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Thursday, Jan 3 Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh’s office says she is postponing community meetings with her nominee for police commission, Joel Fitzgerald, citing a medical issue in his family. The mayor’s office called the issue an “unexpected medical emergency having to do with his son" which requires surgery. | | | |
| In a resume that was part of his application, Baltimore police commissioner nominee Joel Fitzgerald pitched himself as a reformer and an effective crime fighter. But in the document, Fitzgerald overstates some of his achievements as police chief in Fort Worth, Texas. |
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| Gov. Larry Hogan is proposing spending $56.5 million to support development and business creation in state "Opportunity Zones," through such initiatives as providing state tax credits, job training programs, small business loans and affordable housing. |
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| A 12-year-old lawsuit that advocates have called the most important higher education desegregation case in decades “can and should be settled,” according to a panel of judges on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. |
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| Coppin State University president Maria Thompson wrote in an email to supporters that she would be returning to her native city of Nashville following her recent marriage and a lengthy recovery from a “serious health challenge.” |
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| The coming year will bring several high-profile trials to the Baltimore region. |
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| Nearly 10 years have passed since city leaders first announced a plan to reinvigorate Baltimore’s ailing central business district. And a residential boom has clearly occurred. But is downtown reinvigorated? Last year's headlines suggest not. |
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| Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, who was considered a potential Democratic candidate for president following a failed 2016 bid, says he will not run in 2020 and is instead urging Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke to get into the race. |
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| Three men were shot — one fatally — in two separate incidents that occurred just one hour and a few blocks apart in East Baltimore on Thursday, police said. |
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| As his Jan. 7 court date looms ever closer, Kevin Spacey has been sighted out and about in Baltimore. His relationship with the city extends as far back as 2012. |
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