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Will Davis is an aspiring photographer. As he traveled around Europe this offseason, collecting stamps on his passport, the

It was a typical winter morning on the Twitter feed of Eastern Shore television station WBOC: a stream of messages about snowfall and a reminder to download the station's weather app for the latest updates.

In the coming days a speck is expected to rise on the Baltimore skyline: It's a giant balloon that the Army will be floating high above Middle River to scan the skies for cruise missiles.

Police can track the location of suspects through cellphone data but the technology raises serious privacy issues

The Democrats have led the country astray; vote them out.

Texas needs photo ID law so liberals won't truck in ineligible voters

Claim that Lone Star State's voter ID law is discriminatory and unconstitutional is a bunch of bull

Supreme Court may have failed to stand up to racist voter ID law but powerful (and bipartisan) dissenting opinions will be heard

Political ploys — including the prosecution of Tom Delay and claims that voter reforms discriminate — irk Maryland's former governor.

A woman is charged with identity fraud and related charges for allegedly using her landlord's information to open a cell phone account.

Double-voting is not the only problem facing Maryland and other states that don't have photo ID requirement

'Smart' guns are no safer than ordinary firearms

The State Board of Elections has alerted the Office of the State Prosecutor to a report that 164 people voted in both Maryland and Virginia in the November 2012 presidential election, in violation of the law.

A former city school board member and city government worker who is accused of lying about his resume will be tried in court on fraud charges this fall.

The owner of two Columbia spas has been indicted on human trafficking and prostitution charges in connection with an alleged prostitution ring he ran out of the businesses, according to Howard County police.

A Glen Burnie man charged with having drugs during an I-95 traffic stop near Aberdeen also has an extensive criminal record across multiple states, an assistant state's attorney said.

Maryland congressman's innovative plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions but shield average Americans from higher energy prices deserves serious consideration

The state Board of Public Works approved a contract worth an estimated $2.6 million Wednesday for a contractor to monitor the credit activity of an estimated 300,000 people whose personal information was exposed as a result of a computer security breach discovered at the University of Maryland early this year.

Congregants at Atonement Lutheran Church in Parkville has supported a woman and her children from Kenya and also handcraft greeting cards for prisoners.

This July 4th was my first as a U.S. citizen. It was a special treat glancing over at Vice President Joe Biden in the 2014 Philadelphia Independence Day Parade, while playing alongside my fellow Falun Gong practitioners in our waist drum troupe, despite the memories it stirred. If I had done anything like this in China, I would have been imprisoned – again -- and routinely tortured.

Howard County Public Schools leads all state systems in percentage of high school graduates that go on to enroll in college, according to Maryland Department of Education data.

Wegmans of Columbia has partnered with the Howard County Department of Recreation & Parks and the Columbia Association to deliver programming incentivizing the use of the county's trail system.

President Obama's nominee to lead the Social Security Administration will face tough questioning from lawmakers at her confirmation hearing, experts predict — and many of the hardest queries could come from members of her own party.

The Army is planning to launch a pair of blimps over Maryland this fall to watch the Eastern Seaboard for incoming cruise missiles. It's what else they might be able to see from up there that worries privacy advocates.

Without visa backlog reform, millions of people's lives are in limbo as they wait for their chance to start a new life in the United States. As Justice Breyer put it during oral argument in the Mayorkas case, "They've all been waiting for years and years and years, and it becomes hard to choose among them."

A historic YMCA in Mount Vernon, once home to confessed Soviet spy Whittaker Chambers and a hotel run by the former Baltimore International Culinary college, is to become a 197-room Hotel Indigo, one of the new owners said.

Carey Business School's commencement speaker should answer for his company's ties with the NRA.

Bond Mill PTO Carnival is Saturday, May 17 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Prince George's County Department of Environmental Resources will no longer accept yard waste such as grass, leaves and sticks in plastic bags, must use paper bags or a reusable container. West Laurel Civic Association 2014 spring General Meeting will be held on Thursday, May 15 at 7:30 p.m. at the West Laurel Community Building. West Laurel mourns the loss of Chuck Lavin who passed away in April after a long illness.

Crime reports from the north Baltimore City neighborhoods

A warm spring April day and a line formed at Summer Shack Snoball Stand on West Joppa Road; newly renovated meat counter at Graul's in Mays Chapel and local accounting firm KatzAbosch appears on MPT.

More than 2,000 Social Security numbers of former Johns Hopkins University graduate students were exposed to potential hackers, the university confirmed Saturday.

A series of recent federal reports have raised concerns with safety in small field offices scattered across the country, where federal employees at the IRS, Social Security Administration and other agencies are more likely to interact with the public.