Maryland News

With visions of riches dancing in our heads, many of us coughed up a few bucks to play Powerball - especially when the jackpot rose to the insane sum of more than a half-billion dollars.

New details emerge on two Ocean City brothers, Basel and Samir Ramadan arrested for their alleged involvement in a multi-million dollar cigarette smuggling ring.

A smuggling ring that made a fortune selling more than a million cartons of untaxed cigarettes in New York may have funneled some of the illicit proceeds to terrorist groups, authorities said Thursday.

They're not counting on that eventuality, however, so 100 of them will be joining the Electronic Retailing Association's Capitol Hill fly-in next week to voice their opposition to representatives of key states such as New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, and California.

The $360 million Powerball drawing will air live at 10:59 p.m. Eastern Time tonight, and with participation at a fever pitch, observers say there's not much expectation that the jackpot will increase again like last year - when the jackpot rolled over in March of 2012 after reaching the $325 million mark to a record $587 million.

"I am so, so excited for her to come into the North," gushes MS MR singer Lizzy Plapinger.

FBI and National Archive officials are returning to their rightful owners more than 10,000 important historical documents seized during a massive theft investigation involving a well-known collector of presidential memorabilia.

The ex-boyfriend of a Herkimer County woman who was found dead in her car last week in Maryland is the prime suspect in her murder.

According to an FBI press release dated May 9, 2013, a federal jury convicted Jeremy Naughton, age 32, a resident of Brooklyn, N.Y. on charges related to sex trafficking, kidnapping , including transporting individuals to engage in prostitution, and using a gun during the conspiracy to commit sex trafficking.

A small group of volunteers did the remarkable Thursday, filling the Snider Agricultural Arena with roughly a quarter of a million books in just a few hours.

The U.S. government charged eight individuals with using data obtained by hacking into two credit card processors in a worldwide scheme that netted some $45 million within hours, a crime prosecutors described as one of the biggest bank heists in history.

The Dalai Lama has implored Buddhist monks in Burma and Sri Lanka to put an end to a series of recent attacks on Muslims in their countries.

In a significant victory amid a push for paid sick time laws around the country, city lawmakers voted Wednesday to make businesses provide the benefit to an estimated 1 million workers who don't have it now.

Modell's has selected Micros-Retail, a leading provider of retail technology for the specialty and general merchandise retail industry, to help it improve customer experience, modernize IT for the stores and streamline day-to-day functions.

A bill is in the works in Albany that would allow school districts to use cameras on school buses and issue tickets to drivers who violate the law.

Both chambers of the state Legislature have passed a bill that would protect sharks from shark fin trading.

A Washington Wizards Wikipedia page was recently altered so that a blurb about Jason Collins' coming out referred to the athlete as a "faggot." Queerty notes that the 2012-2013 Washington Wizards' Wikipedia page was changed over the weekend, and a sentence about Collins that originally read, "He was the first active male professional athlete to ... (more)

No one matched the Mega Millions numbers on May 3, increasing the next jackpot to $139 million.

ZZ Top is taking their show on the road. The Texas trio will be performing Thursday night at the First Council Casino Hotel in Newkirk, Oklahoma to launch their 2013 tour.

When Peggy Young got pushed out of her job at UPS after she became pregnant, she fought back by bringing a lawsuit against her employer.