NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Friday July 25
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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:
Off-duty New Jersey police officer Joseph Walker, left, shot and killed Maryland resident Joseph Harvey during a road-rage incident in 2013.
• STATE RESTS, DEFENSE BEGINS
IN FATAL I-97 ROAD-RAGE CASE
Off-duty New Jersey police officer Joseph Walker is on trial in Annapolis for first-degree murder for killing a 36-year-old Anne Arundel County man during a road rage incident last year.
Read More at: The (Annapolis) Capital
• RAY RICE SUSPENDED FOR TWO GAMES WITHOUT PAY
The Baltimore Ravens running back will miss the first two games of the 2014 season because of his off-season arrest for domestic violence.
Read More at: WBAL-Radio (1090AM)
• HOWARD STREET THEATER PROJECT BACKED BY BDC
The Baltimore Development Corp. voted Thursday to begin exclusive negotiations to sell a set of city-owned properties in the 400 block of North Howard Street to a group proposing to create a hub for small theater companies.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• FIVE CITY PROPERTIES TO BE MANAGED BY VILLAGE GREEN
The company, which is one of the country’s oldest apartment owner-operators, will manage a combined 694 units at five properties in the Baltimore area.
Read More at: Maryland Daily Record
• EX-OFFICER GETS $127K IN HARASSMENT LAWSUIT
A federal jury on Thursday awarded a former Maryland Transportation Authority police officer $127,000 after she alleged that she was sexually harassed by an instructor at the agency’s police academy.
Read More at: WBFF Fox45-TV | Maryland Daily Record
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Thursday July 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 Thursday:
Gov. Martin O’Malley struggles to stay awake during testimony for and against a state wetlands permit for the proposed Cove Point liquid natural gas export facility. (Photo/Bryan P. Sears, Maryland Daily Record)
• O’MALLEY SNOOZES AT BPW MEETING IN ANNAPOLIS
The governor couldn’t stay awake through the full six hours of public meetings Wednesday that began at 10 a.m. and dealt with, among other things, what Daily Record reporter Bryan Sears termed “the exciting world of state bond sales.”
According to Sears, “The timing of O’Malley’s struggles with the sandman — those early afternoon, right-after-lunch hours — came during a more than two-hour portion of the meeting set aside for discussion of wetlands permits for the controversial Cove Point liquid natural gas export facility in Lusby, Calvert County,” annoying at least one resident of Lusby, who complained that the governor’s “eyelids dropped and he fell asleep” in the midst of the man’s explanation regarding his opposition.
Read More at: Maryland Daily Record
• GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATES CAST BLAME FOR BERETTA MOVE
The Italian gun manufacturer announced Tuesday that it would move its manufacturing operations, with 160 jobs, from Prince George’s County to a new facility in Tennessee starting next year, but that it would continue to keep administrative and marketing offices in Maryland.
Both Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown and Republican nominee Larry Hogan are pointing fingers.
Read More at: WBAL-Radio (1090AM)
• STOP SHOP SAVE CLOSES LAST STORE IN BALTIMORE
The grocery chain began in 1978 and had nearly 20 stores in the city.
Read More at: WBAL-TV (Channel 11)
• CLEVELAND FAN URINATES ON ART MODELL’S GRAVE
It took place at Druid Ridge Cemetery in Pikesville and was posted by the Browns fan on YouTube.
Read More at: WJZ-TV (Channel 13)
• FIRED LEOPOLD EMPLOYEE’S LAWSUIT SET FOR MARCH HEARING IN FEDERAL COURT
Joan Harris is charging that former Anne Arundel County Executive John R. Leopold’s staff retaliated against her for helping another employee prepare her own lawsuit against Leopold and the county.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Wednesday July 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 Wednesday:
Gun manufacturer Beretta is moving out of Accokeek, Md. in 2015 after 37 years in Prince George’s County.
• BERETTA ABANDONS MARYLAND FOR TENNESSEE
The gun manufacturer said Tuesday it is moving because it’s “very worried” about keeping a factory in Maryland.
Beretta, which makes about 1,500 weapons per day and has been in Prince George’s County since 1977, will keep administrative offices at its facility in Accokeek, Md.; however all manufacturing capabilities will be relocated to a new plant in Gallatin, Tenn. beginning next May, with completion of the move set for the end of 2015.
Read More at: WBAL-Radio (1090AM)
• IS MARYLAND’S GUN CONTROL LAW UNCONSTITUTIONAL?
