Politics

Ksenia Karelina was charged with treason for a $51 Venmo donation to an American-based humanitarian group helping Ukrainians who have suffered in the war.

As his congressional campaign enters a crucial phase, Baltimore County Democrat Johnny Olszewski Jr. has been facing renewed scrutiny over a controversial 2020 payment by the county to a retired firefighter.

So far the reception from state leaders has been lukewarm and city budget officials have also pushed back, according to emails and other communications obtained in a public records request.

Two Annapolis police officers who are union representatives used department tech to track a police major's vehicle as he worked from home, prompting police Chief Ed Jackson to suspend them. The officers have returned to work, but the incident lies at the heart of a planned no-confidence vote.

Damien Haussling co-founded the nonprofit after experiencing homelessness himself.

City code makes clear that employees are prohibited from working for or receiving payment from organizations that have contracts with their agency, as Chase Brexton does with the health department.

The director of a Muslim civil rights organization said she decided not to apply for a seat on a Maryland hate crime commission months after lawmakers dropped her nonprofit group as a named representative.

Montgomery County lawmakers want to establish a pilot program that would automatically ticket drivers if their vehicles are making excessive noise via unlawfully modified exhaust systems.

The trade followed years of secretive back-channel negotiations despite relations between Washington and Moscow being at their lowest point since the Cold War.

The tourism group Visit Harford is suing Harford County, alleging it hasn’t been paid for promoting tourism in the county.

Emails between developer La Cité and Baltimore officials reveal that unpaid water bills inflamed an already strained relationship — and contributed to the city’s decision to end La Cité's future development rights in Poppleton.

Since winning a bid to redevelop West Baltimore's Poppleton neighborhood almost 20 years ago, La Cité Development has built a fraction of what it planned, leaving several blocks of vacant land in one of Baltimore’s oldest Black neighborhoods. The city grew so frustrated with inaction that last month it canceled La Cité’s exclusive development deal.

Dr. Emenuga is the subject of a criminal investigation that focuses, at least in part, on work she did at a health care provider while also serving as Baltimore’s health commissioner.

The Vote4More! campaign failed to get enough valid signatures on petitions to get the question of a four-seat expansion on the November ballot, but the question of whether to expand by two more will be.

The commercial boom sparked by legalization didn’t make Maryland’s illegal cannabis market disappear. It created a government-regulated competitor.

Before her promotion to commissioner, Dr. Ihuoma Emenuga worked as the health department’s Youth Wellness and Community Health Division, where she oversaw clinical services in schools.

The anti-Harborplace redevelopment coalition, organized by attorney Thiru Vignarajah, faced a 4:30 deadline Monday to submit 10,000 signatures to Baltimore elections officials.

The Howard County Council voted Monday to approve a resolution needed to get a proposed inspector general office on November’s ballot.

The federally subsidized apartment complex in Southwest Baltimore County has been a prolific source of complaints from residents — for years, if not decades.

They’re now applying the infectious, youthful energy they captured working on the Kamala Harris campaign throughout Maryland — often in the political sphere.