Maryland News

Two Maryland men were charged this week with stealing about $1,000 in health and beauty care items from the Giant Foods Store along the Cumberland Parkway in Upper Allen Township, police said.

Maryland legislators may require state university system employees to start paying half the cost of tuition for themselves and their children to help solve state budget woes.

The U.S. Supreme Court's rejection of decades-old campaign spending limits gives states scant time to face an election-year dilemma: brace for a flood of new money in politics, or find new ways to rein it in.

A House panel moved forward with measures aimed at stopping sexual predators on Friday, largely in response to the highly publicized slaying of a Salisbury girl who allegedly was murdered by a registered sex offender.

Attorney General Douglas Gansler wants to keep political spending from tainting Maryland Circuit Court elections, but critics say Gansler's solution threatens to give too much control over judicial appointments to the Governor's Office.

A Maryland state senator has introduced a measure that would prohibit the state from recognizing gay marriages authorized elsewhere without legislative approval.

Maryland's Motor Vehicle Administration says an overhaul of its driver education program is nearly complete.

Supporters of a dime-a-drink tax told a Senate committee Wednesday they need the fee in order to provide essential funds for mental health, disabilities and substance abuse programs to Marylanders.

Worcester tourism head wants to keep OC funds SNOW HILL a ' Worcester Countya TMs tourism director wants the county to keep the money it usually gives Ocean City to market the resort.

A Maryland husband and wife are picking up the pieces after a pair of deer battered into their home.

Students in six Maryland counties won't go to school for 180 days this year, thanks to last month's record-breaking snowstorms.

People under 18 would no longer be allowed to use tanning beds in Maryland under legislation being considered by the state General Assembly.

The Maryland Senate on Tuesday passed legislation to change - for the first time since 1989 - the guidelines courts use to set child support payments.

A grand jury indicted four members of an assisted suicide group Tuesday on charges they helped a 58-year-old man with cancer kill himself, clearing the way for a trial that could not only decide their fate but also help validate - or repudiate - their work.

Last week, the Maryland Democrat Party released a commercial on YouTube attacking former Governor Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr.

Maryland transportation officials are scaling back express toll lanes being added to Interstate 95 in the White Marsh area.

After about a week's delay, the Maryland Senate has confirmed the nomination of Beverly Swaim-Staley as secretary of transportation.

The Department of Defense said a Maryland soldier has died in Afghanistan. Spc. Anthony A. Paci, 30, of Rockville, died Thursday.

ANNAPOLIS -- Gov. Martin O'Malley threw his support behind controversial legislation Wednesday that would offer tax incentives for donations to private school scholarship programs and other education-related nonprofits.

ANNAPOLIS -- Maryland prosecutors said Tuesday they need lawmakers to close loopholes in a law designed to fight rising crime committed by gangs throughout the state, but critics contend the proposal goes too far.