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Staffers from the Maryland Environmental Service will remain at the troubled Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant through April 30 under a new agreement between the state and Baltimore. Under a previous agreement, the state agency’s tenure at the plant was poised to end Dec. 31. But now, the Environmental Service will remain into the spring, as long as the city’s Board of Estimates agrees. Its next meeting will take place next Wednesday.

Airlines have resumed flights at BWI Marshall Airport on Wednesday after a computer outage at the Federal Aviation Administration grounded departing flights across the country. “Residual delays can be expected,” the airport said in a tweet late Wednesday morning. “Please confirm your flight status with your airline.” The FAA tweeted that normal air traffic operations are gradually resuming across across the U.S., after the agency ordered airlines to pause all domestic departures until 9 a.m. Eastern Time.

Maryland saw more than $478 million in mobile sports bets in December, the first full month where gamblers could place wagers from their phones. According to Maryland Lottery and Gaming data, gamblers placed a total of $497,121,656 worth of mobile and in-person bets at the state’s nine retail and seven mobile sportsbooks, with the vast majority coming from wagers placed from bettors’ mobile devices. Last month, the state reported a total of roughly $219 million in total sports bets, but mobile sports betting was only available for nine days at the end of the month.

Chicken finger restaurant chain Raising Cane’s will make its Maryland debut Thursday when it opens its first location in the state in Towson. Located at 4 Towsontown Blvd. E, the new restaurant will host a grand opening celebration with an official ribbon-cutting ceremony hosted by the Towson Chamber of Commerce at 9:30 a.m. The Plano, Texas-based chain is planning to open 100 new franchises in 2023, including two more in Maryland. Raising Cane’s will open a location in Gambrills at 1070 MD-3 North as its second location in Maryland, joining its inaugural site in Towson. Later in March, the chain will open another restaurant in Westminster at 400 Englar Road.

Councilman Kristerfer Burnett introduced a bill Monday that will raise penalties for businesses that violate a curfew policy for minors, following a shooting last week at the Edmondson Village Shopping Center that left one Edmondson-Westside High School student dead. A portion of city code prohibits minors under the age of 16 from being in “any public place or any establishment” between 7:30 a.m. and 3 p.m., when they should be in school. It also establishes a nighttime curfew.

The University of Maryland Medical System plans to build a new hospital in Talbot County, replacing its current facility in Easton as part of a wider Eastern Shore expansion. The University of Maryland Shore Regional Health (UMSRH) filed the Certificate of Need application for the project with the Maryland Health Care Commission on Jan. 6, proposing a new facility to replace the current University of Maryland Shore Medical Center at Easton.

Emergent BioSolutions Inc. has locked in a deal potentially worth hundreds of millions of dollars to continue supplying a skin decontamination product to the U.S. military. The Gaithersburg company said late Thursday that it has inked a contract to provide its Reactive Skin Decontamination Lotion Kit to the Department of Defense for up to another five years, now that a previous contract has expired. The contract, which took effect in December, has a one-year base and comes with four single-year renewal options, making it worth up to $379.6 million.