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Baltimore to expand Group Violence Reduction Strategy in 2023
December 8, 2022 -

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott and community leaders on Monday announced the expansion of the Group Violence Reduction Strategy. Starting in 2023, the strategy will go beyond the western police district. It will be citywide by mid-2024. The strategy “engages directly with those most intimately involved in and affected by violence, leveraging an intentional collaboration between law enforcement, social services, and community members who collectively co-sign and deliver an anti-violence message to stop the shooting,” according to the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement.

Read More: WBAL
How Baltimore’s MOMCares is working to close the gaps in Black parental health
December 8, 2022 -

While pregnant with her firstborn, Ana Rodney looked forward to a nine-month journey that culminated with a joyous return home from the hospital with her baby. Then reality hit, and Rodney found herself suffering alone. Rodney, 37, delivered Aiden, 7, under traumatic circumstances. He was born three months premature, weighed one pound, five ounces and spent six months in the neonatal intensive care unit at the University of Maryland Medical Center. All the while, she endured personal tragedy, unemployment and homelessness.

Read More: The Baltimore Banner
Md. students show progress toward pre-pandemic levels; concerns remain in some areas
December 8, 2022 -

Maryland students have shown improvement in English, but show some dips in math on the state’s most recent assessments administered in spring. According to the state department of education, the scores on the Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program showed students approaching pre-pandemic performance on the English and language arts segments, with 53% of 10th graders scoring proficient. The year before, 57% were found to be proficient.

Read More: WTOP
Maryland statewide math scores drop dramatically since before the pandemic
December 7, 2022 -

Maryland’s public-school students posted notably low pass rates on statewide math tests administered last spring, and surprisingly good scores on English language arts, a hint at the complexity of recovery in the first full year of teaching after the pandemic. The tests, considered difficult, show that less than half of the students statewide in any grade are considered proficient in either English or math, though a larger percentage of students do well in English. In third grade, 45% of students passed the English test, up from 41% in 2019, the last time the full spring test was given before the pandemic was declared in March 2020. And a higher percentage of third-, fourth-, sixth- and 10th-graders across the state passed the English test than they did in 2019, suggesting that school systems more than made up for the learning loss in that subject.

Read More: The Baltimore Banner
Report: Plane that hit power lines in Gaithersburg flew below minimum altitude
December 7, 2022 -

A small plane that crashed into a Maryland electricity transmission tower last month was flying below minimum altitudes while approaching an airport in foggy nighttime conditions, according to a preliminary report on the crash. The pilot and passenger were seriously injured and the Mooney M20J was substantially damaged when it hit a tower supporting high-tension lines on Nov. 27, knocking out power to tens of thousands of area customers. The plane was left dangling 100 feet (30 meters) above the ground, according to the National Transportation Safety Board’s preliminary report released Monday.

Read More: The Baltimore Banner
Juul will pay Maryland $13 million to settle multistate investigation into its e-cigarette marketing practices
December 7, 2022 -

Juul Labs will pay Maryland $13 million under an agreement that resolves a multistate investigation into the e-cigarette company’s marketing and sales practices, Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh announced Tuesday. Over the next five to nine years, Juul agreed to give $434.5 million to 33 states and territories, with the total settlement increasing to more than $476.6 million if the company takes the full nine years to pay. Frosh first announced the tentative agreement in September. The attorneys general said Juul targeted youth in its advertising campaigns, using launch parties, young models and social media posts as well as flavors that were appealing to underage customers, according to a news release.

Read More: Baltimore Sun
Patterson Bowling Center owner trying to figure out a way to reoopen
December 7, 2022 -

Days after the Patterson Bowling Center abruptly closed, the circumstances surrounding the closure of the building and the future of the alley are still uncertain. A teary employee from the center told a party that had arrived for a birthday on Dec. 3 that the bowling center was permanently closing that day. Ken Staub, who has owned the alley since 2016, told The Baltimore Banner the ongoing sale of the building led him to close the business, citing he couldn’t keep taking on reservations, especially around the holidays.

Read More: The Baltimore Banner
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‘Enough of the killing’: Retired Baltimore crime scene technician dodges testimony in another murder trial
December 6, 2022 -

Flanked by his partner, a Baltimore sheriff’s deputy pressed a doorbell camera in Northeast Baltimore around 6 a.m. He rapped the door — thump! thump! thump! — more than a dozen times. “Sheriff’s Office,” he yelled. “You need to come to the door now.” But the homeowner, Nancy Morse, wouldn’t come to the door Nov. 10. Not for this deputy or any officer thereafter who came to haul her into court.

Read More: Baltimore Sun
‘Keepers’ survivors file court motion to seek full release of Maryland AG report on Catholic Church abuse
December 6, 2022 -

Abuse survivors who were featured in “The Keepers,” a widely viewed 2017 Netflix documentary about clergy sexual misconduct at a Baltimore Catholic girls’ school in the 1960s and ’70s, have filed a court motion calling for the full release of a report by the Maryland attorney general on sexual abuse by clergy and other employees in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore.

Read More: Baltimore Sun
Former Maryland gubernatorial candidate and Education Secretary John King named SUNY chancellor
December 6, 2022 -

Former Maryland Democratic gubernatorial hopeful and U.S. Education Secretary John King Jr. has been appointed chancellor of the State University of New York, the nation’s largest university system, SUNY announced Monday. King finished in the middle of the pack in the July primary, losing to Wes Moore who was elected to governor in November.

Read More: Baltimore Sun

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