 Three aides to Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh have been placed on leave, according to a source familiar with the matter. The aides are Gary Brown Jr. and Poetri Deal, who work in the city’s lobbying office, and Afra Vance-White, who is the city’s director of external relations, the source said |   | |
 Del. Adrienne A. Jones, a Baltimore County Democrat who is the long-serving speaker pro tem of the Maryland House of Delegates, says she is running to be speaker. Jones, 64, was a close ally of the late Speaker Michael Busch, who died Sunday of pneumonia. | | | |
 After months of turnover at the Baltimore Police Department, recently appointed Commissioner Michael Harrison expressed his commitment to implementing reforms at a quarterly consent decree hearing Wednesday. But much of the discussion was dominated by the political turmoil involving Pugh. | | | |
 McDonogh School administrators shared the details of the external investigation into the co-ed boarding school’s history of sexual assault allegations made against faculty members, dating from the 1940s to the mid-1980s. | | | |
 The Baltimore City Public Schools board of commissioners on Tuesday unanimously passed a policy allowing transgender students to use the names, pronouns and bathrooms that align with their gender identity — prompting the boardroom, packed with LGBTQ+ advocates, to burst into applause. | | | |
 The Rev. Robert E. Daly Jr., who was rector of Hamilton's Episcopal Church of the Messiah for for two decades, died Thursday of cancer at the Broadmead retirement community in Cockeysville. He was 82. | | | |
 Thiru Vignarjah, a former prosecutor and top official in the state attorney general's office, said he will run to become the next mayor of Baltimore. | | | |
 Maryland lawmakers have passed a bill, pushed by the Baltimore State’s Attorney’s Office, designed to help clear the way for prosecutors to overturn convictions they deem tainted or unjust. | | | |
 Sinai Hospital is asking children under age 14 to avoid the campus unless the have an appointment after a child was diagnosed with measles last week. | | | |
 Orioles first baseman Chris Davis got a second day of early batting practice in with hitting coach Don Long on Wednesday and could return to the lineup Thursday for the series finale against the Oakland Athletics. | | | |
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