Baltimore set a record high Monday as temperatures reached 92 degrees, according to the National Weather Service. The sweltering heat broke the previous record of 91 degrees in the region, set in 1974. Washington, D.C., also reached a new high: Dulles International Airport reached 91 degrees, topping the 89-degree record set in 2017, the NWS said.

The Black Health Equity Coalition of Frederick has received $153,000 in grants to fund trainings and programs, including conducting Frederick County’s first comprehensive Black health survey this summer. Earlier this month, the coalition announced that it received money from multiple sources over the last year, including $128,000 from the CDC Foundation, according to a news release from the coalition.

A monthslong project to demolish four historic buildings in Old Ellicott City is nearly complete, a crucial part of the county’s plan to protect the city from dangerous flash floods while also preserving its history. The four buildings were long the first many visitors saw as they headed west into Ellicott City down Main Street. They previously housed The Phoenix Emporium, Bean Hollow, Great Panes and Discoveries. Their exteriors are almost fully removed.

Izzy Patoka was only 8 years old when he became his parents’ interpreter. Like many Jewish refugees who fled Europe during the Holocaust, the Patokas didn’t speak English. So whenever an official-looking document came in the mail, they would ask their son to translate and to explain. “I always felt that I did not live up to what my parents expected because I was not a lawyer or a doctor at eight years old,” said Patoka, who is now chair of the Baltimore County Council.

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.

Staff at the Maryland Department of Health and related agencies said at a recent Maryland Medicaid Advisory Committee meeting that they’re going to have a “busy” interim period as they work to conduct over a dozen new reports and studies prompted by bills that came out of the 2024 legislative session. “A lot of those bills that ended up passing did have a lot of reports as their main components,” Chris Coats, a health policy analyst with the Maryland Department of Health, said Thursday.

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.