Around Maryland

Since it opened Sept. 15, the Meritus Crisis Center has seen 204 patients. Dalton Jones was one of them. “They are amazing,” he said of the staff at the six-bed inpatient Crisis Center. “They basically saved my life.” Meritus Health opened the facility to support the needs of those struggling with addiction as part of its mission to improve the health of the community.

Researchers scoured more than 35,000 data points from pet insurance companies to list top breeds, favorite dog names and costs of owning the top breeds, said MarketWatch Guides spokeswoman Claudia Phillips. v“Our team is full of dog lovers,” she said. “And costs are rising everywhere. We wanted to look at the data to see just how much it takes to care for one of these more popular dog breeds.”

There was mixed reaction to a curfew at National Harbor for children 16 and younger that went into effect on Friday at the popular waterfront boardwalk in Prince George’s County, Maryland. Delores, general manager at hot sauce purveyor Pepper Palace said she had heard about the melee that broke out at the Harbor last weekend involving hundreds of rowdy teenagers.

A giant claw has arrived from Galveston, Texas, to aid in the cleanup of the Key Bridge collapse. The 1,000-metric-ton hydraulic wreck grab, also known as “Gus” by crew members, is attached to the Chesapeake 1000 crane that is capable of lifting 1,000 tons of the debris left after the Dali cargo ship crashed into the bridge March 26.

A month after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed, federal, state and local authorities as well as local community organizations have banded together to focus on recovery efforts. On March 26, the Key Bridge collapsed after a support pillar was struck by the container ship Dali, killing six construction workers and leaving tons of wreckage from the bridge in the harbor, diverting ships and significantly impacting operations at the Port of Baltimore.

Back home from a long weekend in West Virginia, Corey McKenzie was sound asleep in his home outside Baltimore when his phone jolted him awake with news that the Francis Scott Key Bridge had collapsed. The second-in-command with the Maryland Transportation Authority Police, McKenzie sped to the department’s headquarters veering from his normal commute that had twice a day for years taken him across a span he had just learned plunged into the water.

Maryland Office of the State Fire Marshal welcomed new Accelerant Detection K9, Taylor. Maryland Office of the State Fire Marshal announced that the addition of a new Accelerant Detection K9, Taylor. Taylor officially took over the reins of her “sister” Sky, who retired in March. Taylor and her handler, Senior Deputy State Fire Marshal Melissa Decker, graduated from Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives K9 Class yesterday.

College students in Maryland have sympathy for others protesting the Israel-Hamas war. People in support of Palestine are protesting on college campuses across the U.S. as the war continues in Gaza. They’re calling on universities to disclose any investments and divest from any companies connected to Israel. Groups of students at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and George Washington University in Washington created encampments on campus.