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 Wednesday, May 2 Maryland’s top public education official has declined to approve Verletta White as Baltimore County’s permanent school superintendent due to White’s recent ethics violations and the school system’s failure to complete an audit of how it awards millions of dollars in contracts. |
| Some Baltimore County school board members are dismayed that Verletta White has not been approved as the next superintendent, and say they could ask the state superintendent to reconsider her position. |
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| The state's rationale for rejecting the permanent appointment of Verletta White as Baltimore County superintendent doesn't add up. |
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| Maryland's highest court dismissed the case issue a ruling Wednesday afternoon on whether state elections officials must remove former state Sen. Nathaniel Oaks from the June 26 primary election ballot. |
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| The Baltimore police union has advised its members not to answer questions being posed by prosecutors to flush out potential integrity issues of police witnesses, saying they go beyond the internal affairs disclosures mandated under a March agreement between prosecutors and city attorneys. |
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| Former Maryland coach Dick Edell died Wednesday morning, of pneumonia, at Howard County General Hospital. The Glenelg resident was 74. |
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| Baltimore’s spending panel on Wednesday approved a $9 million settlement with a man who was wrongfully convicted of murder and spent 20 years in prison before DNA evidence cleared his name a decade ago. |
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| A demolition crew working to tear down a vacant house in West Baltimore found a dead body among the debris, a police spokeswoman said. |
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| Baltimore County will spend about $3 million to renovate a building at the former Rosewood state hospital campus to create an “on-demand” drug treatment center, County Executive Kevin Kamenetz announced Wednesday. |
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| Mayor Catherine Pugh on Wednesday said she was taking the first steps toward creating a large investment fund to help lure development Baltimore’s most troubled neighborhoods. |
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