NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Friday Dec. 13

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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY — IN BRIEF
 
A Voice of Baltimore compendium, local and beyond.   Your weekday morning look  (with links)  at late-breaking news, current events, and what will be talked about wherever you may go on Friday:

The Howard County woman run over downtown earlier this week by a Charm City Circulator was ruled a suicide. She was trapped under the bus in the 1800 block of E. Monument Street Tuesday morning.

•  CIRCULATOR DEATH RULED SUICIDE

Stephanie Albright, 50, died after being run over by a Charm City Circulator bus on Tuesday. Based on witness accounts and evidence at the scene, investigators ruled the Howard County resident’s death a suicide.

Read More at:  Baltimore Sun

•  T. ROWE PRICE HEADQUARTERS TO REMAIN DOWNTOWN THROUGH 2027

The city-based investment giant flirted with a move to Harbor Point and also Baltimore County, but said Thursday it will renew its lease at 100 East Pratt Street in the Inner Harbor. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said she was “thrilled” by the decision.

Read More at:  Baltimore Business Journal

•  DRIVER WHO KILLED PEDESTRIAN AT CITY HALL GETS 11 YEARS

Johnny Johnson pled guilty to vehicular manslaughter and possession of heroin and received a maximum prison sentence of 11 years via a plea bargain. He faced charges that together carried a maximum sentence of 21 years.

Read More at:  WJZ-TV (Channel 13)

•  PREAKNESS PURSE INCREASED BY 50 PERCENT TO $1.5M

It’s been $1 million since 1998. In 1014 it will be $1.5 million. The mile-and-three-sixteenths race is scheduled to be run May 17 and is the middle jewel of thoroughbred horse racing’s Triple Crown.

Read More at:  WBAL-Radio (1090AM)

•  $45M MIXED-USE PROJECT PROPOSED FOR RAYTHEON SITE IN TOWSON

Loch Raven Commons would include up to 200 high-end apartments, commercial space and a village green on the former Raytheon site on East Joppa Road.

Read More at:  Towson Times
 

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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Thursday Dec. 12

 
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY — IN BRIEF
 
A Voice of Baltimore compendium, local and beyond.   Your weekday morning look  (with links)  at late-breaking news, current events, and what will be talked about wherever you may go on Thursday:

Judges weigh new trial for convicted U.Va. lacrosse player George W. Huguely 5th. Men’s lacrosse quarterfinals to be played at Navy-Marine Corps Stadium in 2015.

The former University of Virginia lacrosse player from Chevy Chase, Md., convicted in the 2010 beating death of ex-girlfriend Yeardley Love, claims he was denied counsel when one of his attorneys became ill during his trial in Charlottesville. Love was from suburban Baltimore. Huguely is serving a 23-year sentence for second-degree murder.

Read More at:  WBAL-TV (Channel 11)

•  NAVY STADIUM IN ANNAP- OLIS TO HOST LACROSSE QUARTERFINALS IN 2015

It will the fourth time the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium hosts the NCAA men’s quarterfinal round.

Read More at:  The (Annapolis) Capital

•  ESSEX STEEL-PROCESSING PLANT TO CLOSE IN 2014

The 54-employee Worthington Industries plant will close by May 31. However the company’s layoff-warning notice to state labor officials gives a closure date of Feb. 10.

Read More at:  Baltimore Sun

•  PATIENT FIRST OPENS IN TOWSON

A new Patient First medical center opened Wednesday in the 900 block of York Road in Towson. The clinic will feature urgent and primary care, digital x-rays and lab work, and will be open from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day of the year.

Read More at:  Towson Times

•  FORMER STUDENTS SUE TALBOT CO. PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Their suspensions in 2011 for having a pocketknife and lighter as part of their lacrosse equipment were eventually overturned, but now the two former students have filed a civil lawsuit against the Talbot County Public Schools, alleging they were unreasonably searched and denied their education as a result. The suspensions were for 10 days and one day, respectively.

Read More at:  Maryland Daily Record
 

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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Wednesday Dec. 11
 

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY — IN BRIEF
 
A Voice of Baltimore compendium, local and beyond. Your weekday morning look (with links) at late- breaking news, current events, and what will be talked about wherever you may go on Wednesday:

Baltimore’s historic Hendler Creamery will be rede- veloped, with a modern addition, for apartments.

•  HENDLER CREAMERY TO BE CONVERTED TO APART- MENTS; AMBASSADOR THEATRE TO BE PRESERVED

The Baltimore City Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation (CHAP) unanimously approved plans Tuesday for the addition of a modern six-story apartment building next to the structure that once housed America’s first fully automated ice cream factory near Little Italy.

The former Hendler Creamery will be redeveloped and renamed The Hendler as part of a $45 million project beginning next summer.

Also at the CHAP meeting Tuesday, the 78-year-old Ambassador Theatre on Liberty Heights Avenue — an Art Deco movie house designed by John J. Zink, who also drew plans for the Senator and Patterson Theatres in North and East Baltimore — was placed on the Special List for historic preservation.

The Senator was remodeled and reopened in October. The Patterson, also remodeled, is now the Creative Alliance. The Ambassador is scheduled to go to public auction sometime after March 1.

Read More at:  Maryland Daily Record

•  MANDELA EULOGIZED; WAS THORN IN U.S. SIDE

Despite high praise for successfully guiding South Africa from apartheid to democracy without civil war — in collaboration with his predecessor as president, F.W. de Klerk, with whom he shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize — Nelson Mandela was a Communist, Marxist, and friend of Fidel Castro, Muammar Gaddafi and Yasser Arafat, much to the dismay of the United States and the Free World.

