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O'Malley 'always writing' but is coy on book plans

African leaders gathered in Washington this week must focus on containing the Ebola outbreak threatening their continent

Installing back seat credit card readers may be the least of the cab industry's troubles

Programmers answer O'Malley's challenge to create Bay-friendly apps in 'Reclaim the Bay' event

A troubled Reservoir Hill property that came to be known as "Murder Mall" will be demolished under an agreement that's left some residents relieved, but others worried about where they'll go.

As Gov. Martin O'Malley has extended a welcoming hand to immigrant children fleeing Central America, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Anthony G. Brown and Republican rival Larry Hogan have staked out starkly different positions on whether he is handling the influx wisely.

Elizabeth C. Bellavance, educator, social activist and patron of the academic and arts communities, died July 24 of cancer at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center in Richmond, Va. She was 77.

WASHINGTON -- Citing "very serious" concerns about the project's impact on Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski tucked language into a military spending bill that would delay the construction of a massive wind farm on the Eastern Shore.

The Coast Guard has rescinded a plan to hire contractors to manage an increased workload at a facility in West Virginia after the American Federation of Government Employees complained that doing so would violate federal law.

Maryland Investigators are searching for a convict who escaped home detention.

Of the prospective GOP presidential nominees, none has yet developed the credentials to claim rightfully to be next in line.

O'Malley should put his money where his mouth is

WASHINGTON — Criticism of President Barack Obama's nominee to lead the Social Security Administration appeared to evaporate Thursday at a confirmation hearing that featured few questions about controversial service cuts and recent allegations of mismanagement.

Hogan blames O'Malley-Brown for 'food deserts'

Anne Arundel County Council candidate stands up for secessionist, pro-Confederate group and denounces those who see racism there.

Maryland Health Secretary Joshua M. Sharfstein will step down in January when Gov. Martin O'Malley leaves office to become an associate dean at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

First, Anne Arundel County Council candidate Michael Peroutka talks about the need to destroy the "current regime," secede and establish a government based on the Bible.

Election of our first woman as president will be to politics what sports writers term a "game changer!" Events will begin to be judged by "before HRC" and "after HRC."

Gov. Martin O'Malley's evident belief that fracking can be done safely belies the lack of evidence.

Ehrlich's predictions for the future failed to mention his return to reason

Wednesday is Baltimore's 285th birthday. Or is it? A quick Google search definitively declares July 30, 1729 as the day Baltimore was founded, but historians like Fred Shoken say deciding what day to celebrate the city's birth is a little more complicated.

The General Services Administration released a long anticipated list of sites on Tuesday it said could accommodate the FBI's requirements for a new home to replace the 39-year-old J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington. Two of the properties are in Maryland — one in Greenbelt, the other in Landover — and a third is in Springfield, Va.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's proposal to sell garages to fund new rec centers is an appealing idea — provided it really generates the kind of windfall she's advertising.

Harford County government and the county's volunteer fire and EMS companies are discussing proposed changes to a county-funded retirement program for the volunteer firemen, including lowering age of eligibility to receive benefits.

A candidate for Baltimore County Council says she supports plans to bring 50 immigrant children to a Catholic Charities home in Timonium.

Maryland religious leaders issued a call for families to offer foster care to immigrant children from Central America who may be on their way to Maryland as part of a national influx of unaccompanied minors fleeing violence there.

Michael Peroutka is white, smart, and rich, but it's doubtful that many of his potential constituents have used their advantages in the way he long has: to advance a militant theocratic agenda.

The Office of Personnel Management has been working on rules for a phased retirement plan for federal employees for more than two years, and lawmakers are getting anxious.

Obituary Charles R. Larson

The Texas governor plans to protect the border with 1,000 National Guard troops -- more than our president is doing.

Proposed rules for Maryland's nascent medical marijuana system are drawing objections from a leading advocate, who says the regulations could discourage doctors from participating.

After all, unlike in 1776 when there was taxation without representation, in our era, tax policies are made by people who answer to those of us who vote.

O'Malley may have helped Beretta make up its mind to leave Md.

Gov. Martin O'Malley knows nothing about keeping businesses in Maryland.

Baltimore-area chefs are among those whose recipes are being featured at the annual event

Maryland uses incarceration and residential placement for youth too much. But there are solutions.

Aubrey Karoglan and Carlyn Wiedecker will be two of about 11,000 first- and second-year teachers participating in this year's crop through Teach for America.

What kind of human being looks at a humanitarian crisis and thinks: photo op?

Zhenchun "Ted" Huang, a longtime resident of a Clarksville subdivision, pleaded guilty this month to federal charges that he tried to fraudulently obtain electronic devices that can be used in fabricating missile detectors. Former neighbors in the suburban development were shocked.

As dozens of supporters and opponents looked on, Maryland's top elected officials gave a key approval Wednesday to developing a natural gas export facility in southern Maryland that some fear could threaten nearby residents' safety and the environment.

Beretta's move to Tennessee is about more than gun laws, and that should be the focus of debate in the Md. governor's race.

In a full reversal of existing state healthcare policy, transgender state employees in Maryland can now access gender reassignment surgery, hormone therapy and other transition-related care under their state-provided health insurance plans.

Soda ban is typical of Democrats' in loco parentis

Beretta USA, the American arm of an iconic Italian gun maker, said Tuesday that it would move all of its U.S. manufacturing activities from Prince George's County to Tennessee because of the gun control law the Maryland General Assembly passed in 2013.

Longtime Baltimore grocery chain Stop Shop and Save is in the process of closing its last four locations, leaving behind some neighborhoods without a grocery store to call their own.

O'Malley claim of not accepting underachieving bureaucracy is contradicted the same day he says it

Plan to reduce inspections of nursing homes and other health care facilities could be disastrous for patients