NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Friday Jan. 31
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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 Carnival Pride will reinstate Baltimore as its home port in 2015.
• CARNIVAL REVERSES DECISION
TO DEPART BALTIMORE PORT
The passenger cruise line’s Carnival Pride will return to Baltimore in March 2015 after briefly moving its home port to Tampa.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• UNDER ARMOUR STOCK SURGES
IN WAKE OF STRONG SALES
The Baltimore-based sports apparel giant’s stock price jumped nearly $20 a share, for a gain of almost 23 percent Thursday, to over $100.
Read More at: Maryland Daily Record
• GANSLER, MIZEUR DEBATE HEALTH EXCHANGE FIX
However the candidate who is being widely blamed for the flawed health care rollout, Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, was unable to attend the Thursday evening forum in Silver Spring because his father died earlier in the day.
Read More at: WBFF Fox45-TV
• JOHNSON, CONTI VIE FOR ARUNDEL COUNTY EXECUTIVE
George F. Johnson 4th and Joanna Conti, both of whom were defeated in different campaigns by former County Executive John R. Leopold, are running in the Democratic primary in hopes of replacing Republican County Executive Laura Neuman, who is being opposed for the GOP nomination by State Del. Steve Schuh of Gibson Island.
Read More at: The (Annapolis) Capital
• PROSECUTORS SEEK EXECUTION OF BOSTON MARATHON BOMBER
The decision by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and the U.S. Justice Department to press for 20-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s execution was widely expected.
Read More at: New York Times
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Thursday Jan. 30
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:
Larry Hogan named Boyd Rutherford, shown here, as his lieutenant gov. running mate for this spring's GOP primary.
AS RUNNING MATE FOR GOP GUBERNATORIAL PRIMARY
The Republican gubernatorial hopeful named Boyd Rutherford, who was former Gov. Bob Ehrlich’s secretary of the Maryland Department of General Services, as his No. 2 for the Spring 2014 primary.
Read More at: The (Annapolis) Capital
• ACTIVISTS PROTEST PLAN TO TEAR DOWN
HISTORIC READ’S DRUG STORE
The historic building at Howard and Lexington Streets was the site of a civil rights demonstration/sit-in that drew national attention in 1955.
Read More at: WJZ-TV (Channel 13)
• COLUMBIA MALL SHOOTER HAD PLAN TO KILL
According to police, Darion Marcus Aguilar apologized in advance to his family for what he was about to do.
Read More at: WBAL-TV (Channel 11)
• DESPITE SEVERE WINTER, STINK BUGS THREATEN MARYLAND CROPS
The brown marmorated stink bug can decrease the value of a fruit crop by as much as 90 percent. The smelly insects can escape cold conditions by living in dead or rotting trees, rock outcroppings or buildings.
Read More at: Maryland Daily Record
• N.Y. CONGRESSMAN THREATENS TO THROW TV REPORTER OVER BALCONY
Rep. Michael Grimm, a former U.S. Marine, told Michael Scotto of cable channel NY1: “I’ll break you in half, like a boy…. I’ll throw you off this f**king balcony!”
Read More at: Reuters
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Wednesday Jan. 28
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:
Artist’s rendering of Horseshoe Casino Baltimore, due to open this year on Russell Street. The casino will bring 1,700 new jobs to Baltimore.
• HORSESHOE CASINO BRINGS
1,700 JOBS TO BALTIMORE
The casino announced Tuesday it is teaming up with the city to do some heavy recruiting in Baltimore neighborhoods.
Read More at: Maryland Daily Record
• ILA ORDERED TO PAY $3.8M IN DAMAGES FOR PORT STRIKE
Longshore Local 333 was ordered Tuesday by a federal arbitrator to make the payment, for revenue lost at the Port of Baltimore during the dockworkers’ strike in October.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• OBAMA VOWS TO GO IT ALONE ON ECONOMY
In State of the Union Address, the President promises independence from Congress in putting forth his second-term agenda.
Read More at: New York Times | Washington Post
• PROPOSED LEGISLATION WOULD MAKE ‘REVENGE PORN’ A CRIMINAL OFFENSE
Two bills under consideration by the Maryland General Assembly would make it a crime to take revenge on an ex-lover by posting that person’s nude photos on the Internet.
