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A scholarship program for kindergarten to 12th-grade students is the target of selective outrage, Tony Campbell, a Towson University faculty member, says. Loss of Medicare Advantage plans is putting the health of Maryland seniors at risk, Rev. Alvin Hathaway Sr., president and founder of Beloved Community Services, says. Promising and rewarding careers are available at facilities serving seniors, Allison Roenigk Ciborowski, president and CEO of LeadingAge Maryland, says.

The Trans Health Equity Act would not create any new standards of treatment; rather, it would enable residents without private insurance to obtain comparable gender-affirming care.

Political goings-on from Baltimore and around the state.

Corrections department director Walt Pesterfield flatly denied the center confines minors for 23 hours a day and fails to give them basic services.

Across the United States, various institutions that have faced sexual abuse allegations ranging from the Boy Scouts of America to USA Gymnastics have filed for bankruptcy. Could the Archdiocese of Baltimore follow?

U.S. Marshals and FBI agents have sought McGrath since Monday when he failed to show to federal court in Baltimore for his fraud trial.

Read what Moore had to say some key issues facing the nation and the state he is governing.

Legislation would enable more civil lawsuits against churches, schools and other institutions that employed or supervised perpetrators of child sexual abuse.

With key deadline approaching, governor’s chief legislative officer noted “all 10 of our bills are moving in some form.”

The Board of Public Works approved $625,968 to hire a team of registered nurses to assess the safety and baseline mental and physical well being of patients. The spending board used an emergency procurement method to hire Shore Staffing Inc. of Marion Station.

Overdose prevention sites in Maryland would reduce fatalities and provide a public health solution to the health crisis arising from drug abuse and addiction, say two state legislators who are supporting a bill to help establish the facilities.

”We’re concerned that something may have happened,” an FBI agent told sheriff’s deputies in a Monday phone call.

The city has only sanctioned a company once before for failing to uphold minority- and women-owned business requirements, and leaders hoped Wednesday’s decision would send a signal about their commitment to supporting them going forward.

“I didn’t want any ambiguity,” the Democrat said. “My upbringing showed me not to run away from problems, but be there to fix them.”

Law enforcement was seen again Wednesday morning at the Florida home of Roy McGrath, the ex-chief of staff to former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, who remains missing after skipping out on his criminal trial Monday.

Here’s where legislative priorities stand with less than 30 days remaining in the 2023 General Assembly.

What started as a health education bill could end up giving the Maryland schools superintendent broad power to withhold funding from school districts who don't follow curriculum guidance.

If the bills become law, a local election board would be required to begin canvassing absentee ballots — preparing them to be counted — eight business days before the first day of early voting.

Mary Miller is one of five board members appointed to a new committee tasked with considering potential buyers, managing billions in debt and restructuring the remaining parts of the Silicon Valley Bank portfolio.

Attorney generals office will redact 37 names from the report and rewrite portions to omit identifying information for another 60 people.