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Wednesday, Feb 20 In Howard County Public Schools’ latest reaffirmation that the system works to serve all students, a workgroup developed a set of guidelines for staff members to use to support and provide safe spaces for transgender and gender nonconforming students. | | | |
| Dr. Surender K. Vaswani, who treated patients for allergies and asthma in Columbia and Westminster, had his license revoked for what the Maryland Board of Physicians concluded was immoral and unprofessional conduct and sexual misconduct. |
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| The chief operating officer of the Stronach Group said Wednesday that it wants to invest $80 million to make Laurel Park a world-class facility and $40 million to do the same at the Bowie Training Center — the latest move suggesting Preakness may move to Laurel Park. |
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| The snowstorm hitting the region Wednesday closed Howard County schools and offices, as well as the county’s Circuit and District courts. |
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| Bandura Cyber, a Columbia-based cybersecurity firm, has expanded its first significant funding round to more than $10 million, the company announced Wednesday morning. |
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| Larry Aaron III, a Marshall football player and Oakland Mills alumnus, spent his winter break with old friends and his girlfriend, including on New Year’s Eve. But that night his life took a violent turn. |
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| A tough freshman season, a major knee injury, and competing interests in basketball and baseball threatened Larry Aaron’s young football career at Oakland Mills. He later developed into one of Howard County’s premier linemen before being recruited to Marshall University. |
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| Despite everything, Larry Aaron was eventually released from the hospital and was “progressing as well as we could hope for.” Before long, tragedy struck again. Even then the Oakland Mills community rallied behind Aaron and his family more than they had before. |
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