Around Maryland

In the month since Baltimore County Public Schools buses installed cameras to catch drivers who don’t stop when they should, police have issued 3,468 warning citations. The citations have been issued to drivers who don’t stop for a school bus when its red lights are flashing. The Baltimore County Police Department said 3,468 citations had been issued between the first day of school on Aug. 26 and Sept. 23.

Gov. Wes Moore approved the deployment of the Maryland Army National Guard to North Carolina to aid communities impacted by Hurricane Helene. Twelve National Guard soldiers from Maryland are assisting, along with two helicopters and three civilian firefighters, according to a Friday news release from the state’s National Guard.

More Maryland teachers are working this year to attain national board certification and secure the $10,000 salary increase guaranteed by the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future. But teachers say the national process is confusing and time-consuming. Hood College in Frederick is trying to change that. The school has been offering a national board certification course to guide teachers through the process for the past four years.

Tyree Davis IV is a recent arrival to Rockville from the Midwest. He moved to the city in 2022, but he already calls it home. “We are one of the most diverse cities in America,” he says. “The county has some good opportunities, the city has some good opportunities, so I don’t foresee moving, and I’ve enjoyed it thus far.”

Maryland could lose up to $450 million in federal education funds meant to combat learning loss and other difficulties stemming from the coronavirus pandemic if the state fails to designate the funds for use by Monday’s deadline. State-level school officials said Friday that they and local school districts had committed $1.5 billion of the total $1.95 billion Maryland was set to receive from the third round of Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund allocations.

Do you remember a cooler end to summer and September? Well, this year was still the second-hottest summer since 1995, according to a Banner analysis of temperatures at Baltimore-Washington Thurgood Marshall International Airport. The only hotter summer was 2010. This year, the Greater Baltimore area recorded the second-warmest July as the average temperature reached 82.2 and the heat index went over 100 several times.

For Bowie State University students interested in environmental conservation, a new doorway is opening. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has signed an agreement with the Maryland university to expand its recruiting efforts there as part of an effort aimed at historically Black colleges and universities. “We are a government agency. We work on behalf of all Americans. Our mission is to work with others to protect, enhance, conserve plants and animals for all Americans.

The city of Brunswick, in collaboration with the Frederick County Division of Fire and Rescue Services, will install a vending machine that dispenses doses of naloxone for free. Naloxone is a medication that can reverse an opioid overdose caused by drugs like heroin, fentanyl and prescription opioid medication, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A common brand of the naloxone medication is Narcan.

A groundbreaking partnership at Mercy Medical Center is giving hope to women battling ovarian cancer. Dr. Armando Sardi, a surgical oncologist at The Institute for Cancer Care, and Dr. Teresa Diaz-Montes, a gynecologic oncologist at The Gynecologic Oncology Center, have teamed up to use an innovative technique called hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy, or HIPEC, to treat advanced ovarian cancer. Their collaboration combines expertise from different surgical disciplines to address one of the most challenging cancers to diagnose and treat.