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Advocates are once again renewing their efforts to get Maryland public schools to open back up for in-person classes, with over 500 health care professionals signing a letter to encouraging Gov. Larry Hogan and Jinlene Chan, Maryland’s acting health deputy for public health services, to expedite reopenings. “We are asking for an OPTION to return to in-person school 5 days a week after ...

ANNAPOLIS — All Marylanders who want a coronavirus vaccine are now eligible for a vaccination. The announcement Monday by Gov. Larry Hogan comes less than a week after he hinted at the possibility. The decision makes all Marylanders eligible in advance of President Joe Biden’s order for states to fully open up vaccinations by May ...

Gilda Claudine “Dini” McCullough is MLA’s new chief attorney in the Montgomery County office. In this role, McCullough provides oversight of the office, including managing staff and continuing to strengthen relationships with the Montgomery County private bar and local agencies and organizations. Her career experience includes clerking for retired Judge Durke Thompson in the Circuit ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Monday urged the adoption of a minimum global corporate income tax, an effort to offset any disadvantages that might arise from the Biden administration’s proposed increase in the U.S. corporate tax rate. Citing a “30-year race to the bottom” in which countries have slashed corporate tax rates ...

Welcome to Monday, the 70th anniversary of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg being sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union. Here are some news items to get your week started. — Biden backs civil diplomatic immunity for ex-Egyptian prime minister who allegedly tortured an American. — Did a Texas school district fail to evaluate ...

The Baltimore Police Department routinely violates the constitutional rights of violent crime victims by searching, seizing and retaining their personal property without a warrant or consent, a civil rights group has alleged in a lawsuit filed last week in federal district court. The three plaintiffs named in the suit claim that “after they were assaulted, ...

International fast-food brand Jollibee will open its first location in Maryland Thursday at the Westfield Wheaton mall. Located at 2800 University Boulevard West, Suite C., Jollibee will join the regional shopping destination’s featured restaurant offerings. Jollibee is the largest fast food chain brand in the Philippines, operating a Philippine network of more than 1,400 stores. A dominant market leader ...

MedStar Health will open its new state-of-the-art Emergency Department at MedStar Southern Maryland Hospital Center in Clinton this week. The $43 million investment project is designed to improve health care quality and access for the rapidly growing communities of Prince George’s County and Washington Wards 7 and 8. The project, years in the making, continued ...

Maryland Sen. Katie Fry Hester, D-Carroll and Howard announced Friday Days End Farm Horse Rescue Inc. was approved for $500,000 as part of a Legislative Bond Initiative. Days End Farm Horse Rescue is located in Woodbine and one of only a handful in the country working to rescue horses that have endured abuse and mistreatment. ...

RICHMOND, Va. — Adults in Virginia could legally possess and grow small amounts of marijuana beginning in July, about three years sooner than initially envisioned, under changes the governor proposed Wednesday to legislation passed earlier this year. “Our Commonwealth is committed to legalizing marijuana in an equitable way,” Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam said in a ...

Since the first Europeans came to the New World 400-plus years ago, Americans have had a characteristic that sets them apart from most other populations, except maybe the Australians. They made a choice, while their neighbors dithered, to walk away from everything they had — family, home, their trade — to come to America.  It ...

The hurdles most businesses had to first overcome when they pivoted to online operations last year were technological — lagging internet, forgetting to unmute oneself in a video call, or accidentally going into an important meeting with a cat filter covering your face. But Gerry Sandusky, owner of The Sandusky Group, a company that delivers training on presentation, public speaking and media skills to executives and ...

A unanimous Maryland top court Wednesday disbarred a District of Columbia attorney who practiced law in Maryland without a state license, lied to a client about the status of his personal injury claim and failed to properly keep settlement funds in a trust account. Celio Warren Young, who was admitted to the D.C. bar in ...

ANNAPOLIS — Maryland lawmakers have approved legislation to change how the state compensates people who have been wrongly imprisoned for crimes they didn’t commit. The House of Delegates gave the measure final approval Tuesday, sending the bill to Gov. Larry Hogan. The measure sets a standard process for compensation. The bill repeals current state law ...

BALTIMORE — A man who was seriously injured in a natural gas explosion in Baltimore has filed a lawsuit against Baltimore Gas & Electric as well as the city. The Baltimore Sun reported Wednesday that the man claims both are responsible for the August explosion that had badly burned him and buried him in his ...

Wright, Constable & Skeen Wednesday announced the opening of a new office at 6931 Arlington Road, Suite 450 in Bethesda. The WCS Bethesda location will serve as the home office for its immigration law group, led by partner Jan Pederson and includes attorney Yasmin Pajouhesh and paralegal Natali Felipe. The new office is easily accessible ...

ANNAPOLIS — Business owners in Maryland could see their unemployment insurance premiums reduced, broadband access in the state will be bolstered, and road and school projects funded as part of a $3.9 billion infusion of federal pandemic relief. Gov. Larry Hogan, flanked by Senate President Bill Ferguson and House Speaker Adrienne Jones, announced the historic ...

I am an introvert and a perfectionist. I am also a woman and a litigator. I think I am not alone in wearing all these hats. As a young attorney, I spent a lot of time keeping my thoughts and ideas to myself because I did not want to be wrong or come across as ...

Laurie Jodziewicz has joined the team at US Wind as senior director of environmental affairs. In her new role, Jodziewicz will lead US Wind’s permitting team and will focus on environmental and regulatory compliance, among other things. Jodziewicz joins US Wind from Kindle Energy, a Blackstone portfolio company, where she served as vice president, environmental. ...