Maryland governor candidate Wes Moore’s grandmother, who helped raise him, dies at 95

Winell Thomas, the grandmother of Democratic gubernatorial nominee Wes Moore who helped raise him after his father died and his mother moved the family from Takoma Park to the Bronx, died Tuesday, the candidate announced. “She transitioned peacefully at 95 years old, surrounded by family, music, love and laughter from telling old stories,” Moore said in a statement Wednesday night. “There is a hole in all our hearts that her absence creates.