NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Friday June 27
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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:
Medstar will open a $4.5 million health center July 7th in Federal Hill.
• MEDSTAR ‘PROMPTCARE’ HEALTH CENTER OPENS JULY 7 IN FEDERAL HILL
The $4.5 million, 28,000-square-foot facility will bring primary care physicians, a variety of specialists and an urgent care center under one roof.
Read More at: Maryland Daily Record
• O’MALLEY INTERVENES, STOPS STRIKE AT HOPKINS HOSPITAL
A four-day strike planned for the weekend by members of a union that represents thousands of maintenance workers, housekeepers and others at Johns Hopkins Hospital was averted Thursday when the governor asked both sides to take a one-week cooling-off period.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• THREE LIGHT RAIL STATIONS TO REOPEN
The Mount Washington, Cold Spring and Woodberry stations have been closed since late last week for repairs. They are scheduled to reopen Friday morning.
Read More at: WBFF Fox45-TV
• HORSESHOE CASINO SETS OPENING DATE
Pending reguatory approval, the downtown Baltimore casino, the state’s fifth, will open the night of August 26th.
Read More at: WBAL-Radio (1090AM)
• SUN’S PARENT COMPANY NAMES NEW CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS HEAD
Matthew Hutchison, who most recently held a similar position with CBS Interactive, will head corporate communications for Tribune Publishing Co., a new publishing entity that is scheduled to be spun off in early August from the Chicago-based Tribune Co.
The Baltimore Sun is one of its major newspapers, which also include the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune. Before joining CBS Interactive, Hutchison was director of global consumer communications for Dell Computer.
Read More at: Baltimore Business Journal
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Thursday June 26
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:
Carolyn Quattrocki has been named to a one-year term as executive director of the Maryland Health Exchange.
• MARYLAND HEALTH EXCHANGE NAMES EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
The board that oversees the exchange confirmed the appointment of Carolyn Quattrocki on Wednesday for a one-year term. She replaces Rebecca Pearce, who resigned in December as executive director following the problem-plagued rollouts of the state’s health exchange website.
Read More at: WBFF Fox45-TV
• SUPREME COURT RULING LIMITS CELLPHONE SEARCH DURING ARREST
The high court’s decision Wednesday requires police to obtain a warrant before searching through a suspect’s cellphone.
Read More at: Washington Post
• OLIVER, HUFF LOSE COUNTY COUNCIL SEATS IN PRIMARY
The two veteran councilmen, a Democrat and a Republican, were turned out of office in Tuesday’s primary.
Todd Huff, who was elected in 2010, lost by a wide margin to longtime State Del. Wade Kach in the District 3 Republican primary, who will face Democrat Laurie Taylor-Mitchell, a professor and schools advocate, in the November general election.
Ken Oliver, a third-term councilman, was defeated by Julian Jones, an Anne Arundel County Fire Department division chief who lost to the incumbent councilman by 98 votes in 2010.
In other Baltimore County races, Democratic Councilwoman Vicki Almond prevailed in a challenge from Pikesville attorney Jon Herbst, and Council Chairwoman Cathy Bevins, also a Democrat, beat back opponent Jeff Beard.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• CADET STEALS $130K IN DRUGS, CASH FROM BALTIMORE CO. POLICE
The 20-year-old cadet allegedy took drugs and money from the department’s evidence room, including cocaine, morphine, Oxycodone and Alprazolam.
Read More at: WBAL-Radio (1090AM)
• MARYLANDER CONVICTED OF SPYING ON CUBA THREATENS SUICIDE
Baltimore County native Alan Gross has served five years of a 15-year sentence for espionage against Cuba. His wife, who is currently visiting him in a Havana prison, says he won’t make it much longer.
Read More at: WJZ-TV (Channel 13)
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Wednesday June 25
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:
Marilyn Mosby defeated Baltimore City State’s Attorney Gregg L. Bernstein in a major primary upset Tuesday, unseating the one-term top city prosecutor.
• BROWN WINS; MOSBY UPSETS STATE’S ATTORNEY BERNSTEIN
By a more than 2-1 margin Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown defeated his two Democratic challengers in Tuesday’s primary as Republican Larry Hogan won the GOP gubernatorial nomination.
In a major upset, former prosecutor Marilyn Mosby, whose husband is a Baltimore City councilman, handily defeated Baltimore City State’s Attorney Gregg L. Bernstein by 55-45 percent.
In an election that was expected to be close but wasn’t, five-term State Sen. Brian E. Frosh easily defeated three-term Del. Jon Cardin in the Democratic primary for Attorney General.
And in Anne Arundel, incumbent Laura Neuman lost to challenger Steve Schuh in the Republican county executive race.
