3 killed in fiery crash off I-695 after eluding traffic stop 2025-04-06

Three people were killed in a fiery crash that followed a traffic stop on the Beltway in Baltimore County, Maryland. A state trooper pulled over a Jeep Wrangler in the inner loop of Interstate 695 at Greenspring Avenue, but the driver took off. The Jeep later crashed, hit an embankment and a tree, and caught fire. The driver and two passengers were declared dead at the scene. The road was closed for about four hours as an investigation by the Maryland State Police CRASH Team is ongoing.

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Judge orders return of Maryland man mistakenly sent to El Salvador prison 2025-04-06

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to return a Maryland man who was mistakenly sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador. Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a 29-year-old Salvadoran national, was arrested in Maryland and deported last month despite an immigration judge's 2019 ruling that shielded him from deportation to El Salvador, where he faced likely persecution by local gangs. The Justice Department has asked the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to pause the judge's ruling.

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Maryland students struggle with math, experts say it's time to modernize education 2025-04-06

The latest national test scores show that Maryland's K-12 students are performing below average in math, with the state's fourth and eighth-grade math scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress placing it at 39th and 38th out of the 50 states, respectively. Experts argue that the solution is not to go back to basics, but to modernize the approach to math education, focusing on conceptual understanding, data literacy, and problem-solving skills rather than just computational skills. The State Board of Education's recently adopted PreK-12 Mathematics Policy is seen as a step in the right direction, but more needs to be done to prepare Maryland students for the digital world.

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