Maryland News

"A year into a new effort to expand health coverage, recession-weary Marylanders are flocking to the state's Medicaid program in numbers far greater than expected, costing the state $50 million more in the process," The Baltimore Sun reports.

BALTIMORE - Baltimore police say a 5-year-old girl has been shot in the head after rival groups fought in southwest Baltimore.

Maryland health officials are warning residents to take precautions to deal with summer heat following two heat-related deaths.

BALTIMORE - A federal judge has sentenced two men to several life sentences for killing a federal witness and others.

A U.S. District judge has sentenced a Rockville man to more than three years in prison for conspiring to transport at least 100 women to Maryland to have them work as prostitutes.

Howard County police say a 23-month-old girl died of heatstroke after one of her parents unintentionally left her strapped in her car seat in front of the family's Ellicott City home.

The Frederick County Commissioners have revived plans for a giant trash incinerator that would also generate electricity at a site just south of Frederick.

At a convention last week in Indianapolis , NOW elected Maryland's Terry O'Neill - white, a lawyer, a divorced mother and 56 years old - as its new president.

The College Park Committee for a Better Environment honored David Rogner, a recent University of Maryland graduate, with a Green Award in recognition of his environmental activism.

The winners of the Miss Maryland 2009 competition were announced Saturday night.

Louise Schlegel, Miss Maryland 2008, will give up her crown tonight. A new Miss Maryland will soon be crowned in Hagerstown.

Driving nonstop, the trip from Westminster to Los Angeles on average will take a car almost 40 hours.

The Maryland Office of Legislative Audits says Kent County's Circuit Court Clerk didn't properly report convictions for serious driving violations to the state's motor vehicle administration.

Commuter rail tracks in the nation's capital are studded with devices that detect passing trains and tell them when to stop or slow down.

Two years ago, the Pasadena Elementary School began its process to become a Green School.

The service was suspended following Monday's deadly Metro Rail crash. Commuters who use the Brunswick MARC line won't have to worry about finding an alternate way to get to work.

A woman whose unborn son was cut from her body put up a violent, bloody struggle for survival with her killer, according to court documents.

A Baltimore area resident has died of swine flu, the first Maryland resident associated with the flu to die.

Twelve people were rescued from the raging waters of the Shenandoah River late Sunday when two Maryland State Police helicopters hoisted them to safety.

Deep in the heart of Charles County at the head of the Wicomico River, sweet gum, beech and sycamore trees surround 20 miles of seldom-explored swampland where more than 300 years of history lie buried beneath dank, soggy soil.