Maryland News

The insurance plan for state employees in Maryland now covers gender reassignment surgery .

The defense is presenting its case in the first-degree murder trial of a New Jersey detective who acknowledges shooting a Maryland man after a boat of road rage last year.

These were among reports received by the Calvert County Sheriff's Office and the Maryland State Police.

"It got defensive, got it defense up and it attacked," Eric Chase, director of support services and chief financial officer for Baltimore Area Council, Boy Scouts of America, said.

Marijuana advocates will be back at the State House in next year's legislative session pushing for something more like full legalization -- like what's happened in Colorado and Washington State.

Emocha Mobile Health Inc. CEO Sebastian Seiguer. Emocha was among the startup companies to receive funding from the Maryland Innovation Initiative in fiscal 2014.

In the wake of three pedestrian deaths , including two University of Maryland students, that happened along U.S. 1/Baltimore Avenue in College Park this year, the speed limit is now lowered on the road.

A federal judge says a political candidate whose last name is Hershey must stop using campaign materials that mimic the look of the famous chocolate bar.

In part one of this two-part series, we took a look at Kai Locksley, Isaiah Prince and the other offensive targets still on the board for the Terps.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Maryland fined a CSX contractor after a construction project to expand a railroad bridge contributed to the deaths of hundreds of fish along the Northeast Branch of the Anacostia River in Prince George's County, state officials said.

The lawsuit heard in federal court today says that Maryland's ban of certain assault style weapons and gun magazines is unconstitutional.

Jones was a prostitute, but she had friends -- people who cared and were concerned.

The U.S. Coast Guard is asking for the public's help in identifying a person who has made numerous false distress calls from southern Maryland.

Blaming Maryland's new gun-control laws, Beretta USA said Tuesday that it is relocating its manufacturing operations from Accokeek to Tennessee, a move that will eliminate about 160 jobs in southern Prince George's County.

"I could not just sit back and watch tax-and-spend liberals destroy my home state of Maryland," the newly Republican-endorsed candidate for Maryland's State Senate Michael Hough said.

Deputy State Fire Marshals say the fire at St. Paul's Episcopal Church was reported by a passer-by about 11:10 a.m. Tuesday.

State Health Secretary Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, left, and the exchange's director, Carolyn Quattrocki.

Beretta U.S.A. Corp., located in Accokeek, Maryland, announced today that it has decided to move its manufacturing capabilities from its existing location to a new production facility that it is building in Gallatin, Tennessee.

They are challenging the constitutionality of the state ban on semi-automatic weapons and limits on the number of rounds in magazines.

After Sailor Holobaugh, left, and his attorney Jer Welter, right, with Free State Legal, filed a discrimination claim against the state for denying health insurance coverage of Holobaugh's transition-related care, the state reversed its policy -- and now provides such care for all state employees and their dependents.