The federal government has awarded Johns Hopkins University $20.9 million as part of President Biden’s Cancer Moonshot program aimed at halving the cancer death rate by 2047. Hopkins researchers are trying to create a device similar to a camera to detect cancer cells left behind after surgery. The research is intended to minimize how often surgeries leave small amounts of cancer cells inside a patient’s body.

As a born-and-raised Marylander, I share in the state’s obsession with blue crabs, our state flag and lacrosse. I spend summer vacations in Ocean City, and we served the famous Smith Island cake at my wedding. And to top it off, I have spent most of my professional career working to restore and protect the Chesapeake Bay. But while I may have been born with a love of crabcakes, my passion for the Chesapeake isn’t something that was instilled in me from a young age.

A heads up for people who live in the Camp Springs area of southern Prince George’s County. WSCC Water is asking customers to limit their water usage to help avoid a Boil Water Advisory and preserve water in case of a fire. WSCC says crews are currently working to restore water flow to the Camp Springs water tank. The advisory impacts nearly 1,400 customers.

There are always hiccups in the first few weeks of school. But, in Howard County last year, the school bus fiasco felt like a case of hiccups that wouldn’t go away. Bus routes changed at the last minute. Drivers did not show. Twenty routes were canceled, leaving 2,400 students stranded. Parents wanted the superintendent gone and demanded answers from Zūm, the California tech company hired to operate nearly half the district’s bus routes. Resignations followed.

Marylanders watching the Democratic National Convention on TV this week will catch a glimpse of their governor center stage, where he’ll make the case for Americans to vote for his party’s presidential and vice presidential picks. Gov. Wes Moore will be one of a handful of Maryland politicians to speak during the four-day event.

Just weeks before Pimlico Race Course closes all public-facing activity, fans and friends were invited to gather for a special appreciation day as Maryland horse racing takes the first steps of an industry transition. Pimlico will cease training, wagering and all “customer facing activities” at the end of the month, as the racetrack’s new owner — the state of Maryland — prepares an overhaul of the facilities.

Baltimore’s National Aquarium has a long and distinguished history of projects to enhance and preserve wetlands and waterways in the Chesapeake Bay watershed and elsewhere. None has been so visible, accessible and, hopefully, inspirational as the Harbor Wetland that opened last week in the Inner Harbor. Years in the making and the product of countless hours of innovative work by aquarium staff, the Harbor Wetland is an exhibit open to all at no charge.

On the day in July that a 20-year-old man named Thomas Crooks tried to assassinate former president Donald Trump, too many officials and agencies came up short, as we’ve heard again and again. But we’ve heard far less about another category of first responders — one that appears at every major emergency — who have received very little scrutiny or credit. Who were among the first to notice that there was a man behaving suspiciously on a nearby roof?

Inflation rose as expected in July, driven by higher housing-related costs, according to a Labor Department report Wednesday that is likely to keep an interest rate cut on the table in September. The consumer price index, a broad-based measure of prices for goods and services, increased 0.2% for the month, putting the 12-month inflation rate at 2.9%. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been looking for respective readings of 0.2% and 3%.