Patrick Maynard

Recent shipments Maryland policing organizations under the Pentagon's controversial 1033 program include a Humvee and an armored carrier

When President Obama called recently for limiting a controversial federal program that allows law enforcement agencies to obtain surplus military equipment, he pointedly mentioned the unrest in Baltimore. But Baltimore's police department had not used the program since 2013, according to a Baltimore Sun review of federal records. And items the president wishes to ban are largely absent from recent grants to city police.

Looking for Maryland's highest-paid state employees? You'll find them in University of Maryland locker rooms in College Park and its medical school in Baltimore.

Canadian trio at Penn Relays has run abroad, but never like this