A group of recent Johns Hopkins Business School graduates developed a concept for a “smart tampon,” an at-home test that could make screening for cervical disease more accessible and decrease health care disparities.

As a high school senior in 2010, Jonathon Heyward wrote that his “huge overall dream is to become music director of a major symphony orchestra.” That dream becomes real in September with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.

Across two hearings this week, Tuesday at Old Mill High School and Thursday at the board headquarters in Annapolis, around two dozen people testified about the need for raises to combat rising inflation.

Baltimore City’s newest school commissioners Ashley Esposito and Kwamé Kenyatta-Bey took their oaths of office Friday.

Pepper, who lives at the Carroll County Public Library system’s Westminster branch at 50 E. Main St., is capable of customizable interactions and gestures through the power of coding, using Choregraphe, a coding language similar to Python.

Oklahoma Road Middle School hosts Taneytown retirement community members for a Maryland Green Schools Program project to help homeless individuals in the county

Timothy W. Edlund, a former professor at Morgan State University’s Graves School of Business and Management and avid sailor, died from complications of dementia on Dec. 13 at FutureCare Lochearn in Baltimore. The Homewood resident was 92.

New Gov. Wes Moore plans to replace Maryland Stadium Authority Chairman Thomas Kelso.