MARYLAND

Prosecutors say Larry Smith changed his name and moved, never telling a soul he shot a sheriff’s deputy in Maryland until investigators showed up decades later.

Loyola University Maryland said it had ties to an 1838 sale of enslaved people orchestrated by Jesuit priests. Money from the sale was also used to pay off debt at Georgetown University.

Governor’s budget invests in child care, job training, affordable housing but pares back scores of programmed spending his administration deemed ineffective.

Larry David Smith was tried this month in Montgomery County, Md., in the 1971 fatal shooting of Deputy James Hall.

Democratic lawmakers want gun manufacturers to help foot the bill for trauma injuries, including gunshot wounds, following an example set by California last year.

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County executive Mark Elrich’s budget proposal includes a major expansion to the county’s bus rapid transit network along two new routes.

Prince George’s County isn’t alone in grappling with a confluence of challenges from the pandemic recovery, dwindling federal aid and increased expenses.

Maryland officials said the state’s annual count measuring reproductive success and potential population growth for oysters is the highest in 40 years.

A top Maryland elections official was arrested and charged this week with felony and misdemeanor counts.

Lawmakers till take up granting health care to undocumented people, subsidizing childcare and granting terminal patients the right to end their lives.

Maryland lawmakers convene Wednesday with big policy ambitions in-progress and inadequate funds to pay for them.

Nearly 20 protesters chanted “Which side are you on, Glenn Ivey” and “Cease-fire” as they were hauled into a Capitol Police van.

Gov. Wes Moore emphasized the need to hold children accountable for violence while keeping rehabilitation in mind.

Rep. Steny H. Hoyer (D), Maryland’s longest-serving congressman and a former House majority leader, filed to run for reelection Tuesday.

Maryland’s highest court is weighing how a law applies to the possible sale of Moses Macedonia African Cemetery in Bethesda.

Gov. Wes Moore’s embrace and warning about generative AI comes as state lawmakers also debate guardrails for responsible use of the technology.

After her son got Lyme, a scientist and her students collected ticks in western Maryland: 40 percent tested positive for the bacteria that causes the disease.