NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Friday July 11
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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:
Rear Adm. Walter E. “Ted” Carter Jr. has been named the 62nd Superintendent of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis.
• NAVAL ACADEMY NAMES NEW SUPERINTENDENT
The current president of the U.S. Naval War College, Rear Adm. Walter E. “Ted” Carter Jr., will formally relieve Vice Adm. Michael H. Miller as Superintendent of the Naval Academy during a change-of-command ceremony scheduled for July 23 at Annapolis.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• PRIVATE INVESTMENT FIRM NEGOTIATING SPARROWS POINT PURCHASE
Redwood Capital Investments LLC is seeking to purchase a significant portion of the Sparrows Point steel mill property, site of the former Bethlehem Steel plant.
Read More at: Maryland Daily Record
• SILVER SPRING COLLEGE AMONG CLOSINGS IN 11 STATES
Corinthian Colleges Inc., a for-profit education company facing multiple state and federal investigations, announced the closing in 11 states Thursday of its campuses operating under the Everest College name.
Read More at: WBAL-TV (Channel 11)
• EX-HAGERSTOWN COUNCILWOMAN ACQUITTED OF THEFT
Attorney Kelly Cromer, who served in the Hagerstown City Council from 2005-2009, was found not guilty Thursday in Washington County Circuit Court of stealing more than $9,000 from a client she represented in a divorce case in 2012.
Earlier this year Cromer entered an Alford plea to charges of theft in a separate case, and later agreed to a consent disbarment with the Maryland Court of Appeals in which she voluntarily surrendered her license to practice law.
Read More at: Hagerstown Herald-Mail
• MIKULSKI SUPPORTS OBAMA IN DEPORTATION CRISIS
The crisis of immigrant children crossing into the United States from Central America is an “emergency,” the senior Maryland U.S. Senator said Thursday at a hearing on the President’s $3.7 billion request for funding to provide food, shelter and other humanitarian aid to the apparently illegal immigrants.
Read More at: WBAL-Radio (1090AM)
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Thursday July 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 Thursday:
Republican gubernatorial nominee Lawrence J. Hogan announced Wednesday he will accept state funding for his uphill campaign.
• GOP NOMINEE HOGAN TO USE PUBLIC FUNDING FOR CAMPAIGN
The Republican gubernatorial hopeful will be the first Maryland candidate to accept public funding for a general election campaign since Ellen Sauerbrey used public financing when she ran unsuccessfully for governor in 1994.
Unless the state’s fund is replenished, it will be approximately $1.1 million short of the $2.6 million Hogan will be eligible for.
Read More at: WBAL-Radio (1090AM)
• $20M SPACE PAYLOAD FACILITY
PLANNED FOR LINTHICUM
Northrop Grumman will build the facility, which will house up to 80 engineers and technicians who will work on space system assembly, integration and testing.
Read More at: The (Annapolis) Capital
• ARUNDEL ETHICS PANEL MEMBER CENSURED FOR RACIST REMARKS
Former Anne Arundel school board member Eugene Peterson, who is black, referred to a former interim superintendent as “Aunt Jemima,” and African-American males in the school system who played a role in a realignment he disagreed with, as “Stepin Fetchit.”
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• METRO SUBWAY BREAKS DOWN, RIDERS WALK TRACKS
Two Metro subway trains broke down Wednesday evening near the Coldspring station in Northwest Baltimore, leading riders to pull an emergency brake and walk the tracks.
Read More at: WBAL-TV (Channel 11)
• STATE WARNS OF E-ZPASS SCAM
Several phony emails are circulating requesting E-ZPass Maryland customers to pay their toll debts online, the Maryland Transportation Authority warned Wednesday.
Read More at: WBFF Fox45-TV
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Wednesday July 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 Wednesday:
Cupcake maker Crumbs Bake Shop abruptly shut its doors this week — including three in the Baltimore area — and may be filing bankruptcy.
• CRUMBS CUPCAKES BITE THE DUST
The company notified employees this week it was closing all of its shops, including three in Baltimore, at Towson Town Center, White Marsh Mall and the Mall in Columbia.
