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Tuesday's high-profile races show voters have lost their taste for tea party politics and prefer pro-business problem-solvers

A former Howard County fire officer is suing in federal court to get his job back, alleging that the county violated his constitutional rights by firing him for his personal Facebook posts and responses involving gun control, free speech, "liberal" politics and remarks the county considered racially insensitive.

After 200 years, Second Amendment requires an update

Md. initiative won't make us safer but it will help more people suffering from psychotic symptoms

The Greater Baltimore Committee throws its weight behind the effort to reform Maryland's redistricting process.

Founded on $1.2 million in state funding provided under the gun-control legislation that took effect this month, new Maryland center aims to target psychosis in a fresh way: By identifying it in the earliest stages and providing support before symptoms can spiral out of control.

Poll gives Brown 2-1 lead over Gansler

Supreme Court's decision not to review case involving Maryland's limits on handgun permits bodes well for gun control at the state and local level

A federal appeals court upheld the law earlier this year

If you ask Kyle Lorton, politics shouldn't be a career ambition.

Arrogant lawmakers

Attorney general's sudden conversion on issue of taxes doesn't pass the smell test

Neither side is willing to be intellectually honest about the nature of the risk from firearms or what works to combat it.

Maryland gun dealers have sold more firearms in the first nine months of this year than in all of 2011 and 2012 combined, the state police said Wednesday. Buyers have applied to purchase 117,009 guns this year as state lawmakers debated and enacted some of the toughest new gun laws in the country.

Maryland wrong to impose restrictions on gun sales

New law won't stop criminals from getting guns

Attorneys for the state argued Monday that Maryland's sweeping new gun law should take effect Tuesday as planned, telling a federal court that the gun-rights advocates seeking to halt it should have lodged their objections months ago.

Maryland's new gun control law, which goes into effect tomorrow, will survive legal challenges and will make Marylanders safer.

Maryland's new fingerprint requirement and better tools for state police will help prevent criminals from getting firearms.

It won't matter if you're obeying every other traffic law: Starting Tuesday, if you're talking on a hand-held mobile phone while driving in Maryland, the police will have the right to pull you over and ticket you.

Gun rights advocates filed a second lawsuit against Maryland's new gun law Friday, calling a requirement that buyers of handguns obtain a license an "unconstitutional de facto ban" on sales.

Gun rights advocates said Thursday that they had filed a federal lawsuit to block Maryland's new gun-control laws from going into effect next week, arguing restrictions on assault weapons and large magazines infringe on their constitutional rights.

DeMarco is the man to push for national gun control laws

Gun violence: Get used to it

Ultimate test of Md.'s new gun law

Extremist ideologies are not the answer

The president's message challenges us to finally do what is necessary to reduce gun violence in America

Dale Bowman, 71, who has owned his Darlington gun shop for nearly two decades, said Maryland's latest wave of gun control laws, set to go into effect Oct. 1, will push his normally faithful clientele to out-of-state shops. He said Maryland's stricter gun control laws may impact his businesses' economic security.

As Baltimore County police replace nearly 2,000 service weapons, they won't allow the old ones to be sold in gun shops — a decision that will prevent firearms from entering the open market but could triple the agency's cost.

Maryland's new handgun licensing law will be waived for the nearly 50,000 gun buyers still waiting for background checks, the state police said Tuesday.

Marylanders have been rushing to buy guns at the rate of 1,000 a day over the past two weeks, hastening the pace of an unprecedented surge in gun sales. More than 102,000 gun purchase applications have been submitted so far this year — twice the number for all of 2011, Maryland state police said Monday.

Maryland's gun laws are widely considered tougher than those of neighboring Virginia, but they would not have stopped the Navy Yard shooter from buying a shotgun and walking it out of a store the same day.

House Republican effort to defund Obamacare suggests they are owned by the insurance industry

Whenever yet another mass shooting happens, I think the only thing that gets analyzed more than gun laws is the issue of mental illness.

Ending mass shootings isn't just about more or better laws; we have to figure out how to foster a culture that doesn't resort to violence.

Gov. Martin O'Malley's political action committee sounded the call Friday for Congress to renew efforts to pass gun control.

No city is immune to the tragedy that occurred in Washington

America's gun culture runs so deep that not even a mass shooting gives us pause anymore.

Televised debate comes as Perry meets with Md. businesses

Speaking outside a steakhouse in Bethesda on Wednesday where he met with Maryland business owners, Texas Gov. Rick Perry dismissed criticism of his visit to a gun manufacturer days after a mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard.

The Renaissance Institute, a continuing education program at Notre Dame University of Maryland for people 55 and older, celebrated its 25th anniversary Sept. 12.

Radio advertisements praising Maryland's new gun law will begin airing in the Baltimore area this week, advocates said, and two prominent area Democrats will lend their voices to supporting the campaign.