Read More at: WBFF Fox45-TV
• LEOPOLD SEEKS DISMISSAL OF ACLU CASE
At a hearing this week in Anne Arundel Circuit Court in Annapolis, the former county executive’s lawyer asked Judge John Miller to dismiss a lawsuit over dossiers allegedly compiled by the police officers assigned to protect Leopold when he was in office.
Read More at: The (Annapolis) Capital
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Tuesday Jan. 28
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:
Millennial Media’s founder, Paul Palmieri, resigned Monday.
• MILLENNIAL MEDIA CEO STEPS DOWN
Founder Paul Palmieri resigned Monday as CEO of the Baltimore mobile advertising firm, to be replaced by former Yahoo! Chief Revenue Officer Michael Barrett. However Palmieri — the company’s largest individual stockholder, with over five million shares, a 6.5 percent stake — will stay on as an adviser to Barrett, who he helped select as his replacement, for at least a year.
Read More at: NASDAQ.com
| Baltimore Business Journal
• GMART TO OPEN IN FORMER SANTONI’S LOCATION IN HIGHLANDTOWN
The five-store supermarket chain with two Maryland locations will open its third store in the state within the next two months in the space vacated by Santoni’s Super Market on East Lombard Street in Highlandtown. Santoni’s was shut down in October for failure to pay nearly $150,000 in back rent.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• ULMAN, O’MALLEY TOUR COLUMBIA MALL FOLLOWING SATURDAY SHOOTING
Accompanied by the governor, the county executive ate frozen yogurt at the mall and encouraged a return to normalcy through shopping. According to the Associated Press, O’Malley topped his yogurt with blueberries and strawberries.
Read More at: Maryland Daily Record
• STATE COMPTROLLER LISTS MARYLAND’S TOP 50 TAX EVADERS
Peter Franchot revealed the list at noon Monday. He said the scofflaws owe the state nearly $15 million in back taxes.
Read More at: The (Annapolis) Capital
• ‘POLAR BEAR PLUNGE’ TO BE RESCHEDULED MARCH 8
The Maryland State Police said the date’s not definite yet, but should be announced on Tuesday. The annual Sandy Point State Park event was canceled for the first time last Saturday because of frigid temperatures and icy, high waves on the Chesapeake Bay.
Read More at: Baltimore Business Journal
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Monday Jan. 27
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:
Columbia Mall murderer Darion Aguilar was a skateboarding enthusiast with no criminal record.
• COLUMBIA MALL SHOOTER ‘A GENTLE PERSON’
WHO HAD NO CRIMINAL RECORD
The 19-year-old skateboarding enthusiast took a taxi to the mall Saturday morning, carrying a 12-gauge shotgun he bought just a month earlier, opened fire, and killed two skateboard shop employees before turning the weapon on himself.
So far, police have been unable to identify any relationship between the shooter, Darion Aguilar, and his two victims, both of whom worked in Zumiez, a shop that sells skateboarding gear.
According to his mother, he was “a gentle, sweet kid… a gentle person” who never had any interest in guns and “never had a gun before.”
(Fox45-TV coverage includes video of press conference with Howard County Executive Ken Ulman and Chief of Police Bill McMahon.)
Read More at: WBFF Fox45-TV | WJZ-TV (Channel 13)
• EXTREME COLD CAUSES CANCELLATION OF ‘POLAR BEAR PLUNGE’
It’s the first time in its 17-year history that the annual event at Sandy Point State Park has been cancelled. A Maryland State Police spokesman said bitter cold, combined with a forecast for snow, made holding the event too dangerous.
Read More at: WBAL-Radio (1090AM)
• POSTAL RATES INCREASE TO 49 CENTS
The rate for First Class snailmail went up three cents Sunday. Postcard rates jumped one cent, from 33 to 34 cents.
Read More at: The (Annapolis) Capital
• SOCIAL SECURITY LEAVES DOWNTOWN’S WEST SIDE
The move from the agency’s massive facility near Lexington Market to a new, trimmer facility uptown has been nearly 10 years in the making.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• SEARCH IS ON FOR NEW UB PRESIDENT
As University of Baltimore classes resume Monday, the search is on for a replacement for outgoing President Robert L. Bogomolny, who will retire as UB’s chief at the end of the spring semester, then return as a law professor after a year.
Read More at: Maryland Daily Record
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