elijah cummings

Rep. Elijah E. Cummings is requesting that a group whose affiliates have challenged the legitimately of thousands of voter registrations, including some in Maryland, turn over documents to demonstrate how it determines which registrations to target.

The Department of Justice, which hasn't visited the Baltimore City Detention Center in nearly two years despite an agreement with the state to oversee reforms at the facility, will tour the jail today.

Ann McAllister Hughes, an artist who retired from teaching art at Baltimore public schools and had chaired the art department at Forest Park High School, died July 27 of pulmonary failure at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson.

Dozens of one-time paperboys and girls gathered for breakfast at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum as part of the paper's 120th anniversary.

Under a landmark $175 million deal, Wells Fargo Bank will provide $7.5 million to the city of Baltimore to settle claims it engaged in price discrimination in its subprime mortgage lending practices.

George K. McKinney, the first African-American U.S. marshal for the District of Maryland, whose career in federal service spanned more than 45 years, died Sunday of leukemia at his Northwest Baltimore home. He was 77.

A study suggesting that the sophistication of congressional floor speeches has declined by a full grade level since 2005 ranks Reps. Chris Van Hollen and John Sarbanes as the most eloquent ¿ or verbose, depending on your perspective ¿ members of Maryland¿s delegation to Washington.

Santino Quaranta's anti-drug message came from the heart. The ex-D.C. United midfielder spoke to Baltimore-area high school athletes about the perils of substance abuse.

Santino Quaranta's anti-drug message came from the heart. The ex-D.C. United midfielder spoke to Baltimore-area high school athletes about the perils of substance abuse.

About 100 U.S. Secret Service agents will take part in a two-day ethics training this week to be overseen by professors at Johns Hopkins University — a response to the widening prostitution scandal that began in Colombia, agency and university officials said Monday.

Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, on Monday requested a meeting with Wal-Mart officials in response to allegations that the retailer covered up a bribery scheme to expand its business in Mexico.

Rep. Elijah Cummings' op-ed about Sandra Fluke struck a chord with one Baltimore doctor.

Congressional investigators name three companies in drug shortage investigation

If there has been racial discrimination, subtle or otherwise, the U.S. Justice Department wants to find out, and is investigating possible bias against African-Americans in county police and fire department hiring.

Patricia T. "Patty" Rouse, who with her late husband James W. Rouse co-founded what is now the Enterprise Community Partners Inc. and had an un abiding belief that all Americans were entitled to decent and affordable housing, died Monday. She was 85.

Federal employee unions and some Democratic lawmakers from Maryland on Monday criticized President Barack Obama's proposed $3.8 trillion budget for 2013 because of cuts to retirement plans.

As the federal government and 49 states signed onto a landmark mortgage relief settlement, housing advocates and others pointed to shortcomings.

With the presidential election in full swing and Congress mired in gridlock, President Barack Obama used his third State of the Union address Tuesday to sound a populist message on the economy, outlining a series of policies he said would give the middle class "a fair shot" at prosperity.

Anne Arundel County Briefs

Rep. Elijah Cummings says he will donate campaign funds he received from a convicted tax evader to charity, but that's the same as keeping the money if he takes a tax write-off on it

Event will still happen, but without $5,000 from Arundel, because organization lacks nonprofit status

Anne Arundel County Briefs

Anne Arundel County Briefs

A massive, $662 billion defense measure that authorizes hundreds of millions of dollars in spending on Maryland's military facilities cleared a final vote in the Senate Thursday and now heads to President Barack Obama, who is expected to sign it into law.

Anne Arundel County Briefs

Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the top-ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, launched an investigation into for-profit colleges Monday, seeking compensation information from top executives.

beautiful new state-of-the art Charles E. Miller Branch & Historical Center will also feature The Enchanted Garden, a sustainable, community-based teaching garden that will focus on health, nutrition and environmental education.

The 89-year-old mother of Alan Gross, the Maryland man who is serving 15 years in a Cuban prison after taking cell phones, laptop computers and satellite equipment into the communist nation, released a video statement on Thursday appealing to President Raúl Castro for his release.

A Cockeysville man whose wife was killed in an accident last year when her car was struck by a tractor-trailer appeared Wednesday on Capitol Hill to argue against a proposal to allow truck drivers to spend more time on the road.

Baltimore City State's Attorney Gregg L. Bernstein hosted a summit Tuesday about witness intimidation where police, prosecutors and witness assistance providers could discuss the best ways to protect and support victims and witnesses of crime.

'What does Julius need to make city turnout stay low?' Ehrlich campaign email asks.

Jury selected in case against veteran political operative accused of orchestrating election-day robo-calls to suppress the black vote

Illegal immigrants in Baltimore will be among the first in the nation to have their cases reviewed under a new policy that focuses on people who have committed crimes since arriving in the United States while freezing the cases of some of those who have not.

The commandant of the Coast Guard, in Maryland this week to visit a new national security cutter, said Thursday that he expects to deploy two of the state-of-the-art vessels off the East Coast.

At a time when campaigns in Baltimore usually are over, candidates in two City Council races are spending thousands of dollars battling to win the Nov. 8 general election.

After 15 years in the Post Office basement, the Howard County Welcome Center is expanding and sprucing up to meet the growing demand for its services.

Politicians in other states might be reluctant to stand up for an official accused of corruption, but in Maryland, leading elected officials have testified as character witnesses for state Sen. Ulysses Currie, who is charged with bribery.

In one of Maryland's first large campaign events of the 2012 election, Democratic leaders rallied in Silver Spring Wednesday for President Barack Obama — but also for a competitive congressional race recently made competitive by redistricting.