Sun coverage: 1st District race

Coverage of race for the U.S. House seat in Maryland's 1st Congressional District.

Harris leads in fundraising in 1st

Republican state Sen. Andy Harris raised nearly twice as much as Democratic Queen Anne's County State's Attorney Frank Kratovil Jr. during the past two months in the race for Maryland's 1st Congressional District, according to figures released yesterday by the campaigns and the Federal Election Commission.

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Gilchrest fights back

By now, it is a familiar script for Rep. Wayne T. Gilchrest: Every two years, as if on cue, fellow Republicans lambaste the 61-year-old former social studies teacher as too liberal.

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City toddler's death probed
Five people are charged with murder in the death of Javon Thompson, including the boy's mother. The suspects are members of a group police describe as a religious cult.

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