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Washington Freedom has paid Frederick $500,000 toward transportation improvements and filed early site documents, but construction cannot begin until a final site plan is approved.
The Frederick County school board has ruled out a total student AI ban and will next consider restrictions covering either pre-K through fifth grade or pre-K through eighth grade.
Republican county executive candidate Jeff Holtzinger says he would ask the County Council to reduce the Critical Digital Infrastructure overlay from 2,615 acres to the smaller map recommended by the Planning Commission.
Maryland State Police are investigating a suspected homicide after an inmate was found with stab wounds inside the Maryland Correctional Training Center in Hagerstown.
Trammell Crow is seeking rules that would allow qualifying data centers by right on industrial land, while planning officials and commissioners are asking for more city oversight.
Former GSA contracting representative Lennie Lamont Miller received a three-year federal prison sentence for accepting bribes in exchange for directing government work.
