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It's still two years until the 2018 elections, but potential candidates already are lining up at a shot to become Baltimore County executive. The seat will be open -- current Executive Kevin Kamenetz, a Democrat, is term-limited -- and Democrats and Republicans will fight hard for the chance to run the state's third-largest county.

With 10 weeks until election day, the Republican primary for Anne Arundel county executive is heating up as candidates Steve Schuh and Laura Neuman trade barbs over spending and boast about their endorsements. Neuman, meanwhile, has lost her campaign manager.

One year ago, John R. Leopold stood before a court to answer allegations that he abused his power as county executive by ordering staffers and police officers to carry out personal and campaign tasks. Soon he'll be back in court, trying to get his conviction overturned on appeal.

Del. Don Dwyer Jr. of Anne Arundel County was ordered Friday to serve 60 days in jail — on weekends — for charges of drinking and boating and drunken driving, in separate incidents.

Del. Steve Schuh has picked up the endorsement of former lieutenant governor and Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele in his bid to become Anne Arundel County executive next year.

Anne Arundel County Executive Laura Neuman said she's taken steps toward running for full term in 2014. She'll likely face County Councilman John Grasso and Del. Steve Schuh in the Republican primary.

Anne Arundel County Executive Laura A. Neuman has launched an investigation into allegations that County Police Chief Larry Tolliver used homophobic slurs and retaliated against officers whose testimony led to her predecessor's criminal conviction for misconduct.

The Anne Arundel County Council passed a measure to restrict development in environmentally critical areas, then heard a debate on a proposed fee to fund better stormwater-management practices.

John R. Leopold stepped down Friday as Anne Arundel County executive, bringing an apparent end to the decades-long career of an idiosyncratic and charismatic force in Maryland politics who as recently as a year ago was considering a run for statewide office.

Anne Arundel County Executive John R. Leopold waived his right to a jury trial Thursday, clearing the way for attorneys to begin opening statements on Friday in a case that now will be heard by a single judge.

Asked to confirm a decision by state health secretary Joshua Sharfstein to fire county health officer Angela Wakhweya, the Anne Arundel County Council votes to postpone the matter until its next meeting Jan. 22.

Anne Arundel County Executive John R. Leopold said Tuesday that the county will host a forum in February to discuss mental health initiatives in the county — an event he said is in response to the shootings last week in Newtown, Conn., in which 20 students and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School were shot and killed by a 20-year-old man.

Anne Arundel County may get a new police academy to replace a facility that was built as a military Nike missile site more than a half-century ago.

Anne Arundel County has ordered homeless people living in a tent city Glen Burnie to leave there by April 3.

Sitting at a table in a school cafeteria in Severna Park, Anne Arundel County Executive John R. Leopold didn't look like a politician under siege as he spoke to residents for hours on a recent evening.

An Anne Arundel county councilman was peppered with questions about diversity on the all-white, all-male council — and criticized for his public use of a racial slur — before storming out of a forum.

In the last few months, life has gotten a lot busier for Anne Arundel County Councilman Derek Fink.

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

Advocates pushing for laws barring discrimination against transgender individuals are looking to local jurisdictions after suffering a defeat in the state legislature and a brutal attack on a woman at a Baltimore County McDonald's last spring.

Furious that the Anne Arundel County Council has approved controversial zoning changes that will intensify development in the most rural areas of the county, residents hope to overturn the measure.

The Anne Arundel County Council denied this week the school board's efforts to reshuffle existing funds within the approved budget to honor wage agreement that the board had negotiated with the union.

Anne Arundel County Executive John R. Leopold on Friday urged the County Council to reject Schools Superintendent Kevin M. Maxwell's plan to give $5.5 million in pay raises to county teachers.