NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Friday April 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:
Baltimore County Councilman Todd Huff’s Twitter page photo — not the lewd image posted Thursday morning by a hacker.
• HACKER TWEETS LEWD PHOTO ON COUNTY COUNCILMAN’S TWITTER ACCOUNT
“It’s emphatically, definitely not me,” Baltimore County Councilman Todd Huff (R-3rd) told Bryan Sears of the Maryland Daily Record in a telephone interview Thursday. “It wasn’t me. I bear no resemblance to the photo,” Huff declared.
“We were hacked,” said the councilman, a first-term Republican currently seeking reelection, who last May was sentenced to two years’ probation and ordered not to drink alcohol after he pled guilty to driving under the influence in relation to an arrest in February 2013.
Read More at: Maryland Daily Record
• MARYLAND GUBERNATORIAL DEMOCRATS
TO DEBATE MAY 7 ON WASHINGTON TV
They’ll meet at the University of Maryland College Park, and the three-way debate will be televised on Washington, D.C.’s NBC affiliate, NBC4, WRC-TV (Channel 4). NBC’s “Meet the Press” host David Gregory will moderate.
There was no immediate word as to whether the debate will be broadcast in Baltimore; however it will be carried on the NBC affiliate in Hagerstown, WHAG-TV (Channel 26). The Baltimore NBC affiliate is WBAL-TV (Channel 11).
Read More at: WBAL-Radio (1090AM)
• PHELPS LOSES IN COMEBACK TO LONGTIME RIVAL
After defeating longtime rival Ryan Lochte in a morning qualifying round, Olympic Champion Michael Phelps came in second to Lochte in the 100-meter butterfly final at Mesa, Arizona’s Arena Grand Prix Thursday night.
Read More at: WBFF Fox45-TV
• BALTIMORE CUTS DEAL ON PENSION BILL
The mayor and the city’s unions have struck a deal on a bill which would switch some new city employees from a traditional pension system to a 401(k)-style plan.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• WOMAN TO HEAD ANNAPOLIS CAPITAL POLICE
After serving in an acting capacity since the first of the year, Lt. Rebecca Labs has been named to head the more-than-60-officer agency, making her the first woman to hold the job.
Read More at: The (Annapolis) Capital
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Thursday April 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:
Joseph Walker, 41, a police officer with the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office in New Jersey, is charged with gunning down Joseph Harvey Jr., 36, of Millersville, following a road- rage incident last June on Maryland Rte. 3 in Gambrills.
• ARUNDEL JUDGE WON’T DISMISS
FATAL ROAD-RAGE CASE
A motion to dismiss first-degree murder and weapons charges against a New Jersey detective who shot and killed a Millersville man last June in a road-rage incident on Maryland Rte. 3 near the merge onto Interstate 97 in Gambrills was denied Wednesday by an Anne Arundel County Circuit Court judge, allowing the case to move forward to trial.
Read More at: The (Annapolis) Capital
• POLL SHOWS MARYLANDERS UNDECIDED
IN GOVERNOR’S RACE
St. Mary’s College of Maryland took the poll, which shows that a majority of the state’s Democrats and Republicans have no idea who they will vote for in the June 24 primary election.
Read More at: Maryland Daily Record
• PHELPS ENDS RETIREMENT, WILL COMPETE AGAIN THURSDAY
The most decorated Olympian ever, returns to competition Thursday morning at the Mesa Grand Prix, in Arizona, where he was scheduled to race in three events, but scratched one on Wednesday.
Read More at: WJZ-TV (Channel 13)
• CCBC APPLICANT ALLEGES REJECTION ON RELIGIOUS GROUNDS
The prospective student, who applied to the Community College of Baltimore County’s radiation therapy program and was rejected after saying that God was what was most important to him, was told by the program director in an email that “this field is not the place for religion.”
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• FORMER SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT EULOGIZED
Walter Amprey, a Baltimore native who served as city schools superintendent under Mayor Kurt Schmoke from 1991-1997, died Wednesday at age 69 of complications from a heart transplant.
Read More at: WBAL-Radio (1090AM)
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Wednesday April 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:
A 3-year-old pit bull mauled a 2-year-old child Tuesday in Essex.
• CHILD MAULED BY PIT BULL IN ESSEX
The family pet attacked the two-year-old child and was killed by family members while pulling the dog off the child, who suffered serious but not life-threatening injuries, despite having been bitten in the neck by the pit bull.
Read More at: WBAL-TV (Chananel 11)
• GANSLER PROPOSES STUDY
OF HIGH-SPEED RAIL
The Attorney General wants a task force to study options for high-speed rail service between Baltimore and Washington. If elected governor, he’ll form a group to develop recommendations by the end of his first year on the job.
