Over 200 Students Teachers Get Sick At Balt. Co. School

BALTIMORE COUNTY, Md. (WJZ) — Mass illness. More than 200 students and teachers at Pot Spring Elementary School in Baltimore County get ...

Illness at Pot Spring Elementary investigated

Somerville , coordinator of health services for the county schools. Nine staff members also got sick. Typically, about 5 percent of Pot Spring's approximately 640 students are absent, she said. The absence rate was much lower on Monday than on Friday, with 10 percent of students ...

Baltimore County hires consultant to assess facilities needs

The Baltimore County school system has hired a local architecture firm to help document its long-term school facilities needs, following a similar strategy the city school system used to generate a $2.4 billion plan and secure funding from the General Assembly. The county school board entered into a $500,000 contract with GWWO Inc./Architects last month to help take an inventory of the second ...

Police break up large group of teens fighting downtown

A large group of teenagers were involved in a fight near the Inner Harbor in Baltimore on Monday afternoon, with several of the teens taken into custody, police said. One police officer was injured responding to the brawl when she fell after chasing one of the teenagers, scraping her legs and knees on the ground, Baltimore Police spokesman Det. Vernon Davis said. Witnesses said dozens of teens ...

Athletic director Mike Waddell leaving Towson University

Arkansas . Waddell, who recommended that Towson cut baseball and men’s soccer last October, was hired by Arkansas to oversee its marketing, licensing, media relations, public relations, ticket operations and RazorVision. He will also be Arkansas’ liaison to the ...