Around Maryland

Residents in a West Baltimore neighborhood still have questions and concerns after a woman was attacked and killed by two stray pit bulls Friday evening. “Why were the dogs not on a leash?” Tiara asked. “It could have been more than one person getting killed.” Two stray pit bulls were roaming North Pulaski Street around 9 p.m. when they mauled multiple women. A 50-year-old woman died at the scene, according to police.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore made history Monday by signing an executive order to pardon 100,000 Marylanders convicted of low-level marijuana charges. A total of 175,000 convictions were pardoned. The order was the largest pardon for misdemeanor cannabis possession charges for any state in the country. Including drug paraphernalia in the order makes Maryland the first state to take this kind of action, according to Moore’s office.

Eyewitnesses to the chaos that erupted after noxious gas was released at the Baltimore Pride event on Saturday said they saw multiple people in medical distress – and first responders who failed to act promptly to assist injured partygoers. Attendee Sam Child told The Brew that at about 8:37 p.m. they saw a huge “whitish cloud of vapor” erupt near the main stage at North Avenue and Charles Street, after which the crowd began stampeding out of the area.

Tasked with leading one of The Basketball League’s expansion franchises this past spring, all coach Ed Corporal did was guide the Frederick Flying Cows to a 20-6 record and the Atlantic Northeast Division championship. That might have been one of the easier feats he accomplished. Corporal, a former high school basketball coach at Meade, overcame a pair of strokes in 2013 that left him paralyzed on the left side of his body and required more than a year of physical therapy to regain the ability to walk. That ordeal has provided him with a fresh perspective.

As B&O Railroad Museum’s “Royal Blue” train traveled down the first mile of commercial railroad track laid in the U.S., drag queens sashayed down the aisles. Music pumped from speakers placed atop the luggage racks, and the air was full of dollar bills — tips waiting to be accepted by performers. When the 40-minute-long journey was over, people crowded under the museum’s outdoor pavilion to escape the rain and dance. (Photo: Kylie Cooper/The Baltimore Banner)

Inside one of the trailers at Lamont Elementary School, two classes of multilingual learners were practicing comparing and contrasting. Separated only by a divider, a small group of third graders discussed tornadoes and hurricanes; for the second graders, it was polar bears and pandas. The sound carried across the room, but the kids, many of them immigrants to Prince George’s County from countries such as El Salvador and Mexico, stayed focused. (Photo: Kylie Cooper/The Baltimore Banner)

As the world reached 12 consecutive months of record global heat, the nine tornadoes that touched down earlier this month in Maryland raised the question of whether the state’s residents can expect to experience the threat more often in the face of climate change. Maryland set a single-day record June 5 when the National Weather Service rated six of the nine at EF1, the most ever of at least that rating, which measures wind speed and damage to trees and buildings.