Read More at: Maryland Daily Record
• GOVERNOR ON ‘PILGRIMAGE’ TO IRELAND; ARCHBISHOP HEADS TO ROME
As Gov. Martin O’Malley left Tuesday for a five-day trip to Europe, which will include a “congressional pilgrimage” to Northern Ireland and a conference in Amsterdam, Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori prepared to travel Wednesday to Rome to witness the canonization of Popes John XXIII and John Paul II as saints in the Catholic Church.
Read More at: WBAL-Radio (1090AM) | Baltimore Sun
• HOUSE COMMITTEE TO EXAMINE MARIJUANA DECRIMINALIZATION
On the heels of Maryland’s move to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana as the State Legislature adjourned earlier this month, the U.S. House of Representative will examine Washington, D.C.’s decision to do the same.
The District’s decriminalization act is now amid a 60-day congressional review period, which is due to elapse mid-July. For Congress to overturn the new law in Washington, both the House and Senate would have to pass a joint resolution which would then need to be signed by President Obama.
Read More at: Washington Post
• NEW CITY SCHOOLS CHIEF APPOINTS THREE
Incoming superintendent Gregory Thornton shook up the ranks Tuesday at Baltimore City School headquarters by naming three key cabinet heads who will start with him on July 1.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Tuesday April 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:
Uniforms for the highly regarded University of Maryland women’s gymnastics team will be exclusively provided by Under Armour.
• UNDER ARMOUR TO OUTFIT MD. WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS TEAM
The announcement comes nearly two months after the Baltimore-based company’s new high-tech suits were blamed for the U.S. speedskating team’s disappointing performance in the Winter Olympics at Sochi.
Read More at: Maryland Daily Record
• FIRST AMERICAN WINS BOSTON MARATHON SINCE 1983
Meb Keflezighi, two weeks shy of 39, defied his age and held off a strong final challenge to become the first American to win the Boston Marathon since Greg Meyer more than 30 years ago.
Rita Jeptoo, 33, of Eldoret, Kenya defended her 2013 victory with a flawless race to win the women’s division, as Tatyana McFadden, 25, of Clarksville, Md., won the women’s wheelchair division for the second year in a row.
Read More at: New York Times
• VETERANS GROUP CLAIMS GANSLER OWES APOLOGY
The vets are angry because the Attorney General said his Democratic opponent for governor in the June 24 primary election, Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, who served as a colonel in the U.S. Army in Iraq, has never held a “real job.”
Without directly mentioning Brown by name, Gansler said: “You know, I’m running against somebody who has never managed anybody, never run anything. You know his ads are about how he was a lawyer in Iraq, and that’s all fine and good but this [being Maryland’s governor] is a real job.”
Read More at: WBAL-TV (Channel 11)
• PIKES THEATRE OWNER TO REOPEN GLEN BURNIE MOVIE
Ira Miller also operates Beltway Movies and until recently ran the four-screen Rotunda Cinemas, which is being expanded into a luxury seven-screen complex with upscale dining, to be managed by CineBistro. The eight-screen complex at Glen Burnie’s Marley Station mall has been closed since February and is expected to reopen by early June under the management of Horizons Cinemas, which is owned by Miller.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• STATE SEN. JONES-RODWELL TO RETIRE
The Baltimore City Democrat, who has been a member of the Maryland General Assembly for 15 years, is deputy majority whip and chairwoman of the city’s Senate delegation. She previously served one term in the House of Delegates before winning election to the State Senate in 2002.
Read More at: WBAL-Radio (1090AM)
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Monday April 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:
City State’s Attorney Gregg L. Bernstein launched his 2014 reelection campaign over the weekend.
• BERNSTEIN LAUNCHES REELECTION CAMPAIGN
The Baltimore City State’s Attorney began his campaign in a low-key way this past weekend, knocking on the doors of likely voters in Northwest Baltimore and asking for their support.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• MD. SUES BP FOR $15M OVER OIL SPILL LOSS
BY PENSION FUND
Attorney General Douglas Gansler says the state’s employee pension fund lost $15 million because the company made “false and misleading statements” regarding a 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Read More at: WBAL-Radio (1090AM)
• COUNTRY’S OLDEST CATHEDRAL CELEBRATES
225th EASTER WITH SRO CROWD
On Easter Sunday, a standing-room-only crowd packed the Baltimore Basilica, America’s oldest cathedral, which dates back to 1806. This year marks the 225th anniversary of the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
Read More at: WBFF Fox45-TV
• BOSTON MARATHON, ONE YEAR AFTER BOMBINGS
The Massachusetts city’s 118th marathon will be run Monday, beginning at 9 a.m. More than a half-million spectators and thousands of runners are expected to participate.
Read More at: WJZ-TV (Channel 13)
• ARUNDEL SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT DECISION DELAYED
The county school board is in the process of deciding among three finalists for the position, two of whom are already administrators in the school system.
Read More at: WBAL-TV (Channel 11)
