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DEATH PENALTY-MARYLAND

NAACP to call for death penalty repeal in Maryland

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) The NAACP is joining Gov. Martin O?Malley and lawmakers in a call to repeal the death penalty.

Benjamin Jealous, the CEO of the National Association of Colored People, will participate in the news conference on Tuesday in Annapolis.

Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings and Gerald Stansbury, president of the NAACP?s state conference, also are scheduled to attend.

The potential of repealing capital punishment in Maryland has been highlighted since the General Assembly convened last week for the state of its legislative session.

Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller, who supports capital punishment, predicted last week that a measure banning capital punishment would pass this year. The Senate president also said he believed it would be petitioned to the ballot for voters to decide in 2014.

TEACHER-SEX CHARGES

Md. teacher charged with sex with student

PIKESVILLE, Md. (AP) A gym teacher and coach at a Jewish high school outside Baltimore has been charged with child abuse for allegedly having sex with a student over a four-year period.

Baltimore County police say 33-year-old Foye Minton was charged after an investigation by the department?s crimes against children unit.

Police say the victim is now 20 years old and contacted investigators in December. She told police the abuse began in 2009 when she was a student at the Shoshana S. Cardin School. Minton was dean of students and athletic director at the time.

Minton is being held on $350,000 bond. Online court records of the case are sealed, and there is no listing of an attorney for him.

BAY VOLUNTEERS

Volunteers sought to teach children about the bay

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) The Maryland Department of Natural Resources says it is seeking volunteers to teach children about the Chesapeake Bay and other state waterways.

The volunteers will be part of the Teaching Environmental Awareness in Maryland program. More than 1,200 classroom presentations have been given since the program was started in 1998. Students are told about the bay?s six-state watershed, oysters, oyster reefs, horseshoe crabs and Chesapeake watermen.

Volunteers are sought in all counties and teaching experience is not needed. Those interested are asked to attend

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