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    State warns Eastern Shore school district seeking to oust superintendent
    Maryland's schools leader says they could withhold funding or seek to remove school board members if Somerset County tries to oust its superintendent.
    Baltimore County is Maryland’s only ‘sanctuary’ county in revised DOJ list
    Baltimore County Executive Kathy Klausmeier believes the county's inclusion on the list was “in error.”
    Baltimore County is the only Maryland jurisdiction on a revised list of local governments identified by the Trump administration as impeding the enforcement of federal immigration laws
    Baltimore Election Board picks fresh face to lead office, ending Jones era
    Tatum has worked for election agencies in Texas and Washington, D.C. as well as the U.S. Election Assistance Commission.
    Baltimore’s elections office has been without a permanent director since April.
    Feud between Anne Arundel judges heads toward finale. Unfortunately, they dragged me into it.
    The two-year feud between two Anne Arundel County Orphans Court judges heads toward a denouement this month, when a disciplinary commission considers complaints against one of them. Unfortunately, they dragged me into this.
    The sign outside an obscure office building near Annapolis points toward the Anne Arundel County Orphans Court.
    Baltimore County Council rejects Klausmeier’s pick for inspector general
    The Baltimore County Council was to vote Monday night on the nomination of former EPA program manager Khadija Walker to be inspector general. County Executive Kathy Klausmeier tapped Walker to replace IG Kelly Madigan, who has ruffled feathers in the suburban county.
    Baltimore County Inspector General nominee Khadija Walker attends a Baltimore County Council work session ahead of addressing the council at the Old Baltimore County Courthouse in Towson on July 29, 2025.
    Johns Hopkins is at a critical moment. Can Baltimore capitalize?
    Federal cuts and a local push to get more money for Baltimore are squeezing the city’s most powerful entity.
    Johns Hopkins University, like other elite schools, is facing unprecedented scrutiny from the federal government.
    How the selection of a new Baltimore County inspector general set off a public furor
    The Baltimore County Council on Monday is set to decide whether to confirm County Executive Kathy Klausmeier’s pick of Khadija Walker to be inspector general. The road to the vote has been anything but smooth.
    Baltimore County Executive Kathy Klausmeier.
    Brandon Scott’s fundraiser in Martha’s Vineyard will be for third mayoral run
    The two-term mayor has not said publicly what might be next, but he has the option to run for a third term in 2028.
    Two-term Mayor Brandon Scott has not said publicly what he’s planning to do next.
    All wars end. Then there’s Market House in Annapolis.
    For such a small building, the Market House in Annapolis contains a big history of fighting. It was the first fight of Mayor Gavin Buckley's administration, and here at the end eight years later, it looks like it might be the last.
    Willie Hughes serves up drinks to a bar full of late lunchers at the Market House. He's been working there for a year after moving to Annapolis from Iowa.
    Hotly disputed go-kart track in Howard County greenlit by appeals board
    The county’s Board of Appeals voted 3 to 1 Thursday afternoon to approve the applicant’s conditional use application.
    A Howard County man built a go-kart track on his property in Highland for his son.
    After 50 years, the pedestrian bridge over Little Patuxent Parkway is coming down
    The concrete walking bridge spans 172 feet across six lanes of Little Patuxent Parkway.
    Wednesday, July 30, 2025 — The Little Patuxent Parkway pedestrian bridge in Columbia is slated to be demolished on August 11.
    Baltimore County councilman endangered police and his family, police and court records say
    Todd Crandell’s struggles with alcoholism are well known, but what has not been public is that while under the influence of alcohol, he has allegedly threatened local law enforcement and his family.
    District 7 Councilman Todd Crandell at a Baltimore County Council work session on Tuesday.
    Howard County Council cracks down on paid house parties. But which ones?
    The Howard County Council raised penalties on for-profit house parties but acknowledged the emergency legislation had revealed weaknesses when it comes to short-term rentals.
    Lynn Lascola testifies to the Howard County Council during an emergency vote on Wednesday about raising the penalties for paid house parties.
    Bit by bit, what’s left of the Key Bridge is coming down
    Sixteen months after the bridge’s main span was knocked down by a massive container ship, killing six construction workers, demolition of the remaining structures has begun.
    An excavator lifts a slab of roadway as work continued on demolishing the southwest ramp to the Francis Scott Key Bridge on Wednesday.
    Inspectors general save taxpayers millions. Maryland needs more of them.
    OIG is an acronym that should cheer advocates of good government. But only a handful of the biggest Maryland counties and cities have them -- inspectors general.
    Isabel Cummings poses for a portrait with her arms crossed in her office. Clockwise, the original courtroom sketch of the Jacqueline McLean case she worked on, a Baltimore Sun clipping reading "Wrath of Isabel," a blue and orange "Baltimore" skateboard and a black and white "Charm City" skateboard hang behind her.
    Baltimore County Executive Kathy Klausmeier’s inspector general nominee faces hurdles
    Baltimore County Executive Kathy Klausmeier’s Inspector General nominee faces hurdles, as a majority of the County Council said they would not confirm her.
    Khadija Walker.
    Maryland pastor arrested by ICE has been transferred to Louisiana, family says
    Daniel Fuentes Espinal, who had been living in the U.S. since arriving in 2001 from his native Honduras, was apprehended by ICE agents in Maryland. He is now in a Louisiana detention center.
    Pastor Daniel Fuentes Espinal, 54, who was arrested by ICE Monday morning in Easton. Espinal leads a congregation of 70 at Iglesia del Nazareno Jesus Te Ama (Church of the Nazarene Jesus Loves You).
    New ‘Infrastructure Academy’ will train workers for city jobs in critical trades
    Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott celebrated the new workforce development initiative, launched Thursday in the Park Heights neighborhood where he grew up, as a means to train workers to fix the city's aging infrastructure.
    Baltimore's new Infrastructure Academy aims to create a pipeline of skilled workers for both public- and private-sector jobs maintaining critical infrastructure.
    Baltimore County executive names new inspector general, and it’s not Kelly Madigan
    Khadija E. Walker has spent much of her career at the EPA in Chicago.
    Khadija Walker.
    With paid house parties raging across the suburbs, Howard and Montgomery counties crack down
    For-profit house parties are raging in suburban Maryland, prompting Howard and Montgomery county officials to crack down on the practice.
    A house at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac in Columbia that has been attracting revelers to for-profit pool parties.
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