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    Beaver found dead at state park in Montgomery County tests positive for rabies
    Another beaver has tested positive for rabies in the Montgomery County area, the third such case in the past month.
    A sign welcomes visitors to Seneca Creek State Park in Montgomery County, Maryland.
    Streeter: The face mask ban at MOM’s Organic Market is an affront to public health
    COLUMN | Rockville-based grocery chain MOM’s Organic Market has banned its employees from wearing masks at work. That’s bad mom behavior.
    MOM’s Organic Market in Timonium, Saturday, April 29, 2023.
    Maryland’s Summer of Ick: It’s more than parasites
    Maryland and the nation are piling up some pretty yucky statistics in food-borne, tick and mosquito-related and viral infections. What is going on?
    Fabiana Berenguer Gil, a 30-year-old architectural designer from Baltimore, got symptoms she later suspected might have been cyclosporiases, a parasitic infection she’d not heard of before this summer.
    How a fifth grader with autism ended up sedated, handcuffed and in the ER
    Hundreds of times a year, Maryland students are removed from school using a legal maneuver known as an emergency petition.
    A 10-year-old boy, who is diagnosed with autism, was handcuffed by a Washington County sheriff’s deputy, sedated by a medic against his mother’s wishes and transported from school to a hospital.
    MOM’s Organic Market bans employees from wearing face masks while working
    Employees at MOM’s Organic Market locations across the state are demanding answers after the Rockville-based grocery chain instituted a policy prohibiting them from wearing medical face masks on the job.
    MOM’s Organic Market in Timonium, Saturday, April 29, 2023.
    Another beaver attacks a Maryland state park visitor
    A beaver attacked a 10-year-old girl who was canoeing at Seneca Creek State Park in Montgomery County on Thursday.
    DUBLIN, OHIO - JUNE 02: A beaver as seen during the final round of The Memorial Tournament Presented By Nationwide at Muirfield Village Golf Club on June 02, 2019 in Dublin, Ohio. (Photo by Sam Greenwood/Getty Images)
    Do students have too much Chromebook time? One Maryland district will find out.
    The screen time audit comes as parents across the country are revolting over how much of class is spent on computers.
    A child uses a laptop.
    Inside the hunt for the biting beaver that wasn’t there
    Maryland state wildlife workers are on a Bigfoot-style pursuit following two bizarre beaver attacks.
    Joshua Tabora, a wildlife biologist with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, points out a great blue heron that appeared in his thermal monocular while searching for beavers on Hunting Creek Lake at Cunningham Falls State Park.
    Howard County sends emergency funds to crisis center facing layoffs from federal contract loss
    Howard County is sending $260,000 in emergency funding to keep Grassroots Crisis Intervention, the nonprofit that answers calls, chats and texts to the national 988 suicide and crisis hotline, afloat after losing its federal funding.
    The exterior of the building at Grassroots.
    Trump’s new CDC director is a University of Maryland, Baltimore, alum
    Erica Schwartz, who earned a law degree from the University of Maryland, Baltimore, will lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
    WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 15: Erica Schwartz attends her confirmation hearing to become director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on Capitol Hill July 15, 2026 in Washington, DC.  Schwartz, President Trump's pick to lead the CDC, would fill the position left vacant since August 2025 when Trump ousted former CDC Director Dr. Susan Monarez. (Photo by Finn Gomez/Getty Images)
    Howard County suicide call center lays off 62 after losing federal funds
    Grassroots, a Howard County nonprofit that answers calls, chats and texts to the national 988 suicide and crisis hotline from around the country, is laying off 62 employees after losing federal funding.
    The exterior of the building at Grassroots.
    Too dark for a Hopkins waiting room? A viral art debate unfolds.
    An art installation at a Johns Hopkins clinic waiting room has stirred a mix of emotions among those viewing it in person and online.
    Portraits by Stoehr that have been hanging in the Bayview waiting room since November 2025.
    Vultures flock to a Columbia neighborhood where woman won’t stop feeding them raw meat
    Vultures have descended on the Glenmont community in Columbia, where a woman won’t stop feeding them raw meat despite repeated orders.
    Black vultures sit on a rooftop in Columbia’s Glenmont neighborhood.
    Fauci contempt vote reflects the enduring politics of COVID
    Six years after COVID-19 pandemic thrust the world into fear and uncertainty, Republicans in power aren’t leaving it in the past.
    Dr. Anthony Fauci departs after appearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing at the Capitol, Wednesday, July 29, 2026, in Washington.
    Maker of Narcan will lay off 34 at its Gaithersburg headquarters
    The company, the manufacturer of Narcan, estimated that its restructuring will save close to $40 million per year.
    The Emergent BioSolutions facility in Gaithersburg, Maryland, seen on Monday, August 5, 2024.
    2nd beaver involved in attack on human at Maryland park tests positive for rabies
    Frederick County officials confirmed Thursday that a second beaver involved in an attack on a human at Cunningham Falls State Park in two weeks has tested positive for rabies.
    A beaver that bit a 13-year-old at Cunningham Falls State Park in Thurmont tested positive for rabies, according to the Maryland Department of Health.
    Maryland records 13th measles case of the year
    State health officials have confirmed another measles case in Maryland, bringing the total so far this year to 13.
    FILE - Health department staff members enter the Andrews County Health Department measles clinic carrying doses of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, April 8, 2025, in Andrews, Texas. (AP Photo/Annie Rice, File)
    Michigan reports the first 2 US deaths related to a diarrhea-causing parasite
    Two people have died in the cyclospora outbreak in Michigan, state health officials announced Monday, the first deaths confirmed in the U.S. related to the microscopic parasite.
    Two people have died in the cyclospora outbreak in Michigan, though both people had underlying health conditions that may have been impacted by the intestinal illness and dehydration
    Baltimore libraries are the latest to offer free gunlocks. Here’s where to get them.
    A new partnership is offering Baltimore gun owners a way to safely store their firearms in an attempt to prevent suicides and unintentional shootings.
    A photo of Dorothy Paugh’s son Peter, who committed suicide with a gun, sits next to gun safety locks at a press conference hosted by County Executive Steuart Pittman, Ann Arundel department of Health and the Ann Arundel County Public library on April 13, 2023.
    State health officials warn Maryland visitor tested positive for measles
    Maryland state health officials warned of possible measles exposure after someone visiting the state tested positive in Cecil County this week.
    A computer illustration of a measles virus particle. Measles is a highly infectious itchy rash with a fever.
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