Maryland News

A Frederick County Commissioner is calling for a new ethics law that would prohibit state elected officials from engaging in sexual relationships with state employees under their direct supervision.

Maryland and nine other states will be auctioning off their pollution to the highest bidder later this month.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has formally proposed adding a Fort Detrick dump site in Frederick to its list of the nation's most polluted places.

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Everett Alvarez Jr. was flying a Navy fighter jet at 500 mph toward an enemy naval base on Aug.

BALTIMORE - A competency hearing for a man accused of drowning his three children has been postponed.

Gov. Martin O'Malley is directing state officials to form an independent panel of experts to review Maryland's tunnel and bridge inspection program.

Federal prosecutors are seeking a sentence of at least three years in prison for a former state legislator who pleaded guilty to a child pornography charge.

Maryland 's highest court has ruled that pharmaceutical maker Eli Lilly and Co. isn't liable to a third party in a fatal crash caused by a diabetic driver who used the company's medication.

Gov. Martin O'Malley is preparing for Tropical Storm Hanna. He's issued a Limited Emergency Declaration on Thursday in anticipation of the storm's impact on Maryland's Eastern Shore.

Almost half of the patients flown by helicopter to Maryland trauma centers are released within 24 hours, making some lawmakers wonder whether the state's vaunted Medevac system is overused.

Maryland state elected officials who have sexual relationships with employees under their supervision would be violating state ethics law, if a county commissioner gets his way.

The ethics law would not apply, however, if the official and the worker were married to each other.

Frederick County Commissioner John Thompson says the proposal is a response to a specific situation, but he won't name the people involved out of consideration for innocent third parties.

Thompson wants the issue included in the county's list of state legislative priorities. But several local lawmakers say they would oppose Thompson's proposal.

The Maryland Transit Administration says some Washington-bound MARC trains were disrupted during the morning commute after a person was found unconscious near a set of train tracks.

Black lawmakers and civil rights activists are criticizing Gov. Martin O'Malley's administration of failing to implement compromises in a law that expands when police can collect DNA samples from crime ...

Maryland officials are investigating a fish kill in an enclosed cove off South River, near Annapolis.

Former Maryland state lawmaker Robert McKee , 59, has been charged by the U.S. attorney's office with one count of possessing child pornography.

ANNAPOLIS - The Democrat running for Congress in Maryland's First District is expected today to receive the endorsement of the Republican incumbent he is hoping to replace.

An attorney says his 19-year-old client feels "just awful" and is "devastated" about the accident on the Bay Bridge that killed a tractor trailer driver Aug.

Maryland has the nation's highest median household income. According to newly released census figures, the average Maryland household brought in $68,080 last year.

The Maryland Transportation Authority has completed repairs to strengthen the parapet on the right side of the eastbound span of the Bay Bridge and has reopened the right lane to traffic.

WASHINGTON - Drunken driving deaths fell in 32 states in 2007, but the government says the number of alcohol-related fatalities among motorcycle riders climbed in half the states last year.