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Everybody loves the Blue Angels, right? It’s a great show. Parents let their kids play hooky to see it. Thousands of boats fill up the Severn River. If you plan to view the show, which gets underway at 2 p.m. Wednesday, one thing you want is a great memory. The other thing is a photo. Not just any photo, but a picture showing the power and audacity of the Navy’s Flight Demonstration Team.

Representatives of the Berlin Fire Company told town leaders the funding the municipality is proposing would not get the agency through the year. “We can’t operate on inadequate funds the entire year,” attorney Joe Moore said. Moore and David Fitzgerald, president of the Berlin Fire Company and Berlin Emergency Medical Services, met with Mayor Zack Tyndall and the town council on Monday during a work session.

A trove of demographic and housing data for U.S. communities is to be released Thursday in the third batch of numbers from the 2020 census. The data including age, sex, race, ethnicity, homeownership and vacancy down to the neighborhood level is the first release from the decennial census since 2021. The figures will detail the aging of America’s population — the oldest baby boomers turned 74 in 2020 and the oldest millennials turned 39 — and provide insight into the living situations of the country’s 126.8 million households.

Johns Hopkins University and Towson University were recognized by Bloomberg Philanthropies as American Talent Initiative (ATI) High-Fliers, a group of 28 institutions leading the way in access and success for lower-income students. Towson and Johns Hopkins earned this recognition for achieving the greatest gains in Pell enrollment across the 137 institutions in the ATI.

The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine says it will no longer participate in U.S. News & World Report rankings because of concerns that the influential lists’ criteria may make it harder to recruit a diverse student body. Johns Hopkins joins a list of dozens of influential medical schools that have stopped submitting data to the national publication including Harvard, Yale, Stanford, University of Pennsylvania and Columbia.

The Maryland Insurance Administration has launched an investigation into a title company’s role in facilitating sales of homes in distressed Baltimore neighborhoods by ABC Capital and its related businesses. The Baltimore Banner reported Monday that an attorney representing dozens of clients from across the globe says he has uncovered instances of fraud and other irregularities in transactions overseen by Castle Title, a Lutherville-based title company that has hired attorneys and is conducting its own review.

Baltimore County Public Schools hosted a public information session Monday evening to present possible solutions to relieve overcrowding at Hampton Elementary School. The system is conducting an emergency capacity-relief study this semester that involves Hampton, Cromwell Valley Regional Magnet School and Pleasant Plains Elementary School. At the meeting Monday, BCPS introduced four resulting boundary map options to the public, each moving 40 to 45 students from Hampton to the other two schools.

Maryland is among the top 10 states where residents are most often searching online for lawyers, according to research conducted by a Texas personal injury firm.The study analyzed which states had the most online searches for various types of lawyers and ranked each state’s average monthly search volume based on the number of searches per 100,000 people. Maryland ranked seventh with 374 searches per 100,000 people, coming in just below Virginia, which had 376 searches per 100,000 people.

New research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that Black and African Americans experienced over 1.6 million excess deaths over the previous two decades — a trend that researchers believe means more work needs to be done. The study published in JAMA looked at millions of records from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spanning from 1999 to 2020, comparing the race of Black and white populations across age groups.