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Ellicott City Girl Scouts Congressional Take Our Daughter To Work Day

In a letter to the editor of the Laurel Leader, a resident suggests we should ditch the process of redrawing congressional districts and instead apportion our votes to individual candidates for Congress.

At this point, none of the five have been ruled out for Sunday's game against the Oakland Raiders and Yanda, who had a magnetic resonance imaging test performed Monday that showed no structural damage, left little doubt that he'll play.

The big metrics have been widely reported, but we in the news media haven¿t gone inside the numbers to explore what social media conversations might say about the state of politics, media and the way we communicate today.

Where do some big donors from Maryland donate? Super PACS

Maryland investment firms haven't followed Wall Street's dramatic shift of giving to Republicans dramatic shift

Two Baltimore County councilwomen say prominent developers have targeted their districts with referendum drives challenging recent zoning votes because they are unhappy with their decisions..

On Sept. 11, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 6028, the "No-Hassle Flying Act of 2012." This bill would allow passengers on certain incoming international flights, who are making a domestic connection, to skip baggage claim and go directly to their connecting flight.

Baltimore County prosecutors have accused Steven Douglas Podles of knowingly attempting to transmit the HIV virus to a teenager — a seldom-used, and often controversial, charge. But even as prosecutors prepare their case against Podles, the effectiveness of such laws is being debated by legislators and public health officials from Maryland to California.

The Orioles suddenly find themselves with a logjam at second base after they reactivated Robert Andino from the disabled list on Tuesday. Andino, the starter for most of the season, now will compete with Omar Quintanilla for time at the position.

Hard-rock veterans Kiss and Motley Crue opened up their summer tour at Bristow, Virginia's Jiffy Lube Live on Friday night.

The Howard County Council Thursday prefiled 11 different amendments to legislation that would form a Downtown Columbia Partnership, including proposed changes to the partnership's leadership structure and the entity administering funds collected for affordable housing.

The Library of Congress' new exhibition in Washington -- Books That Shaped America -- includes works by the cream of American authors, but there is a gaping hole: Edgar Allen Poe.

Less than a year removed from the birth of her second son, Keli Smith Puzo is ready to prove that motherhood doesn't necessarily need to end a world-class athletic career. This August in London, she is determined to help U.S. women's field hockey capture its first Olympic medal since 1984.

The War of 1812 gave Americans a confirmed sense of national sovereignty and propelled Andrew Jackson into the presidency. It gave the Navy a motto: "Don't give up the ship." And it gave us our national anthem.

War of 1812 battlefields and other historic sites in Maryland could get a boost from legislation pending in Congress that would give the U.S. Department of Interior power to acquire the properties for preservation. Currently the federal government may do so only for Civil War battlefields.