Around Maryland

King Charles III’s coronation, dubbed Operation Golden Orb, begins Saturday at 6 a.m. Eastern in London. Several spots in the D.C. area are ready to mark the historic event. King Charles III and his procession will start at Buckingham Palace with a horse-drawn gilded black Diamond Jubilee State Coach through central London to Westminster Abbey, where cameras will capture the crowning of England’s new king.

Residents living near BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport will receive $1.1 million in state funding to reduce jet noise. The funds will provide 18 homes with sound insulation treatments. The three-member Board of Public Works chaired by Governor Wes Moore, which includes Comptroller Brooke Lierman and Treasurer Dereck Davis, approved the contract Wednesday morning.

The Baltimore City Booking and Intake Center is nowhere close to meeting a court-imposed deadline for making major improvements to the medical and mental health care it provides to people incarcerated in the facility, according to documents filed in federal court Thursday. As part of a 2016 settlement of a case the American Civil Liberties Union brought against the state, the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services — which operates the city jail —agreed to overhaul its delivery of health care there and make the facility more accessible for people with disabilities.

Resort leaders gathered this week to celebrate the launch of its rebranding campaign.On Wednesday, town officials, advertising representatives and local stakeholders joined together at the Ocean City Inlet to celebrate the launch of Somewhere to Smile About, a rebranding campaign aimed at increasing awareness of and visitation to Ocean City.

Less than a quarter of Marylanders are interested in gambling their money in the state’s still-growing sports betting industry, according to a new poll. Among 800 people surveyed by Goucher College Poll in partnership with The Baltimore Banner, 23% said they were likely to place a bet on sports over the next year, either in person at a casino or online.

Frederick County Public Schools officials on Wednesday presented Superintendent Cheryl Dyson’s recommended maps for a redistricting project that could see nearly 2,500 students switching schools. The project is referred to as the Crestwood Area Redistricting Study, because it’s being prompted by an upcoming addition to Crestwood Middle School that will boost capacity there by 300 seats.

The Baltimore City Board of Estimates approved a contract from the Maryland Administrative Office of the Courts on Wednesday that is expected to improve the emergency system at the Baltimore City Sheriff’s Office. The Administrative Office of the Courts is looking to upgrade its early alert “panic button” system to improve the sheriff’s office response times to emergencies for circuit court and the Juvenile Justice Center.

The Board of Estimates on Wednesday approved new Tasers for the Baltimore Police Department. The $5 million contract for the Tasers was required by the Justice Department consent decree. The previous Tasers expired after five years. “We have been successful in achieving initial compliance on our consent decree on all paragraphs related to the use of what’s called a controlled electronic weapon,” said Eric Melancon, deputy commissioner of the Compliance Bureau.