NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Friday Aug. 15
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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:
Gordon F. May was selected by a student-faculty committee from a pool of 53 applicants and will begin his tenure at BCCC Sept. 2.
• BCCC NAMES NEW PRESIDENT FOLLOWING TURMOIL
Nearly two years after its last president was forced out of her job, Baltimore City Community College has hired the former head of a Michigan community college campus to be its next leader.
Gordon F. May was selected by a student-faculty committee from a pool of 53 applicants and will begin his tenure at BCCC Sept. 2.
Read More at: WBAL-TV (Channel 11)
• BALTIMORE DEMONSTRATES TO PROTEST MISSOURI POLICE SHOOTING
The killing of an unarmed black teenager by a white cop in Ferguson has sparked violent riots in the Missouri town all week, as well as peaceful demonstrations in Baltimore and elsewhere.
Read More at: WBAL-Radio (1090AM) | CBS News | CNN
• WHOLE FOODS SETS OPENING IN ROUSE CO. HEADQUARTERS BUILDING IN COLUMBIA
Set to open Aug. 20, the 50,000-square-foot store will be the 44th in the mid-Atlantic region and the first in Howard County for the successful grocery chain, which prides itself on healthful offerings.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• BLIND-VOTER LAWSUIT AGAINST MARYLAND TO CONTINUE
A federal judge ruled Thursday there is enough evidence that disabled residents can’t take full advantage of absentee voting, to continue with a lawsuit filed by the National Federation of the Blind against the State of Maryland.
Read More at: Associated Press
• REDSKINS FIGHT FOR NAME IN COURT
The Washington, D.C. NFL team is appealing a judicial decision that stripped the franchise of its trademark and is suing to get it back.
Read More at: WJZ-TV (Channel 13)
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Thursday Aug 14
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:
Despite a statewide FOP endorsement for his Democratic opponent Wed- nesday, Republican gubernatorial candidate Larry Hogan says he has received the support of 33 of Md.’s 47 Fraternal Order of Police lodges.
• HOGAN, BROWN BOTH CLAIM ENDORSEMENT BY MARYLAND POLICE
The Maryland State Fraternal Order of Police voted Wednesday at its convention in Solomons to endorse the lieutenant governor for election in November. However his Republican opponent, Larry Hogan, said in an email statement that he had received the support of 70 percent of the local lodges, or 33 of the state’s 47 FOP lodges.
The statewide FOP endorsed the Republican candidate, former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., in each of the last three gubernatorial elections: 2002, when he was elected, plus 2006 and 2010, when he lost to current outgoing Gov. Martin O’Malley.
Read More at: WBFF Fox45-TV
• COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT DANCE GETS $5,000 RAISE
The raise comes on the heels of criticism that the Baltimore County schools chief was getting outside consulting fees in violation of ethics rules. The increase raises his annual salary to $265,000.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• 175 APARTMENTS PLANNED FOR CALVERT STREET
PMC Property Group in Baltimore announced a plan Wednesday to develop 175 apartments in a handful of former city-owned buildings downtown near the intersection of Calvert and Lombard Streets.
Read More at: Maryland Daily Record
• MAINE GOVERNOR CALLS FOR BOYCOTT, CRITICIZES NFL FOR WEAK PUNISHMENT OF RAY RICE
Gov. Paul LePage, who was beaten by his father when he was young and has made domestic abuse prevention and awareness a priority of his administration, called for a boycott Wednesday against the National Football League, charging in a harshly worded letter to Commissioner Roger Goodell that the light punishment given to Ravens running back Ray Rice sends the message that it’s OK “for professional athletes to beat women, just for the sake of ratings.”
The Ravens “should have taken him [Rice] out in the back shed and taken care of him,” according to LePage.
In a radio interview last week, the outspoken Maine governor said the league should have imposed a three-year suspension on Rice, not just the two-game suspension the Ravens running back received.
Read More at: WBAL-Radio (1090AM)
• LIGHT RAIL TRAIN DERAILS WITH 10 PASSENGERS ON BOARD
It happened Wednesday afternoon at West Conway and South Howard Streets near Oriole Park at Camden Yards. No one was injured.
Read More at: WBAL-TV (Channel 11)
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Wednesday Aug 13
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:
Parking lots were flooded at BWI Marshall Airport as record rainfall hit Md. Tuesday, breaking a 59-year-old record. (Photo/Tweeted by Anne Arundel County Fire Dept.)
• HEAVY RAINS SOAK MD.,
SET RECORD TUESDAY AT BWI
Low-lying areas throughout the state were flooded, as heavy rainfall broke the previous record, set on Aug. 12, 1955, at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, flooding long-term parking lots.
