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What is the process of filling the seat of Sen. Wayne Norman for the duration of his term, following his death Sunday? The state's Republican central committee has already selected a Harford resident to run in his place on the party's primary election ticket this year.

It's hard to tell what's in the Hogan-Zirkin crime bill, much less to determine whether it will help or hurt Baltimore's fight against violent crime.

The Maryland Senate on Monday night passed a bill to require president and vice presidential candidates to release their tax returns if they wish to appear on the state's ballots.

Wayne Norman, a Bel Air attorney, former state delegate and current state senator, died Sunday, the county executive's office announces.

The Maryland Senate is preparing a comprehensive crime bill that jettisons two key elements of Gov. Larry Hogan's proposal to combat street violence — mandatory minimum sentences and a crackdown on gangs.

A longtime Maryland lawmaker accused a former colleague and current lobbyist of inappropriately touching her, and said it wasn't the first time.

The issue at the forefront of every Americans’ mind right now is obviously school safety.

The Maryland Senate passed a bill that revises the state's current law governing cyberbullying of minors

Baltimore Sen. Nathaniel T. Oaks, who is facing federal corruption charges, has been removed from his committee positions in the Maryland Senate, a unusual disciplinary action that strips Oaks of the type of influence he’s accused of abusing.

The Maryland General Assembly is considering putting the legalization of marijuana for recreational use on the ballot this fall. It's also considering several other legal tweaks now that medical marijuana is available in the state.

Reports of foreign efforts to meddle in the 2016 election detailed in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's indictment last week of 13 Russians have highlighted concerns about whether American voting systems — including Maryland's — are vulnerable to cyberattacks.

Chelsea Manning is uniquely unqualified to serve in public office having violated federal law and leaked classified material.

After Carroll County State’s Attorney Brian DeLeonardo requested that members of the Carroll Delegation submit legislation entitled the Police Protection Act, Sen. Justin Ready and Del. Haven Shoemaker did just that.

bs-ed-op-0222-drug-commission. In the absence of action at the federal level to address rising drug costs, Maryland has taken the lead on this critical issue. This year, we’ve introduced legislation to create a Drug Cost Commission that would set fair rates for high cost drugs in Maryland.

Chelsea Manning, the former Army private convicted of leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents, is running against the establishment in her campaign for Senate in Maryland.

White House scuttles immigration compromise and now owns the fate of 'Dreamers.'

As Washington lawmakers work on a deal to fund the federal government, Gov. Larry Hogan has asked U.S. Senate leaders to kill a House proposal to strip the Environmental Protection Agency of its authority in Chesapeake Bay cleanup work.

A House committee voted down an effort to delay Maryland's new sick leave law until July, which means businesses with at least 15 employees must start providing paid sick time to about 700,00 workers who don't have it.

Why can't President Trump direct his intelligence chiefs to defend U.S. from Russian meddling in the next election?

Following state senator Edward Kasemeyer's announcement that he will not run for office in 2018, District 12 delegate Clarence Lam announced he will run to fill the seat.

Gov. Larry Hogan signed legislation Tuesday that would allow the termination of the parental rights of fathers when a court finds the child was conceived in rape.

The Trump administration on Monday proposed canceling a new headquarters for the Federal Bureau of Investigation that was to be built in Maryland or Virginia, opting instead for a “revitalization” of the agency’s current headquarters in downtown Washington.

Senate Budget & Taxation Committee Chairman Edward J. Kasemeyer will not run for re-election.

Maryland's new mandatory paid sick time law is schedule to take effect Sunday, but state lawmakers are fighting about whether to delay it for five months so businesses can get ready.

The federal budget agreement approved early Friday will kick off an intricate debate over several Maryland funding priorities that have been unresolved since President Donald J. Trump took office.

The Maryland Senate on Wednesday advanced legislation to delay a policy entitling part-time workers to paid sick leave until July, setting up a showdown with the House of Delegates over one of the biggest policy initiatives of the legislature's current term.

Sen. Ben Cardin will relinquish his role as the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, ending a run that began almost three years ago with the tricky politics of the Iran nuclear deal.

Neal Simon, a Potomac businessman launching an independent campaign for Senate in Maryland today, watched last week’s State of the Union in a state of despair. His problem wasn’t with what President Donald J. Trump was saying, per se, but the reaction he was getting from the House floor.

Sen. Ben Cardin, a fixture in Maryland Democratic politics for more than five decades, filed Monday to run for a third term in the U.S. Senate.

Donald Trump may be making the same mistake Richard Nixon did in thinking he can outfox the FBI and DOJ, says Jules Witcover.

President Donald Trump, like others before him, is carrying on the campaign against abortion, arguing most recently that we must defend those who cannot defend themselves. Unfortunately, a ban on 20-week abortions failed during a procedural vote in the U.S. Senate this past Monday.

A day after the Maryland Senate approved a bill allowing courts to terminate the parental rights of rapists, the House of Delegates followed suit, giving final approval to identical legislation.

Moderates, it’s time to speak up. If we are going to fix our political climate, which is quickly descending into all out chaos, and in turn our country, we need to find common ground.

Maryland is poised to let victims who conceive a child during a sexual assault to ask the court to strip parental rights from their rapists. It's take more than a decade to pass the law.

Had Republican views on immigration prevailed a century ago, people like my parents could never have escaped the Nazis.

After nine past legislative failures, Maryland lawmakers seeking to let courts terminate the parental rights of rapists are advancing this year's bill quickly — but are still contending with potential complication that has doomed the measure before.

A year after Maryland sent an all-male delegation to Congress for the first time in four decades, a handful of female candidates for federal office are questioning whether elected officials and organizations in the state are doing enough to avoid a similar outcome in the November midterm elections.

General Assembly leaders are backing an effort to provide $1 million to bolster state enforcement of consumer protections against financial fraud in case the Trump administration scales back those efforts.

It is largely up to Donald Trump whether the Dreamers' dream is deferred, says Jules Witcover.

If President Trump wanted a clear — and immediate — win on illegal immigration, he'd evolve and recognize that the wall's greatest utility might be as a bargaining chip.

he Senate voted largely along party lines Wednesday to confirm a former Marylander as President Donald J. Trump’s head of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The chief sponsor of a new state law requiring most employers to grant sick leave to workers is now seeking a delay in enforcing the requirements of the law.

Senate Democrats in Maryland and across the country faced a swift backlash from the left wing of their party Monday for voting to reopen the federal government without a guarantee to protect immigrants brought to the country as children.

Talks will resume Monday after a bipartisan effort to reopen the federal government before the start of the workweek failed to bring about an agreement late Sunday, leaving agencies shuttered for a third day with negotiations set to continue.

Tourists and joggers were barred entry to Fort McHenry Saturday as government funding lapsed and the historic site was closed to visitors.

Legislation to temporarily fund the federal government and avert a shutdown passed in the House Thursday evening, though its prospects remain uncertain in the Senate.

Bills on the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration's access to birth certificates; airplane passenger safety; e-cigarette sales; classroom cellphone use;

The annual 90-day highly partisan exercise, also known as the Maryland legislative session, opened on this past Wednesday. It began with the usual calls for bi-partisanship and working together, We can only hope that one day it might happen, but it won't be in an election year.

Chelsea Manning, the transgender Maryland woman convicted of sharing thousands of military documents with Wikileaks, has filed her candidacy to challenge Sen. Ben Cardin in 2018.

Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh said she was appalled by President Donald Trump’s recent comments, in which he reportedly used a slur to describe immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and African nations.