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Additional state grants will provide $80 million in support for major ongoing school construction projects, Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski announced on Tuesday. Baltimore County was awarded $80 million in one-time grant funds for school construction projects selected by the county.

Morgan State University’s marching band is headed to the White House to celebrate Juneteenth and Black Music Month. The Magnificent Marching Machine, composed of 152 students, will perform on the South Lawn on Tuesday evening for the White House’s Juneteenth Concert. The concert announcement came after President Joe Biden proclaimed June as Black Music Month in May.

After 2 1/2 years of robust price growth, home prices in the mid-Atlantic have been relatively flat for the past three months. However, homes continue to sell very fast and the lack of new listings suggests that prices in the region may have bottomed out and could be set to rebound, according to a report released Tuesday by Bright MLS, a Rockville-based multiple listing service.

The Carroll County Board of Education is scheduled to vote on a measure Wednesday that would approve construction of new kindergarten and pre-kindergarten classrooms at Cranberry Station, Friendship Valley, Sandymount and Taneytown elementary schools. The school board’s monthly meeting is set to begin at 5 p.m., Wednesday, at 125 N. Court St. in Westminster.

A newly proposed construction schedule from Frederick County Public Schools would accelerate the timeline for replacing Brunswick High School — a move residents say is long overdue. Students and parents from Brunswick have showed up en masse to school board meetings in recent months, urging officials to take action on what they argue are unacceptable conditions in the building.

The City of Taneytown has temporarily slowed its search for a new police chief after a leading candidate pulled himself out of consideration, City Manager Jim Wieprecht said. “Since the prior candidate withdrew his application, we have not re-advertised nor accepted more applications, so nothing’s changed there since the last search,” Wieprecht said.

The U.S. is nowhere near out of the woods from the dangers of smoke billowing from hundreds of wildfires burning throughout Canada. A grayish haze continued to linger over much of the Northeast on Monday, nearly a week after the air quality emergency in the region began to confine millions of people indoors. Philadelphia's Air Quality Index measured at 101 on Monday morning, or "Code Orange," which is unhealthy for sensitive groups such as young children, the elderly, pregnant women and those with pre-existing lung and heart conditions, according to AirNow.gov.

The U.S. Office for Civil Rights is investigating 17 recent data breaches at Maryland businesses that affected more than 100,000 people, the 11 News I-Team has learned. The OCR, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, opens investigations into all "breaches of unsecured protected health information affecting 500 or more individuals," according to its website.