Maryland News

That figure compares with the latest national rate of 7.5 percent and is a tenth lower than the March number for Maryland.

Historically, herds of elk roamed across most of the United States and Canada, but the Eastern elk - the only subspecies found east of the Mississippi River - was extirpated in the 19th century.

The HOPE initiative, a program started by the administration of Gov. Martin O'Malley to preserve homeownership by helping prevent foreclosures, was awarded the Maryland Access to Justice Commission's Executive Branch Award for 2013.

What's so great about being nice? Nice never got anybody anywhere, right? If that's true, Marylanders are going places.

A suspect in a Prince George's County, Maryland shooting on Thursday suddenly jumped on a nearby fire truck and stripped out of his clothes before he was captured.

The characters were played by middle schoolers from Mount Royal Elementary/Middle, currently enrolled in the after school program, known as Baltimore TheatreWorks.

The Maryland State Fire Marshal says a fire inside a jail cell at the Jessup House of Correction Wednesday was caused by an unattended water heating pot.

Maryland's state universities announced that in-state undergraduate tuition would rise by 3 percent, the same amount as the past three years.

Kinlaw Hendrix, 27, of Steubenville, who was convicted of menacing by stalking and tampering with evidence, was sentenced Tuesday to 30 months in prison by Jefferson County Common Pleas Judge David Henderson.

Maryland State Senate President Thomas "Mike" Miller Jr. , left, and Speaker of the House Michael Busch , right, flank Maryland Gov.

Gov. Martin O'Malley on Thursday signed a bill recently passed by the General Assembly that gives Maryland some of the country's strictest gun-control laws.

Jenna Jadin, a former entomology graduate student at the University of Maryland, College Park who created a cicada cookbook for the Brood X emergence in 2004, says the bugs were a staple food in the past for Australian Aborigines, New Guineans and American Indians.

Maryland Ensemble Theatre is wrapping up its 2012-13, 15th anniversary mainstage season with a new World Premiere comedy Pickle My Monkey beginning tonight, May 16.

"We know that it does have a dramatic effect on us," says Ocean City Mayor Rick Meehan.

Maryland Ensemble Theatre's family theatre, The Fun Company, is proud to present the World Premiere of Daytona McKane and the Quest for the Golden Mole , a fun adventure story perfect for kids age six and up.

Gov. Martin O'Malley is set to sign into law some of the toughest gun restrictions in the nation on Thursday at a time when gun deaths in Maryland are at their lowest point since the FBI started collecting data in 1995.

Hare Krishna Rathayatra Chariot Parade And Festival of India, noon-6 p.m. May 26, McKeldin Square, Pratt and Light streets, festivalofindia.org . ISKON Baltimore holds its 11th-annual Rathayatra festival in McKeldin Square.

It's an emotional week for one Maryland family. A local officer is honored at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial following a long journey that began with an injury in the line of duty.

Post columnist Petula Dvorak has a column today, " For a taste of Maryland's gambling future, try a weekend in Atlantic City ," opining about how Atlantic City, New Jersey hasn't been revitalized by their attempt to re-make the Downtown core as Las Vegas East, and how this doesn't bode well for casino developments in Maryland.

University of Maryland students took over public space in the Long Branch neighborhood and put a spotlight on an area that may soon get even more attention with the Purple Line.