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Baltimore County Chief Melissa Hyatt is addressing one of the complaints that the police union listed in a letter to the county executive calling for her removal. The FOP cited a recent police memorial service where the name of Tia Bynum was included as one of the reasons they want to see her fired.

March for Our Lives, the organization founded by survivors of the 2018 mass shooting in Parkland, Fla., is planning a June protest in D.C. in the wake of the nation’s latest school massacre. The organization urged people to march in Washington and in their communities to press elected officials to “step up and pass universal background checks,” after a gunman on Tuesday entered a fourth-grade classroom at a Texas elementary school and killed at least 19 children and two teachers.

Officials are asking anglers to look out for northern snakeheads in the Chesapeake Bay and Blackwater River, and offering monetary rewards. The Maryland Department of Natural Resources launched a new tagging program, in conjunction with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in an effort to monitor invasive northern snakeheads.

The Carroll Board of County Commissioners voted 3-2 Tuesday to adopt a $700.7 million budget for fiscal 2023, which begins July 1. In three additional, but separate votes, the board approved the property tax rate with no increase, water and sewer rates, and solid waste fees. Commissioner Dennis Frazier, a District 3 Republican, and Commissioner Eric Bouchat, a District 4 Republican, dissented. Both said they were concerned about projected budget deficits in the next five years.

With Ocean City’s big tourist season officially returning with Memorial Day weekend, there are plenty of new businesses in the resort to be enjoyed by locals and visitors alike. From new restaurants including the return of longtime favorite Embers and much more, to a new brewery coming to town, here is a look at arrivals coming to or planned for the Ocean City area for summer.

Annapolis unveiled pay-per-use Bird e-bikes and scooters last week as part of a micro-mobility program rollout to help people navigate the city in something other than a car while Noah Hillman Garage is under construction. A few days into its operation, some residents began questioning why parts of the city, including public housing communities, the Naval Academy and St. John’s College, and other private properties, weren’t included in the program.

In a multi-hour hearing on Capitol Hill Wednesday, lawmakers hammered Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert M. Califf about long-standing problems with food safety operations that critics say contributed to a nationwide shortage of baby formula that has shaken trust in the FDA. The food safety part of the agency, according to experts, has been chronically understaffed and underfunded.

When Steve Lockard leaves his job of four years as superintendent of Carroll County Public Schools, he will be returning to familiar territory, one county over. On July 1, Lockard will become principal at New Market Elementary School in Frederick County. On May 19, the Carroll County school board announced it had hired Cynthia McCabe, who has served as the county’s chief of schools since 2019, to become Carroll’s next superintendent. Her four-year term begins July 1.