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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush will travel to Annapolis to serve as the featured speaker at Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s inauguration Wednesday — a move that will put two favorites of anti-Trump Republicans on stage together.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush will be the featured speaker at Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s inauguration Wednesday, according to Hogan’s office.

Gubernatorial candidates Ben Jealous and Larry Hogan again spent a day touting dueling endorsements on Thursday. Jealous picked up support from the Democratic leaders in the General Assembly, while Hogan, the Republican governor, was endorsed by the statewide Fraternal Order of Police.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on Thursday announced new efforts to combat human trafficking and to help victims.

Prince George's County Executive Rushern Baker is pitching voters that he can turn around Maryland the way he turned around the state's second largest jurisdiction.

Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz — a Democratic candidate for governor and a fixture in state politics for nearly a quarter century — died Thursday morning of cardiac arrest, officials said. Here’s how local political figures were reacting.

Gov. Larry Hogan administration's made its case to state lawmakers Wednesday for a $3 billion package of tax breaks and other incentives to woo HQ2, the secondary Amazon headquarters for which Montgomery County is competing.

Howard County, through the county government and quasi government organization the Howard County Economic Development Authority (HCEDA), submitted a glossy proposal offering up to 8 million square feet of space in the Gateway innovation district development and six miles away in Downtown Columbia.

Gov. Larry Hogan released the details of his $5 billion pitch to lure Amazon to Montgomery County on Monday, proposing a "PRIME" Act that would give Fortune 100 companies that invest $5 billion in the state a series of tax breaks worth $3 billion.

Officials react to the news that Baltimore is not one of the 20 finalists for Amazon's second headquarters — but Montgomery County is still in the running.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s administration will submit legislation in the next few weeks to pass a $5 billion incentive package for Amazon HQ2, his spokesman Doug Mayer said.

Montgomery County officials have settled a civil rights violation claim with the family of a Gaithersburg man who died after county police officers shot him with a Taser during a 2013 arrest.

The Laurel City Council June 12 announced that Mayor Craig Moe signed onto the "We Are Still In" initiative, a national coalition of leaders focused on maintaining the Paris Climate Agreement, which President Trump dropped June 1.

Three Maryland counties are disputing a report issued by the Trump administration last week that identified them as failing to honor federal requests to hold immigrants in their custody — saying they have no record of the requests ever being made.

Three Maryland counties released undocumented immigrants last month despite requests from federal authorities to keep them in jail, according to a report Monday that is a result of one of President Donald Trump's first executive orders.

City Council President Bernard C. "Jack" Young is joining a coalition pushing for a $15 hourly minimum wage in Baltimore with legislation expected to be introduced at council's meeting Monday.

Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett on Monday vetoed legislation that would have made the wealthy county the first jurisdiction in Maryland to require a

Legislation to raise Montgomery County's minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020 passed the County Council on a 5-to-4 vote Tuesday, but it is unclear whether C

Local and state leaders launched a naming contest Thursday for a long-anticipated bus rapid transit system that aims to reduce traffic along the heavily congested Route 29 corridor and parts of Montgomery County.

Marriott International said Tuesday it plans to commission new offices for its headquarters and build a hotel in downtown Bethesda, keeping its base in Maryland after securing incentives from the county and state worth about $60 million.

An independent review of Taser incidents in Montgomery County determined that police there are not overusing the electronic weapon — a finding that drew criticism from civil liberties activists and relatives of a Gaithersburg man who died in 2013 after being shot by Tasers far above safety limits.

It is an uneasy time to be a law enforcement officer, Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz told the crowd gathered under a tent at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens Friday afternoon.

The two Harford County Sheriff's Office deputies who were shot to death in the line of duty in February will be among those honored at the annual Fallen Heroes Day Tribute this Friday at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens in Timonium, along with a peace officer from Bel Air whose 1920 death had been all but forgotten for decades.

Reflecting the relevance of Maryland this year — and of Leisure World in statewide elections — former President Bill Clinton stopped at the large, Montgomery County retirement community and delivered a 30-minute speech to an overflow crowd on behalf of his wife.

Hogan and Democrats are squabbling, but they actually accomplished some good things this year.

The Montgomery County Council's public safety committee announced Thursday that it has scheduled a hearing next month to review the county police department's

Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett announced Wednesday that he has ordered the police department to examine its use of Tasers and review investigations into four deaths of people shocked by the stun guns fired by officers.

Lawmakers must stiffen the penalties for adults who knowingly allow underage drinking in their homes

Backing up Attorney General Brian E. Frosh's issuance of guidelines for police to avoid racial profiling, the top elected official in Montgomery County recounted a story Tuesday of being harassed by an officer as recently as November.

Hogan, Rutherford have no friends in Baltimore

Former governor Martin O'Malley on Friday will sign a lease for 7,200 square feet of office space across the street from Baltimore's Penn Station, the latest signal he will launch a presidential bid based in the city.

British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline is establishing a vaccine research center in Rockville that it expects will bring 600 jobs to the state.

hough it was held at The Other Barn in Columbia's Oakland Mills, issues broached at Howard County Executive Allan Kittleman's town hall Tuesday night ranged from the hyperlocal to the county-wide.

The Democrats begin 2015 with a political problem: no predominant standard bearer to step up and challenge the incumbent GOP governor in four years. Here's a look at the potential candidates.

It may sound fair for Baltimore, Montgomery and Prince George's counties to get the same school construction deal Baltimore City did, but it's not.

Why should giant defense contractor Lockheed Martin get a hotel tax break that it doesn't need and Maryland can't afford?