Howard County

The bus contractor that abruptly canceled the routes will offer $8,000 signing bonuses to attract new drivers, the Howard County schools superintendent said Thursday.

A Buick Enclave traveling west in the eastbound lanes of MD Route 32 collided with the bus in the area of I-95. The driver of the Buick was pronounced dead at the scene.

Despite its ambitions to transform student transportation with top-of-the-line technology and better pay for bus drivers, Zum seems to be suffering from the same labor shortage that’s hampered school districts across the U.S.

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A Howard County Circuit Court jury ruled Wednesday evening that a former Black public works employee endured racial harassment while working with the bureau that administers and maintains the county’s public water and wastewater systems.

The superintendent of schools has pledged a forensic audit to ensure transportation problems will never happen again.

How many Howard County students have been affected by late and no-show buses? Is it school officials’ fault, or the contractors’? Here’s what we know.

Zūm, a California-based school bus contractor that just took over about half of the district's routes, said it could not cover 20 routes for the rest of the week. And parents have reported widespread problems with buses arriving nearly an hour late or not at all.

So many school buses showed up late, or didn’t show up at all, that Howard County schools Superintendent Michael Martirano apologized to families in an email.

Zūm, a Silicon Valley-based company, is taking over half of the Howard County school district’s routes and hopes to transform student transportation in Maryland.

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Darrell Fletcher, who is Black, said that the harassment from his white counterparts escalated until he was eventually fired.

For the first time, community members who want to address the challenges posed by airplane noise and traffic are getting seats on the Maryland Aviation Commission, an appointed body that helps govern BWI.

Rajit Passey spent years looking for cricket games in the U.S. Now, he’s doing his part to grow the sport by opening a 19,000-square-foot facility and launching a minor league team in Baltimore.

“I just happened to look up at the time and there he was, walking across a grassy area that a few hours before was crawling with police.“

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Randy Morris, 38, was incarcerated for burglary at the Jessup Correctional Institute.

A July 13 fire heavily damaged equipment at a Baltimore County pumping station, prompting the city to ask residents to limit their water usage.

Baltimore-area school districts offered bonuses, raised salaries, held dozens of job fairs and tried improving work culture to keep the teachers they have and hire new ones.

The conflict over school bus service in Howard County can be traced to one critical decision: pushing back high school start times.