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Tuesday’s election results mean that in 2019 Democrats will hold the top job in seven of Maryland’s eight largest jurisdictions. Meanwhile, Republicans — still riding high from Hogan’s historic win over Democrat Ben Jealous — looked around the state to see their bench had been decimated.

The embattled leader of Prince George’s County’s public schools will give up his post at the helm of Maryland’s second-largest school system, a school district spokesman said Tuesday.

The Maryland Senate voted Thursday to overhaul the way the state approves funding for school construction projects, ending a legislative flurry that has provoked Gov. Larry Hogan and Comptroller Peter Franchot to direct sharp accusations of cronyism at the legislature.

A sweeping crime bill that passed the Maryland Senate with Gov. Larry Hogan's support is being attacked by critics who call it an election year ploy tainted by harsh, racist sentencing proposals.

The House of Delegates should let a Senate bail bill die rather than engage in a divisive fight over flawed legislation.

In what could be a devastating blow to bail bondsmen, Maryland's Legislative Black Caucus voted overwhelmingly Thursday to oppose legislation that would negate part of a rule adopted by the state's top court diminishing the role of cash bail in pretrial release.

With a grave threat hanging over its future viability, Maryland's bail bond industry can now draw on years of goodwill fostered by its generous contributions to the state's politicians.

The Maryland Legislative Black Caucus voted Thursday to recommend that the General Assembly take no action on any of the bail reform bills before it this year and let a landmark rule adopted by the state's high court take effect without alteration.

A three-judge panel has ordered Maryland Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. and House Speaker Michael E. Busch to give depositions and turn over documents in a federal lawsuit challenging the 2011 redrawing of the state's congressional districts.

Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh has a stark warning for the General Assembly: A bill backed by the bail bond industry could undo a landmark rule issued by the state's top court curbing the role of money in determining which accused suspects are granted pretrial release and which are not.

Advocates for criminal justice reform urged Maryland lawmakers Wednesday to pass legislation that would build on the state judiciary's new rule instructing the courts to avoid setting bail that is beyond the defendant's ability to pay.

Police powers for Baltimore prosecutors could help street drug enforcement, panel is told

A legislative task force voted on a set of recommendations that increased transparency around the use mechanical restraints on juveniles accused of committing crimes, but stopped short of proposing sweeping reforms that would drastically curtial the highly contested practice.

A legislative task force charged with reforming policies on strip-searches of juvenile offenders voted Thursday to restrict the use of the practice except in very narrow circumstances.

Maryland task force postpones vote on recommendations to reform strip-search and shackling policies.

Advocates, lawmakers convene for first task force meeting on reforms

If the goal of today's college students is to finish with as little debt as possible, Ifechukwudeli Okafor of Overlea has begun with the aim of a marksman.

Gov.-elect Larry Hogan said he will begin announcing his appointments to key state positions before Christmas – probably as early as next week.

The General Assembly took an important step toward repealing Maryland's death penalty Thursday night when the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee approved Gov. Martin O'Malley's bill to end capital punishment.

Senate committee switch could spring wind bill

Comptroller Peter Franchot has become the latest prominent Democrat to reject the congressional redistricting map drawn by Gov. Martin O'Malley and the General Assembly, urging Marylanders to vote it down at the polls Nov. 6.

Gov. Martin O'Malley and the ruling Democrats in Annapolis worked hard to draw a new congressional map that could force a Republican from office. But the result is such a contorted tangle of districts that even some Democrats have declined to support it.

Candidates in Maryland's competitive political contests fanned out across the state for a final weekend of handshaking ahead of Tuesday's primary, hoping to gin up interest in an election that has largely failed to capture voters' attention.

Despite high-profile races — from a GOP presidential contest that brought the candidates swinging through the state to a nationally significant House race in Western Maryland — elections officials are predicting that turnout could fall to near-record lows in Tuesday's primary.

Seven Republicans, three Democrats run for county exec

With rising oil prices creating a drag on the economy and his own re-election effort, President Barack Obama mocked Republican critics of his alternative energy plans during an appearance in Maryland.

A crowd of hundreds at Prince George’s Community College awaits the arrival this morning of President Barack Obama, who is due to deliver the latest in a series of addresses on energy as rising oil costs create a drag on the economic recovery - and his own reelection effort.

John Bolton, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under George W. Bush, appeared at a fundraiser in Washington on Tuesday for Republican Senate candidate Richard J. Douglas, telling about two dozen supporters that Maryland ¿is a winnable state¿ for the GOP with the right candidate.

Sen. Ben Cardin won the support of the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance on Monday in his bid for a second term, the latest in a series of endorsements the Democrat hopes will secure his support with black voters in the April primary election.

Nearly a half dozen Maryland state lawmakers are hoping to exploit the nation's anti-incumbent mood with campaigns for Congress that focus heavily on Washington's dysfunction.

NAACP, black caucus say legislative map will leave General Assembly overly white

Benjamin L. Cardin formally launched his campaign for re-election on Sunday. The Democrat is one of the few in the nation expected to have an easy ride to another term.

The House passed Gov. Martin O'Malley redistricting plan Wednesday, which shifts the majority of Laurel from House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer's 5th District to the 4th District, currently represented by Democrat Donna Edwards.

Maryland's House of Delegates is poised to give final approval to Gov. Martin O'Malley's redistricting proposal Tuesday, but not before lawmakers engage in what is shaping up to be a final showdown.