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Program Spotlight 2025: The Odyssey School
Reading and Writing Tutoring Program At The Odyssey School, the individualized Reading and Writing Tutoring Program empowers students with dyslexia and language learning differences to become confident, capable learners. Every child receives...
Owner: Ken Ulman, David Nitkin & Karen Nitkin
US mayors to lead climate action at COP30 amid federal absence
WASHINGTON: U.S. mayors are preparing to take a leading role at the upcoming COP30 climate talks in Brazil as federal climate participation remains uncertain. Kirk Watson and other American city leaders plan to use the November summit to reaffirm...
Six Flags America officially closes after 50 years
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FOX 11 Los Angeles - California
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The new "MVP Sale" allows guests to visit parks across the U.S., Mexico and Canada. BOWIE, Md. - Six Flags America has permanently closed after operating for five decades, with its last day of welcoming guests on Sunday, November 2. What we know:...
Owner: Murdoch Family
The Creative Genius Brothers Behind Jack Reacher
Lee Child had written a dozen novels about Jack Reacher—the clever, jacked-up former Army cop who now drifts around the country carrying only a toothbrush and an ATM card looking for justice to fight for—by the time I read my first. I don’t know...
Owner: Hearst Family
Exelon’s data-center demand grows 12% in Q3; profit beats estimates
Exelon Corp saw a 12% rise in demand from potential data center customers in the third quarter as the major U.S. electric utility pushes to change state laws barring it from developing new power plants, its executives said on Tuesday. Big Tech’s...
Owner: Russ Roenick & Ken Firtel
Data centers are booming. But there are big energy and environmental risks
Google recently courted the township of Franklin, Ind., so that it could construct a giant campus to house the computer hardware that powers its internet business. But the company needed to rezone more than 450 acres in the Indianapolis suburb,...
Owner: Arizona Western College & American Government
Amazon Web Services announces new sub-sea Fastnet transatlantic data cable between West Cork and US
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Irish Independent
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The cable, which will be one of the highest capacity cables to date across the Atlantic, will land in Castlefreke in 2028 and could offer ‘diversity’ against ‘issues’ affecting Irish transatlantic cables landing in Mayo and Dublin The new...
Owner: Van Puijenbroek & Baert Families, Thomas Leysen
Rediscovery of African American burial grounds provides opportunities for collective healing
In the course of construction work in 2013, the remains of 36 individuals of African descent were uncovered in the heart of downtown Charleston. They had lain hidden for some 200 years in an unmarked 18th-century burial ground. For more than two...
Owner: States Newsroom Network
Planting hope: How Baltimore locals use trees to fight climate change
By Andrea Stevens AFRO Staff Writer astevens@afro.com There are constant conversations on how global warming is affecting the country as a whole, but focusing on its local impact is just as important. Everett Mitchell, a veteran arborist and...
Owner: Murphy Family
Carmelo Anthony talks Enoch Pratt exhibit, Baltimore and what his critics got wrong
As Carmelo Anthony was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame last month, the ex-NBA star addressed the young dreamers — kids like he once was, growing up on West Baltimore’s Myrtle Avenue. “They will tell you it’s foolish....
Owner: The Venetoulis Institute For Local Journalism
Weather Talk: What will the weather pattern be over the next 10 days?
Weather Talk: What will the weather pattern be over the next 10 days? SOGGY PATTERN? IS IT ARE WE GOING TO GET SOME RAIN. WE’RE GOING TO BE KIND OF LIKE RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE. WE DON’T SEE A BIG RAIN ON THE HORIZON COMING UP HERE, BUT IT WILL BE AN...
Owner: Hearst Family
Magoobys Joke House is a Hub of Top-Notch Comedy
Sketches of two giants of comedy stare down from the front wall at the stage of Magoobys Joke House. Richard Pryor has a wry smile on his face, like he’s amused slightly. The look on George Carlin’s mug is a bit more quizzical, as if he can’t...
Owner: Stephen Geppi
Montgomery County Council passes bicycle safety legislation
The new legislation strengthens protection for cyclist by not allowing standing, stopping, or parking in bikeways. ROCKVILLE, Md. — Biking around Montgomery County just got a little safer. The Montgomery County Council unanimously passed...
Owner: TEGNA Inc.
Matt Minahan: Anne Arundel is ready for a planning commission | COMMENTARY
As the Capital Gazette recently reported, there is “more or less unanimity” among county residents that the county needs a planning commission, according to Anne Arundel Community College researcher Dan Nataf. In the survey, 65% of respondents...
Owner: Smith Family
2025 Healthy Harbor Report Card gives Baltimore Harbor a 'C' overall
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FOX45 - Maryland
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BALTIMORE (WBFF) — The Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore unveiled its 2025 Healthy Harbor Report Card on Friday, highlighting both ecological improvements and ongoing environmental challenges in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. The annual report, which...
Owner: Smith Family
Nebraska at Maryland: Huskers raise ceiling with comeback road win, and more takeaways
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Dylan Raiola shook off three interceptions to direct an 81-yard touchdown drive in the final four minutes, leading Nebraska to a 34-31 win at Maryland in which it twice blew a 10-point lead. Nebraska defensive back DeShon...
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Iran must be willing to negotiate about its nuclear program, senator says
“President Trump has said he wants to sit down and negotiate this with Iran," the Democratic senator told Iran International. "Iran having a nuclear weapon is unacceptable, so it's important that they be willing to resolve this,” the Maryland...
Owner: Adel AbdulKarim Alabdulkarim
The climate crisis isn’t a hoax - but Big Oil wants you to think it is |Opinion
By Shawn Crowell Today we face a crisis like no other. This crisis threatens our very future; we face the displacement of billions, cities on fire and regions under the threat of drought. According to Forbes, this is a crisis that will “set the...
Owner: Newhouse Family
Heinz Award-winning environmental justice leader says the EJ movement is ‘not over.’
The Heinz Family Foundation recently announced the recipients of this year’s Heinz Awards. It is the program’s 30th anniversary. The awards recognize extraordinary contributions in the arts, the environment, and the economy. Sacoby Wilson, Ph.D.,...
Owner: Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting Corporation & American Government
David Braun’s USC game week press conference notes
After a well-earned bye week, Northwestern football is back in action this Friday night against No. 20 USC. The Trojans will be less rested, but also found a way to do what the Wildcats could not last weekend in a road victory over Nebraska....
Owner: Jay Penske