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In his new job, Syed will help Georgetown students investigate wrongful convictions, exonerate men and women and create documentary films about the cases.

The community college said Wednesday afternoon that it is working with law enforcement authorities who are investigating the attack.

The 34,000-square-foot building under development will have research and classroom space as well as meeting space intended for community use.

The NAACP and the ACLU’s Legal Defense Fund argue that despite the findings of courts over the years, the state has never funded Baltimore City schools at a level that would provide students with an appropriate education as required under the Maryland constitution.

With inclement weather approaching the Baltimore metro region, here is a list of school closures and delays.

The school board’s new chair and vice chair, Jane Lichter and Robin Harvey, seem eager to set a more collaborative tone at board meetings. But both said it was too early to say whether Superintendent Darryl Williams’ contract should be renewed next year.

Donald Gresham, Kushan Ratnayake and Joan Floyd on Dec. 7 voluntarily moved in Baltimore Circuit Court to dismiss the case asking to prevent the Baltimore Police Department from signing an agreement with Hopkins necessary to develop the private, armed police force.

Facing a big shortage of nurses, Baltimore County partnered with St. Joseph Medical Center and CCBC for training.

Caring for children with highly complex emotional and behavioral needs is a challenge that exists across the country. But in Maryland, the problem has worsened over the last decade — and many blame outgoing Republican Gov. Larry Hogan.

Police believe a juvenile in North Carolina was also involved in the series of threats that have rattled the community.

”We have given Baltimore City Public Schools a chance to do right by this family, and they have not,” said Gadeir Abbas, a senior litigation attorney at CAIR.

November was packed full of news, and we have the photos to prove it. From elections, evictions and explosions...here are 20 of our favorites.

The Army-Navy Game is Saturday, and even if it wasn’t the only college football on TV this weekend, it would be the only game in Annapolis. Look around, and the town is awash in Navy merch.

Melanie Perreault’s appointment comes a week after it was announced that President Kim Schatzel was leaving to become president of the University of Louisville.

The former school has hosted a film festival, art shows and photography by neighborhood kids.

The survivors and advocates include two women who say they were violently raped by a priest while students at Archbishop Keough High School. The women decried the fact that church leaders have been able to read the report while they — victims whose testimony helped investigators — have been barred from seeing it.

Although Baltimore County Police have said the threats are unsubstantiated, their announcements of increased police presence and an unfinished investigation haven’t been much comfort.

Lichter succeeds Julie Henn as chair, while Harvey replaces Rod McMillion as vice chair. The two new leaders both had the backing of the teachers union in the Nov. 8 election.

Maryland students had mixed results on statewide, standardized tests given last spring.

School system officials in a memo attributed the withholding issues to an “inadvertent error” made by the vendor that processes payroll and other business services.