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Several roads in southeastern Baltimore County will close Tuesday afternoon as President Donald Trumpvisits Sparrows Point to speak on Anduril Industries’ planned submarine manufacturing facility.

The northbound and southbound Peninsula Expressway from Merritt Boulevard through Bethlehem Boulevard will be closed from 2:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Interstate 695 ramps at Exit 43 also will be closed during that period, according to the Baltimore County Police Department.

Baltimore County Public Schools approved a public charter school without verifying key information submitted by its executive director, leaving the district unaware of multiple criminal convictions, repeated bankruptcies and other discrepancies.

BCPS said its review of Puzzle Pieces Learning Academy Public Charter School included governance and operational capacity. But district spokesperson Gboyinde Onijala acknowledged there was not a detailed vetting of executive director Chizarra Dashiell during the application’s review.

“BCPS did not run a background check on Ms. Dashiell for the application. We would have run the background check in alignment with policy and HR procedures once the school staffing process began,” Onijala told The Baltimore Sun.

The district also produced no records showing it conducted criminal history checks or credit checks before the charter was approved. In response to public records requests from The Sun, BCPS said, “There are no records responsive to your request.”

Some more details about the double murder.

A 16-year-old boy charged with killing a 15-year-old Gwynn Oak girl and her younger brother had threatened to kill the girl if she "messed around" with other boys, according to charging documents obtained by The Baltimore Sun.
Baltimore County Police on Tuesday charged Keith Maurice James Jr., 16, of Baltimore, with two counts of first-degree murder and a firearms offense in the July 7 killings of Giovanna Myrie, 15, and her brother, Steve Allen, 9, inside their home in the 6100 block of Talles Road.
According to the documents, one of Myrie's friends told detectives she had been talking to a boy named Keith and had spoken with him over FaceTime but had never met him in person.
On the Fourth of July, three days before the shooting, Myrie and Keith met up, the friend said in charging documents. On a FaceTime call between the friends that day, the witness reportedly told police Keith had been holding a handgun while in bed.

Suspect is a 16-year-old boy.

So here’s apparently what happened …

Baltimore County crash team detectives have released the first findings from an investigation of Tuesday's Parkville bus crash, saying that a car cut off the bus transporting three students from the Maryland School for the Blind.
The Baltimore County Police Department's Crash Team said its initial investigation found that the driver of a 2017 Ford Focus was traveling south on Harford Road around 2:25 p.m. when the car crossed into the northbound lane.
"The vehicle crossed into the northbound lane, entering the path of a Baltimore County Public School Bus," police said in a statement. "A 2014 Nissan Altima was also struck by the Ford Focus."
The bus meanwhile came to a rest after crashing into a commercial building located in the 8700 block of Harford Road.

The second bus crash in Baltimore County in roughly two weeks. What is going on?

Multiple people were taken to area hospitals after a school bus carrying students from the Maryland School for the Blind crashed into a building in Parkville on Tuesday afternoon, prompting emergency crews to declare a mass casualty incident — the second this month involving a bus crash in Baltimore County.
On July 8, a Maryland Transit Administration bus left the road and smashed into a FedEx building on Reisterstown Road in Pikesville. A total of 36 people were injured in that incident, which remains under investigation.
Tuesday's crash happened shortly after 2:40 p.m. at the intersection of Harford Road and Lavender Avenue. Baltimore County Fire Bureau Chief Travis Francis said the bus was carrying three students and two adults.
"One of those students, as well as one of the adults, the driver of the bus, was transported to a local hospital with minor injuries at this time, as well as one additional adult from the scene that was transported with minor injuries," Francis said.
Officials said all reported injuries were minor.