Maryland News

This image provided by Thomas Saenz, shows Saenz near the tarmac at Kabul International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Two of the most controversial bills Maryland state lawmakers grappled with this session became law Thursday.

Marylanders by the dozens turned over unwanted firearms to police in the first statewide "Gun Turn-In Day," sponsored by Attorney General Doug Gansler.

Findings from a Pentagon survey on sexual assault in the military, which triggered outrage about what the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff calls a "crisis," may be based on scanty response rates, questionable data and broad definitions of what constitutes abuse.

Milwaukee Public Schools Superintendent Gregory Thornton was here for less than a year before the rumors started in early 2011: Was he thinking about leaving? Two years later, this same rumor is once again in circulation, only now there's a name of a district behind it: Prince George's County Public Schools in Maryland, the state's second-largest ... (more)

That figure compares with the latest national rate of 7.5 percent and is a tenth lower than the March number for Maryland.

Historically, herds of elk roamed across most of the United States and Canada, but the Eastern elk - the only subspecies found east of the Mississippi River - was extirpated in the 19th century.

The HOPE initiative, a program started by the administration of Gov. Martin O'Malley to preserve homeownership by helping prevent foreclosures, was awarded the Maryland Access to Justice Commission's Executive Branch Award for 2013.

What's so great about being nice? Nice never got anybody anywhere, right? If that's true, Marylanders are going places.

A suspect in a Prince George's County, Maryland shooting on Thursday suddenly jumped on a nearby fire truck and stripped out of his clothes before he was captured.

The characters were played by middle schoolers from Mount Royal Elementary/Middle, currently enrolled in the after school program, known as Baltimore TheatreWorks.

The Maryland State Fire Marshal says a fire inside a jail cell at the Jessup House of Correction Wednesday was caused by an unattended water heating pot.

Maryland's state universities announced that in-state undergraduate tuition would rise by 3 percent, the same amount as the past three years.

Kinlaw Hendrix, 27, of Steubenville, who was convicted of menacing by stalking and tampering with evidence, was sentenced Tuesday to 30 months in prison by Jefferson County Common Pleas Judge David Henderson.

Maryland State Senate President Thomas "Mike" Miller Jr. , left, and Speaker of the House Michael Busch , right, flank Maryland Gov.

Gov. Martin O'Malley on Thursday signed a bill recently passed by the General Assembly that gives Maryland some of the country's strictest gun-control laws.

Jenna Jadin, a former entomology graduate student at the University of Maryland, College Park who created a cicada cookbook for the Brood X emergence in 2004, says the bugs were a staple food in the past for Australian Aborigines, New Guineans and American Indians.

Maryland Ensemble Theatre is wrapping up its 2012-13, 15th anniversary mainstage season with a new World Premiere comedy Pickle My Monkey beginning tonight, May 16.

"We know that it does have a dramatic effect on us," says Ocean City Mayor Rick Meehan.

Maryland Ensemble Theatre's family theatre, The Fun Company, is proud to present the World Premiere of Daytona McKane and the Quest for the Golden Mole , a fun adventure story perfect for kids age six and up.