News in Greater Baltimore Area
In January, the Baltimore County Police Department told a televised news conference full of props and photos that evidence indicated a marijuana and dogfighting ring was operating out of Nicole Marie Caruso's townhouse in North Point. Two months later, prosecutors have quietly, and without television cameras rolling, vindicated Caruso — who worked at SoBo Dog Day Care in South Baltimore's Locust Point area — of the charges that her lawyer said most seriously harmed her reputation in the animal-loving community.
Baltimore County schools spent $300,000 last fall to buy high school grammar books for elementary school educators, including some who teach music, art and gym, and administrators acknowledge that they failed to follow purchasing rules for the desk reference.
State prosecutor to donate proceeds from online auction to city summer jobs program
Biologists believe they have discovered the first evidence that Maryland bats are now infected with white nose syndrome, a deadly fungal disease that has wiped out more than a million hibernating bats from New England to Virginia in recent years.
The board of Black & Decker Corp. should have considered a real estate partnership between chief executive Nolan D. Archibald and a company board member to determine the director's independence in voting on a pending merger with The Stanley Works, The New York Stock Exchange has advised.