A sunny Thursday is in the forecast today with temperatures hitting a high of 43, and then falling to a chilly 30 overnight. There is a 2 percent chance of precipitation with snappy winds out of the west northwest at 20 to 35 mph. Brrrrrr!
Get the latest on delays for this morning's commute from baltimoresun.com.
FROM LAST NIGHT
The University System of Maryland has named Robert Caret, president of the University of Massachusetts System and a former president of Towson University, as its next chancellor, officials said Wednesday. He had been president of TSU from 2003 to 2011, when he joined the University of Massachusetts System.
Republican Gov.-elect Larry Hogan said Wednesday that he is likely to push for changes to make it easier to open and operate charter schools.
Barry Stephen Robinson, 65, a former city transportation official who ran the Charm City Circulator and water taxi programs, pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges he accepted $90,000 in bribes.
FROM TODAY'S FRONT PAGE
The U.S. and Cuba announced Wednesday that they plan to re-establish diplomatic relations after more than half-a-century. Alan Gross, 65, an aid worker from Potomac, was freed Wednesday after spending more than five years in a Cuban prison.
Nationwide protests after the deaths of two unarmed African-American men by police in Missouri and New York might cause officers to hesitate to use deadly force for fear of becoming the "next Darren Wilson," said Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake Wednesday.
Charles "Chuck" Ropka was 18-years-old when he was shot in the head which left the Parkville resident paralyzed on his left side. He has spent the last 35 years living in the basement of his family's home.
WHAT'S TRENDING
President Barack Obama announced plans to re-establish diplomatic relations with Cuba. The same day, Alan Gross, an international aid worker, who grew up in Baltimore and had been imprisoned in Cuba for more than five years, is released.
"7th Heaven" actor Stephen Collins has admitted to molesting three underage girls decades ago.