Read More at:  Washington Post

•  NEW GM CHIEF IS FIRST WOMAN TO HEAD A MAJOR AUTO COMPANY

Mary Barra beat out several prominent in-house candidates at General Motors for the job, including Mark Reuss, the head of GM’s North American operations and the son of a former president of the company. “Mary was picked for her talent, not her gender,” said outgoing CEO Daniel F. Akerson, who is retiring a half-year earlier than expected because of his wife’s health problems.

Read More at:  Wall Street Journal | New York Times

•  MD. PUBLIC SAFETY, CORRECTIONS SECRETARY STEPS DOWN

On the eve of the release of a legislative report on jail corruption, Gov. Martin O’Malley announced late Tuesday that the state’s beleaguered secretary of public safety and correctional services, Gary Maynard, is leaving the post he has held for nearly seven years to take a job in the private sector. The governor also announced that Gregg Hershberger, who has 31 years’ experience, will take over the department.

Read More at:  WBAL-TV (Channel 11)

•  GANSLER ANNOUNCES 41 MONTGOMERY CO. ENDORSEMENTS

After months of high-profile Democratic endorsements racked up by his chief gubernatorial opponent, Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler on Tuesday announced that 41 current and former Montgomery County elected officials are supporting his campaign for governor.

Read More at:  Baltimore Sun
 

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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Tuesday Dec. 10
 

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY — IN BRIEF
 
A Voice of Baltimore compendium, local and beyond. Your weekday morning look (with links) at late-breaking news, current events, and what will be talked about wherever you may go on Tuesday:

The Hyatt Recency Baltimore has begun a renovation of the Inner Harbor hotel's lobby. Shown here is a view of the second-floor atrium.

The hotel, at 300 Light St. in the Inner Harbor, spent $20 million in 2006 to revamp its 488 guest rooms, ballroom and fitness areas. The cost of the lobby renovation has not been disclosed.

Read More at:  Balto. Business Journal

•  SNOW EXPECTED DURING
TUESDAY MORNING COMMUTE

Up to five inches of snow is forecast for late Monday night through Tuesday afternoon, with the heaviest snowfall expected between 7 and 11 a.m. According to the National Weather Service (NWS), “Hazardous travel conditions are probable” during the morning commute.

Read More at:  WBFF Fox45-TV

•  SYSCO BUYS US FOODS FOR $3.5B, CUTBACKS POSSIBLE

The planned merger of the top two U.S. food distributors could result in cutbacks at facilities in Jessup and Severn, where hundreds of workers are employed.

Read More at:  Baltimore Sun

•  SHOTS FIRED BY SHOPLIFTER IN WEIS MARKET IN LAUREL

Anne Arundel County police are looking for a man who grabbed a security guard’s semi-automatic handgun and fired several shots in the supermarket. No one was hurt. The guard was attempting to take the shoplifter — who is described as a black male, 5’10” and 140 pounds — into custody when a struggle ensued and the suspect disarmed the guard, then fled on foot with the weapon.

Read More at:  The (Annapolis) Capital

•  USNA CHIEF DISCUSSES SEXUAL ASSAULT CASE

The superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis decided — against a military judge’s recommendation — to court-martial two midshipmen accused of aggravated sexual assault of a female midshipman during an off-campus party last year because he considers it his duty to make sure the charges are fully examined. A third midshipman who was also charged in the case was allowed to graduate and will not be court-martialed.

Read More at:  Associated Press
 

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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Monday Dec. 9
 

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY — IN BRIEF
 
A Voice of Baltimore compendium, local and beyond.   Your weekday morning look  (with links)  at late-breaking news, current events, and what will be talked about wherever you may go on Monday:

MARC train service between Washington, D.C. and Baltimore began this weekend on the Penn Line, with nine Saturday round-trips, plus another six on Sundays.

MARC train service began this weekend on the Penn Line be- tween Baltimore and Washington, D.C. The fare is $7 each way, with trains running from 7:35 a.m. until 10:35 p.m. — nine round-trips on Saturdays plus six on Sundays.

There will be no weekend service on the Camden Line; however, one-way, weekly and monthly Camden Line tickets will be honored on the Penn Line at all times, weekdays as well as weekends.

Amtrak will no longer honor MARC tickets on the weekends.

Read More at:  NBC/WRC-TV Washington (Channel 4)

•  BALTIMORE AREA UNDER EXPANDED WINTER STORM WARNING

The National Weather Service expanded its Winter Storm Warning to include the entire Baltimore area Sunday night as the State Highway Administration cautioned drivers to stay off icy Maryland roads as much as possible. More snow fell than anticipated and freezing rain was expected overnight, causing schools throughout the state to schedule late openings on Monday.

Read More at:  WBAL-Radio (1090AM)

•  TOWSON WINS FIRST FOOTBALL PLAYOFF GAME SINCE 1984

It’s been 29 years since the Tigers last won a postseason football game — until this weekend when they defeated visiting Fordham, 48-28, before more than 4,600 cheering students and fans at Johnny Unitas Stadium in Towson.

Read More at:  Baltimore Sun

•  EX-ANNAPOLIS MAYOR GETS $112K STATE JOB

Just weeks after losing his single-term post as mayor of Annapolis by 59 votes, former Mayor Joshua J. Cohen was named this weekend as the new chief administrative officer for Maryland’s Department of General Services at an annual salary of $112,000.

Read More at:  The (Annapolis) Capital

•  STATE ISSUES NEW RULES FOR COVERING GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Beginning January, reporters will be required to submit to a criminal background check before being permitted to cover the Maryland State Legislature in Annapolis.

Read More at:  Maryland Daily Record
 
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