Read More at: Wall Street Journal
| Baltimore Business Journal
• MARYLAND KEEPS TRIPLE-A BOND RATING
All three bond-rating agencies — Moody’s, Fitch and Standard & Poor’s — gave the state the coveted high rating.
Read More at: WBAL-Radio (1090AM)
• DOWNTOWN BALTIMORE GETS INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION
Charm City was named as one of the “world’s 15 best waterfront cities” — in company with such places as Venice, Amsterdam, Stockholm, San Francisco and New Orleans — in the latest “listicle” from the Huffington Post.
Read More at: Huffington Post
• MAYOR’S ‘HYBRID’ PENSION PLAN OPPOSED BY POLICE, FIRE UNIONS
The unions are fighting a new proposal from Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake to privatize part of the pensions of new employees, which union officials believe will make it harder to recruit and retain the best young officers.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• THOUSANDS LOSE POWER IN METRO AREA
Strong storms moving through the Maryland-Washington-Virginia area Wednesday evening left thousands of residents without electric power.
Read More at: WJZ-TV (Channel 13)
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Tuesday July 8
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:
Kathleen Terlizzese was named Monday as director of development for a proposed new theater in Annapolis.
• PROPOSED ANNAPOLIS THEATER NAMES DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR
Davidsonville resident Kathleen Terlizzese is the first full-time employee hired by the nonprofit that hopes to built an 800-1,000-seat theater at the Park Place development on Annapolis’s inner West Street.
Read More at: The (Annapolis) Capital
• PORT OF BALTIMORE EMPLOYERS SUE LONGSHOREMEN FOR STRIKE DAMAGES
They’re asking a federal judge to force a local longshoremen’s union to pay them more than $3.8 million in damages from a three-day strike last year.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• MD SENATORS PUSH FOR UPGRADES
AT MONTEBELLO WATER PLANT
After touring the Montebello Filtration Plant in Northeast Baltimore Monday, U.S. Senators Barbara Mikulski and Ben Cardin are asking for federal funding to overhaul the 99-year-old facility.
Read More at: WBAL-TV (Channel 11)
• JUDGE GIVES PRELIMINARY APPROVAL TO NFL CONCUSSION DEAL
A landmark agreement in the class action lawsuit, filed by thousands of former NFL players against the National Football League, would compensate the former players for concussion-related claims.
Read More at: USA Today
• BALTIMORE CITY, POLICE SUED FOR $5M BY MAN ACCUSED OF RAPE
Jerome Dale was cited 33 years ago by then-President Ronald Reagan for selfless bravery after rescuing two infants from a burning house in Baltimore.
Read More at: Maryland Daily Record
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Monday July 7
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:
A Maryland State trooper shot and killed a pit bull Sunday morning in Centreville as it attacked its owner’s mother-in-law in her home.
• MD. TROOPER PEPPER-SPRAYS, SHOOTS FAMILY DOG DEAD IN MIDST OF ATTACK
It happened Sunday morning as the dog, a full-grown pit bull mix, attacked the owner’s mother-in-law for a second time.
Read More at: WBAL-Radio (1090AM)
• ANNAPOLIS HOSPITAL EXPANDS NO-SMOKING POLICY
Beginning next July, the Anne Arundel Medical Center will stop hiring smokers to work in any capacity at the hospital.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• MARYLAND LOTTERY TO OFFER
GREATER VARIETY OF GAMES
To accomplish this, the lottery last week joined the 32-state Iowa-based Multi-State Lottery Association that will jointly offer new games.
Read More at: Washington Post
• GAS PRICES HIT NEW HIGHS FOLLOWING HOLIDAY WEEKEND
July 4th holiday travel by Marylanders set a new record as 828,000 state residents were estimated to drive or fly 50 or more miles from home over the weekend, only to return to higher gas prices.
Read More at: WJZ-TV (Channel 13)
• MENCKEN HOUSE FALLS INTO DISREPAIR
This has happened despite a $3 million gift to convert the home into a museum that the City of Baltimore has controlled but not spent for nine years.
Read More at: Maryland Daily Record