Arguments to that effect were presented Tuesday in federal court in Baltimore by attorneys for gun rights advocates, as lawyers for the State of Maryland asked the judge to dismiss the lawsuit.
Read More at: WJZ-TV (Channel 13)
• S&P RAISES BALTIMORE’S BOND RATING TO HIGHEST LEVEL IN YEARS
Standard & Poor’s on Tuesday gave the city a double-A rating, the same as for New York City and similarly-sized Nashville, Tenn.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• APPLE REPORTS $7.75B PROFIT IN 3rd QUARTER
More than 35 million iPhone sales accounted for most of the profit.
Read More at: New York Times
• MAN LEAVES 98-YEAR-OLD MOTHER IN PARKED VEHICLE OUTSIDE CASINO
The North Carolina resident was charged with “neglect of a vulnerable adult” for leaving his near-centenarian mother inside a parked pickup truck at the Maryland Live! casino in Hanover for nearly five hours on Monday. Police said his mother is confined to a wheelchair and unable to provide basic care for herself.
Read More at: The (Annapolis) Capital
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Tuesday July 22
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:
‘Wire’ creator David Simon, left, and Gov. Martin O’Malley met recently on an Acela train en route to New York. (Photo/Selfie by the Governor)
• O’MALLEY, SIMON MEND FENCES OVER ‘THE WIRE’
The Maryland governor and the creator of the TV show that painted a violent picture of Baltimore crossed paths recently on an Amtrak train to New York.
Read More at: WBAL-Radio (1090AM)
| Maryland Daily Record
• HOPKINS HOSPITAL PAYS $190M TO 8,000 PATIENTS OF DR. NIKITA LEVY
The errant gynecologist was fired in Feb. 2013 for secretly photographing and videotaping women in his examining room with a pen-like camera he wore around his neck, and committed suicide 10 days later.
Read More at: WBAL-TV (Channel 11)
• PG COUNTY OK’S $925M MGM CASINO AT NATIONAL HARBOR
County officials voted 8-1 in favor of a $925 milllion building plan for Maryland’s sixth casino and hotel adjacent to Washington, D.C.
Read More at: The Bowie Blade-News
• ROAD-RAGE MURDER TRIAL OPENS IN ANNE ARUNDEL
The off-duty New Jersey cop who killed a Maryland resident on the side of a highway in Millersville over a driving error went on trial Monday for murder.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• ADMISSIONS DECLINE AT MD. LAW SCHOOLS
Reflecting a national trend, first-year class sizes at the state’s two law schools are shrinking.
Read More at: Maryland Daily Record
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Monday July 21
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:
New Jersey Police Officer Joseph Walker is accused of first-degree murder in a Maryland road rage incident. He shot Lansdowne res- ident Joseph Harvey Jr. near Veterans Highway in June 2013. (Photo/Maryland State Police mugshot)
• JURY SELECTION BEGINS IN ARUNDEL ROAD-RAGE MURDER TRIAL
The trial begins Monday for a New Jersey police officer accused of first-degree murder in the shooting death of a Lansdowne resident along Route 3 near Millersville after the two pulled their vehicles to the side of the road following an angry exchange a year ago in June.
Read More at: WBAL-TV (Channel 11)
| Baltimore Sun
• THREE-DAY ARTSCAPE FESTIVAL CONCLUDES
The 33rd annual Baltimore summertime event began Friday and ended Sunday night in midtown and is billed as the nation’s largest free arts festival.
Read More at: WBAL-Radio (1090AM)
• HUFF, KACH OPPOSE IMMIGRANT CHILDREN’S SHELTER
Both the Baltimore county councilman and the longtime state delegate who defeated him in the Democratic primary in June oppose the proposed shelter for immigrant children at a Catholic Charities facility in their district.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• CITY COUNCILMAN CALLS COUNTY EXECUTIVE ‘IRRESPONSIBLE’ ON RED LINE FUNDING
The charge was made in a letter sent over the weekend to the state by Baltimore City Councilman James Kraft, criticizing County Executive Kevin Kamenetz’s stance on the proposed Red Line light rail route.
Read More at: Maryland Daily Record
• SCORES KILLED ON BLOODIEST DAY OF GAZA CONFLICT
An Israeli soldier was captured and more than 100 Palestinians were killed on Day 13 of the conflict in Gaza. Thirteen Israeli soldiers were killed also, the deadliest single day for the Israeli military in years.
Read More at: Washington Post | New York Times
