicting which Orioles prospects will pop in 2026 | Banner Baseball Show
    Paul Mancano and Jon Meoli hand out superlatives for the Orioles farm system.
    Ex-juvenile detention center employee charged with sexually abusing 4 more children
    Ex-Charles H. Hickey Jr. School employee Ronald Neverdon, 79, of Woodstock, is charged in Baltimore County Circuit Court with 95 counts related to 10 children.
    Charles H. Hickey Jr. School, run by the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services.
    Financial adviser Deborah Owens wanted to teach 1 million women how to build wealth
    Deborah Owens, a Columbia financial adviser who wrote books and hosted radio shows on personal finance, died Jan. 4 of cancer. She was 66.
    Deborah Owens.
    Hotel Ulysses, Baltimore’s ‘sexiest’ new hotel, has unpaid taxes
    Hotel Ulysses, an upscale hotel in Mount Vernon in Baltimore City, racked up a $290,000 in unpaid taxes, court records show.
    Hotel Ulysses, an upscale hotel in Mount Vernon, racked up a $290,000 in unpaid taxes, court records show.
    Silver Spring comic shop offers refuge by way of Dungeons & Dragons
    Pure Panic Comics & Games in Silver Spring hosts a diverse group of hobbyists who bond over games and comics. The Banner Montgomery started a game of Dungeons & Dragons to explore their community.
    Pure Panic Comics & Games on Fenton Street in Silver Spring.
    Maryland delegates to take first vote on new congressional map Tuesday
    Maryland lawmakers are on track to speed a new, Democrat-friendly congressional district map through the House of Delegates in the coming days, with the first hearing and vote set for Tuesday.
    A bill to redraw the state's congressional districts is scheduled for a hearing and vote in the House of Delegates Rules Committee on Tuesday afternoon.
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