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Wednesday, Oct 31 Gov. Larry Hogan issued a scathing rebuke to the University System of Maryland’s governing body Wednesday, calling on it to reconsider its decisions to retain its flagship university’s football coach and let its president retire. | | | |
| The chairman of the University System of Maryland’s Board of Regents on Wednesday defended the governing body’s decision to retain the University of Maryland’s head football coach and athletic director, despite the death of offensive lineman Jordan McNair and subsequent investigation. |
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| James Brady, whom Gov. Larry Hogan appointed to head the University System of Maryland’s Board of Regents, threw a wrench into the final week of the gubernatorial campaign. He announced a decision to keep the University of Maryland's football coach and athletic director, despite a player's death. |
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| The regents can claim that academics are the most important thing at the University of Maryland. But the ouster of President Wallace Loh and reinstatement of football coach DJ Durkin say otherwise. |
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| A federal jury found eight men guilty Wednesday of dealing heroin in West Baltimore as part of the Trained To Go street gang and its leaders guilty of murdering rivals and suspected police informants. |
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| The interim director of Baltimore’s human resources department said there have been significant staffing changes at the agency since his predecessor resigned in the midst of an inspector general investigation that documented a “culture of fear.” |
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| African American representation in the new freshman class dropped to at least an eight-year low, the data show. Just 7.3 percent the new freshmen class, roughly 340 out of 4,700 students, are black. |
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| By Halloween, Baltimore officials told reporters, a federal judge and the public, we should be able to name a new city police commissioner. But as Mayor Catherine Pugh indicated last week might happen, Halloween has come and she had no name to offer up. She says she is still vetting candidates. |
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| A man was shot to death in Southwest Baltimore on Wednesday, and a separate shooting in Hollins Market caused James McHenry Elementary/Middle School students to be kept in the building after dismissal on Halloween as a safety precaution, officials said. |
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| More than 50 Maryland precincts have no polling places, no voters and no election results. These "ghost precincts," such as the Patuxent Research Refuge and Oriole Park at Camden Yards, result from redistricting. Some say ghosts precincts are signs of gerrymandering. |
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