Baltimore Sun

‘Nothing but farms and watermen’: Somerset County confronts Maryland’s lowest COVID-19 vaccination rate

Colin Campbell, Rose Wagner — Sat, 03 Jul 2021 18:38:45 +0000

Rural Somerset County has struggled to reach — and then persuade — its fewer than 26,000 residents to get the coronavirus vaccine, county health officials say. As a result, the vaccination rate in Maryland’s second-least-populated county has stubbornly remained the state’s lowest. The issues are manifold.

Dr. Robert G. Hennessy, accomplished neurosurgeon at St. Agnes Hospital, dies

Jacques Kelly — Sat, 03 Jul 2021 17:27:06 +0000

Dr. Robert G. Hennessy, a retired St. Agnes Hospital neurosurgeon who practiced for more than 45 years, died of cardiac arrest June 23 at Sinai Hospital. He lived in Lutherville.

Gubernatorial candidate Perez quits law job after learning firm is defending Maryland in unemployment benefits lawsuits

Pamela Wood — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 22:52:36 +0000

Two lawsuits are pending against Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, who is being represented by a team of attorneys from the Venable law firm.

The Empowerment Temple hasn’t held in-person services for 16 months. The West Baltimore megachurch is set to reopen ‘at a higher level.’

Jonathan M. Pitts — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 10:00:00 +0000

The Empowerment Temple is starting a summer camp and has plans for a Montessori school, a state-of-the-art recording studio and an ambitious membership drive.

With crowds gone, Maryland’s mass COVID vaccination sites reach the end of the line

Meredith Cohn — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 09:00:00 +0000

Maryland's mass vaccination sites administered 1.2 million COVID-19 vaccine doses, but demand is down and they are closing.

Former medical technician who infected 46 patients, including seven in Maryland, with hepatitis C is denied release

Holly Ramer — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 04:58:29 +0000

A former traveling medical technician who stole drugs and infected more than 40 patients with hepatitis C will remain in prison after a judge called his request for compassionate release “the least meritorious” he’d ever seen.