Read More at: WBFF Fox45-TV
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• HOPKINS INVESTIGATED REGARDING SEXUAL ASSAULT
The university is among an increasing number of U.S. schools under federal investigation for their response to claims of sexual assault.
Read More at: WBAL-Radio (1090AM)
• DEFENSE ATTORNEY SENTENCED FOR SMUGGLING DRUGS INTO JAIL
Towson attorney Jill Swerdlin, who has represented suspected drug dealers, was disbarred and sentenced Tuesday to 18 months in jail for smuggling prescription drugs into the Baltimore County lockup.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• TV-ADVERTISING LAWYER NEIL LEWIS CITED FOR 800 OPEN CASES
A hearing judge in one of the disciplinary cases pending against him found he had 800 open cases — an extraordinary number — during the year he was being investigated, principally for improprieties in the way he handled client funds.
Read More at: Maryland Daily Record
• OCEAN CITY POLE DANCER CAUSES CONTROVERSY
Parents are complaining about an unidentified woman in a bikini pole-dancing on the boardwalk. O.C. Police say their hands are tied because it’s not illegal.
Earlier this summer, the Maryland resort town banned profanity on the boardwalk, and by next year, most of the beach will be smoke free.
Read More at: WJZ-TV (Channel 13)
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Tuesday Aug12
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:
Actor/comedian Robin Williams, 63, was found dead Monday of an apparent suicide at his Calif. home.
• OSCAR-WINNING ACTOR, STAND-UP COMIC ROBIN WILLIAMS FOUND DEAD OF APPARENT SUICIDE AT CALIFORNIA HOME
After battling substance abuse for years and severe depression in recent months, the 63-year-old Academy Award winner who catapulted to stardom in the 1970s as the alien “Mork from Ork” on the popular sitcom “Happy Days” and spinoff “Mork & Mindy” was found dead Monday morning of asphyxia due to hanging at his Marin County, Calif. home.
Read More at: New York Times
• CITY, CSX RAILROAD AGREE TO SPLIT ESTIMATED $15 MILLION 26th STREET COLLAPSE REPAIR COSTS
The railroad and Baltimore City reached agreement Monday to split the estimated $14-$15 million cost of rebuilding a retaining wall that collapsed in April along East 26th Street in Charles Village.
Read More at: WBAL-Radio (1090AM)
• MILLENNIAL MEDIA SHARES PLUMMET
The Canton-based mobile advertising company’s losses widened five-fold in the second quarter of the year, missing Wall Street estimates and sending shares down nine percent Monday in after-hours trading.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• UBER CHARGED WITH USING AGGRESSIVE, QUESTIONABLE TACTICS
A competitor, Lyft, says 177 of the car-on-demand leader’s employees around the country have ordered and canceled more than 5,000 Lyft rides since last October, the taxi app version of “ding-dong ditch.”
Read More at: WBAL-TV (Channel 11)
• FRANCHOT PROMOTES TAX-FREE WEEK
The state comptroller is urging shoppers to take advantage of Maryland’s week of no sales tax on qualifying apparel and footwear that is $100 per item, which runs through Saturday.
Read More at: The (Annapolis) Capital
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Monday Aug 11
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:
Prince George’s County firefighters rescue 24 passengers stranded near the top of the “Joker’s Jinx” roller coaster at Six Flags America Sunday afternoon. All were rescued without injury. (Photo/Prince George’s County Fire Department)
• PASSENGERS RESCUED FROM ROLLER COASTER NEAR BOWIE
It happened at Six Flags America on Sunday, when 24 people were stranded near the top of a stuck roller coaster ride for more than five hours at Upper Marlboro.
Read More at: USA Today
• ANNAPOLIS REPORTS FIRST HOMICIDE OF 2014
The shooting occurred early Sunday morning in the 1100 block of Madison Street at about 1:20 a.m. When police arrived they found an unidentified man on the ground near a bench at the adjacent baseball field. He was pronounced dead of gunshot wounds at the scene.
Read More at: The (Annapolis) Capital
• ‘SOFT STUFF’ REOPENS IN ELLICOTT CITY MONDAY
The Howard County town’s old-fashioned ice cream parlor is back, with more flavors and an indoor seating area.
Read More at: Howard County Times
• SIERRA CLUB ENDORSES LT. GOV. BROWN FOR GOVERNOR
The influential grassroots environmental organization endorsed Brown because of what it identified as his record of protecting Maryland’s air and water.
Read More at: Hagerstown Herald-Mail
• WINNING $2M POWERBALL TICKET SOLD IN LAUREL
According to Maryland Lottery officials, the winning second-tier ticket was sold at Laurel Lakes Liquors in the 14100 block of Baltimore Avenue in Laurel.
Read More at: WBAL-TV (Channel 11)
