**Mistakes made in prison strip search
strip search of 9 prison employees in western
and he's promising it won't happen again.
Gary Maynard,
secretary of the Maryland Department of Public
Safety and Correctional Services, wrote about the Aug. 12
search in
an opinion piece in The (
He says the search
at
inmate overdoses that included a fatality.
Maynard writes
that he has met with lawmakers, who have
encouraged the department to continue an investigation into
the
search.
**Climate Change Report
Predictions
ANNAPOLIS, Md.
(AP) - A new state report outlines how climate change could pose significant
environmental problems to Maryland's coastline
from rising sea levels and health problems due to warmer temperatures over the
next century. The
It says an estimated
6 percent of
coastline is vulnerable to flooding by 2100. Stronger storms and flooding also could put a strain on coastal
development.
The report also
says higher temperatures could increase the
number of heat-related health problems in cities.
**PG Co. cracks down on students skipping school
WASHINGTON (AP) -
cracking down on students who skip class.
The county's
Board of Education plans to run television, radio
and print advertisements instructing adults to call police
if they
notice students out of class during school hours.
In most cases,
police who find truant students take them back to
school.
The
130,000-student school system has the second-highest truancy
rate in
school year, more than 4 percent of county students were
habitually
truant.
School board
member Pat Fletcher says she hopes to cut the total
number of 6,000 truants in half this year.
A school system
spokesman says the cost of the advertising
campaign would be nominal.
**Crab tagging part of regulatory program
a state plan to better regulate blue crabs in the
The plan by the
Virginia Marine Resources Commission would have
required watermen to put a new colored tag on each of their
crab
pots every year.
The tag would
make it much easier for marine officers to enforce
illegal crab pots and for the commission to keep track of
how many
pots are in the water.
But now, the
commission's deputy commissioner, Jack Travelstead,
said Tuesday it's clear the General Assembly will not be
able to
provide the approximate $300,000 needed to run the program.
Earlier this
year, the Marine Resources Commission put in place
regulations designed to cut the female crab harvest by 34
percent.
**Elkton couple charged in thefts from shelters
ELKTON, Md. (AP) - A husband and wife from Elkton are
scheduled
to go on trial separately this fall in the alleged thefts of
thousands of dollars from local homeless shelters where they
worked.
Court records
show 40-year-old Kristine Roston faces 10
theft-related counts and is scheduled for trial Sept. 30.
She is
accused of stealing food, gift cards and cash donations from
the
Wayfarer's House, where she worked as a supervisor.
Forty-seven-year-old Donald Roston is accused of committing
similar offenses at the Settlement House. He faces two
charges. and
his trial is set for Oct. 6
The shelters are
owned and operated by Meeting Ground Inc., a
nonprofit organization.
**Phelps photograph reinstalled at Portrait Gallery
WASHINGTON (AP) -
A large color photograph of Michael Phelps is
being reinstalled at the Smithsonian's National Portrait
Gallery in
The photograph on
view Wednesday shows the Olympic gold medalist
underwater with bubbles streaming from his nose.
Phelps won a
record eight gold medals at the
Combined with his six gold medals from the 2004 Summer
Olympics in
bronze.
The Phelps
photograph was taken by Ryan McGinley in 2004 for the
cover of The New York Times Magazine. It was first shown at
the
museum when the gallery reopened in July 2006, following a
renovation.
The photograph
will remain on view at the Portrait Gallery
through January.