Read More at: WJZ-TV (Channel 13) | WBAL-TV (Channel 11) | Maryland Daily Record
• WHITING-TURNER TO BUILD $1B NATIONAL HARBOR CASINO
The Baltimore-based international construction company was chosen Tuesday to build Maryland’s sixth casino, at National Harbor in Prince George’s County. The firm is now finishing work on the state’s fifth casino, Horseshoe Casino Baltimore, which is expected to open in August.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• MISSISSIPPI’S COCHRAN WINS NAIL-BITER RUNOFF AGAINST TEA PARTY CHALLENGER
Mainstream Republicans and black Democrats helped the six-term Mississippi U.S. Senator survive a runoff election against Tea Party State Sen. Chris McDaniel, a former radio talk show host, in one of the most expensive and nasty primary campaigns of the year.
Read More at: Washington Post
• FIVE ARRESTED IN MD. BY FBI FOR SEX TRAFFICKING OF CHILDREN
The national law enforcement agency arrested four pimps in Prince George’s County and one in Baltimore County, along with 276 others across the country as part of an FBI operation targeting sex trafficking.
Two girls — one from Baltimore County and another from Montgomery County — were rescued as part of that operation.
Read More at: WBAL-Radio (1090AM)
• DWYER HOLDS ELECTION DAY GUN RAFFLE IN PASADENA
The Anne Arundel County State Delegate, who has been convicted of driving and boating while intoxicated and spent weekends during the 2014 legislative session serving time in jail, held a gun raffle Tuesday in Pasadena to raise money for his reelection campaign.
Read More at: The (Annapolis) Capital
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Tuesday June 24
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:
‘Charm TV’ launches Wednesday in Baltimore. (Photo/Christopher Myers)
• ‘MAYOR’S CHANNEL’ RELAUNCHES WEDNESDAY AS ‘CHARM TV’
The taxpayer-supported cable TV channel is shifting its focus from broadcasts of government meetings to a showcase for city restaurants, businesses and neighborhoods in an attempt to counteract negative perceptions of Baltimore. It relaunches Wednesday.
Read More at: Baltimore Magazine
| Baltimore Sun
• BALTIMORE POLICE CHARGED
IN TWO LAWSUITS
Separate multimillion-dollar lawsuits — by the family of a man who died after struggling with officers, and by a community activist who alleges he was assaulted in his driveway by two of the same officers a few weeks earlier — claim Baltimore police used excessive force in what ultimately were traffic stops for minor violations.
The two suits were filed Monday in Circuit Court in Baltimore City. “Both stops were without probable cause,” according to A. Dwight Pettit, a Baltimore solo practitioner who filed both actions on behalf of the plaintiffs.
Baltimore City State’s Attorney Gregg L. Bernstein, who is running for reelection in Tuesday’s Democratic primary, in December declined to press charges against the officers following an investigation of the death incident.
Read More at: Maryland Daily Record | WBAL-Radio (1090AM)
• SINCLAIR TO SELL TWO TV STATIONS FOR $94.7 MILLION
The owner of Baltimore’s Fox45-TV will sell its stations in Harrisburg, Pa. and Charleston, S.C. as part of the company’s move to comply with regulatory rules needed to close its pending $1 billion acquisition of Allbritton Communications.
Read More at: Baltimore Business Journal
• MICROSOFT STORE OPENS SATURDAY IN TOWSON
It will be the state’s second Microsoft store opening this month. The new facility will be in Towson Town Center on Dulaney Valley Road.
The technology giant’s first permanent retail outlet in Maryland opened earlier in June at The Mall in Columbia.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• DELAWARE GRANTS $1.3M TO PERDUE FOODS
The First State’s performance grant of $700,000 and capital expenditure grant of up to $600,000 will enable Perdue to expand its processing plant in Milford, Del. and to add 350 workers by September.
Read More at: WBFF Fox45-TV
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Monday June 23
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:
Three pachyderms from Canada are joining the National Zoo’s elephant herd.
• NATIONAL ZOO SETS DEBUT
OF THREE NEW ASIAN ELEPHANTS
They’re from the Calgary Zoo in Canada and will join the Washington, D.C. zoo’s existing herd of four elephants Monday.
Read More at: WJZ-TV (Ch. 13)
• $45M APARTMENT, STORES COMPLEX PLANNED FOR EASTPORT
It’ll be on the seven-acre site of the neighborhood’s former movie the- ater at the intersection of Chesa- peake and Bay Ridge Avenues in a shopping center that was built in 1961.
Read More at: The (Annapolis) Capital
• VETERAN OFFICIAL FROM MD. NAMED SSA HEAD
Carolyn Colvin has been nominated by President Obama to head the Social Security Administration, replacing a Bush Administration appointee whose term expired last year. Colvin, an Arnold, Md. native who is 72, has been acting director since last year.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• AUXILIARY BALTIMORE CO. POLICEMAN LOSES ARREST POWERS
The 22-year volunteer has been permanently restricted to administrative duties following a four-month investigation into his ordering a UMBC student to stop video-recording police arresting two women. On the video, the auxiliary police officer can be seen pushing and swearing at the student.
Read More at: Maryland Daily Record
• PHELPS IS THIRD IN 200 IM AT SANTA CLARA
The Olympic great from Baltimore finished third in the 200-meter individual medley Sunday in the Santa Clara Grand Prix.
Read More at: Sports Illustrated
