Politics

Rep. Andy Harris, a supporter of former President Donald Trump and the only Republican in Maryland’s congressional delegation, says Trump’s indictment shows “we live in a third world banana republic where the justice system is weaponized against political opponents.”

The former Gunpowder Falls State Park manager currently on trial for rape and assault repeatedly told police that he did not attack one of his alleged victims despite admitting to doing so in a phone call with her that detectives secretly recorded, according to evidence presented at his trial this week and charging documents.

Maryland legislators' deal on the state budget will keep $9 million in a scholarship program that sends students from families with low incomes to private and parochial schools, while adding $900 million toward the state’s long-term public education reform plan.

Four Baltimore County Council members heard new details from the county corrections director about conditions for youth at the county jail March 17 in a virtual meeting that wasn’t recorded or open to the public.

The Maryland Public Defender called on state lawmakers to help end the practice of putting children in the county’s adult jail in Towson.

Lt. Col. Roland L. Butler Jr. will become the first Black superintendent of the Maryland State Police after the state Senate confirmed Gov. Wes Moore’s nominee with a final vote Friday.

The House passed the Child Victims Act on a vote of 132-2. This is the closest the legislation has come to reaching the governor’s desk since Del. C.T. Wilson first sponsored it in 2019.

Maryland has a long history with rye whiskey.