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Rail operator planning Maglev train opposes developer’s court motion in high-stakes property dispute
A rail operator seeking to take over a Westport development site for a high-speed Maglev train linking Baltimore and Washington asked a court Friday to deny the property developer’s request to dismiss a condemnation lawsuit.
- After four moves and 43 years as a hub for children’s books and visits by local and nationally renowned authors, The Children’s Bookstore is closing.
- Sonia Eaddy and her husband, Curtis, are at the center of the Poppleton neighborhood’s dispute with the City of Baltimore, which condemned their home last year using eminent domain. Their property is among more than 500 homes and lots included in the planned Center\West redevelopment by La Cité.
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- Leonard A. Strom, retired human resources director for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore who earlier worked in a similar position at Black & Decker, died Saturday. The Cockeysville resident was 75.
- Chinese officials are spreading a conspiracy theory about Fort Detrick in Maryland, demanding the U.S. open the post to inspectors seeking the origins of the coronavirus.
- New tenants moving to The Village of Cross Keys in North Baltimore include a medi-spa, a veterinary practice and an interior design firm, the developer said Thursday.
- While the quirky decor is a highlight of this nearly $3.3 million Ocean City home, it’s still a beach home at heart.
- “It’s very hard to please everyone. And we wanted to take a really hard shot at pleasing everyone.”
- Great Wolf Resorts Inc. has begun building a $250 million indoor water park and hotel in Perryville that will be the brand’s largest resort and employ more than 850 people.
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- Great Wolf Resorts Inc. has begun building a $250 million indoor water park and hotel in Perryville that will be the brand’s largest resort and employ more than 850 people.
- The Milton Inn, part of Baltimore's Foreman Wolf restaurant group, shut down last year amid coronavirus difficulties. It officially re-opened July 21.
- Mark S. Segall, a commercial real estate broker who leased shopping centers and represented tenants, died of multiple organ failure Monday at the University of Maryland Medical Center. The Owings Mills resident was 82.
- Former basketball stars at Dunbar High School in Baltimore say a Maryland-based athletic wear company should have collaborated with the players on the rollout of a shoe paying tribute to their great teams of the 1980s.
- Comcast opened an Xfinity store in Canton on Monday, the second in the Baltimore area as the cable company looks to expand its retail presence and broaden the way consumers interact with its products and services.
- Novavax, the Gaithersburg-based vaccine development company, has been given more than $2 billion to develop a COVID vaccine and the means to produce it globally, but it's been hampered by a variety of issues.
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- A group of at least five self-proclaimed sovereign citizens moved into an empty Baltimore County mansion and sued the owner, attempting what they described as a “sovereign acquisition."
- View visualizations of Maryland COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, deaths, testing, positivity rate and vaccinations.
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- City Councilman Ryan Dorsey wants to block any new gas stations from opening up in Baltimore, a proposal he introduced as a way to attack the fossil fuel infrastructure and give food deserts a better chance at luring grocery stores.
- Broadly, the plan seeks to reduce violence by treating crime as a public health issue, better coordinating law enforcement, community groups and the business community and creating systems to measure progress.
- After a jury found the man who gunned down five people in the Capital Gazette newsroom criminally responsible for their deaths, a judge unsealed a lawsuit that alleges The Baltimore Sun and its parent company, which own the Annapolis newspapers, did not do enough to prevent the attack.
- The plan, which includes goals to be implemented over the next five years, calls for the city to nearly triple the number of its violence intervention programs currently offered by Safe Streets and others in order to reduce gun violence by 15% annually.
