Maryland News

Maryland's gun laws are the fourth most stringent in the country, according to a national gun control advocacy group, the result of new legislation requiring a handgun license and fingerprinting that supporters said will help keep firearms out of the wrong hands.

The Maryland Transit Administration said Tuesday that afternoon trains are running on abbreviated "S" schedules on the MARC's Camden Line between Washington and Baltimore, and the Penn Line between Washington and Perryville.

Gov. Martin O'Malley announced late Tuesday that Maryland's director of public safety and corrections is leaving the state post he has held for seven years for a job in the private sector.

Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown on Tuesday addresses problems plaguing the Maryland health exchange.

I've got an op-ed in today's Baltimore Sun urging lawmakers in Annapolis to keep an open mind on the growing movement to end the war on cannabis.

Snowy owls, which normally live in the Arctic have been showing up in Maryland and other mid-Atlantic states in record numbers over the last week, much to the delight of photographers and birders who are willing to travel immense distances just to get a once-in-a-lifetime peak at a bird that's only rarely seen in this part of the world.

On December 2, the Maryland Court of Appeals, the state's highest state court, ruled that petition sheets are not invalid just because the circulator's affidavit contains a minor error.

Maryland joined seven other states in the mid-Atlantic and Northeast in petitioning the federal government Monday to require nine upwind states to cut down air pollution emissions.

After the legislature's passage this year of a sweeping gun-control measure , Maryland now has the fourth-toughest firearms laws in the nation, according to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.

Nearly 8 inches of snow fell Sunday in parts of Frederick County, according to the National Weather Service, and sleet and icy conditions are forecast today.

Fourteen states and the District of Columbia told the federal government they could run their own health insurance exchanges, but three people leading their states' exchanges have now left following problem-plagued rollouts of the online marketplaces.

Effective Dec. 9, the Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air will be known as "University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Health Medical Center" and Harford Memorial Hospital in Havre de Grace will be "University of Maryland Harford Memorial Hospital."

Lawmakers return to Capitol Hill on Monday to begin a critical week of budget negotiations with wide-ranging economic implications for Maryland A bipartisan group of 29 House and Senate negotiators is working largely behind the scenes against a Friday deadline to strike a deal on spending.

Maryland's health insurance exchange, once lauded as a model of state collaboration with Obamacare, is plagued with technical glitches resulting in only a fraction of the state's 700,000 uninsured having coverage, The Wall Street Journal reported .

In Maryland's Democratic primary for governor, Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler doesn't have the support of the chief executive he is trying to succeed.

After snow blanketed Maryland on Sunday, the State Highway Administration said it dispatched 1,800 trucks to plow and salt the numbered roadways overnight and early Monday morning.

Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley's trade mission to Brazil and El Salvador , which wraps up early this week, was criticized shortly before it began by some Hispanic elected officials and business leaders who say they should have been more involved in pulling it together.

A host of dignitaries, including Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and Maryland Lt.

Thousands of Marylanders, mostly African-American, are denied housing based on their source of income, but efforts to mitigate such discrimination are finally making headway, advocates say.

By day, Scott Strzelcyzk is an IT consultant in this rural Appalachian corner of the US state of Maryland.