BALTIMORE, Maryland, March 22 -- The Maryland National Guard issued the following news: By 1st Lt. Javier Cox, 29th MPAD Beginning in the early morning hours of February 28, 2024, the Maryland National Guard's 32nd Civil Support Team met at their headquarters located on Ft. George G. Meade. Their mission, according to Maryland Army National Guard Lt. Col. Brian K. Zdunowski, 32nd CST commander, is to respond to a reported hazardous material at the CSX railyard in South Baltimore, identify the   more

BETHESDA, Maryland, March 22 -- Marriott International issued the following news: Homes & Villas by Marriott Bonvoy is now testing a search with AI tool that will match travelers with the perfect home and destination based on a natural language search describing their desired vacation. This next gen search will take travelers' own preferences and offer a curated list of properties from the 140,000 available properties on the Homes & Villas by Marriott Bonvoy platform. Travelers can include as   more

LARGO, Maryland, March 22 -- M&T Bank, a financial holding company, issued the following news release on March 21, 2024: M&T Bank (NYSE:MTB) and Prince George's County Economic Development Corporation (EDC) today launched their 2nd annual 0-100 Business Accelerator Program. The program gives Spanish-speaking entrepreneurs the guidance and skills to build strong companies, spur economic growth in Prince George's County, and help build generational wealth. Registration for this free program is cu  more

BETHESDA, Maryland, March 22 -- Marriott International issued the following news on March 21, 2024: Marriott Executive Apartments, part of Marriott Bonvoy's global portfolio of over 30 extraordinary hotel brands, today announced it's debut in the Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Region with the opening of Marriott Executive Apartments Port Moresby. The waterside property in the heart of Port Moresby, Marriott International's first in Papua New Guinea, is set within the mixed-use development o  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, March 22 -- The Maryland Department of Transportation's Transit Administration issued the following news release: The Maryland Department of Transportation Maryland Transit Administration has been awarded a $1.276 million federal grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionary Transportation (SMART) program. The grant will help install and test new cloud-based transit signal priority (TSP) technology at 90 intersections on four hi  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, March 22 -- Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown issued the following news release on March 21, 2024: Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown and Secretary of State Susan C. Lee, along with the Federal Trade Commission and nine other states, are suing sham charity Cancer Recovery Foundation International, also known as Women's Cancer Fund, and its operator, Gregory B. Anderson, for deceiving generous donors who sought to offer financial support to women battling ca  more

ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, March 22 -- Gov. Wes Moore, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on March 21, 2024: Governor Wes Moore today announced the Maryland Council on Innovation and Impact members. Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor on Innovation and Impact Jonny Dorsey will serve as chair. Lisa Hamilton, Mark Lerner, Rachel Garbow Monroe, and Darren Walker will serve as honorary co-chairs. "To win the decade, we need to work in meaningful partnership with leaders in philanthropy a  more

NEW CARROLLTON, Maryland, March 22 -- The Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development issued the following news release on March 21, 2024: The Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development today announced $10 million in grant funding for local government and nonprofit organizations through its Community Health and Safety Works (CHSW) program. The grant funding will support projects that improve the physical environment that impacts health and safety to improve the livabi  more

COLUMBIA, Maryland, March 22 -- Merkle, a technology-enabled, data-driven performance marketing agency, issued the following news release: Merkle, dentsu's leading technology-enabled, data-driven customer experience management (CXM) company, announced the launch of Intelligent Messaging, its end-to-end messaging solution, to create unified brand experiences across touchpoints and channels by blending AI assistance and human interaction. With Intelligent Messaging, Merkle can create turnkey chat  more

ROCKVILLE, Maryland, March 21 (TNSres) -- Montgomery College issued the following news release: Montgomery College Professor Rebecca Portis, faculty member in the English and Reading Department, was chosen to participate in this year's Fulbright-Hays, Group Project Abroad (GPA) in South Africa along with 13 other educators from across the country. The summer, four-week trip will offer rich experiential learning opportunities related to sustainable development in South Africa. A specific focus o  more

DUBLIN, Virginia, March 22 -- New River Community College issued the following news release: New River Community College Professor of English Megan Doney recently won the Washington Writers' Publishing House Nonfiction Award for her memoir "Exit Wounds." Washington Writers' Publishing House (WWPH) sponsors three annual fiction, poetry, and nonfiction manuscript contests for writers living in DC, Maryland, and Virginia. Doney submitted the manuscript for her memoir, "Exit Wounds," and won the c  more

ADELPHI, Maryland, March 22 (TNSres) -- The University of Maryland Global Campus issued the following news: By Alex Kasten Jason M. Pittman, Sc.D., collegiate associate professor in the School of Cybersecurity and Information Technology at University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC), has been named to the most prestigious appointment in the Fulbright Scholar Program. Pittman has been selected as a Fulbright Distinguished Chair, the first UMGC faculty member to receive the award. "This extra  more