Maryland News

Wine merchants are hoping to put a cork in a Maryland law that prohibits wineries from shipping directly to Maryland consumers.

The line was wrapped around the building at the Dundalk Walmart Black Friday morning.

Maryland may update its state-provided insurance plan to reduce coverage for mammograms, based on new and controversial recommendations released by a federal panel last week.

A Roman Catholic priest has been sentenced to 10 years probation after being convicted of a third-degree sex offense in connection with abusing an altar boy.

State Highway Administration officials plan to try out a fluid made from sugar beets to help fight snow and ice on Maryland roads this winter.

A 33-year-old man has been sentenced to life without parole for beating an 83-year-old woman, then setting her on fire while she was still alive.

Law - Some legislators in Maryland are shocked! shocked! at expansive definition of "slot machines" Some quotes from a story today in the Washington Post , reported by John Wagner: When Maryland legalized slot machines last year, the state stopped short of welcoming blackjack, roulette and other table games because of qualms about building ...

Dozens of children are being adopted into new families in Maryland. Saturday is National Adoption Day, and state judicial officials and judges have planned several ceremonies in circuit courts around the state.

Eleven more H1N1-related deaths have been reported in Maryland, bringing the state's total to 30, according to the Maryland Public Health Services, but there is evidence the illness is in decline here.

Officials from the Prince George's County Fire and EMS Department say crews responded to the scene of an accident involving Maryland State Police late Saturday morning.

It's hard to have thoughts of thanks when you're stuck in your cute little two-door, sandwiched between a minivan and a Suburban staring at traffic as far as the eye can see Not that I'm being specific or anything.

A Maryland soldier is in Army custody and classified as a deserter - unfairly, relatives say - after he extended a two-week mid-tour leave to take care of his sick wife and their new baby.

As Maryland closes in on the construction of a third reactor at Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant in Lusby, an environmental organization has released a report calling nuclear power a step backward in the nation's race to reduce pollution.

It's cheaper to go to college in-state, especially if you live in Maryland. Average in-state tuition and fees for this academic year at Maryland's public universities is lower than the national average, according to a report by the College Board released last month.

Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot is pushing to make a semester-long financial literacy course a graduation requirement statewide.

Toll increases on Maryland roads are a virtual certainty by 2011 thanks to increasing debt and decreasing revenues at the toll plazas, according to a new state report.

Criminal complaints have been filed charging Daniel Chase, age 64, of Brownsville, New Jersey; Nikolaos Mamalis, age 53 of Edgewood, Maryland; and Antwone Bell, age 25, of Rosedale, Maryland, of conspiring to commit a series of armed commercial robberies, announced United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein.

Baltimore County could become the latest Maryland jurisdiction to prohibit the use of tanning facilities by minors.

BALTIMORE - Baltimore police say they have arrested a man suspected of raping and fatally stabbing a 15-year-old boy, whose body was found hidden in a closet.

The 39th annual Waterfowl Festival is under way in Maryland. The three-day festival began Friday in Easton and continues through Sunday.