BALTIMORE, Maryland, Aug. 7 (TNSres) -- Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown issued the following news release: Attorney General Anthony G. Brown announced his decision to not seek charges in the April 20, 2024, police-involved fatal vehicle collision in Carroll County, Maryland. On April 20, 2024, at approximately 11:30 p.m., Carroll County Sheriff's Deputy First Class Kyle Hessler was on patrol in the area of Liberty Road and Ridge Road when he observed a car driving eastbound on Liber  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Aug. 7 -- DLA Piper, a law firm, issued the following news: DLA Piper has advised Global IBO Group Ltd. (GIBO), an integrated AI-generated content animation streaming platform in Asia, on a de-SPAC transaction entering into a definitive Business Combination Agreement with Bukit Jalil Global Acquisition 1 Ltd. (BUJA), a publicly traded Special Acquisition Company (SPAC). As part of this agreement, GIBO and BUJA will merge with newly formed subsidiaries of GIBO Holdings Limit  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Aug. 7 -- DLA Piper, a law firm, issued the following news on Aug. 6, 2024: DLA Piper today launches its Environmental Advertising Claims Guide, providing clarity, insight and guidance around navigating the rules dictating companies' environmental claims across 23-major jurisdictions, alongside pan-European regulation. Organizations find themselves in an era of accountability and transparency when it comes to their environmental credentials. In meeting this appetite for di  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Aug. 7 -- Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown issued the following news release: The Independent Investigations Division ("IID") of the Office of the Attorney General is investigating a fatal officer-involved shooting that occurred on Monday evening in the city of Baltimore, Maryland. An initial review of body-worn camera footage shows on August 5, 2024, at approximately 9:14 p.m., officers with the Baltimore Police Department observed a male walking in the unit blo  more

ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, Aug. 7 -- Gov. Wes Moore, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on Aug. 6, 2024: Governor Wes Moore today pledged support for more than 150,000 military and veteran caregivers across the state by joining the Elizabeth Dole Foundation's Hidden Heroes Campaign. The campaign raises awareness about the issues military caregivers face; brings critical resources to our nation's "hidden heroes" who care for wounded, ill and injured service members and veterans; and connect  more

ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, Aug. 7 -- Gov. Wes Moore, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on Aug. 6, 2024: Governor Wes Moore today visited ION Storage Systems, a Maryland-based manufacturer of solid-state batteries for the defense, aerospace, medical, consumer, electric vehicle, and grid storage industries. During the visit in Beltsville, the governor announced $11 million in funding to support advanced manufacturing and innovation projects, as part of the Moore-Miller Administration's comm  more

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Aug. 6 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: As part of an internship with the Virginia Academy of Food Animal Practitioners, veterinary student Carla Gutierrez worked with alumna Melinda McCall DVM '04 and veterinarian Katie Lukowicz at Louisa Veterinary Service in Louisa, Virginia. Through new perspectives and more hands-on experience, Gutierrez, a student at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, left the internship more prepared for her future ca  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Aug. 7 -- Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown issued the following statement on Aug. 6, 2024: * * * The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit today upheld Maryland's assault weapons ban in its decision in Bianchi v. Brown, a case involving a constitutional challenge to a Maryland law banning these weapons. Maryland's ban on assault weapons was enacted in 2013 after a shooter used an assault weapon in the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary Sc  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Aug. 7 (TNSres) -- Johns Hopkins Medicine issued the following news release: A protein called Meteorin-like (METRNL) in the tumor microenvironment saps energy from T cells, thereby severely limiting their ability to fight cancer, according to new research directed by investigators at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and its Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy. Finding ways to block the effects of METR  more

ADELPHI, Maryland, Aug. 7 -- The University of Maryland Global Campus issued the following news: * * * Grant to Help Scale Up Apprenticeships and Pathways to College Degrees in High-Demand Technology-Related Fields * * * By Bob Ludwig New York, NY, and Adelphi, Md. (Aug. 6, 2024)--The U.S. Department of Labor, Employment & Training Administration has awarded a $3.9 million Apprenticeship Building America, Round 2 grant (ABA2) to University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC) and OpenClassrooms  more