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The Campaign for Accountability, a Washington-based nonprofit organization, said the Baltimore County Republican may have violated several laws, including one barring the possession of a weapon not registered in the District of Columbia.
- Residents can now track Baltimore County’s vaccination progress through an online dashboard monitoring administered doses and other metrics.
- Robert F. “Robby” Boyd, who spent more than 40 years in finance and investment management, died Jan. 14 from complications of vascular dementia at the Blakehurst Retirement Community in Towson.
- Maryland counties are announcing and revising plans and guidelines for holding classes while containing the spread of coronavirus.
- Nearly half of city educators have been offered a vaccination appointment, and Baltimore County health officials say they have sent appointment invitations to roughly 4,000 public and private school educators.
- J. Edward Crooks Jr., a retired Baltimore County Fire Department official and volunteer firefighter, died Thursday from cancer at his Upperco home. He was 80.
- Mount de Sales track star Juliette Whittaker ran one of fastest 800-meter high school girls races ever at the Virginia Showcase earlier this month.
- Undeterred by the pandemic, the group Green Towson Alliance kept the Towson community’s green spaces healthy and beautiful throughout last year.
- R. Taylor "Teto" McLean, a retired real estate lawyer, has died at 92.
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- Joy Lepola-Stewart, who this month departed Fox 45 after 17 years of news reporting, has taken the helm as the new director of public affairs for the Baltimore County Police Department.
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Albert R. Wilkerson Jr., former St. Paul’s School for Boys English teacher and lacrosse player, dies
Albert R. “Wilkie” Wilkerson Jr., a retired St. Paul’s School for Boys teacher, has died at 84. - The Lynching Memorial Project, which held an event Saturday, is a volunteer initiative that aims to document the history of the approximately 40 Black people who were killed by mobs in the Free State between 1854 and 1933, seek public acknowledgement of the murders and honor the victims’ lives.
- Charles E. Geyer, a World War II veteran who became superintendent of buildings for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, has died of COVID-19 at 96.
- Peter Boikai, 18, was violently shot in the chest on Christmas morning. His mother found out by a phone call while at work.
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- The Greater Baltimore Medical Center Health Care system has administered more than 4,000 coronavirus vaccine doses to staff and seniors older than 74, and plans to begin vaccinating seniors between 65 and 74 on Feb. 1, its chief executive officer said.
- An aide to U.S. Rep. Andy Harris, a Baltimore County Republican, says the congressman possesses a handgun permit, and suggested the weapon is intended for self-defense following a threat.
- Pauline Vollmer, an influential gardener and donor to the Cylburn Arboretum, has died at 104.
- The Baltimore County coalition of the Maryland Lynching Memorial Project will hold a virtual forum on two racial terror lynchings in Baltimore County on Jan. 23.
- The Baltimore County Board of Education passed a motion Tuesday night to begin the high school fall sports season on Saturday, Feb. 13, regardless of the status of reopening high school buildings, assuming the COVID-19 metrics continue trending in the right direction.
- A woman died and a man was taken to the hospital with life threatening injuries after a fire in Middle River Wednesday morning.
- Undeterred by the pandemic, the group Green Towson Alliance kept the Towson community’s green spaces healthy and beautiful throughout last year.
- Maryland counties are announcing and revising plans and guidelines for holding classes while containing the spread of coronavirus.
- Mount de Sales track star Juliette Whittaker ran one of fastest 800-meter high school girls races ever at the Virginia Showcase earlier this month.
- Maryland lawmakers are considering a long list of changes to the Maryland Environmental Service, a low-profile independent agency thrust into the spotlight after its director received a six-figure payout when he left to work for the governor.
- Researchers at the nonprofit RAND Corp. say Baltimore’s so-called “spy plane” brought small increases to the number of violent crimes solved by police last year, but they stopped short of concluding whether or not the controversial surveillance program is worthwhile.
- Mount de Sales track star Juliette Whittaker ran one of fastest 800-meter high school girls races ever at the Virginia Showcase earlier this month.