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The promotion coincided with the 75th anniversary of the Women’s Armed Services Integration Act.

Ruff, an attorney with the Murphy, Falcon & Murphy law firm, will represent the 41st district, which includes neighborhoods in north, west and southwest Baltimore.

Marylanders approve of the job Moore is doing, but not his push to eventually ban the sale of new gas-powered vehicles by 2035, according to a new poll.

If a dispensary cannot verify a medical cannabis patient’s allotment, customers can still purchase a limited amount of product.

“The stars are aligned to invest in public transit,” Gov. Wes Moore said Thursday. “This is going to happen.” But it remains to be seen when, exactly, passengers might one day be hopping on the Red Line for a ride.

The proposed east-west transit line across the city has moved in fits and starts over two decades. The new governor is promising to get the project back on track.

Reducing Maryland’s high rate of opioid overdose deaths will require improved approaches by the state’s health care providers, says Dr. Enrique Oviedo, a psychiatrist who serves as medical director of MATClinics.

In a unique partnership, Maryland lets residents stay in historic homes for free as long as they pay for the renovations.

Judge Julie Rebecca Rubin ruled that Erie Insurance and The Maryland Insurance Administration have up to 60 days to come to a resolution following the administration’s finding in May that the Pennsylvania-based insurance company used discriminatory practices against Black Baltimore-area brokers, and thus its residents.

Legal actions attacking affirmative action programs threaten to halt or reverse the gains in minority business development in this region and elsewhere, says Sharon Pinder, the president and CEO of the Capital Region Minority Supplier Development Council.

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Will Castleberry, who runs state regulatory and production policy for Netflix, will lead the council.

Jared DeMarinis, who has worked for the Maryland State Board of Elections for 18 years, was the unanimous pick to be the state‘s next elections administrator. He takes over the new role on Sept. 1.

An FBI document circulated this week argues that a location near the FBI training academy in Quantico, Virginia, would be more convenient than a location in Maryland because some employees need to go back and forth between the headquarters and the training academy.

As marijuana laws are reformed in Maryland, measures are needed to help repair the disproportionate damage the application of those laws did to Black communities and to Black men, Banner columnist E.R. Shipp says.

Documents obtained from state prosecutors shed new light on the early days of the Roy McGrath scandal — including what then-Gov. Larry Hogan knew, and when he knew it.

In response to a court challenge of the approval of mifepristone, the state government bought thousands of doses in an emergency purchase that was approved Wednesday.

“The best thing to do when you have the kids — whatever they’ve been accused of — is to try and give them experiences that will help them to grow,” said Nick Moroney, director of Maryland’s Juvenile Justice Monitoring Unit.

The thoroughbred racing industry was facing a June 30 deadline to reach a new agreement governing track operations, racing days and profits.

Since taking charge of the Department of Juvenile Justice, Vincent Schiraldi has focused on severing children with previous gun charges — who are most at risk to become victims themselves — from an unrelenting cycle of violence that caused them to pick up guns in the first place.