ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore is scheduled to sign an executive order to issue 175,000 pardons for marijuana convictions Monday, according to a news report. The pardons will forgive low-level marijuana possession charges for an estimated 100,000 people. Moore, a Democrat, told The Washington Post Sunday night that criminal records have been used to deny housing, employment and education. “I’m ecstatic that we have a real opportunity with what I’m signing to right a lot of...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore is scheduled to sign an executive order to issue 175,000 pardons for marijuana convictions Monday, according to a news report. The pardons will forgive low-level marijuana possession charges for an estimated 100,000 people. Moore, a Democrat, told The Washington Post Sunday night that criminal records have been used to deny housing, employment and education. “I’m ecstatic that we have a real opportunity with what I’m signing to right a lot of...

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore is scheduled to sign an executive order to issue 175,000 pardons for marijuana convictions Monday, according to a news report. The pardons will forgive low-level marijuana possession charges for an estimated 100,000 people. Moore, a Democrat, told The Washington Post Sunday night that criminal records have been used to deny housing, employment and education. “I’m ecstatic that we have a real opportunity with what I’m signing to right a lot of...

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Maryland Gov. Wes Moore is scheduled to sign an executive order to issue 175,000 pardons for marijuana convictions Maryland Gov. Wes Moore set to issue 175,000 pardons for marijuana convictionsBy BRIAN WITTEAssociated PressThe Associated PressANNAPOLIS, Md. ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore is scheduled to sign an executive order to issue 175,000 pardons for marijuana convictions Monday, according to a news report. The pardons will forgive low-level marijuana possession charges for...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore is scheduled to sign an executive order to issue 175,000 pardons for marijuana convictions Monday, according to a news report. The pardons will forgive low-level marijuana possession charges for an estimated 100,000 people. Moore, a Democrat, told The Washington Post Sunday night that criminal records have been used to deny housing, employment and education. “I’m ecstatic that we have a real opportunity with what I’m signing to right a lot of...

Wendell Phillips, a preacher’s son, state delegate and advocate for historically Black colleges and universities, died of cancer May 24 at Duke Raleigh Hospital in North Carolina. He was 60. Wendell Fitzgerald Phillips was born in Rochester, New York, in 1964 and moved to Baltimore when he was 6 months old. His father, the Rev. Wendell H. Phillips, was a pastor at Heritage United Church of Christ on Liberty Heights Avenue in Northwest Baltimore’s Ashburton neighborhood for 29 years and the...

The results are for Delmarva Now's 2023-24 Fan's Choice Player of the Year poll, and the winner is a player who recently starred on the baseball diamond this past springr. Stephen Decatur baseball player Waylon Hobgood has won in the voting for the 2023-24 Delmarva Now Fan's Choice Player of the Year. Hobgood, who was the Bayside South Player of the Year for the Seahawks on their way to a Bayside Championship and a second straight state semifinal appearance, won the Fan's Choice Poll with 53%...

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore is scheduled to sign an executive order to issue 175,000 pardons for marijuana convictions Monday, according to a news report. The pardons will forgive low-level marijuana possession charges for an estimated 100,000 people. Moore, a Democrat, told The Washington Post Sunday that criminal records have been used to deny housing, employment, and education. “I’m ecstatic that we have a real opportunity with what I’m signing to right a lot of historical wrongs,” Moore said. “...