Maryland News

Here's a sign that summer is winding down: The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels is offering its last boater safety course of the season.

The War of 1812 leaps off the pages of the book "In Full Glory Reflected: Discovering the War of 1812 in the Chesapeake."

A member of a Bloods-affiliated gang in Howard County was sentenced Monday to 16 years in prison on federal racketeering charges, according to a release from the Unites States Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland.

Italian weapons manufacturer Beretta is high-tailing it out of its home state of Maryland for the greener, more gun-friendly pastures of Tennessee.

With Central Maryland's veterans waiting months to schedule an initial visit with a primary care doctor, the Veterans Affairs Maryland Health Care System is hoping to tap into whatever reserve capacity is available in the area's extensive network of private clinics, according to a formal solicitation.

"In Full Glory Reflected: Discovering the War of 1812 in the Chesapeake," is written by Maryland natives Burt Kummerow and Ralph Eshelman.

The campers formed two single-file lines and practiced a hip-hop dance exercise - kick-step-step, kick-step-step - from one side of the classroom to the other as pulsating beats reverberated off the walls.

A California man admitted Monday to his role in the 2009 murder of a Maryland woman as part of a scheme to collect life insurance.

The state of Maryland stepped up its efforts Monday to recruit foster parents and solicit other assistance from the public to help with the flood of unaccompanied migrant children coming into the country from Central America.

The Maryland State Fire Marshal's Office say the fire started just before 11:20 PM in a bedroom of apartment #5 inside a two story wood framed apartment building on South Division Street.

ANNAPOLIS , Md.- Maryland Natural Resources Police will launch an enforcement campaign Wednesday at the Jonas Green Park in Annapolis in an effort to reduce crabbing violations in state waters.

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.