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The director of the Johns Hopkins Regional Burn Center has filed a lawsuit that accuses his superiors of covering up what he says is "unsafe and dangerous" care at the center's pediatric unit and of retaliating against him after he reported his allegations internally. Hopkins denies the allegations.

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Former Chestertown City Council member charged with theft by Maryland State Prosecutor

The director of Baltimore's floundering CitiStat agency has been operating a private legal practice that works for state government under a five-year contract worth up to nearly $1 million.

Nearly 550,000 emails were on a hard drive recently delivered to the Maryland State Archives from the office of former Gov. Martin O'Malley.

As Martin O'Malley continues his week-long celebration of St. Patrick's Day with a wee bit of guitar playing tonight in Washington, a well-known Irish-American Democrat from Boston says he told the former Maryland governor to give Hillary Clinton a competitive race.

When Baltimore Clerk of Courts Frank M. Conaway Sr. died on Feb. 15, neither his daughter Belinda K. Conaway, the current Baltimore register of wills, nor her stepmother Mary W. Conaway, the former register of wills, could find an important document: his will.

Several elected officials are calling for closer scrutiny of CitiStat, the data-driven Baltimore agency that has been faltering in its mission to monitor the performance of the government's work.

In speeches and documents, Baltimore's mayor continues to brag about CitiStat, the data-driven accountability agency that has helped guide policy and strategy for the past 15 years. But statistics about the agency's performance tell a different story. In 2014, BaltCitiStat lost data-analysis staff, failed to publish any department reports and canceled a third of the meetings that have been the backbone of a process still replicated in other U.S. cities. Some departments, including those

The Maryland attorney general's Medicaid fraud control team is investigating LifeLine Inc., the state contractor that managed a group home for disabled foster children where a 10-year-old Baltimore boy died last summer.

A guardian for a disabled foster child who was injured at a troubled group home last year has sued the state contractor that ran the facility and the Maryland government agencies responsible for supervising its care.

A high-ranking official in the Episcopal Church is calling on the denomination to "repent for our role" in the death of bicyclist Thomas Palermo by examining "systemic denial" about alcohol and drug abuse, and reforming the process by which bishops are elected.

The legal fight over land playing out between the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland and a tiny Middle River church is one of the rare lawsuits filed against the denomination in the state. But it's one of dozens of such cases across the nation over 30 years that have turned on Constitutional questions that the Supreme Court has attempted to answer more than once.

The Episcopal Diocese of Maryland is engaged in a years-long property dispute with a Middle River congregation over waterfront property near Martin State Airport

Engineering competition challenges middle school students in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. to devise concepts of future cities

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Maryland charities Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland and U.S. Naval Academy all report offshore investment accounts

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The disabled foster children removed from a troubled Laurel-area group home this summer were placed by Maryland regulators in facilities where their nurses lacked training for their complex medical needs, inspection records show.

Two men were in stable condition Saturday night at area hospitals after suffering gunshot wounds in separate incidents, Baltimore police said.

In a speech Saturday at Morgan State University, Louis Farrakhan predicted violence in Ferguson this week and castigated black leaders for trying to pacify protesters who have a right to express outrage over police brutality.

A fire in the 1900 block of West Baltimore Street torched the upper two floors of a single-family row house on Saturday.

Two statewide legal advocacy groups based in Baltimore were correct in accusing the Housing Authority of Prince George's County of violating open meetings law when its board met in August to approve a new budget without notifying the public.

The state senator who has been scrutinizing Maryland's regulation of group homes for disabled foster children is questioning results of an investigation into the death of 10-year-old Damaud Martin.

Maryland health regulators found multiple violations at group home where foster child died but none that caused his death

With Maryland's long campaign for governor now over, the unexpected election of Republican businessman Larry Hogan has given rise to an intense new campaign now just beginning: The jockeying among advocates and interest groups for attention, jobs and influence in a rare GOP administration.

Gov. Martin O¿Malley¿s chief of staff is scheduled this afternoon to hold the first meeting with a representative for Gov.-elect Larry Hogan to begin the transition process following the Republican¿s upset victory on Tuesday.

Goodwill, Johns Hopkins, University of Maryland, Catholic Relief Services, The Associated received millions in private donations in 2013

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As Maryland health officials begin reforming their oversight of services for adults and children with disabilities, advocates are demanding greater urgency and specific fixes to address a reported increase in abuse and neglect of disabled people.

Health officials aim to strengthen oversight of facilities for disabled foster children.

Prince George's County group home employees fired for abusing autistic child

The state medical examiner has ruled that the death in July of 10-year-old Damaud Martin in a state-regulated group home was caused by complications from cerebral palsy and past head trauma — severe conditions stemming from abuse the Baltimore boy suffered more than six years ago.

The July death of a 10-year-old disabled foster child has been ruled a homicide — six years after the Baltimore city boy's mother shook him into a coma-like state, Baltimore police announced Monday.