Liz Bowie

The Montgomery County resident has helped drive digital transformation and revenue growth at The Atlantic and The Economist

Carey Wright will take over the lead role at the Maryland State Department of Education later this month.

Fallout begins over church sexual abuse report; one official, Monsignor Richard Woy, resigned from the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center’s board of directors.

Reporters matched details in the Maryland attorney general's report into the Archdiocese of Baltimore to court transcripts, archdiocesan letters, church directories, news articles and other public documents.

"Abusers preyed upon the children most devoted to the church: the altar servers and choir members, those who participated in church youth organizations and the Scout troops, and especially those who worked in the rectories answering telephones in the evening and on the weekends," according to the report.

In 2019, the Maryland Office of the Attorney General launched a grand jury investigation into allegations of sexual abuse within the Archdiocese of Baltimore and its response. The report is 456 pages and titled “Clergy Abuse in Maryland.” The document identified 158 priests who are accused of sexual abuse and torture of more than 600 people in the last 80 years.

The report could be released as soon as next month, but the judge must first approve an attorney general’s list of those individuals affected by its public release, and those individuals must be notified.

The three-day manhunt that stretched from the suburbs of Cockeysville to the fields of Harford County, that left a second police officer shot, closed schools in two counties and caused nervous families to stay home and lock their doors, ended before sunrise Friday.

Out of 196 schools in the Baltimore region, fewer than 5% of students passed the math test in at least one grade, according to the Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program.

Five students in Maryland have the chance to become a U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts, one of the nation’s highest honors for high school students. The students are finalists in Young Arts, a national competition that highlights young artists across 10 disciplines.