Katie Mettler

The administration is required to provide advance notice of mass layoffs to employees and states so that states can mobilize resources needed to process unemployment claims and care for unemployed workers, the lawsuit says.

Maryland’s Gov. Wes Moore announced new resources for fired federal workers, including a site for state jobs.

A bill before the General Assembly would send only young people accused of the most violent offenses, including murder and rape, to adult court automatically.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said the Maryland case was one of several dismissals initiated by her office this week in an attempt to end Biden-era civil rights lawsuits.

Laura Herrera Scott, a former member of the Medical Corps in the U.S. Army Reserve, was appointed to the job by Moore in early 2023 to head a state health department beset by various problems.

Public disciplinary orders show the state first received a complaint about the crematory in December 2017 but allowed the facility to continue as more violations appeared.

Moore has said the state will face difficult choices in handling its worst financial crisis in 20 years, leading to shortfalls that could reach nearly $6 billion by 2030.

Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center has come under increased scrutiny in recent months after a Washington Post investigation revealed multiple problems at the facility for mentally ill people who have been charged with violent felonies.

The estimated $1.7 billion cost of the rebuild will be fully funded by the federal government after Congress passed a spending bill in mid-December that included that provision.

It took 75 seconds for security to arrive while authorities say a patient was brutally stomped by two other patients at Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center.