Maryland Legal Aid’s longtime executive director said Monday he has no plans to quit amid sharp criticism from more than 130 former staffers who call the recent firing of four managerial attorneys, allegedly for questioning back-to-work orders, symptomatic of senior ...

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As if it’s not bad enough that positive cases of COVID-19 are on a rapid rise across the U.S., a recent study by Johns Hopkins Medicine put the positivity rate at three times higher for Latinos than for other U.S. ...

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A local nonprofit organization announced Thursday it has launched an online website to help policymakers understand and track the impacts of COVID-19 in the state. The Baltimore Regional Recovery Dashboard, which was created by the Baltimore Metropolitan Council, features data and ...

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The Baltimore Police Department’s training academy was closed after four trainees and two staff members tested positive for the coronavirus, the agency announced Monday. The department stopped in-person training Friday and transitioned recruits to online learning following confirmation of the ...

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Johns Hopkins University has filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration’s decision to make international students leave the U.S. if they intend to take classes entirely online starting this fall. The Baltimore private institution filed the lawsuit Friday ...

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ANNAPOLIS — First and second class midshipmen will begin to return to the Naval Academy in Annapolis in about a week under a staggered plan. The midshipmen’s return will start on or about July 20, Naval Academy spokeswoman Cmdr. Alana ...

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Urban density in and of itself doesn’t contribute to the spread COVID-19, according to a recent Johns Hopkins’ study, and the illness’s spread in Maryland mirrors those findings. Assumptions that urban areas perpetuate the spread of the new coronavirus were ...

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The Green and Libertarian parties will each need to garner 5,000 signatures – half of the required 10,000 — by Aug. 3 to have their candidate’s names on November’s general election ballot. The revised requirement is part of a settlement ...

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Eighty days. It’s been 80 days since my unit became the COVID-19 floor. I remember dating my PPE bag 3/25 as my boss was making the announcement that we were going to only have COVID patients. We had to wear ...

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Clergy members, business owners and three Republican state delegates pressed a federal appeals court Thursday to block as unconstitutional the safer-at-home orders Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has issued in an effort to balance stanching the COVID-19 pandemic with a desired ...

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