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The Frederick County Board of Education is set to vote Wednesday on whether to change the current process for approving some health curriculum resources. Since May 2021, the board’s Family Life Advisory Committee — which is run by volunteers and includes health care providers, parents and district employees — has had the authority to approve the curriculum resources that come before it.

Joyce Gantt, 82, had been living at the Landing of Silver Spring for 13 days when management called a meeting to tell residents the assisted-living and memory-care facility would close in 45 days. Her family had worked hard to ensure the Landing would be a good fit for Gantt, paid the $3,000 community fee and rent through October, and spent thousands of dollars on moving fees to get her settled in what they thought would be her home for the rest of her life, until the news Monday, said her son, Derrick Gantt-Bey.

Classes at Bowie State University are canceled for Monday after two people were shot late Saturday night at the end of a week of homecoming festivities. Maryland State Police said Sunday morning they responded to an incident just after 11:30 p.m. and found two male victims, both 19, with non-life-threatening injuries in front of the school’s Center for Business and Graduate Studies.

The gridlock that some feared amid twin events held at Baltimore’s Oriole Park at Camden Yards and M&T Bank Stadium on Saturday came to fruition, stranding drivers on streets surrounding the stadium long after Stevie Nicks took the stage to perform. Tickets to see Nicks along with singer Billy Joel at the Ravens’ stadium went on sale months before the Orioles clinched the American League East, ensuring that the team would host a home game at Camden Yards on the same date.

Hundreds of medical professionals, language interpreters and community organizers joined forces on Saturday to provide free care and resources for the 16th annual Frederick Community Health Fair at Frederick High School. The fair was sponsored by the Asian American Center of Frederick and Frederick Health Hospital. Seventy-two groups, including Frederick County government agencies, nonprofit organizations, businesses and the U.S. Public Health service, attended.

Maryland will receive $820,156 as part of a nearly $50 million data breach settlement, the Maryland Attorney General announced Thursday. Blackbaud, a software company headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina, settled with 49 states and the District of Columbia, excluding California, to resolve allegations that the company violated Maryland’s Consumer Protection Act and the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) when the company failed to protect consumers’ personal information during a 2020 data breach.

Maryland’s inspector general for education is investigating whether outgoing Maryland schools superintendent Mohammed Choudhury and other state education department leaders improperly shielded their communications from public records requests. A source with knowledge of the investigation told The Baltimore Banner the state watchdog is asking questions about the administration’s use of Signal, an encrypted messaging app, to discuss state business. The source spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation.