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    How a plan to make Maryland schools better is putting budgets in crisis
    Three years in, the Blueprint has become synonymous with budget cuts, leaving school leaders reconsidering how they spend every dime.
    Community members review data detailing the budget shortfall facing Harford County Public Schools as a part of a presentation by Superintendent Dr. Sean Bulson at Aberdeen High School in November.
    Randallstown NAACP president abruptly resigns
    Ryan Coleman has resigned as president of the Randallstown NAACP amid differences with the state conference over his role.
    Ryan Coleman, President Randallstown NAACP gives his remarks at the Randallstown NAACP Rally at the Baltimore County School Board in 2022.
    Who is Leoria Smith? Police identify ‘Falls Road Jane Doe’ nearly 30 years later
    Police identified the “Falls Road Jane Doe” as Leoria Smith, 20 — a woman who had been missing for about 12 years when her body was found.
    Cpl. Dona Carter of Baltimore County’s cold case and missing persons squad shows photos taken in 1996 along Falls Road when the body of a woman identified on Thursday as Leoria Smith was found.
    A heart-shaped note was found in socks bound for Luigi Mangione, prosecutors say
    Mangione donned the socks but later took them off “because he felt that ‘they did not look good,‘” according to prosecutor Joel Seidemann.
    A heart-shaped note of encouragement was tucked into socks packed for Luigi Mangione to wear to court last month in the UnitedHealthcare CEO murder case, prosecutors said in a filing made public on Wednesday, March 26, 2025.
    Family, friends mourn sudden loss of Costas Inn owner: ‘You couldn’t meet a finer man’
    Friends and family of Costas Triantafilos, the 85-year-old owner of the beloved Dundalk restaurant Costas Inn who died this week, are mourning the loss of a man described as everyone’s friend.
    Costas and Mary Triantafilos at a family baptism in the late ‘90s.
    Trump’s tariffs on cars hit Baltimore’s top import
    The Port of Baltimore has been a top importer of cars for more than a decade. Here’s how Trump’s tariffs on autos will affect Maryland.
    For years the Port of Baltimore has led the country in vehicle imports. New cars are seen at the Dundalk Marine Terminal.
    Baltimore County battled 6-acre brushfire amid heavy winds, dry conditions
    Parts of Maryland, including Baltimore, will be under a fire weather watch Wednesday due to dry conditions and heavy winds, officials said.
    The Baltimore County Fire Department battled a brush fire in the 13900 block of York Road on Wednesday, March 26, 2025.
    Mom finds son and girlfriend dead in their apartment. Now an 18-year-old is charged with murder.
    An 18-year-old faces first-degree murder charges after a man and his girlfriend were found dead in Woodlawn earlier this year, Baltimore County Police announced on Tuesday.
    6/16/22—A Baltimore County police car sits outside of the Public Safety Building and Police Department in Towson.
    Can Maryland rebuild the Key Bridge by 2028? The engineer in charge is already on it
    Maryland Transportation Authority chief engineer James Harkness oversees a Key Bridge team that, in an given week, includes roughly 150 engineers.
    Jim Harkness, Maryland Transportation Authority Chief Engineer, sits with a study model of the new bridge to replace the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge.
    7 things to do in Baltimore County, from gardening workshops to community cleanups
    Here are seven things to do in Baltimore County for the week ending April 3 that will connect you to spring.
    Toads don’t wait to reach their vernal pool spawning grounds to get busy. Lisa Lewenz often picks them up while they are mid-mate.
    Is breaching Baltimore County’s urban-rural divide ‘the dumbest growth possible?’
    As the Baltimore County Council considers a measure that would make it harder to change its Urban Rural Demarcation Line, here are answers to five questions about the decades-old URDL.
    Prettyboy Dam impounds the Gunpowder Falls to create the 1500-acre Prettyboy Reservoir in northern Baltimore County.
    Baltimore County school board didn’t discuss member’s censure. But the public did.
    The rare move to publicly reprimand Maggie Domanowski was hotly debated, despite a vote not to discuss it.
    Baltimore County school board member Maggie Domanowski was censured earlier this month for conduct the resolution called “rude and disrespectful.”
    Ex-Catholic priest accused of child sex abuse eligible for home detention, judge rules
    Baltimore County District Judge Krystin Richardson on Tuesday made the ruling at a bail review hearing for William “Bill” Mannion Jr., 62, of Sparrows Point.
    A cross over the entrance to St. Agnes School in Baltimore.
    Alliance wins bid to acquire Maryland-based Diamond Comic Distributors
    Alliance Entertainment Holding Corporation won the bid to acquire the assets of Hunt Valley-based Diamond Comic Distributors.
    “In Bloom” is one of the comics Atomic Books in Hampden gets exclusively through Diamond Comic Distributors. Photographed on Friday, January 17, 2025.
    Luigi Mangione wants laptop in jail while he awaits trial in killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO
    Luigi Mangione is asking for a laptop in jail, but just for legal purposes — not for communicating with anyone — as he awaits trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO.
    NEW YORK, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 21: Luigi Manigione is led by court officers to a hearing at Manhattan Criminal Court on February 21, 2025 in New York City.
    Owner of Costas Inn dies from apparent carbon monoxide poisoning, son says
    The owner of the popular Baltimore restaurant Costas Inn died from apparent carbon monoxide poisoning on Monday, his son confirmed to WJZ.
    The owner of the popular Baltimore restaurant Costas Inn died from apparent carbon monoxide poisoning on Monday
    The legacy of love, concert posters and Italian cooking left by Frank Cicero
    Frank Cicero, who designed hundreds of eye-catching posters advertising concerts, carnivals, political campaigns and other events during his time at Globe, died March 7 of heart disease.
    Frank Cicero.
    Loss of the Key Bridge upends commutes and personal finances
    Even though Maryland avoided large-scale economic doom related to the Key Bridge collapse, the disaster upended the lives of people who relied on the bridge.
    Pam Moffett’s commute from Dundalk to College Park became so long and unbearable that she now rents a room at a coworker’s house.
    One year later: How Baltimore averted economic doom after the Key Bridge collapse
    The Key Bridge collapse temporarily closed a shipping channel. One year later, it's clear leaders' forecast of economic doom largely didn’t come to pass.
    A portion of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed after it was struck by a large container ship early Tuesday morning, March 26, 2024, sending several vehicles and people into the frigid water below.
    Ex-priest who helped report notorious abuser now charged with sex abuse from 1990s
    A former Catholic priest who played a key role in bringing down the notorious child rapist John Joseph Merzbacher has been charged with sex offenses.
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