Harry Dunn, a former U.S. Capitol Police officer from Maryland who defended the building during the Jan. 6 riot, will join former police colleagues in campaigning for President Joe Biden in battleground states. According to the Biden campaign, Dunn, former Sgt. Aquilino Gonell, and Officer Daniel Hodges are scheduled to appear in battleground states including Nevada, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and New Hampshire between now and June 27, the date of the first debate between Biden, a Democrat, and former President Donald Trump, the presumed Republican nominee.

For more than 60 days, since the collapse of the Key Bridge, the 21-member crew of the Dali has remained onboard the cargo ship, and there is no firm timetable on when they will be allowed to leave, sparking concern from people around the world. The Dali still sits at berth one at Seagirt where it has been for the past week. For eight weeks prior to that, the ship was in the middle of the Patapsco River.

 

A residential compost pilot program in Frederick has diverted about 550,000 pounds of organic waste from being sent to a landfill, city officials said Tuesday. The pilot, which is just under 2 years old, includes 1,164 households participating in the free compost collection program through Key City Compost. The total amount of diverted waste is 574,670 pounds as of the end of April.

In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen that drastically changed courts’ framework for evaluating 2nd Amendment challenges, criminal defense lawyers are using Bruen to challenge the constitutionality of their clients’ firearms convictions.

The City of Salisbury announced a partnership with Salisbury University to train youth transportation ambassadors ahead of the 2024-2025 school year. The City says ambassadors will primarily be part-time and temporary staff focused on youth outreach. The transportation safety program will teach safe practices for walking, riding bikes, using scooters and other forms of micro-mobility, according to a press release.

Live Nation Entertainment Inc. is pushing back against an antitrust lawsuit brought by the Justice Department and 30 attorneys general, including Maryland’s, a suit it said makes “absurd” claims and will do little to benefit consumers. “DOJ is not helping consumers with their actual problems,” according to the statement released Thursday by Dan Wall, executive vice president of corporate and regulatory affairs for Live Nation.

Baltimore County plans to hire a pair of law firms to help it with the complicated legal wrangling that already has begun following the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. The county wants to partner with Grant & Eisenhofer P.A. and Bekman, Marder, Hopper, Malarkey & Perlin LLC, the county said in a news release. Baltimore County Council will consider the proposal at a work session Tuesday and is expected to vote next week.

Thurmont’s Board of Commissioners has cut the town’s property tax rate as part of a budget for the next fiscal year. The new rate is 29.87 cents per $100 of assessed valuation, down from 32.06 cents per $100, which was approved for fiscal year 2024. The budget that will go into effect on July 1 has about $4.7 million in expenses in the town’s general fund, up from about $4.3 million in the current operating budget.

A family-owned printing company in downtown Baltimore is under new ownership for the first time in decades. Entrepreneur Ketan Bhalani of Ellicott City acquired Curry Printing in February and has brought the business into the network of Alliance Franchise Brands, a Michigan-based company with more than 600 locations in North America.

City residents and shop owners expressed relief Tuesday as Howard County’s flood mitigation efforts successfully averted severe flooding the night before. County officials said they planned and prepared Monday for flooding on Main Street, but fortunately, there wasn’t any. Shop owners, like those at the Stone House Collective, braced themselves for the worst as the storm drenched the historic area with about 2 inches of rainwater in two hours.