Around Maryland

A Baltimore resident tried to save the life of a city public works employee who knocked on her door for help before dying from overheating. A Baltimore City Department of Public Works employee dropped off a co-worker, Ronald Silver II, at his car before Silver sought help from a resident who lived in a house just steps away.

This football season, all La Plata Blue Knights flag football players and cheerleaders will wear a patch with the No. 9, but that jersey will not be on the field. The youth team will wear the patches to honor their former player, Declan Hicks, a 5-year-old who died Friday night while playing in a moon bounce at a Southern Maryland Blue Crabs baseball game.

Nothing mattered to Janice Sallis-Mustafa after they pulled the naked body of her 16-year-old daughter from the river. She quit her career as a home nurse. She sold the rancher outside Charlotte, North Carolina, to stay with family. Thirteen years went by; a mother doesn’t get over the anguish, not ever. The brutal attack on another young woman has now shaken the fragile life that she rebuilt.

Many people in the D.C. area were ecstatic to see downpours this past weekend following a very dry summer start but we have more hills to climb to eradicate our drought. Baltimore-Washington International Airport topped the list with an excess of 3 inches of rain this weekend. Pockets from D.C. to the Allegheny Highlands got the short end of the stick with a half-inch of rain or less. While the grass in spots will green up, keep in mind this drought is far from finished.

Halee Simons, 18, is headed into her junior year at Atlanta’s Spelman College after racking up 32 college credits at the Community College of Baltimore County that she didn’t have to pay for. She earned many of them while still attending Chesapeake High School in Essex, from which she graduated a year early in 2023. “It was very busy and time-consuming,” said Simons, who was dually enrolled in high school and college classes during the school year, as well as during winter and summer breaks.

Facing a limited supply of drinking water, Carroll County’s Westminster plans to draw from a surprising source — its own sewage. This winter, the city of 20,000 will begin constructing a new building at its wastewater treatment plant, where already-treated wastewater will be purified with an array of special membranes and UV light, and sent into the city’s drinking water reservoir — rather than discharged into a creek.

On a busy weekday afternoon, cars and taxis clog the pickup loop in front of the main entrance of Baltimore’s Penn Station as luggage-carrying passengers squint in the hot sun looking for their rides. If Amtrak gets its way, however, that pickup loop will disappear in a few years. The passenger rail company wants to turn the south side of the station into a pedestrian plaza as part of its ambitious reimagining of the 113-year-old landmark and its surrounding area.

In the months after the March 26 collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, state and federal officials maintained a website that posted regular updates of the response to the catastrophe. Now, state officials are directing the public to a new site: Key Bridge Rebuild. “It’s a great website for everybody. We talk and we have information there for communities. We have information for industry.

Nearly 6,000 Maryland higher education employees will see increased salaries and enhanced benefits after a “historic” statewide union contract was approved Friday. The three-year agreement will cover about 95% of unionized employees at nine universities across the state, according to officials with Maryland Council 3 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.