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On Monday morning, the University of Maryland announced that the school's basketball arena, known as the Comcast Center since it opened in 2002, would now to called The XFINITY Center.

Gov. Martin O'Malley is planning to meet again with the state's faith leaders Monday in Annapolis as part his effort to craft Maryland's response to the recent national influx of immigrant children from Central America.

Our view: Recent studies suggest poultry industry is to blame for rising Chesapeake Bay pollution problem, yet regulations to address it remain on hold If all went as planned, Gov. Martin O'Malley spent this past weekend in Iowa, his second trip to the state in a month, which puts him about two visits ahead of former Secretary of State Hillary ... (more)

Abstract As Liberia rebuilds itself after several years of civil war, it is faced with many competing priorities.

With its roots in a 1920s night school, the institution expanded in the 1940s and '50s into Europe and Asia to educate military personnel.

The project seemed simple enough - build a waste-to-energy plant on the Eastern Shore fueled by poultry manure, keeping it from flushing into and polluting the bay, while creating green jobs and boosting Maryland's fledgling renewable energy industry But 18 months after it was heralded by Gov. Martin O'Malley, the $75 million project has been ... (more)

The combined Boards of Olney Theatre Center for the Arts and Olney Theatre Corporation, led by President Jennifer Kneeland, are pleased to announce the appointment of Deborah Ellinghaus as Managing Director, beginning August 26, 2014.

The Potomac River has long been a symbolic divide between two states with divergent histories and politics.

A federal judge has ordered the restaurant and arcade Dave & Buster's to leave its location at the White Flint Mall in Rockville.

The sexual encounters with her students took place during the 1980s at Murtha's home, at Seton Keough High School in Baltimore, and at the Monsignor's Retreat House in Sparks, Maryland.

Md.- The Ocean City drawbridge is stuck open on Route 50, causing major traffic delays.

Ellicott City obstetrician for removing a healthy ovary and fallopian tube from her right side when she went into the hospital for surgery to have a cyst excised from her left.

Motorists in Maryland are paying 5 cents less at the pump when compared with a week ago.

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She and other students who earned diplomas in the aftermath of the deepest U.S. recession since the 1930s are experiencing an earnings hangover that could last a lifetime, even as the labor market heals.

In a victory for injured employees, Maryland's highest court has held that an increase in workers' compensation awards on appeal is essentially retroactive to the first day of benefits, rejecting the employers' view that the increase should only apply to benefits in the future.

Tobacco tax: Eastern Shore's voting history Eastern Shore legislators are not openly endorsing a $1 increase to the state tobacco tax.

A prison term should not mean a lifetime of misfortune for a former offender. Yet that is what the criminal justice system produces every day.

Someone has been posing as a Maryland State Police official and demanding money over the phone, police said this week.

The Maryland Democratic Party took a page from the book of Republican gubernatorial nominee Larry Hogan's GOP primary rivals Thursday by filing a complaint with the state elections board charging that his campaign illegally coordinated with a political corporation he founded.