Once again, the Ausherman Family Foundation has stepped forward to lend a helping hand to the government of Frederick and to the residents working and living in the city. This time, the foundation has contributed $1.5 million and is working with the city government to create a youth center downtown, where young people will be able to get access to services.

A fast-growing jewelry brand based in Laguna Beach, California, will continue its expansion into Maryland with its first Baltimore store. Gorjana will open a 1,350-square-foot store at the corner of Aliceanna and Exeter streets in Harbor East this summer, Harbor East Management Group announced Monday. The store will take over a space formerly occupied by MAC Cosmetics next to the Courtyard Baltimore Downtown/Inner Harbor hotel and marks the second Maryland location for the brand.

Ascension Health does not have a timeline to restore its online systems. The hospital system is still coping with the effects of a ransomware attack. In a statement, an Ascension representative said its team, along with cybersecurity experts, spent the weekend responding to a ransomware incident, writing, in part, “We are making progress; however, it will take time to return to normal operations.”

 

With Preakness week off and running, several of the contenders for Saturday’s race have arrived in Baltimore, but not many of their trainers. Many of the trainers have so many horses across the country — not just a few — that they can’t spend a whole week in Baltimore. But fortunately, the man, the myth, the legend, Hall of Famer trainer D. Wayne Lukas has returned.

April McClain Delaney, a former Commerce Department official from Potomac, has won the Democratic primary in Maryland’s 6th Congressional District, The Associated Press reported on Tuesday night. With 211 of 213 precincts counted on Tuesday, plus early voting and some mail-in ballots, McClain Delaney had 13,494 votes.

Zeke Cohen held a commanding lead late Tuesday in the race for Baltimore City Council president, roughly doubling the votes of either of his opponents, incumbent Nick Mosby and Shannon Sneed. “I will be proud and humbled” to lead the council, said Cohen, now a second-term 1st District councilman, at his election party at Darker Than Blue Grille in Mount Vernon.

The race to replace retiring U.S. Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-2nd) has been overshadowed by the races for an open Senate seat and open House seats in the 3rd and 6th congressional districts. But Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. (D) seems well-equipped to head to Capitol Hill at the beginning of 2025. Olszewski easily prevailed in the 2nd District Democratic primary Tuesday, taking 78% of the vote compared to just under 9% for his nearest competitor, state Del. Harry Bhandari (D-Baltimore County).

 

Prince George’s County Executive Angela D. Alsobrooks is projected to win Maryland’s costly and barbed Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, according to the Associated Press, a come-from-behind victory over a deep-pocketed opponent that catapults her into a high-stakes general election with control of the chamber on the line. (Photo: Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post)

I’m 30 feet above Interstate 97, peering through a chain-link fence at the concrete trail below. Traffic is light on this bright May morning, but I feel like a red-tailed hawk testing the exhaust-flavored wind flowing up from all that horsepower. I try to picture how different it must have looked from this overpass on March 24, when 1,000 cars traveled it in a midnight stampede.

A divided Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Monday issued a long-awaited overhaul of how regional electric transmission lines are planned and paid for, a move cheered by clean power groups but blasted by a conservative commissioner who said it was driven by “special interests” and exceeds the commission’s authority.