There’s been a lot of talk recently about crime committed by juveniles in Maryland, especially in Baltimore City. But what we haven’t heard as much about is the violent crime young people experience, and how the two are connected. Last year, 44 people under the age of 20 — most of them teenagers; at least one a toddler — were killed in the city; 151 more were shot and, thankfully, survived. It was the most dangerous year for young people here in at least a dozen years.

Friday is the last day for City Hall hopefuls to file a run for office with the state elections board. Candidates have until 9 p.m. to file their paperwork to appear on primary ballots. The following candidates had submitted their paperwork as of 9 p.m. Friday. The Banner will update this page throughout the day. All names are as they were submitted to the State Board of Elections. The primary election is May 14. Early voting begins May 2 and mail ballots will be sent out by April 1.

 

In the continuing debate over addressing juvenile crime, Senate Democrats grew frustrated Friday afternoon as some Maryland state’s attorneys pressed for a legislative fix to constituent concerns with minimal data to back up some of their points. “Juvenile crime — while it’s happening — is a minor portion of overall crime,” Sen. Charles Sydnor, a Baltimore County Democrat, said at the bill hearing Friday. “I just want to make certain that, within these conversations, we’re not making a minor major and a major minor.”

A little more than 24 hours before the deadline to file, Baltimore City Council President Nick Mosby made his campaign official. The damning, embarrassing and, at times, self-incriminating testimony he delivered just days earlier during the federal trial of his ex-wife, Marilyn Mosby, did not deter him Thursday from seeking another term. Now the council president embarks on a campaign unlike any he has ever run. Nick Mosby finds himself at a sizeable fundraising disadvantage and has no significant campaign apparatus.

Washington County is apparently getting wealthier — but there’s a catch. The county’s rising wealth is calculated into the amount of money its public school system receives from the state. And for Washington County Public Schools, that means nearly $3 million less in state funding than was anticipated for the new fiscal year that begins July 1. “As it turns out, wealth is growing in Washington County, which is good news for our community,” WCPS Superintendent David Sovine told the Washington County Commissioners Tuesday.

Lynn Cave waited hours to provide public testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Proceedings Committee Thursday afternoon. “I have eye cancer that has spread to my liver. It will likely claim my life in just two years. I don’t want my disease to choose when I die. I want to make that decision myself,” she told the lawmakers on the panel. Cave, of Silver Spring, said she supports SB 443, which would allow a qualifying terminally ill patient to prompt their own death through the help of a physician, often referred to as “medical aid-in-dying.”

 

Gov. Wes Moore said in November he was “disappointed” in a decision by the Maryland Public Service Commission placing a stumbling block in the path of a data center project in Frederick County. Now, as he pledged, he is doing something about it. The administration has proposed an important change in state law to make it simpler to install backup generators for data centers and other critical infrastructure facilities in Maryland.

One of the six officers charged after the death of Freddie Gray in 2015 has been tapped to oversee the Public Integrity Bureau of the Baltimore Police Department. Capt. Alicia White will move from the department’s Anti-Crime Section/Gun Violence Unit effective Sunday, the department said in a news release. White will oversee probes of complaints filed by the public against Baltimore Police officers.

 

The trash incinerator that towers over I-95 as motorists drive in or out of Baltimore has a reputation for spoiling the air and spewing out toxic chemicals and had been identified as the largest single source of pollution in the city. But upgrades made to the incinerator, now operated by the company WIN Waste Innovations, could challenge that reputation. Last summer the company completed $45 million worth of upgrades that will better control emissions, according to trade publication Waste Dive.

Rudy Callahan had dozed off by the time Maryland lawmakers took up the bill bearing his name, a proposal that would set state requirements on baby food testing that are stricter than the Food and Drug Administration’s. The chubby-cheeked redhead, now 17 months old, was among hundreds of people who reported lead poisoning to federal agencies after eating apple puree pouches with contaminated cinnamon.