Maryland News

A Maryland soldier is in Army custody and classified as a deserter - unfairly, relatives say - after he extended a two-week mid-tour leave to take care of his sick wife and their new baby.

As Maryland closes in on the construction of a third reactor at Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant in Lusby, an environmental organization has released a report calling nuclear power a step backward in the nation's race to reduce pollution.

It's cheaper to go to college in-state, especially if you live in Maryland. Average in-state tuition and fees for this academic year at Maryland's public universities is lower than the national average, according to a report by the College Board released last month.

Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot is pushing to make a semester-long financial literacy course a graduation requirement statewide.

Toll increases on Maryland roads are a virtual certainty by 2011 thanks to increasing debt and decreasing revenues at the toll plazas, according to a new state report.

Criminal complaints have been filed charging Daniel Chase, age 64, of Brownsville, New Jersey; Nikolaos Mamalis, age 53 of Edgewood, Maryland; and Antwone Bell, age 25, of Rosedale, Maryland, of conspiring to commit a series of armed commercial robberies, announced United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein.

Baltimore County could become the latest Maryland jurisdiction to prohibit the use of tanning facilities by minors.

BALTIMORE - Baltimore police say they have arrested a man suspected of raping and fatally stabbing a 15-year-old boy, whose body was found hidden in a closet.

The 39th annual Waterfowl Festival is under way in Maryland. The three-day festival began Friday in Easton and continues through Sunday.

NEW MARKET a ' A move to change a 1960s signs that advertises New Market as the "Antiques Capital of Maryland" has been defeated.

County health departments around Maryland are receiving doses of the 2009 novel H1N1 vaccine and administering it to people in target groups, but the supply is still not what health officials would like it to be, and the reasons for the continued slow distribution pace aren't entirely clear.

Last April, the University of Maryland inadvertently found itself at the center of a debate about free speech, academic freedom, and pornography when a student group on the College Park campus tried to screen the award-winning adult film Pirates 2: Stagnetti's Revenge .

Frederick County Sheriff Chuck Jenkins is speaking out against a lawsuit which calls into question the way deputies are enforcing a new immigration policy.

Democratic Party Chair has some "friendly" advice for Ehrlich For the second day in a row, Maryland Democrats are insisting they have nothing to worry about in next year's elections.

Maryland health officials say six more deaths associated with swine flu have been reported in the state.

Authorities in Prince George's County have charged five people in the large-scale theft of plastic pallets and delivery containers.

More cannon shots fired this week in the ongoing saga of the Pirates porn: Yesterday the University System of Maryland's Board of Regents announced a unanimous decision to defy state lawmakers' request that they regulate screenings of pornographic material on campus.

NOAA deployed the seventh in a series of "smart buoys" to monitor weather conditions and water quality in the Chesapeake Bay today.

Prince George's County authorities have accused 12 Marylanders of stealing $87,000 worth of textbooks from the local library, and reselling them at deep discounts for quick cash.

U.S. senators are calling for an investigation into potential safety lapses at Metro.