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Baltimore Mayor Scott returned to City Hall Friday following a 10-day quarantine prompted by a positive coronavirus test result. He will resume public appearances Saturday.
- The governor’s budget proposal would boost state funding for local law enforcement, spend more on raises and bonuses for state police agencies, set aside money to pay for body cameras and training for officers and use state funds to double Crime Stoppers rewards for tips that lead to arrests
- The Maryland attorney general's office has created a unit to investigate all police use-of-deadly-force incidents in the state, answering growing complaints that police shouldn't be allowed to investigate themselves.
- Alan Christian, who was heard on several AM radio stations in and around Baltimore, died Oct. 5 of heart problems. He was 81.
- The Annapolis general election follows just 42 days after the Sept. 21 primary where 1,776 Democrats voted in three contested primaries in wards 3, 4 and 8; a combined voter turnout was about 30%. That’s a 22% increase over what it was in those wards in 2017 when about 1,450 ballots were cast.
- A conservative group can proceed with holding a protest to be headlined by alt-right provocateurs Milo Yiannopoulos and Steve Bannon at Baltimore’s MECU Pavilion this fall, according to an injunction issued by a federal judge Tuesday.
- Maryland gubernatorial candidate Rushern L. Baker III is teaming up with Montgomery County Councilwoman Nancy Navarro to run as a ticket in 2022, and the duo will use the state’s public campaign financing system.
- Annapolis will hold its 2021 Democratic and Republican primary elections on Sept. 21 followed by a general election on Nov. 2.
- Adam Ortiz, director of the suburban Washington county’s Department of Environmental Protection, will lead the region whose territory includes, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Delaware, as well as Washington D.C., and seven federally recognized tribes.
- The number of Marylanders who identified as American Indian or Alaska Native more than doubled in the decade between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, mirroring a national trend.
- Eugene W. Grant, the longtime mayor of Seat Pleasant in Maryland, has been removed from office after missing three consecutive city council meetings without excuse.
- Under a law that went into effect Oct. 1, a new unit of the Maryland attorney general’s office investigates deaths of civilians at the hands of law enforcement officers in the state.
- The question of vaccines, vaccination status and policy around public health has become a discussion topic between candidates and constituents on the same level as other local issues like taxes, sidewalks and transportation during the 2021 election cycle. All year, health and elected officials have urged the population to get vaccinated against COVID-19, and in recent months, new vaccine mandates by employers and governments have kicked in across the country.
- Outdated restrooms at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport will get a nearly $55 million face-lift.
- Baltimore City Council got its first chance to weigh in publicly on how the city’s $641 million in American Rescue Plan funding should be spent.
- Imagine a Druid Hill Park bounded not by a multilane expressway, but by roundabouts, bike lanes shielded by green buffers and new pedestrian crossings. All were included in various design concepts introduced Thursday night to city residents and users of the park.
- Roy McGrath, the former chief of staff to Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan who faces a slew of state and federal criminal charges, was defiant in a social media post Thursday, blasting "politically-motivated bullies."
- The Republican governor’s proposal of savings, tax cuts and pandemic relief was sketched only in broad terms at a press conference in Annapolis Thursday.
- Venetoulis, a Democrat, served as Baltimore County executive from 1974 until 1978 and ran for Maryland governor in 1978.
- A state program equips Maryland residents with donated medical equipment — such as wheelchairs, walkers, hospital beds, scooters and even pediatric equipment that have been sanitized and repaired — at no cost.
- Lots of authorities and others are weighing in on COVID boosters, so who decides?
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- Ross Burbage of Westminster said he has to block out and keep his focus on Friday to prepare to hike 40 miles on Saturday. He still gets nervous in the hours leading up to the big event even though it’s the 50th time he took on the long trek.
- New owners are breathing life into two old neighborhood haunts, one in Remington and another in Hamilton.
- Suicide bombers attacked a Shiite mosque packed with worshippers attending Friday prayers in southern Afghanistan, killing at least 47 people and wounding 70, a Taliban official said. It was the deadliest day since the U.S. military withdrawal.
- Two pet stores in Towson and Rockville have reached a settlement with the Maryland attorney general’s office after being charged with consumer violations for allegedly selling puppies.
- Late Baltimore educator set the example that others in city public schools should now copy.
- Police have arrested and charged two men with murder in the shooting death of a 62-year-old woman in East Baltimore in August.
