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Baltimore City Schools’ cellphone policy mandates that devices be powered off
Baltimore Sun - Maryland
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June 26, 2025
Baltimore City Public School students will not be able to use their personal electronic devices, including cellphones and laptops, at all during the school day anymore. These changes are part of an updated policy announced this week that will take...
Maryland Health Department launches new state plan, dashboard to tackle gun violence
FOX45 - Maryland
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MARYLAND (WBFF) — In a step toward curbing gun violence, the Maryland Department of Health’s Center for Firearm Violence Prevention and Intervention unveiled two key initiatives on Thursday: the Preliminary State Plan for a Public Health Approach...
Baltimore City to hold public listening sessions to help address overdose crisis
WBAL - Maryland
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June 26, 2025
Baltimore City will be holding a series of community listening sessions regarding the Opioid Restitution Fund. The Baltimore Community Mediation Center and the Mayor’s Office of Overdose Response will hold four listening sessions in neighborhoods...
Healthy sleep is a community issue | GUEST COMMENTARY
Baltimore Sun - Maryland
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June 26, 2025
Healthy sleep is often viewed as a matter of personal responsibility — setting a consistent bedtime, avoiding caffeine and limiting screen time before bed. While these individual habits are important, new research led by researchers at RAND and...
Have this giant, noxious weed in your yard? How to get rid of it — without burning yourself
WFFF - Vermont
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July 20, 2025
(NEXSTAR) — The definition of a weed is relatively vague — a plant growing where you don’t want it, experts explain — but some earn an extra adjective to describe them: noxious. That term has a federal definition, thanks to the Plant Protection...
Maryland Youth Use Photography to Advance Sexual Violence Prevention Initiatives
The Baltimore Times - Maryland
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June 27, 2025
Exhibition marks milestone for restorative justice-based initiative serving Baltimore City students BALTIMORE – Twenty-three Baltimore youth showcased their photography exploring boundaries, consent, and social connection at “#nofilter: A...
Baltimore in-custody death during apparent mental health crisis being investigated
Baltimore Sun - Maryland
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June 27, 2025
The Maryland Attorney General’s Independent Investigations Division is investigating an in-custody death that occurred in Southwest Baltimore this week. According to a preliminary report released by the attorney general’s office Thursday night, a...
Maryland restarts process to redevelop State Center in Baltimore
Baltimore Banner - Maryland
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June 26, 2025
Maryland’s state government will try again at redeveloping the State Center, its aging office complex in Baltimore. It’s a strategy that’s been tried before, spurring a yearslong logistical and legal saga that ended with the state forking over...
Baltimore police shoot, kill 70-year-old woman
WEEA - Maryland
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June 26, 2025
(Baltimore, MD) -- A 70-year-old woman is dead following a police-involved shooting in Baltimore City. Police Commissioner Richard Worley says officers responded to a home in the 2700 block of Mosher Street Wednesday afternoon for a woman having a...
Maryland’s hiring freeze has room for possible thaw
WTOP - District Columbia
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June 26, 2025
Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson told reporters Wednesday that Gov. Wes Moore's announced hiring freeze does allow state agencies to exercise some discretion. Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson said Wednesday that Gov. Wes Moore’s...
Baltimore resident says knife-wielding neighbor's death by police shooting was preventable
CBS 13 Baltimore - Maryland
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A West Baltimore community is seeking answers after a knife-wielding neighbor was shot and killed by police Wednesday afternoon. Police said a 70-year-old woman lunged at officers with a knife twice during a mental health crisis before she was...
Maryland Fishing Report for Thursday, July 26, 2025
The Southern Maryland Chronicle
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June 26, 2025
There is plenty of good fishing to be found in Maryland this week and for those wishing to fish open waters and not owning a boat, there are fishing guides, light tackle fishing guides, charter boats, and party boats to take customers out fishing....
Maryland doctor sentenced to 18 years for selling opioids out of a Northwest DC pill mill
WJLA 7 - Washington D.C.
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WASHINGTON (7News) — A Maryland man was sentenced to 18 years in prison for prescribing narcotics for cash from his Northwest Washington, D.C., medical clinic. A jury found Ndubuisi Joseph Okafor, M.D., 65, of Upper Marlboro, guilty on March 21,...
TRAFFIC ALERT: Crash shuts down lanes on Chesapeake Bay Bridge, 1 airlifted to hospital
WJLA 7 - Washington D.C.
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (7News) — A vehicle that somehow crossed over into oncoming traffic on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge collided with a tractor-trailer, sending one person to the hospital and delaying travel for several hours, according to Maryland...
Johns Hopkins Carey Expands MBA, Launches EMBA In Washington D.C.
Poets&Quants - California
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July 20, 2025
John Hopkins University Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C., houses nine academic schools, including Carey Business School. Will Kirk / Johns Hopkins University Leveraging both its expertise in the business of health and a new building in the...
After CEO’s Murder and Public Pressure, Health Insurers Vow To Reform Care Approval Delays, but Can Trump Actually Make Them?
The New York Sun
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July 5, 2025
For years, patients and doctors have struggled with the complex and time-consuming insurance process known as prior authorization, a requirement that doctors obtain approval from insurers before proceeding with prescribed treatments. Patients and...
Baltimore City Council President Cohen addresses budget allocations, challenges
WBAL - Maryland
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June 26, 2025
With WBAL hosts C4 and Bryan Nehman on Thursday, Baltimore City Council President Zeke Cohen explained his thoughts and clarified the newly passed $4.6 billion budget for fiscal year 2025. Key funding increases include: – $400,000 for the State’s...
Maryland unveils new gun violence plan and dashboard to reduce incidents
WYPR - Maryland
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June 26, 2025
The Maryland Department of Health is launching a new dashboard focused on cataloging firearm violence around the state; it coincides with a state preliminary plan for an approach to reduce firearm violence. The dashboard shows detailed geographic...
Maryland Gov. Moore Grants 7,000 More Pardons In Cannabis Equity Push
Forbes
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OCTOBER 09: Governor Wes Moore speaks at an event in New York City. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty ... More Images for TIME)Getty Images for TIME Recently Gov. Wes Moore announced a series of actions designed to close the racial wealth gap in...
Maryland launches effort to reduce gun violence, track firearm data
CBS 13 Baltimore - Maryland
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The Maryland Department of Health shared a detailed plan Thursday to reduce gun violence in the state and track firearm data. The effort comes as Maryland ranked 17th lowest among U.S. states for a five-year firearm fatality rate between 2019 and...