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Two ballot questions supported with an infusion of cash from the chairman of Sinclair Broadcast Group may appear on ballots this fall in Baltimore.
- Maryland joined a multistate coalition supporting the federal government’s moves to prevent Texas and Idaho from exempting abortion from a law requiring hospitals to provide emergency care, Attorney General Brian Frosh said Tuesday.
- As home prices rise, buyers can now eliminate up to $50,000 of their student debt under Maryland’s SmartBuy program, Gov. Larry Hogan announced Monday.
- Young Baltimore families chosen to participate in a new guaranteed income pilot program will receive their first check soon, Mayor Brandon Scott announced Monday.
- The Maryland State Board of Elections will seek a court's permission to start counting mail-in ballots before Election Day in November, hoping to reduce delays that meant voters didn't know for days who had won primary races.
- Plans to build a multipurpose Hagerstown stadium have run into “a little sand in the gears,” but officials remain confident the ballpark will be built and ready to host baseball in 2024.
- From lower prescription costs to cleaner power, here’s what the federal "Inflation Reduction Act" means for Maryland.
- Thirty-two years after they attended the Naval Academy, Mike Graham and Heather Keane returned to the Yard as parents this weekend to say goodbye to their daughter Darby as she concludes Plebe Summer and enters the institution in the Class of 2026.
- Questions have been raised about the effectiveness and oversight of the COVID-19 relief program, which awarded $28.6 billion in grants to thousands of businesses.
- A federal judge has ruled that Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services violated anti-discrimination laws in its dealings with a gay employee.
- Environmentalists and scientists worry that a proposed Federalsburg salmon farm could inundate the shallow Marshyhope Creek with surges of cold water that could make it inhospitable for its spawning population of Atlantic sturgeon.
- Gasoline prices dipped to just under the $4 mark for the first time in more than five months — good news for consumers struggling with high prices for many essentials.
- Bryan Betancur, a Silver Spring man described by the FBI as a “self-professed” white supremacist, was sentenced Wednesday to four months of incarceration for storming the U.S. Capitol while wearing a court-mandated device that tracked his movements, court records show.
- Greater transparency is needed before Maryland settles on any eligibility requirements regarding who can serve on local police accountability boards, advocates for police reform in Maryland said Wednesday.
- The Baltimore Department of Finance erroneously refunded the wrong company more than $2 million, of which nearly $60,000 has yet to be recovered, according to a report Tuesday from the city’s inspector general.
- Several Baltimore City Council members continued their push for Baltimore to use more of its American Rescue Plan dollars to restore city services impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, such as waste collection, during a quarterly hearing about the federal funding Tuesday.
- The Republican gubernatorial nominee said on social media he would, as governor, use the Maryland State Police and Maryland National Guard “to stand against all rogue actions of this out of control tyrannical Biden administration with fierce tenacity.”
- Three hundred members of the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services staff are receiving training on adolescent brain science, the psychology of trauma and cognitive behavioral therapy.
- Harford County Executive Barry Glassman, a moderate Republican, finds it frustrating being on a statewide ticket with GOP extremists Dan Cox, a 2020 election denier, and Michael Peroutka, who once belonged to a "neo-Confederate" group. Cox is running for governor, Peroutka attorney general and Glassman comptroller.
- County Executive Steuart Pittman selected Howard County attorney and recent political candidate Janssen Evelyn as the first-ever executive director of the county’s recently formed police accountability board.
- Michael Huber, Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott's top assistant since Scott took office in December 2020, will take a new job as director of Maryland state government affairs for Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Medicine. His replacement has yet to be selected.
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- A team of bomb technicians neutralized explosive devices discovered in Harford County on Wednesday, the Maryland Office of the State Fire Marshal said.
- Marylanders won't be able to place mobile sports bets until 2023.
- Texas put to death a man who fatally stabbed a suburban Dallas real estate agent more than 16 years ago, the second execution this year in what has been the nation’s busiest death penalty state.
- Marylanders won't be able to place mobile sports bets until 2023.
- The Sun has raised important questions about whether restaurants put federal COVID relief funds to good use.
- One person died after a car crashed into a truck Wednesday in Northeast Baltimore, Baltimore Police said.
