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August 14, 2018

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Maryland's Loh apologizes to McNair's family, says university accepts responsibility for 'mistakes' by staff

Tuesday, Aug 14

University of Maryland president Wallace D. Loh and athletic director Damon Evans met Tuesday in Baltimore with the family of Jordan McNair, who died from heatstroke June 13. They also announced the formation of a national commission to look into the Terps' football culture.

Ex-Baltimore police officer charged with assault after video shows him repeatedly beating man while on duty

A former Baltimore Police officer has been charged with assault and misconduct in office following an incident Saturday in which he was captured on video repeatedly punching a man.

After report of Pennsylvania church abuse, Baltimore Catholic school no longer to be named for Keeler

The Archdiocese of Baltimore will no longer name a new Catholic school in Baltimore after the late Cardinal William Keeler, who has been accused of lack of action regarding abusive priests in Pennsylvania in the 1980s.

Some City Council members want police to stop special patrols around Hopkins facilities in East Baltimore

Some Baltimore City Council members are asking the police department to stop deploying a small group of officers to patrol the areas around the Johns Hopkins institutions in East Baltimore.

Maryland requires three coal power plants to limit arsenic, mercury water pollution starting in 2020

Maryland is requiring three coal power plants to limit the amount of mercury, arsenic and other metals they release into the Potomac and Patuxent rivers starting in 2020. State environmental regulators issued the water discharge permits to the Chalk Point, Dickerson and Morgantown power plants.

Maryland parts ways with strength and conditioning coach Rick Court amid football scandal

The dismissal comes less than a week after school sources said Court was placed on administrative leave.

310-pound bull shark caught in Southern Maryland waters

A commercial fisherman pulled an 8.6-foot, 310-pound bull shark from his pound net trap just below Cedar Point at the mouth of the Patuxent River in Southern Maryland on Monday — an uncommon catch that has been the buzz of the bay as the picture has made its rounds.

Johns Hopkins panel creates guidelines for opioid prescribing

A Johns Hopkins panel of doctors, patients, nurses and other providers has created guidelines for the amount of opioids doctors should prescribe for specific surgeries.

Baltimore firefighter pleads guilty in assault on bicyclist, is sentenced to probation

A Baltimore firefighter pleaded guilty this week to assaulting a bicyclist during an argument at a neighborhood meeting in May and was sentenced to a year of unsupervised probation.

Orioles outfielder Adam Jones' Lutherville-Timonium house is up for sale

The six-bedroom Falls Road home is on the market for $2.695 million.