BWI Marshall Airport set a record with the amount of international traffic it received in 2023, according to Maryland Gov. Wes Moore’s office. While the vast majority of international flights in the D.C. region are from Dulles, BWI Marshall has been adding more global routes. The Maryland-based airport saw nearly 1.4 million international passengers — 2.6% higher than the previous record set in 2018.
The Frederick County Council on Tuesday voted to rezone 35 acres in Ijamsville for a proposed mixed-use development with eight conditions, including a second exit and a larger buffer with the nearby Woodlands community. Knowledge Farms Partners LLC intends to build five age-restricted apartment buildings, an assisted living facility, a row of villas and multiple new commercial establishments on the site, which is just south of Urbana High School.
The upcoming inaugural season of the Hagerstown Flying Boxcars seemed a little more real Wednesday as two of the team’s owners, Linda Ebersole and Howard “Blackie” Bowen, secured preliminary approval for a temporary license to sell alcohol at the new stadium under construction downtown. They’ve formed a partnership, Hub City Concessions LLC, to sell refreshments at the stadium.
A decade-old Maryland law requiring would-be handgun owners to submit their fingerprints and undergo four hours of safety training is under fire in federal court, part of a broader national push to curtail gun control measures. Maryland Shall Issue, a pro-firearms group, and Atlantic Guns, a Montgomery County gun shop, called the state’s Handgun Qualification License program “peculiar and onerous” in court papers, and claimed that it infringes upon law-abiding citizens’ right to keep and bear arms by causing undue delay.
The Baltimore Convention Center and Oriole Park at Camden Yards will soon have at least one thing in common — their food and beverage vendor. Levy Restaurants will take over food and beverage services at the convention center starting July 2. The new 10-year contract marks a change from the center’s current vendor, Sodexo Live!, which oversaw operations for the last 14 years.
With a deal for a new $2 billion arena in Virginia stalled, Wizards and Capitals owner Ted Leonsis finds himself in a predicament: He may have to go back to the negotiating table with D.C., whose offer of $500 million for renovations to an existing arena he already spurned — or find another potential suitor. Does that mean Maryland could become an option for the sports and entertainment district he envisions?
People like you better when they know you are leaving. That is how U.S. Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-2nd) tells the story. “Since I’ve retired, I’ve been getting more accolades. You’re all elected officials, it’s not bad. Everybody loves you now because they know” you’re retiring, Ruppersberger said in jest from the rostrum of the House of Delegates on Wednesday.
Baltimore school principals and staff have been threatened with guns, punched in the face, pulled to the ground, kicked and stalked. Some have landed in the hospital. Others have installed cameras and more locks at home. They aren’t afraid of their students. It’s the parents they worry about. “I have never experienced so many adults that are willing to engage in their child’s conflict,” said Craig Rivers, the principal of Frederick Douglass High School in West Baltimore and a longtime city school administrator. “I have never seen it this bad.”
General Assembly budget leaders are one step closer to a fiscal showdown after the House of Delegates gave preliminary approval Wednesday to its version of the fiscal 2025 budget. The $63 billion spending plan is similar to the budget passed by the Senate. The two chambers differ significantly on undergirding this and future budgets with a $1.3 billion tax and gaming expansion package.
The police department in Montgomery County, Maryland, has lost 194 officers over the past five years and now has a sworn vacancy rate of 14%. An analysis shows recent recruit classes have averaged 23 recruits each, “which remains too low to address current attrition,” according to the memorandum submitted to a county council committee Monday.