Maryland

Today, Nick Faust will play in a championship game over 7,000 miles from his hometown Baltimore neighborhood. He’ll represent a pro team from Angola as it plays in the title game of Basketball African League.

Horseshoe crab blood is a vital part of the pharmaceutical industry — but this nonprofit group says Maryland obfuscates how it regulates their harvest.

The policy began on May 23, and prohibits “suitcases, duffel bags, or bags larger” than 14 by 14 by 6 inches in size.

The Maryland Transit Administration is offering discounted rates on certain trains and buses while D.C.-area commuters deal with closures along Metro’s Red Line.

The “tough-on-crime” approaches to juvenile justice signed into law by Gov. Wes Moore have proved ineffective in the past because they fail to adequately consider the root causes of youth crime, the CEO of the Juvenile Law Center says.

One-third of U.S. adults know someone who has overdosed and died, a Johns Hopkins survey found.

Bruhat Soma, a seventh-grader from Tampa, Florida, won the National Spelling Bee in Oxon Hill, Maryland by winning a lightning-round tiebreaker over a sixth-grader from Allen, Texas. Some questioned the bee’s decision to move so quickly to the spell-off.

Maggie Kudirka has been living with metastatic breast cancer for years. That hasn’t stopped the Howard County ballerina from teaching dancing and putting together an annual benefit concert.

John Sarbanes is exactly the right person to ask about fixing Congress. It’s his cause. His answer is long and flows from The Federalist Papers to the fall elections. It isn’t Congress that’s broken, he says, it’s us.

Jurors deliberated for 9 1/2 hours over two days before convicting Trump of all 34 counts he faced. Trump sat stone-faced as the verdict was being read.

Maryland kids were close but couldn’t quite churn out the correct spellings for words to advance to the finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

The Department of Defense awarded a $500 million contract with the University of Maryland’s national security research facility, the largest research deal the university has received.

Beginning June 1, the fine for speed camera violations will increase to $80, the Maryland Department of Transportation reminded motorists.

L. Rodgers may have been eliminated on the NBC talent show “The Voice,” but she’s still got a hometown following.

Waitlist spots may become available for the Inner Harbor public swim set for late June — but they are not guaranteed.

The island community will be able to use the money to shore up its petroleum storage and make other necessary improvements to protect from flooding.

Ultramarathon swimmer and Maryland native Katie Pumphrey is looking to make history with what she calls “a love letter to Baltimore.”

A veteran U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service scientist found a pair of newly hatched eaglets at Poplar Island, located in Maryland’s portion of the Chesapeake Bay, that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Maryland Port Authority have been rebuilding over the last 25 years.

An attorney for the Sinclair chairman and Baltimore Sun owner objected to 64 questions in a recent deposition as part of a lawsuit Smith is funding against city schools.

Simpson is “going to do whatever he needs to do to continue to get better every single day,” defensive coordinator Zach Orr said last week.